As promised... I'm back today with the 'After Lunch' photos. By the time we had lunch I felt like I had all the photos I 'needed' for my monthly challenge so it gave us an opportunity to 'play' with light, aperture, and going into manual mode on the camera.
Thanks to doing some geocaching in the area I knew about a site that might make for some interesting photos. It's an old brick arch water tower (according to the geocaching site).
Two significant structures designed by the company chief engineer James Stewart still survive, both brick arch water towers, one in Tirau and one in Lichfield. The railway tower at Tirau holds a Historic Places Category II rating, and is much more robust than the typical wooden water vat constructed by the government at the time, showing the confidence being exhibited by this company in their long term future.
Carey had never been to the water tower before so she was keen to visit... and we did get some great photos... plus it was a nice place to practice some photography skills.
After looking through my photos I realised that I had several that fitted the photography prompts so here we go:
#1 Use a camera setting you wouldn't normally use for this type of photo. Since I was going fully manual by this point, I could have chosen any of the photos I took so I chose one I really liked.
#2 Take a photo upside down (you or the camera). I quite like this prompt and it makes for some interesting photos. I especially liked this photo since it's crisp showing off the bark but much softer further up the tree.
#3 Get macro and portray the season you are in with just a leaf or flower. The leaves were gorgeous around the trees at the water tower so this was an easy prompt to complete.
#4 Find a building. Zoom your lens to the widest angle. Move in close to make dramatic angles. I took so many photos of the water tower trying out different angles, different lighting, and different points of view. It's a pretty interesting place to visit. This photo almost has an old 'gaol' feel to it.
#5 Leading lines or rule of thirds? Or can you do both? I've done this prompt before and every time I do I get completely different results. Thanks to the autumn-ish colours this one has a totally different feel.
#6 Put a frame around a landscape using what ever you find around you. For this photo I used one of the water tower arches to frame the landscape. I was definitely making the most of the lighting as well!
#7 Stop, look behind you and take a shot. It's strange how sometimes you just don't see what's right in front of you... or in this case behind you... until you stop to notice. No idea what happened to the rest of the tree but the root ball was actually quite interesting.
#8 Close your eyes, spin, stop and shoot. I'll fess up that I took a few steps forward before I took my shot... but it was well worth it! Such an interesting structure and I love the 'texture' of the peeling paint.
So that's the end of the March prompts but before I go I thought I'd share a couple of the results of the lighting lessons I did with Carey. In each case there are three photos: darker - normal - lighter. We played around with aperture and ISO levels but I need a LOT more practice!
Lesson #1 
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Shelley
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