Door Photography
Well there is a quite a body of work out there of doors in various locations and as I didn’t get to go for a proper walk this weekend, I thought I’d pop up to Harewood Hall and photograph the strange door that is next to the main entrance.
I got lots of ‘what is that nutter doing’ looks as people were driving past but it was good to get some practise in and it was also good to have a subject that needed a little rise/fall and swing.
The BlackJacket worked very well and allowed me to get an accurate focus across the plane of the door (I focused on the wall first using the assymetric swing and then focused back onto the door part to make sure it was at the critical focus point). The photograph was taken f16 @ 1/2 sec but I think I screwed it up slightly. I used a 2 stop hard grad over the door and below in order to try to get more detail into the tree shadows above. I originally was going to place the door on zone V but I figured it’s actually quite dark wood so I decided I’d like to place the wall stone on zone V instead. Then I took the readings and it said to use 0.7 of a second but the closest I could get was 0.5. This meant I’d actually place the wall on zone IV and a half, meaning most of the picture was low key. This might turn out quite ‘rich’ but I have a feeling it will probably just look underexposed. I realise now that I should be using the f stop in order to achieve 1/3 stop increments.
Anyway, as usual I took a post exposure 35mm shot at 24mm (which seemed a fairly close match to the 80mm.
