RSS Feed member's mini gallery ... David Foster
The Copyright of all of the images displayed in this gallery remain strictly with the photographer.
church building captured in New England, Conformity is an exercise in light and shade; and line, shape and form. It is one of favourite images over my twenty-five year journey in photography.
This was captured in a medieval town in the South of France where scenes from the Three Musketeers film where shot. Light Triangle is one of my favourites because it demonstrates the interplay of light and shade, and how light can be bent in direction to focus on other elements or components of the image.
Captured recently in Dublin at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, it is an abstract of light from a window creating shadow fall on a paper cover book. The image was captured on a Samsung mobile phone camera.
Low winter light creates fascinating long shadows and texture, and I intended using this to illuminate and contrast the manhole and storm drain covers against the other street furniture the bollards. However just behind me was the entrance to a catering college in Valencia Spain and students kept passing by getting into my scene, so I decided to include one. Can you tell if the student is male or female!?
Captured in a cottage in Cultra, chosen as a manifestation of the power of the path of light and how it illuminates the subject. It was my first ‘Chiaroscuro’ image (light on the dark obscure) and lead to my study of, and collection of images on the subject of the ‘Interplay of Light and Shade’
Bristol Quay was the scene of this disused dock rail track, and my aim was for the emphasis of line and perspective, against another low light source, and still maintaining symmetry for design attention. The convergent line and decline (fading into the distance) for me is the strength of the image.
My hometown Portaferry was the obvious place to try out my first digital camera, and my intention was to see if what digital could do with a straight image (with no Photoshop work). The very first image (and only one frame was used) succeeded in capturing the ferry terminal with a slight mist over Strangford Lough as a background that enabled the pier and the gulls etc. to set out structural strength and power through shape and form on the main focal area.
Also close to my home is Mount Stewart National Trust property and a near-by peculiar building in the estate is the circular Temple of the Winds. The staircase is lit by just two windows as you ascend the stairs; and my eye saw the sweeping curving balustrade silhouetted against the light and also the light shadow patterns on the wall. It is another example of the Interplay of Light and Shade.
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Updated 4 October, 2007
