After lunch and with the motivation to visit at least one museum during our stay in London, @namiks and I rushed to The British Museum, since the museums in London close so early. We had the chance to enter and walk around the galleries for almost an hour.
If you've been to the British Museum, you'll kind of recognize the way we took. We gave a quick look to the magnificent Rossetta Stone and walk through the gigantic Egyptian statues. But, for some reason and because our lack of time, I really wanted to go and give a look to the Pantheon Exhibition Hall. It's an immense room filled with ancient greek pieces of the actual Greek Pantheon. We went to one side of the hall and took a photo with my Sony Alpha 7II and @namiks's incredible Sony FE 85mm 1.8 lens, recalling somehow a photograph I took years ago. The picture was shot in f/1.8 and 1/100, I can't remember the ISO but I guess it was 100.
Now, here is the photo I took more than two years ago, on my first visit to London.
As you can see, it's the same exact space, the Pantheon Exhibition Hall. The differences are noticeable though. First of all, it was taken with a very different camera, very different lens, but not so different parameters; a Nikon D80, a 50mm lens, in f/2.8 and 1/100, not remembering the ISO also, but I guess it was 100 either as I always try to work with 100 unless the light asks for it. This second one was taken around 10:00 am, whereas the second one, that was around 4:30 pm.
I'm amazed of how this space changes. Maybe it's a bit too obvious, but for me it's very unique how a space can become one or another depending on the intention you want to give to it, how you can even manipulate the size or even the atmosphere with a simple lens. For me, the first photo has nothing to do with the second one. The first one seems larger. The warm lights captured by the lens gives the picture texture and volume, an unreal and fantastical aura. The second one looks higher, given that you can see a big part of the ceiling and it's much lighter. But that light makes the photograph flatter, also because there's more people in the end of the room.
This was kind of causal experiment in a very special place, like the Pantheon Exhibition Hall is. I won't doubt to try it again some time and see what it happens.