color -- then and now Rule of Fourths (Home Depot Delivery)

Good photography (if this is good) is where you find it, in this

case in front of the Home Depot where I went to buy light bulbs.

This is a sheetrock delivery truck and its driver, Ethan. You've

heard about the 'Rule of Thirds' -- how about the 'Rule of Fourths'?

Available light, at night, with a Nikon D-70 f 2.8 fully open, no

flash. My motto: 'Never waste a good background' no matter how

dark outside or bad the lighting. Your ratings and comments are

very welcome. (If you rate harshly or very negatively, please

submit a helpful and constructive comment/Please share your superior

knowledge to help improve my photography, keeping into account the

conditions). Thanks! Enjoy! John.

This is the back of a truck. The load of the truck, a semi flatbed, seen from the rear (here) was divided into four equal loads of sheetrock wallboard, wrapped against the weather. (For non-North Americans, builders in North America use this substance to create walls in residential and commercial buildings instead of lath and plaster.) This is NOT a composite, but exactly as seen through my camera's viewfinder.

 

For aesthetic reasons, and industry convention, sheetrock manufacturers wrap their product and stack it for shipment into such interesting patterns as a matter of course, apparently satisfying some innate need for symmetry. Within seconds, this entire cargo was unloaded and the symmetry was completely destroyed. John

This is a night photograph, taken in a parking lot where there were forklifts, some distant floodlights and some store lighting from the front of the store, however distant. Although I had a powerful flash on my camera, I chose not to use it. (It seemed bright enough with a f2.8 lens and the image on the Nikon D70 seemed 'bright' enough). This image had to be sharpened, not because of any sharpness failure in the rendering of the text on the sheetrock wrapping, but because the subject was constantly moving, as this is mostly a 'candid' shot. John

This image has been compared with Photoshop's 'grids' and it conforms to the grid's lines. There is some actual tilting of the load, as it's about to be moved by forklift, on the right, as this is not a unitary load, but instead is a load divided into four parts -- four separate pallet loads of sheetrock, and for the right pallet loads, the pallets were somewhat sagging. (If you look at the bottom levels of sheetrock, they line up perfectly, despite the appearance of the center level. John