Part 3. Exercise control the strength of colour

For this exercise I used a coloured path marker and filled the frame with it.  In real life the marker looked a striking blue although in the photographs the colour is far more washed out.

F8

F9

F10

F11

F13

The pictures were all take with an iso setting of 100 and a shutter speed of 1/400.
F10 looks nearest to the colour that I pictured when I was looking at the object with just my eye.  As the aperture gets higher the colours in the pictures darken and as the aperture widens the colours get lighter.

Exercise: Rhythms and Patterns

This first picture is of the water fountains at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, taken whilst on a work trip. I think that the water fountains convey a sense of rhythm and the attractions in the background maintain the viewers interest. This was a picture of a hotel. I framed it so that there were no borders, giving the sense of an endless pattern. The result is probably a little dull and would almost certainly have benefitted from another source of lnterest in the shot such as a window cleaner.

This is another example of a pattern. This was the front window of a Chinese restaurant. The scrolls finish shortly after the left edge of the photograph. However I tried to frame it in order to convey a pattern that continues indefinitely. To improve the shot I could have also added another item of interest to it.