Thursday 30 May 2013

Exercise: softening the light



I had to enlarge these three images to their maximum size to see if the experiment had worked... And it did! The sharpness of the markings on the central stone become gradually softer with each exposure.

No diffuser



Diffuser applied



Diffuser and tracing paper applied


The same effect is visible here, as above. The changes, through use of a diffuser, are subtle but discernible. 

(There is a 'back story' to the half house brick in this photo... When I was five - some fifty three years ago - we were on holiday in Pwllheli in North Wales. My brother and I 'helped' two construction workers in the building of a low wall to prevent cars driving onto the dunes. We had a great time with these two amiable characters! In the late 1980's I fetched up there one evening, to see, in my car headlights, that the wall, though still there, had fallen down. I nipped out and pinched the brick you can see in this picture. I had reached back in time and, in so doing, reached back into my past and found that the memory was real and not a dream...)

No diffuser.




Diffuser applied.

                                                                 




Diffuser and tracing paper applied.


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