Inspired #25

Low viewpoints and subject interaction with a shallow depth of field.

Hello and welcome to Inspired, a weekly email for my paid subscribers. In this series I want to explore topics which I hope might spark some inspiration for your own photography. I will talk about my thought process for creating images, both in the field and in post processing. The posts will be linked in some way to the monthly challenges, hopefully giving you all lots of food for thought.

This week I visited my local beach to further explore shooting with a shallow depth of field. I chose this beach because it is full of old sea defences. Wooden posts and concrete structures once designed to protect the shore now litter the beach in a haphazard jumble of man made debris. I brought with me a 24-70mm lens and a 70-200mm telephoto and my idea was to see how I could make elements relate to each other in a meaningful way by using a shallow depth of field.