Technical Experimentation and Shooting

I had some spare time today after my lesson and so I decided to set myself a task to use the camera and really familiarise myself with the things I have learned technically over the term. I decided to challenge the aesthetically pleasing elements of the university which are commonly seen in its prospectuses/websites/advertising, and to highlight the wear and tear, and aging of the building which often isn't focused on. I photographed close-up abstract sections of the University, similarly to the way I did in the exercise I carried out at the beginning of the year in the Jubilee building with the rest of my class. The photographs I took, although displaying unappealing objects, actually resulted in visually sumptuous images with a range of different textures and colours. 

There seems to be a theme of Yellow running throughout this series of photographs. I spot-metered from the grey concrete pavement slabs around the building throughout this photo-shoot to help me keep control of exposures. It was quite overcast on the day and so I experimented with the White Balance also, to attain different effects. This can be seen in photo's of these drains:

I changed the WB in these photographs from fluroscent and cloudy settings. Fluroscent affects the colour by lowering the temperature so that the photograph looks colder and has more of a blue hue whereas Cloudy does the opposite, warming the photographs up on a cloudy day, using warming colours. I shot mostly in the 'Daylight' mode today as it provided a good, realistic balance between the two and I wished to highlight the realities of the landscape and the building, so it was concurrent with my theme.