Four Points

Apr 132011

The Challenge: Find and interesting or not so interesting place and stand and take pics of the 4 points of the compass. North,South,East and West.

I’m no photographer. I used to just snap at random. Now I’m learning from scratch. I don’t know the first thing about photography, but I know what I like at least.

The location: Morges Independence Park, Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Lets just say, the location makes up for my horrible shooting skills. Instead of shooting from one pivitol point, I shot subjects at one pivitol point at an approximately equal radius from each direction. I’m glad I did it because using the subjects taught me some valuable, albeit entry-level lighting skills. Later I went back and shot it again as the pivitol point. Here are the shots, as is, no re-touching, and what I learned.

First Set: Middle of the Park, Mid-Morning, Subjects at One Point

East (more like South East, but we’ll call it East): Looking toward Lake Geneva and the Alps. We’ll call it East, but it’s more like South East. Even without obvious sun shine, time of day makes a huge difference. It’s still morning on a different day, East-ish, where the lighting is behind the subjects, making their faces still difficult to see.

North: lighting is better.

South: again, lighting not as bad on subjects. But my equal distance is not so equal!

West: Definitely not equal distances!

Second Set: Along the Grand Rue, Mid-Morning

West: The models are growing weary of this game.

North: They’re trying to ignore me now.

South: Continuing to ignore me. Except the GSD can’t take it and must know where I am so he looks for me.

East toward the lake and Alps: I relocated the dogs from the other side of the tulip garden. Again, this time the sun shines behind and the shadows make it even harder to see faces.