Week 3: Seeing With the Camera

 

I decided to take my boys to the mall at night so they can enjoy a carousel ride at night with the lights decorative lights on. There weren’t many people in the area at this time of night (7:30 pm), because it is a school night. It was calm, enjoyable and almost serene.  I could feel the excitement my sons had about going on the “horsies” with mommy and daddy. Carousels are very colorful and you would expect the photos to be bright with color, but I like the depth that came through in the black and white. When taking motion shots, you cannot get the perfect lines every time, which can make for an even better shot than you hoped for.

 

Walking towards the carousel I didn’t notice the length of the straight away walk until we were leaving and that’s how I got the distance shot. I took the same scene photo in color and black and white but I loved the black and white due to the beams, arches and lights on the ceiling. You can see a few people enjoying their evening.



The black horse, I loved. This was the only black horse and it stood out among the other white horses, and the white walls of the mall. The horse is clear for the most part, but you can see the slight blur of movement behind and in front of it. So in my eyes it was so much brighter, but on camera it deepend.

The stairs leading up to the second level of the carousel caught my attention, with the woman figure carved into the top. This was a candid shot, then I purposely took a few more of the same shot, but the candid came out better than the rest (which I didn’t expect upon review). I love the almost eeriness of the shot. It was a bright area, but the shot came out in such a contrast that I cant believe. This is my favorite shot of the night by far.