POTD 15 of 365

They (whoever "they" are) say, "Necessity is the mother of invention." My need this evening was a clean composition of the whirligig that The Missus has hanging in the dining room.

I tried a few different angles, all of which had some combination of teapot, blinds, bookshelves, or corners in it. Tried opening the lens up wide to blur out the background - no love.

In a moment of pique, I mounted the camera on the tripod backwards, angled it to 90 degrees, and awkwardly positioned it under the whirligig. Composed, switched to manual focus to get the center and very edges in the focal plane, and let 'er rip.

Here's the result:



No real setup shot, but light is the 580EX II with a softbox at the level of the whirligig and at 1/32.

This is what the thing looks like from a normal angle.



I rather like the abstractness of this shot.