Looked at photographing something indoors - a Venetian mask on the wall was a candidate - but it was uninteresting; offered only a flat two dimensional image whereas I wanted some depth in the image so opted for a flower growing in the grass at the Memorial Site in Kingswood.
Unfortunately the peak season for daffodils had passed so ended up with a less than fulsome specimen; the flip side was that the grass was long and lush. Used a wide aperture adopting the techniques learnt in focus so that I achieved deliberately having part of the image out of focus. 1/125 f4.5 was used for all images.
In order of preference, this was my least favourite - the space in top left is void and the grass stalk on the left is a distraction.
The centred image works reasonalby; the sharp grass stalks contrast well with the blurred background and the flower draws the eye by virtue of its brightness.
This works well. The sharp grass acts as a lead in to the flower; the blurred effect top left ensures eye is not distracted from flower. An interesting possibility for a diagonal image for assignment.
This is my favourite; the image was cropped to 1:1 deliberately as I considered this would suit a semi centred subject. The vertical centering works well and having the flower higher than centre allows the sharp grass to feature more prominently. The subject and background work together well in this image.
Lessons learnt:
- obtain depth in an image with one subject;
- do not assume that the subject will look the same wherever it is placed;
- centering the subject in one plane ot the other can work
