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2022_CLondon52w17: Compositional Guidelines

From the C.London website: "There are many compositional guidelines that photographers use to highlight different aspects of their images. Like color theory, in years passed, we dedicated multiple weeks to individual guidelines, but this year I want to give you a little more freedom. Start with this blog post about compositional guidelines and choose one which you'd like to try out for this week. Bonus points to anyone who also incorporates a specific color scheme."

Foreground framing and rule of thirds are the two guidelines I tried to incorporate into this image.

There are often interesting scenes occurring at the gas pumps, especially these days of high fuel prices. I pulled up and immediately noticed one guy on the phone not pumping gas and another guy looking angry as he watched the total climb. Using my dashboard/hood as foreground, I positioned the camera to capture these expressions in the middle third of the frame. Cropped to 16:9 to reinforce the horizontal nature of the scene. Processed in b/w as color distracted from the story.

Ricoh GRIIIx @ f3.2 1/160 40mm equiv ISO 500

Photographed 4/27/22

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CLondon52w17: Monochrome

From the C.London website: "While you may be familiar with monochrome referring to black and white, it actually refers to anything which uses solely one color value. Those images you see where there is overwhelmingly one color present are monochrome, for all intents and purposes. We see this technique often in those hazy sunrise/set shots, but it is also a very impactful technique for street shots."

Went walking around the neighborhood today with the intent of making a photograph for this week's CLondon 52 Week challenge using a new lens for the first time.  Problem is I came away with several images that can qualify (some with more processing than others) and not sure which one to use.

This street photo only required a simple b/w conversion and some tweaking in LR.  I'll post a monochrome color image as well later this week.

Sony A7C @ f5.6 1/500 35mm ISO 100

Samyang AF 35mm F1.8

Photographed 4/25/21