One Lens, One Hour, One Location – Sydney GPO…
by Rodney Campbell on Mar.08, 2014, under Life, Photography
Continuing with my project with one lens, one focal length for one hour in one location, on a nice overcast day – this time I’m visiting the site of the original Sydney GPO. The General Post Office is a landmark building in Sydney with it’s main facade stretching 100 metres along the western end of Martin Place. It was sold to private developers and in 1999 reopened housing shops and restaurants and forms the base of the new Westin hotel
Note: These images (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.
Number 1
NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 1/50 sec at f/3.5, ISO 100
Hmm Left or Right?
NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 1/100 sec at f/3.5, ISO 100
Lying on the floor sometimes has it’s advantages 🙂
Reflected Up
NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 1/125 sec at f/3.5, ISO 100
Who’d have thought that keeping one’s feet out of the edge of the frame would be so tricky – I need a course in contortionism
1999
NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 1/60 sec at f/3.5, ISO 100
GPO
NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 1/80 sec at f/3.5, ISO 100
I’d originally intended on all my shots having enough depth of field to cover both the nearest and furthest reaches of the images I was taking and with a 15mm fisheye I never expected this to be an issue. However as you can see here as the stairs drop away into the distance it gradually fades towards a blur. Back at my computer when I was going through the images I was initially somewhat disappointed – I liked the composition but was a little miffed I’d misjudged the DoF – yes the closest parts of the image were very close – probably less than 30cm away but I’d hoped I’d be OK. Clearly I’d misjudged but I think the fall into blur is actually growing on me – especially as it’s only happening in the central area as we move down the spiral of stairs – perhaps a sign…
Vertigo
NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 1/15 sec at f/3.5, ISO 400
Again squishing my feet back against the wall as far as they can go…
Variations
NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 1/15 sec at f/3.5, ISO 400
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