Please don’t try to find any pat­tern in my post­ing. After that rather ser­i­ous post yes­ter­day here’s some­thing more pho­to­graphic, or shall I say “abstract”.

If you haven’t peeked yet, what do you think it is …? Exactly, it’s a lamp just out­side our apart­ment (there is a few of those light­ing the path). Today I thought: Florian, you need to take more pho­tos. So, I ran­domly decided to focus on shapes for the next couple of days to come. I poped my 135mm prime on my cam­era to make things a bit easier, as the long focal length helps to focus on one thing at a time).

I took this shot only a few hours ago, com­ing home tonight after work. It’s main fea­ture relies on an old trick to make things more dynamic: Place things on one of the diag­on­als of the frame. Apart from that, there’s those lovely smooth curves.

Although it looks like I’ve messed with the col­ours, I haven’t at all this time. Just a delib­er­ately wrong white bal­ance (the cam­era was still set to incan­des­cent light; when I impor­ted the pic­ture into Light­Room I decided to just leave it as it was as it looked kind of inter­est­ing ). The slight vign­ette came nat­ur­ally from the lens (shot wide open on a full frame cam­era…), so I didn’t do that either. A very raw RAW so to speak ;-)

Ok, what else is there to say? Well, the extremely shal­low focal plane (math­em­at­ic­ally, it amoun­ted to 2mm depth of field!) was placed off-​centre as to get the point of interest away from the middle and thus make things more inter­est­ing to look at.