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158/365 # Every day is getting shorter
This is much better big on black - click the link at the end to see!
Still working with my new 50mm lens, I love it and never want to be apart from it. Although I still want to add a new gizmo to my box of tricks, namely an external flash. I feel like it's the missing link. Still, I have plenty enough to learn so maybe it's a good thing that I don't have a flash right now.
This is one of the (many) shots I've done where I started out with no ideas whatsoever and this just . . . happened. I sort of had the idea to include the clock in the shot as I was setting up - after all, when I started my 365 it was all about documenting me leaving my twenties behind and entering the thirty zone. So time was always going to be a theme to explore.
The passing of time is something I think about a lot. I'm quite contradictory about it, I suppose a lot of people are, in terms of wishing the working week away and focusing on the next weekend or holiday that's coming up. And while I'm busy doing that the weeks, months and years are dropping away more and more quickly.
I'm terrified of getting old. I'm worried about the things I'll have to give up because the mind is willing but the body's no longer capable or vice-versa, which probably terrifies me more. I'm mortified at the thought that I might not be able to look after myself one day. And all this is stuff I think about a lot of the time. It's a dumb thing to get hung up about really, I should be enjoying today instead of thinking ahead to what may or may not be. But no matter how hard I try to ignore it, that clock keeps ticking.
Maybe that's why photography has become so fascinating to me, it gives me the ability to freeze a moment in time.
I got this shot with the 50mm, as mentioned earlier. I ramped up the exposure quite a lot and used a preset in Lightroom to get the basic picture how I wanted it. The texture (by billionstrang) and TTV border were Photoshopped in, and then I erased the layers over the clock to bring out the white face, blurring the edges where I erased to make them less obvious. I used a bit of dodging on my face to lighten it a bit and erased the layers and used the dodge tool over my eye to give it a bit of sparkle.
The title is from Time by Pink Floyd. An obvious choice but fitting.
158/365 # Every day is getting shorter
This is much better big on black - click the link at the end to see!
Still working with my new 50mm lens, I love it and never want to be apart from it. Although I still want to add a new gizmo to my box of tricks, namely an external flash. I feel like it's the missing link. Still, I have plenty enough to learn so maybe it's a good thing that I don't have a flash right now.
This is one of the (many) shots I've done where I started out with no ideas whatsoever and this just . . . happened. I sort of had the idea to include the clock in the shot as I was setting up - after all, when I started my 365 it was all about documenting me leaving my twenties behind and entering the thirty zone. So time was always going to be a theme to explore.
The passing of time is something I think about a lot. I'm quite contradictory about it, I suppose a lot of people are, in terms of wishing the working week away and focusing on the next weekend or holiday that's coming up. And while I'm busy doing that the weeks, months and years are dropping away more and more quickly.
I'm terrified of getting old. I'm worried about the things I'll have to give up because the mind is willing but the body's no longer capable or vice-versa, which probably terrifies me more. I'm mortified at the thought that I might not be able to look after myself one day. And all this is stuff I think about a lot of the time. It's a dumb thing to get hung up about really, I should be enjoying today instead of thinking ahead to what may or may not be. But no matter how hard I try to ignore it, that clock keeps ticking.
Maybe that's why photography has become so fascinating to me, it gives me the ability to freeze a moment in time.
I got this shot with the 50mm, as mentioned earlier. I ramped up the exposure quite a lot and used a preset in Lightroom to get the basic picture how I wanted it. The texture (by billionstrang) and TTV border were Photoshopped in, and then I erased the layers over the clock to bring out the white face, blurring the edges where I erased to make them less obvious. I used a bit of dodging on my face to lighten it a bit and erased the layers and used the dodge tool over my eye to give it a bit of sparkle.
The title is from Time by Pink Floyd. An obvious choice but fitting.