Toni Ahvenainen
Tic-Toc
Season of Tilt
Week 12, Wednesday
For me, photography means one psychological way to deal with a fact that I may die tomorrow. I often forget this option that apply to all of us and it makes me sad. With photography I sense better the time that's passes on every second. It forces me to hear that very quiet but continuous ticking sound that says my time is running. Eventually that sound will someday suddenly stop and I have to face the inevitable death. In death it's not just our body that dies, but also life we lived, memories we had, things we believed in and fostered. Photography lets me see this uniquity of life and preserve at least something of it. Not just for me, but for the generations that become after, my children's children and so on. I hope to leave behind photographs which will raise questions in those who find them. When they look the photographs I've took, I hope they will ask who are these people? How did they live? What was it like then? In a way photography is a way to communicate with those who will come after us. We watch them and they watch us silently through the photographs we left behind.
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While this photograph is not shot within five days, like I stated in my own rules, I still wanted to share it with you, because it is another good example of the Edge 80 smoothness. With this picture of my brother, I wanted to recreate some of the same feeling which is so strong with the work of Albert Kahn. It's an important picture for me and I wanted just to capture my brother there in a woodshed without anything too much planned before (shot in available light and circumstances). I must say I really like the smooth out-of-focus character which Edge 80 gives for this picture. It adds just right amount of visual interest in picture and doesn't come out as a too obvious effect. However, I must say that coming from OSS and autofocus equipped Sony lenses, there is a bit of learning curve with Lensbaby. Not just you have to get used to manual focus, but tilting the lens and adjusting the out-of-focus area (which moves even with tiny movement of camera) makes it a bit of a challenge. With this shot I needed to resort to tripod and a good amount of patience when adjusting right amount of smoothness, but I think it was very much worth it. Now it just need to wait for, say one hundred years.
Year of the Alpha – 52 Weeks of Sony Alpha Photography: www.yearofthealpha.com
Tic-Toc
Season of Tilt
Week 12, Wednesday
For me, photography means one psychological way to deal with a fact that I may die tomorrow. I often forget this option that apply to all of us and it makes me sad. With photography I sense better the time that's passes on every second. It forces me to hear that very quiet but continuous ticking sound that says my time is running. Eventually that sound will someday suddenly stop and I have to face the inevitable death. In death it's not just our body that dies, but also life we lived, memories we had, things we believed in and fostered. Photography lets me see this uniquity of life and preserve at least something of it. Not just for me, but for the generations that become after, my children's children and so on. I hope to leave behind photographs which will raise questions in those who find them. When they look the photographs I've took, I hope they will ask who are these people? How did they live? What was it like then? In a way photography is a way to communicate with those who will come after us. We watch them and they watch us silently through the photographs we left behind.
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While this photograph is not shot within five days, like I stated in my own rules, I still wanted to share it with you, because it is another good example of the Edge 80 smoothness. With this picture of my brother, I wanted to recreate some of the same feeling which is so strong with the work of Albert Kahn. It's an important picture for me and I wanted just to capture my brother there in a woodshed without anything too much planned before (shot in available light and circumstances). I must say I really like the smooth out-of-focus character which Edge 80 gives for this picture. It adds just right amount of visual interest in picture and doesn't come out as a too obvious effect. However, I must say that coming from OSS and autofocus equipped Sony lenses, there is a bit of learning curve with Lensbaby. Not just you have to get used to manual focus, but tilting the lens and adjusting the out-of-focus area (which moves even with tiny movement of camera) makes it a bit of a challenge. With this shot I needed to resort to tripod and a good amount of patience when adjusting right amount of smoothness, but I think it was very much worth it. Now it just need to wait for, say one hundred years.
Year of the Alpha – 52 Weeks of Sony Alpha Photography: www.yearofthealpha.com