Showing posts with label screen test. Show all posts
Showing posts with label screen test. Show all posts

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Ripples Across A Windscreen

Water Is Such A Precious Gift Of Nature

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON


While I was trying to do a mental selection of images for today's theme, I was reviewing (in my mind, not on my computer) all the images I have shot of water. Then I suddenly thought I would portray ripples in a slightly different way.

Could I portray ripples NOT on the surface of water, but in another way? On another surface?

Here is my answer ... in words and pictorially. When you live in a drought-stricken country-continent like Australia, even a light drizzle is a blessing from the rain gods.

This was shot last weekend, just before I drove my car out of a parking slot. I was literally sitting with my seatbelt around me when I reached across for my camera and shot the tiny drops on the windscreen.

The thing that really caught my attention was that each drop on the raked windscreen was a different shape and texture.

I framed this shot deliberately, to use my rear-view mirror as the soft-focus visual enhancement in the left foreground, just to draw the eye straight to the drops in the centre of the image, where the focus was sharpest.

The image I've posted here is simply a low-resolution version of the original. If you want to see the full-size, high-resolution image, just go to Screen Test.

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Friday, October 03, 2008

Head Start

Maybe This Was Their First Screen Test

Photographs copyright: DAVID McMAHON


These shots were taken on the concourse at Flinders Street Station here in Melbourne on Wednesday evening. It’s school holidays here, so I met Mrs Authorblog and two of the Authorbloglets after work. We spent some time in the city on a beautiful, balmy spring evening before walking down to Flinders to catch a train home.

I had just walked through the ticket validating machine when my son nudged me and pointed to these four people wired up and wearing monitors on their heads. Naturally, I had to take the shot, so I told the rest of the family to carry on.

Now here was the dilemma. Should I walk up close and try and capture just one or two of them? Or should I try and take the broad view and get all four into one frame? I had to take into account the fact that this was rush hour and I would have commuters hurrying past me as I tried to compose the shot.

There was a train coming in less than two minutes, so I just followed my instincts and took a horizontal frame with all four of them in the shot. But only three of the screens were visible, so of course I had to take another shot - and I was lucky that the two commuters rushing past didn’t actually obscure my view.

Then, as I heard the train approaching, I fired off a couple more shots. Yes, I made the train. No, the rest of the family weren’t concerned. They’re used to me going walkabout with my camera.


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