thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 1月26日 04時42分

Photograph by @andyparkinsonphoto/@thephotosociety
Mute swan and cygnet – This is another image from my time with the swans last summer. I worked with them in exactly the same way that I had in previous years, that is by visiting the nesting adults every day for weeks on end, sitting with them and allowing myself to become a non-threatening part of their environment. I spoke to them always in the same monotone voice, always with a downward inflection so that, should the time arise when the eggs hatched then I, completely accepted by the adults, would be able to work at close quarters. As you can see from this image I am looking straight down at the sleeping adult, her newborn cygnet tucked safely in the vast expanse of white that is the adults back. At first I wasn’t too sure about the annoying piece of vegetation and I initially tried shooting with the aperture wide open, at F2.8, to try and diffuse the plant and throw it as much out of focus as I possibly could. A cursory chimp on the back of my camera however told me that this simply wasn’t working, the plant becoming instead an annoying expanse of indistinguishable green. With little other alternative I then tried the polar opposite effect, closing the aperture right down to F22 to try and bring the whole scene into sharp focus, the plant included, and whilst the plant itself still isn’t perfectly sharp it at least adds a punctuation of colour and interest into an otherwise largely monochromatic scene. The final goal then was to then try and compose the plant so that the image felt balanced and I was glad when the cygnet briefly opened her eye as it increases the level of connection. Mind you, as I was probably shooting in bursts of multiple frames every second the fact that I have only one single image of the cygnet’s eye open tells me that it wasn’t open for very long!

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