April 2012: Weymouth 2012 - The Viewing Tower
The preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games continue - the Olympic sailing is being hosted in Weymouth and Portland, Dorset. Weymouth and Portland is the largest Olympic and Paralympic venue outside London and up to 60,000 spectators and visitors are expected to visit per day.
Weymouth Sea Life Viewing Tower is taking shape - from the top of the 53 metre Tower will be views across Weymouth and around the Jurassic Coast. There have been some really grey days recently, but on this particular day, there was some lovely blue sky and great fluffy clouds.
With the sigma lens at 10mm, my main aim was to find an interesting composition that had potential for black and white. This photograph to me gives no indication of scale as the Tower seems to head into the clouds:
The same photograph in colour just as a comparison. Which is more interesting, the black and white or the colour?
Another black and white photograph, waiting about ten minutes for the clouds to move:
The Tower one week later - this time with the viewing Gondola in place - sigma lens at 10mm, again a black and white to add to the fact there is no real sense of scale:
And finally, the record photograph. The scene that greets visitors as they walk towards the Tower, the standard record photograph that appears in the papers. With a bit of thought about composition, I hope you agree that this 'scene' can be turned into something much more interesting, as the photographs above show.
Weymouth Sea Life Viewing Tower is taking shape - from the top of the 53 metre Tower will be views across Weymouth and around the Jurassic Coast. There have been some really grey days recently, but on this particular day, there was some lovely blue sky and great fluffy clouds.
With the sigma lens at 10mm, my main aim was to find an interesting composition that had potential for black and white. This photograph to me gives no indication of scale as the Tower seems to head into the clouds:
The same photograph in colour just as a comparison. Which is more interesting, the black and white or the colour?
Another black and white photograph, waiting about ten minutes for the clouds to move:
The Tower one week later - this time with the viewing Gondola in place - sigma lens at 10mm, again a black and white to add to the fact there is no real sense of scale:
And finally, the record photograph. The scene that greets visitors as they walk towards the Tower, the standard record photograph that appears in the papers. With a bit of thought about composition, I hope you agree that this 'scene' can be turned into something much more interesting, as the photographs above show.