Look Up, Look Down
Photographers are a curious bunch. They're forever foraging around corners, into nooks and squeezing into funny places; just looking for interesting "photo ops."
One of the most common places photographers look is up...and down. Some of the most interesting images can be found high and low.
Take for instance the image of the pots and pans. After a dubious lunch at a restaurant on a beach in Mexico, I happened to pass where they wash their dishes. Being curious, I looked into the sink, and there, waiting for the camera, was a glorious assortment of multi-coloured pots, lids and utensils ...a symphony of pattern and colour. I used my Tokina 12-24mm zoom lens at 12mm to increase the perspective, popped up my on-board flash to enhance the colours, and stuck my head down into the sink.
Maybe passers-by thought I was crazy... yeah, crazy like a photographer.
Sometimes "photo ops" are above your head. Artful ceilings are just waiting your camera. While strolling through the lobby of an office building in San Francisco, I noticed "an installation" of poles, an abstract sculpture provided to give the left-brained corporate soldiers working in the building a dose of culture. Most of the corporate soldiers rushing through the lobby paid little or no attention to the installation. Being curious, I decided to partake of the installation and situated myself right in the middle of the poles...and looked up. Again, with my 12-24mm Tokina zoom at 12mm, I created a composition with exaggerated perspective, suggesting the poles reaching and stretching up to claw the patterned ceiling.
Maybe passers-by thought I was crazy... yeah, crazy like a photographer.
Weekly photo tips are provided by Larry
Frank – photographer, traveler, presenter, Photoshop instructor, digital retouch artist.