Weather’s awful, wife’s out, baby daughter’s napping, what’s a man to do?
We have a nautilus shell that I’ve been meaning to photograph for a while, so I thought I’d have a bit of fun. It’s a hard
subject to take because it’s been photographed so many times before, by so many good photographers, that it’s virtually impossible to find an original approach. I decided to go high key and see what that gave me, and this is the result:
The great thing about the 5D Mk II is that the high resolution allows me to crop afterwards. With a subject like this I can spend ages rotating, flipping and cropping to find an image that captures me, so having pixels to spare is a wonderful advantage.
Very nicely done. Subtlety and restraint…. the mark of maturity or talent…. or both?
It would be interesting to see the exact same composition, but with a very hard side light…..
Thanks Jeffrey,
I did think about using a hard light, but I had a soft image in my head so I didn’t give it a try. It may well be interesting to do a comparison.