Singing the blues...

This picture is my response to a challenge by HarryJPhotos as part of the Rolling Challenge in the Get Pushed group:

Construct a photo that has depth and hints at a story. By that I mean that there is more than one subject. The emphasis here is that it should be constructed, not candid. Lit, or not lit, sharp throughout or no, all that is up to you.

 

Harry's photo stream and the 365 and other projects he is doing, show a wide interest of subjects and a good eye to find different things to shoot. Inspirational! And I hope I did his challenge justice.

 

My initial idea was to have some things on a table and see someone walk away in a blurred background. The objects were to tell the story of why the person was walking away.

I then thought of the objects in the current picture and dropped the walking away bit but stuck with the short DoF (my thing for the last couple of months).

 

I shot the picture in the living room with fading window light and some room lights so at higher ISO than I probably would have if I would have used a strobist set-up. But the picture was going to look somewhat rough in my mind, it was not going to be based on idealised lighting, some post processing was needed to make it even more moody.

 

I may make some more versions of this theme... the challenge was an inspiration.

Thanks Harry!

 

Camera Canon EOS 7D

Exposure 0.013 sec (1/80)

Aperture f/1.4

Lens Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM

ISO Speed 800

Exposure Bias -1/3 EV

Flash Off, Did not fire

 

>100 views within a week, that has never happened to me before....

Done