Where: Elephant Tearoom, Indoors and Old College Warrior
Exhibition, Outdors
When: Mid afternoon and late evening.
How: I chose
two locations as I wanted to get the experience of trying to assess the
different flows of people within their surroundings.
Elephant TeaRoom
I chose Elephant tearoom as it is a constantly busy location; the tearoom itself was one of the locations that the author of the Harry Potter books sat and wrote and now the tearoom has become a Mecca for visitors and Harry Potter enthusiasts. It is almost always busy and getting a table can sometime take a while.
It is now a crowded location as they have chosen to add extra tables to allow for the increase in the number of customers and being a tourist location is a noisy jammed location.
I chose to reduce the image to a monochrome as it fitted with the room itself which is trying to maintain an air of “old school” Edinburgh without trying to become a solely tourist location.
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Nikon D80, Aperture Mode Manual, focal length 18mm (35mm
equivalent 27mm), aperture f9.5, speed 1/60 second, ISO 3200, Shade white
balance, Spot metering, Camera sitting on the table, 18-70mm lens,
Warrior Lantern Exhibition
I had read
online that some of the terracotta warrior lanterns would be transported to
Edinburgh and displayed in Edinburgh Universities Old College Quad for this
years Chinese New Year. I was excited to see these as these lanterns had
originally been designed and exhibited at the Beijing Olympics.
On arrival I was
astounded by the number of visitors; I had expected a few dozen people to turn
up since it was raining instead there were several hundred people there all who
had turned up to see, touch and be photographed with the lanterns.
I quickly
noticed that people either stood at the entrance and photographed the grouped
horse and family, or they walked between the regimented figures first down the
rows and then back across the rows. Children ran from figure to figure at
random while some photographers stood to the sides and only photographed the
outer figures. There was quite a Brownian motion as groups tried not to appear
in one another’s photos.
I watched for a
while from an upper location as the lights first started to dim and the first
sets of visitors walked around the quad
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Bozart Ampel, Aperture Mode Fixed, Exposure Mode Auto focal length
9.3mm (35mm equivalent 9.3mm), aperture f2.8, speed 1/30 second, ISO 100,
Vibrant white balance, Matrix metering, Tripod Mounted camera, 9.3mm fixed lens,
I really wanted to capture the size of
the exhibition and show the vibrant colours of the lantern warriors but also
experiment with showing the visitors as an accent to the final image. I chose
to use a Bozart Ampel camera which has a fixed 9.3mm tilt shift lens. This allowed
me to capture the colours and also accent the people at the same time.
After the sun had set, the rain became
heavier but this did nothing to discourage the visitors, as they filed up and
down the rows photographing faces and lanterns.
I moved position in closer, but still
from a vantage point above the ground level of the quad.
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Nikon D80, Aperture Mode Manual, focal length 75mm (35mm
equivalent 112mm), aperture f4.8, speed 1/20 second, ISO 100, Shade white
balance, Spot metering, Tripod Mounted Camera, 70-300mm lens,
I wanted to shoot from a distance away
and using low ISO and slow shutter speed to obtain a slight motion blur without
over exposing the lantern warriors.
Again here I tried to capture the stop
and go movement of people as they moved around the exhibition, some stopping to
photograph while companions moved on to look at the next piece.
I then moved down to ground level to
get a few shots of the people at the edges of the exhibition as they worked
away capturing their own images.
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Nikon D80, Aperture Mode Manual, focal length 50mm (35mm
equivalent 75mm), aperture f2.4, speed 1/125 second, ISO 800, Shade white
balance, Matrix metering mode, Tripod Mounted Camera, 50mm lens,
At this point the light was really
beginning to disappear and I swapped to a 50mm prime lens to allow the most
amount of light that I could get from the chosen aperture and shutter speed as
I did not want to blur the images too much. I gain wanted to show the groupings
and the positions of people as they examined the lanterns.
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Nikon D80, Aperture Mode Manual, focal length 50mm (35mm
equivalent 75mm), aperture f2.4, speed 1/125 second, ISO 800, Flash white
balance, Matrix metering mode, Tripod Mounted Camera, 50mm lens,
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As the rain eased I took a final image
of a new set of visitors as they started into the body of the exhibition, some
of them were as cold and wet as I was and I just wanted to capture the interest
that they still showed.
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