Well this was a little more challenging than vertical and horizontal, but purely because I didn’t simply want to turn the camera to make each shot a diagonal line (although I do like to do this as it is very effective!). I realise it is more simple to create a diagonal in a shot but I also wanted to get at least one shot where there were ‘true’ diagonals in the shot, something that was made diagonal and should be diagonal, something other than a pitch on a roof.
Again you will see in this exercise that some beautiful diagonal lines really presented themselves whilst I was walking through the woods, one naturally and one achieved by turning the camera.
For one of the other shots, I was recently asked to photograph a new event in a local nightclub, first time of ever doing a shoot like this and very challenging to say the least shooting in pitch black darkness, however I did get some wonderful shots and in one example here, I saw a tattoo on the arm of the DJ, which I made as my subject tilted to add effect to his ‘mixing’ on the decks.
Finally, my ‘true’ diagonal shot was from our friend ‘Rex the dinosaur’ from Toy Story. He has beautiful white teeth, diagonal lines everywhere!
Equipment used.
Camera: Canon 500D
Lenses: Canon 18mm-55mm, Tamron 70mm-300mm.
Flashgun: Canon 430EXII
Settings and results.
Setting: Aperture Priority
Focal Length: 35mm
35mm Equivalent: 56mm
Shutter Speed: 1/20
Aperture: f/5.6
Flash: Used (Built in)
Metering: Spot
ISO: 400
White Balance: Manual
Setting: Manual
Focal Length: 77mm
35mm Equivalent: 123mm
Shutter Speed: 1/3
Aperture: f/5.6
Flash: Used (flashgun)
Metering: Matrix
ISO: 400
White Balance: Manual
Setting: Shutter priority
Focal Length: 109mm
35mm Equivalent:173mm
Shutter Speed: 1/100
Aperture: f/5
Flash: Not used
Metering: Matrix
ISO: 100
White Balance: Manual
IMG: IMG5969
Setting: Landscape mode
Focal Length: 55mm
35mm Equivalent: 87.7mm
Shutter Speed: 1/125
Aperture: f/8
Flash: Not used
Metering: Matrix
ISO: 100
White Balance: Auto
Findings and conclusion.
Once again here in this exercise I stepped completely out of my comfort zone to take shots and really think about the effect it would have when the image was on the big screen. I am really quite pleased with my shot of the DJs arm, IMG5476e. This was probably the hardest to achieve, the nightclub was so dark inside that even the strobe lights wouldn’t give me enough light for the auto focus to work. Therefore, I went to manual focus, as well as manually controlling all aspects of the camera.
The photo taken of my son in the woods, IMG5917ee, again is a shot I am pleased with, the focus is ever so slightly soft, yet turning him and the fallen tree to a diagonal angle really gives the shot a new dimension, a rather dynamic quality, contrasting to the beautiful tones of the browns and the greens.
IMG5969 was the beautiful path that lay ahead of us on our way out of the woods, I love the simplicity of this shot, the natural diagonal angles of the trees, emphasised by the vertical path, all leading to the single point, drawing you into the photo beautifully. This could, in my opinion have been possibly improved with subjects silhouetted walking away, this type of shot working very well in black and white.
Finally, IMG5136e, Rex the dinosaur and his beautifully white diagonal ferocious looking teeth...says it all!
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