Shape, Texture and Light

I have a little place in my heart for this type of image pictures even though a well respected photographic friend of mine dismisses them as 'rusty lock' pictures. I can see his point because non-photographers may not see the point of them as their subjects have little intrinsic appeal. But this is exactly what turns me on to them. It is the photographic process that gives them their appeal.

The photograph gives the subject a new life and forces the viewer to look at it afresh. They are really about shape, texture and light - exactly what photography is so good at capturing. With these pictures it is not the subject that makes them but good light and a pleasing composition that shows off the interaction between light and the subject.

Finally, here's a genuine rusty lock of my own:

 
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  Depth of Field

I snapped the photo above a couple of days ago. It shows the branches of a tree that is submerged in a deep pool of water but grows well despite this. I used a small aperture to give fro a large depth of field with everything in the frame acceptably sharp.

But I was not convinced that I had made the best image that I could. So I repeated the shot with a large aperture to give a shallow depth of field in the shot below.

This really emphasises the texture of the moss on the upright branch.

I'll let you decide which picture works best, but they certainly show different aspects of the same scene. 
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