Wollongong Lighthouse

[Alpha_7]

I thought I would share some of my shots from the weekend. I finally got the boss to take a detour to the lighthouse, I was actually worried it was going to rain, but instead the sky turned on a show of it's own we some great clouds. (My shots really don't do them justice).
Your feedback is welcome.

[wendellt]

Hi Alpha

i prefer all of the landscape ones as a cohesive set
compositionally everything works
the overal tone reminds me of a scene filled with longing and mystique

it's very stylish, I especially like the last and 3rd last
Was it your intention to capture the mundaness of this scene in this way?

[Alpha_7]

Wendellt,

Thanks for the feedback, I don't think I can take credit for all the mundaness in these shots. With low light and the clouds looming over the sea there wasn't that much else on offer. I do think it came across pretty well in a set of photos, singularly they are fairly boring, but collectively they really show the bleakness of the steelworks and the "steely" sea.

[Alpha_7]

Please feel free to tell me if you think they are rubbish, any suggestion on how I could of shot them better would also gladly be accepted

[wendellt]

Please feel free to tell me if you think they are rubbish, any suggestion on how I could of shot them better would also gladly be accepted

you have captured the bleakness and told the story well,
reminds me of Bill Henson's confronting work

if you want to improve it, use a tripod and use a longer exposure like 1 second at f/16 this kind of exposure will give you a high contrast image and revealing a few more subtle colours, which i think will make it more pleasing, but you will loose the bleakness that you wanted to portray.

[Alpha_7]

All the landscape shots where taken with a Tripod (albeit a crap one).
Actually I think there is only one shot that isn't taken with a tripod in that collection, but I will try longer exposures next time (I think I have a few 10 second exposure, I'd guess that's probably too long ?).

[wendellt]

Hi Alpha

a 10 second exposure would be too long the scene has quite a lot of ambient light
I would say 1 to 4 seconds, just experiment

study bill hensons work here this is what i mean by high contrast:
he still maintains the bleak mood in this shot but dramatises it to great effect:

http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/18/Bill_Henson/98/33469/

although this shot is taken in broad daylight with a really high shutterspeed