Having been back over my blog now that I have reached assignment 5, I think I managed to miss this exercise out. So I thought I ought to complete it, a little late than never.
I set up a simple background of a cardboard box which had contained wheels and found a couple of relevant tools in the garage. I selected 10 bolts, as close in shape and size as possible and as shiny as I could find. I decided to convert the photos to balck and white because the colour of the cardboard box was a bit neutral.
Having set up my "set", I worked through the exercise as described in the course material, placing first one then up to 10 bolts in a different place every time. I decided to stop at 9 because I like odd numbers in still life and I didn't really know where to put 10.
After reviewing my photos, I repeated the exercise because the set had taken centre stage and my bolts were a little lost. After rearranging the set and position of the camera, I started again. I found the difficultuy with circular bolts was that they rolled once positioned.
1/45 F5.6 ISO100 47mm
The last picture shows several triangles that can be seen, or a couple of lines running through them. I did not achieve a curved pattern and I think that is because of the mechanical aspect of the set.
