Digital Diary
I decided to go with Olive Cotton's Tea Cup Ballet of 1935. Again, this proved very challenging. I sourced some French Duralex deco cups and saucers, hoping that their translucency might add another dimension to the shadow play. I then sourced a light to create the shadows, and found that dusk was the best time to shoot.
I spent a long time adjusting all the variables: cup layout, light location/height, camera location/height and camera settings. I used a 28mm lens on f4, focusing on the mid distance. The shutter speed set at 1/60th and ISO 640. These settings seemed to generate the best result: a compromise between depth of field and noise reduction.
I was interested to read that Tea Cup Ballet became Olive Cotton's most iconic photograph, and that she was a friend of Max Dupain.
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