How to make garden gate intesting?

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For a school assignmen i have to take photos of gates comparing indstruaul To you normal house gates. Got any ideas Thanks

-- Chris Fahey (fahec@altavista.net), August 01, 1999

Answers

well, you could take a series of identical pictures of a gate and print them in a continuuous strip, thus comparing the motion of the ornamental gate to the motion of the industrial gate a la Muybridge.

For the next "level" of investigation, have a nude model walk thru the same series of gates, shot at several frames/sec from tripod. Then do the same thing (same set of gates) with a female model.

if you can get a horse to gallop thru the gates (try & catch all 4 hooves off the ground, if possible) your teacher will have you expelled for being a smartass.

dm

-- Don Minton (minton2@mindspring.com), August 01, 1999.


Set them both on fire.

From ground level (camera on the ground), photograph with a wide- angle lens.

If your camera can do it, do multiple exposures of the gates with the normal traffic going through/next to them. The traffic flow will appear ghostly.

-- Brian C. Miller (brianm@ioconcepts.com), August 02, 1999.


Make a photographic flip book. As a person walks toward the gate and up to the camera make one exposure every step, print them small and staple them together at one edge with the first frame on top. As you fan them (front to back) it becomes a "movie" of the gate functioning...t

-- tom meyer (jparady@mindspring.com), August 05, 1999.

Take pictures of the locks at a close up angle. It's still the gate so you can do your assignment and I bet the locks are much more interesting than the gates!

-- Bruce Wayne (MrWayne_@excite.com), August 10, 1999.

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