Take Three
First Call: BMW Isetta 300 — Cheryl
I thought it would be kind of neat to take a look at one subject in three different ways. A photographer has a seemingly endless list of choices to make when capturing an image: ISO, shutter speed, F-stop, exposure compensation, point of view, where to focus, where to take a light meter reading, what to include in the background, what to exclude. But those are just a few of the factors to consider when taking the picture. Choices expand when it comes to post production.
I’m posting three shots of one of the classic cars my family and I saw today at the Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, Maine. With shot number one (above), it may take the viewer a moment or two to figure out what is being portrayed. The edge of the mirror is really the only thing in focus, and there’s an awful lot of red to wade through in getting to the bottom of things. It’s likely that this is a car, but it’s certainly not a car that was manufactured in the last twenty years.
In my second shot (below), I’ve pulled back and revealed more my subject. While the Isetta is sort of in a class by itself, identifying the object in the photo as a car is a pretty safe bet. (The out-of-focus, old, British-Racing-Green MG in background also helps place the object in the world of automobiles.)
Finally, in my last shot, I give you the whole car (albeit from the other side). Now, it’s very apparent that I have photographed a car and that I found it in a museum of some sort.
While I’m not thrilled by the quality of these photos, I am happy that I have the freedom to emphasize different aspects of this one vehicle, and am thereby able to make various statements about it.
That is an interesting car. It reminds me of the Smart cars a lot of people drive around here. (That’s one gorgeous red too!)
It is interesting how your mind works differently with each image adding more and more information. I like the first image best, but then it is more abstract with all the curves and the red.
I like the first image best, too, but as I said in the post, I’m not happy with the overall quality of the shots. I was shooting in a huge, artificially lit, warehouse-type building. Blech.