WEEK 15 - April 13, 2013
The answer my friend,
is blowin' in the wind...
...the answer is blowing in the wind."
Bob Dylan
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I'm not sure about the answer, but everything else has been blowing in the wind this week. Wowsers has it been windy! So, when I thought about what to shoot for my Project this week, I thought, "here's a challenge... shoot photos of the wind!"
Great, but how do you do that? Obviously, you cannot shoot photos of the wind itself but instead the effects by which you see the wind. Of course with still photography, you add yet another challenge, how do you show the effects of the wind, (which typically involve motion), in a still photo?
Now with more time, I could pursue the more iconic kinds of images one might think of to show the wind; windmills, sailboats, kids flying kites, a man chasing his hat down the sidewalk, a woman with her skirt blown up, (smirk), a tornado carrying off a house, stuff like that. But of course those would take more than a little while to collect or stage and I wanted to get my shots in a couple of hours, if that. So, my shots may not win any awards, but I do think through the blurred motion, (courtesy of long shutter speeds) I've portrayed the concept.
Rather than post these as single images, I decided to create a single montage, using the partly-cloudy sky as a backdrop.
is blowin' in the wind...
...the answer is blowing in the wind."
Bob Dylan
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I'm not sure about the answer, but everything else has been blowing in the wind this week. Wowsers has it been windy! So, when I thought about what to shoot for my Project this week, I thought, "here's a challenge... shoot photos of the wind!"
Great, but how do you do that? Obviously, you cannot shoot photos of the wind itself but instead the effects by which you see the wind. Of course with still photography, you add yet another challenge, how do you show the effects of the wind, (which typically involve motion), in a still photo?
Now with more time, I could pursue the more iconic kinds of images one might think of to show the wind; windmills, sailboats, kids flying kites, a man chasing his hat down the sidewalk, a woman with her skirt blown up, (smirk), a tornado carrying off a house, stuff like that. But of course those would take more than a little while to collect or stage and I wanted to get my shots in a couple of hours, if that. So, my shots may not win any awards, but I do think through the blurred motion, (courtesy of long shutter speeds) I've portrayed the concept.
Rather than post these as single images, I decided to create a single montage, using the partly-cloudy sky as a backdrop.
I thought this poem by Robert Louis Stevenson aptly fit with what I've
photographed: The Wind I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies' skirts across the grass-- O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! I saw the different things you did, But always you yourself you hid. I felt you push, I heard you call, I could not see yourself at all-- O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! O you that are so strong and cold, O blower, are you young or old? Are you a beast of field and tree, Or just a stronger child than me? O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! Robert Louis Stevenson |
Technical SpecsTechnical Specs:
Camera - Canon EOS 50D Lens - Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8 L IS Exposure - ISO 100 To get the motion blur (with the exception of the flag photo), I was shooting at f/32 so as to be able to get a long shutter speed. Speeds varied between a long 2-seconds for the blowing grass to 1/60th sec. for the daffodils. Shot as - RAW Edited with - Adobe Lightroom 4, Montage done with Picasa |