This week’s 52 Frames challenge is all about “details” which has lead to a lot of discussion over on the Discord channel, about what that actually means. Is it all about macro photography (a question encouraged by this weeks Extra Challenge which is “use a macro lense”)?
For me, details depend on the context. If you’re looking at a building, a single window, a single door, or a poster on the wall are details. If you’re looking at the door, the doorhandle is a detail, or the knocker. If you’re looking at the knocker, the details are in the design of certain aspects – maybe it‘s the patterns in the metal caused by forging. If you have a background in metallurgy like I do, you might be tempted to cut up the knocker and look at the details of the structure of the steel under a microscope – using ever more sophisticated tools to see ever smaller details until you get to pictures of individual atoms.
Of course, this works the other way too. The house we started at is just one detail in a photo of a street. The street a detail in an urban landscape. The town a detail on a satellite photograph of the region, and the county of Wherever is just one small detail on a shot from the ISS.
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