Similar in theme to last week’s photo. More rust.

I’m actually enjoying simplifying my photos a bit. In this case, rather than taking a photo of the whole boat, I’ve taken a photo of a specific part. Once again, a very wide aperture (well, as wide as I can go on my 200mm lens) to blur the background to remove it as a distraction.

I like the whole old vs. new in this photo as well. The old being the levers, and the new being the pipes. I think the wooden pole makes a good frame for the image too (along with the metal poles).

As for criticisms, composition could have been a little better (I’ve cropped it to get it to this stage), maybe a bit more processing (Lightroom has done a bit of a bad job at the noise reduction, so I can’t bring out the texture of the rust as much as I’d like), the white (sign?) in the background is a distraction, but overall, I think it’s fairly sound.

Funny story with this photoshoot though. I was walking along the Geelong waterfront taking photos and due to it being on sunset, I was using the tripod fairly often (didn’t with the above picture though). As I was taking a photo of one of the bollards that has been painted up (the one painted as a footy player), a hens party walked past. Due to me having my 55-200mm lens on my camera, at full length with the hood on it, my camera, to the layman, looked like a fairly pro camera. So as the hens party walked past, one of the girls (who was dressed like Jasmine from Aladdin) asked me what I was taking a photo of and then proceded to ask which publication I shot for! Ha ha, I look like a pro!

On another note, as I walked along, I wasn’t replacing the lens cap on the camera. Worried about dust/scratches? This has convinced me otherwise (along with the fact that I have a UV filter on my lenses for protection) – http://www.lensrentals.com/news/2008.10.30/front-element-scratches