Exercise: Rain

Imagine a magazine cover on one subject: rain.  You have the entire cover space to work with and you should produce a single, attractive, strong photograph that leaves no one in doubt about the subject.

Rain (c)SarahJaneField 2015

This was taken on my iPhone 5c using Camera+ and then edited in Snapseed.  I darkened it and increased the contrast plus sharpened and increased the structure, then turned it upside down so the reflection of the building appeared the right way up.  I hope it leaves no one in any doubt about the subject.

Weather

1. 4 - 6 images
Photograph the same view in sunlight and under cloud.  Choose two or three different subjects.

200 ISO f5.6 1/4000

ISO 400 2.8 1/100 (but I tried with and without the internal ND filter and this is one with)

200 ISO f16 2000

400 ISO f5.6 125

After choosing these I noticed we were meant to keep the WB to daylight  - and so will need to do that too now as I know the colours would be different and I've sort of ignored that in this selection... will do!





2. 3 - images
For the second part of the exercise take three photographs outdoors on an overcast day, make good use of enveloping, shadowless light, look for strong colour, pronounce relief.

640 ISO f16 1/8

640 f3.6 1/250

640 f3.6 1/250

3. 2 images
Rain

ISO 250 f16 1/4s

ISO 200 f3.6 250s

ISO 200 f14 1/3s