070/365: At home XII (in my bedroom)
After a night of brutal storms, perhaps daybreak was also going to bring a break in the weather? But no: looking out the window at dawn revealed another vicious day in prospect. But how to capture this feeling? Well, not entirely successfully...
One of the trees behind the house across the road is at least hanging at a strange angle, caught by the wind, but the others are much less obviously affected; the raindrops spattered across the windowpane through which I was shooting are perhaps still too defocussed to be very obvious, a problem that could have been solved by stopping down from f/4 to, say, f/8, perhaps even f/11; exposing the negative for shadow detail in the foreground brickwork has unfortunately compressed the zones of highlight detail in the cloudy sky, robbing the dawn of a lot of its stormy contrast.
Still, I knew what I wanted, and being able to diagnose quite why I failed to achieve it is also a kind of success! And in any case no mere photo could ever reproduce the rattling of fences and howling of chimneys.
11th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire
Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)
Voigtländer Bessa R3M
Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical
B+W 022 medium yellow filter
070/365: At home XII (in my bedroom)
After a night of brutal storms, perhaps daybreak was also going to bring a break in the weather? But no: looking out the window at dawn revealed another vicious day in prospect. But how to capture this feeling? Well, not entirely successfully...
One of the trees behind the house across the road is at least hanging at a strange angle, caught by the wind, but the others are much less obviously affected; the raindrops spattered across the windowpane through which I was shooting are perhaps still too defocussed to be very obvious, a problem that could have been solved by stopping down from f/4 to, say, f/8, perhaps even f/11; exposing the negative for shadow detail in the foreground brickwork has unfortunately compressed the zones of highlight detail in the cloudy sky, robbing the dawn of a lot of its stormy contrast.
Still, I knew what I wanted, and being able to diagnose quite why I failed to achieve it is also a kind of success! And in any case no mere photo could ever reproduce the rattling of fences and howling of chimneys.
11th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire
Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)
Voigtländer Bessa R3M
Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical
B+W 022 medium yellow filter