My Vacation—Part 5

I know this photo does not look like much but it was fifteen frames and thirty minutes in the making.  Why?  Mainly because I did not think it thorough before I started shooting and then the light saved me.  Let me explain a little further.

Normally, I see something that I think is worth shooting and immediately ask myself:  “what is that makes you want to shoot this?” I then look for the best position and angle to “bring out” the reason I wanted to shoot the subject.  In this case I did not do that.  I just sat my tripod down shot it and keep repeating the action. And, guess what?  I keep getting shots that I did not like and becoming more frustrated with my actions.

Finally, I stopped and asked myself my normal question.  What interested me about the scene was:  the texture, the aged look, the order and the simple lines.  I walked around.  Changed my angle of view.  And finally, settled on the view you see here—about 30 degrees angle to the wall and my camera lowered to about knee height.

While I was doing this, luck came my way—a defused ray of the rising sun hit the building.  I waited until the ray got to where I wanted it and then fired away.  I felt that the different color of the light and the diagonal line of brightness that the sunlight provided was enough to turn the image from a picture to a photograph.

Enjoy.

Camera settings:  Nikon D4, 28-300mm f/3.5~5.6 with at 65mm, ISO 200, f/13 at 1/4^th of a seconds on a tripod.

Post Processing:  

Lightroom 4—applied Landscape preset during import, cropped the image, set white and black points, increased contrast, saturation and -->clarity and used adjustment brush to burn various areas.