The purpose of this exercise is to discover ways of including a person or people in a photograph while deliberatly making them unrecognisable and, as a result, less prominent.
I took this picture recently when working on an earlier exercise and when I looked at it, thought that unless you knew the person, they remained perfectly anonymous in the shot as they were in silhouette. I think it works well and I was extremely lucky to have a friendly neighbourhood seagull flying by just as I took the shot.
It could be any person sitting there as he is in silhouette.
I know that I have used the image below in the previous exercise but there is nothing more guaranteed to make someone anonymous than to catch them moving in your picture. As I said before, I took several images of people in a small courtyard and combined them into one to show more movement that I had managed to achieve in each individual picture.
I like this, I deliberately chose people who were either caught in a blur or were colourful.
I'll continue with this exercise and see what else I can find as I think I can discover other ways of being anonymous.
Here's a panorama of my local church with 2 figures standing in the middle of the aisle. As they are such a small part of the whole, they are fairly inconspicuous to the viewer. The whole picture, when stitched together, was 24.5 inches by 3.6 inches which gives a very narrow view of the church inside. You would need a piece of specialist equipment such as a gigapan to get a much wider view.
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