Research - TomAng (theme 2)

Research taken from the book by TomAng "How To Photograph Absolutely Everything" and his site on the internet,  which has influenced some of my close up work:-

                                                                images taken by TomAng

                                                                           Clocks
                                             shutter 1/4 aperture f22 iso 100 FL 105mm

 I  had wanted to shoot a dandelion (or clocks as I called them at school) and had hunted about to find a nice whole fluffy one in the right light, considering their texture interesting.  I didn't succeed in getting the right light here as I captured this one in the shade, on my walk to the flower garden during a Calke visit.  I wished I could have moved in closer too,  but it was difficult because it would have meant standing on the delicate garden leaves, and I could not do that.  I zoomed my lens to its maximum instead and took the shot anyway deciding to include some closed dandelion heads within the scene too.  I will crop in to show the fluffy clock's texture and pattern though, because I want it to fill the frame.  My composition shows the rule of thirds, pattern and colour, texture, lines and contrast.

This is the crop in which I like because it shows the fluffy texture that I wished I could have captured from a closer angle at the time, then maybe I could have got a more interesting composition than here where the clock face is centered. With that said TomAng has centered his close compositions too, so my crop here is comparative to his.

                                                                         by TomAng

images by TomAng

                                                                      by TomAng

                                                                       By TomAng

by TomAng

by TomAng

I love the image above for its different perspective.  Because of this its minimal composition is very effective.

by TomAng

Lit leaves

    shutter 1/20 aperture f4.0 iso 100 Fl 105mm

I am pleased with this image I took in my garden when I noticed the light dancing on the leaves early one morning.  I have tried to show the perspective of looking down and through the leaves from an angle that sets the leaves on a diagonal sphere, as in TomAng's second image up.  I love the show of colours as the light falls on the subjects in both.  Light can transform and highlight leave detail well, as also shown in  TomAng's above image.  This is cropped in from the original image slightly from the left to remove unwanted leaves.

by Tom Ang

shutter 1/25 aperture f11 iso 200 FL 105mm

I wanted to get in as close as I could to this tree flower in the garden.  I used a tripod and zoomed to maximum lens length.  I chose an aperture to give some depth as I wanted to show leaf perspective and detail as I looked down on it.  My composition shows scale as in Tom Ang's book (right leaf image) above. They both  have the same tone of greens showing some light, coming from the top right. Tom Ang's leaf spans the whole frame with its pattern lines where as mine only covers approximately half.   Both compositions show lead in lines, texture, contrast and colour.  Mine holds a bit too much darkness and a distracting over exposed item, middle centre right, though a crop might help.

by Tom Ang