I’ve looked at both sides now
The Saturday challenge for 18th January is ‘Arch(s) or Archway(s)’. I did think of trekking up to Archway station on the London Underground Northern Line, but I quickly came up with a better idea, more personal to me. You may recall that one Saturday Challenge in December 2023 was ‘something that pleased us’, and I featured a small arched structure which I’d built some time ago in our living room to make better use of an awkward corner? I thought of that arch again for this week’s challenge, but I didn’t want to take the same shot as before. So I decided to take two different shots, one showing the front of the arch and how deceptively solid it looks, and the other showing the inside and how I made it from just timber, plasterboard, and hardboard.
If the idea came quickly, the execution didn’t! While the frontal shot was easy, for the inside shot I tried every combination of the P&S and the DSLR, with the lamp on and with it off, and with flash and without it, but all these attempts were very disappointing and obviously just bin fodder … but then I had a brainwave: why not take it with the iPad, as that would be far easier to manipulate within the confined space, and using it in selfie mode would make composing the image simpler? So I did, and here’s the result!
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😃 Thank you very much for any 💬s or ⭐️s you might like to give; they’re greatly appreciated!
I’ve looked at both sides now
The Saturday challenge for 18th January is ‘Arch(s) or Archway(s)’. I did think of trekking up to Archway station on the London Underground Northern Line, but I quickly came up with a better idea, more personal to me. You may recall that one Saturday Challenge in December 2023 was ‘something that pleased us’, and I featured a small arched structure which I’d built some time ago in our living room to make better use of an awkward corner? I thought of that arch again for this week’s challenge, but I didn’t want to take the same shot as before. So I decided to take two different shots, one showing the front of the arch and how deceptively solid it looks, and the other showing the inside and how I made it from just timber, plasterboard, and hardboard.
If the idea came quickly, the execution didn’t! While the frontal shot was easy, for the inside shot I tried every combination of the P&S and the DSLR, with the lamp on and with it off, and with flash and without it, but all these attempts were very disappointing and obviously just bin fodder … but then I had a brainwave: why not take it with the iPad, as that would be far easier to manipulate within the confined space, and using it in selfie mode would make composing the image simpler? So I did, and here’s the result!
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😃 Thank you very much for any 💬s or ⭐️s you might like to give; they’re greatly appreciated!