Sunday Stills - Corners

This week's challenge it to photograph corners…..corners on buildings, boards, streets…..just find yourself a corner and play with light and shadows.

One of the examples in the neat photo tips video involved combining multiple exposures to create a desired image. As I was walking around trying to find an interesting corner shot, I saw an opportunity to experiment with that.

Disclaimer: this is all just to my best understanding and I may be way off base.



This is a bird nest in a corner of the Wool House porch. When I tried to take a picture of all the chicken feathers, baling string, hay and wool used in the construction, the bright "sunlight" back lighting everything blew out the lower half of the image - way overexposed.



It would be easier to see if the sky wasn't gray white, but if you watch the loose material hanging down from the nest, you might be able to see what I was trying to fix.



Here I shortened my exposure time and corrected the exposure for the loose material, but now the top is all way underexposed.

I set up my camera on a tripod, fixed my focal point and took several different images, varying my exposure time from way too short to way too long. Then I came in, googled how to merge the two images above, spent about an hour of time (that I should have been using to knit my mittens) trying to figure it out and here is the final result.



The nest up inside the dark corner is exposed nicely and so is the loose material hanging in the bright light. Interesting!

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