Rain

Well this is the last exercise before the final assignment of the Art of Photography, the subject is rain, and I have to design the cover of a magazine about rain, so its thinking cap on and trying to come up with something different and eye catching without being too messy or complicated, a strong single image would be good.After trying various options I finally settled on two images one of an empty park and children's play area and the other of a dog sitting in the rain in the town.

 

My favourite one is the one of the dog i was sitting in a cafe when I looked up and saw this dog just sitting there in the rain waiting for his owner to return, I left my coffee (with a slightly amused friend) and went over to see if I would be able to photograph him or if he would move or bark, luckily he did neither I took this at f9 1/40s with a focal Length of 100.

 

On my way home I pass a park and the children play area is normally fairly busy but today as I drove past I noticed that it was empty  in fact the whole park was empty apart from one person walking past on their way some where.This was taken at F9 1/60s with a focal length of 135mm.

One final photograph underneath shows the rest of the children's play area, although it was empty and I would call it rain stops play I don't think you can see the rain enough.

I think the top photograph is the strongest to be used on a magazine, the dogs expression is like most humans I hate rain when can I get back home.

 

Having read the exercise again I see I was supposed to do a magazine cover so I have done that now too.

 

 

I still feel sorry for the dog!  

 

Please note that I had to scan this cover in so the colours unfortunately don't look as good as they should.