through the windshield
pro139: Todd Hido emulation
WIT: Alright, studying up on Todd Hido was interesting, to say the least, however, I've got issues with photographing folks that I know in public when they know they are being photographed, much less creeping around neighborhoods shooting time exposures of stranger's houses. I get the sentiment, I do, but I couldn't do it.
So... I latched onto his "through the windshield series". I liked the notion there and was much more comfortable driving a 7500 lb vehicle single handed through traffic shooting (luckily the Olympus has live view) risking my, and other's life and limb (that's irony, but true unfortunately). I normally shy away from shooting TTW shots because it seems lazy in some way, but Hido seems to add to his compositions with the windshield not make them lazy, so I started playing with the idea.
I understand that neither this nor my previous effort really emulate Hido since his scenes seem mostly placid and mostly in focus (see the shots right before this one for the antithesis).Nonetheless, I drew inspiration from his work, and stopped seeing it as lazy and looked upon it as challenge and a chance to expand.
SO this is the result of a two weeks of windshield shots (I got a few more on the way home from the NAIAS this evening but haven't gone through those yet. )
A sunset on the way home, the way I often see them - reflected in the hood of my truck with the road zooming by - except I inverted the image so that the sunset was facing the correct direction.
Roughly divided into thirds, my truck, the sunset and the road.
Hexanon 57mm f/3ish
I'm a big liar, this was the Leica Elmarit 35mm @ f/5.6ish (notes got mixed up, sorry)
through the windshield
pro139: Todd Hido emulation
WIT: Alright, studying up on Todd Hido was interesting, to say the least, however, I've got issues with photographing folks that I know in public when they know they are being photographed, much less creeping around neighborhoods shooting time exposures of stranger's houses. I get the sentiment, I do, but I couldn't do it.
So... I latched onto his "through the windshield series". I liked the notion there and was much more comfortable driving a 7500 lb vehicle single handed through traffic shooting (luckily the Olympus has live view) risking my, and other's life and limb (that's irony, but true unfortunately). I normally shy away from shooting TTW shots because it seems lazy in some way, but Hido seems to add to his compositions with the windshield not make them lazy, so I started playing with the idea.
I understand that neither this nor my previous effort really emulate Hido since his scenes seem mostly placid and mostly in focus (see the shots right before this one for the antithesis).Nonetheless, I drew inspiration from his work, and stopped seeing it as lazy and looked upon it as challenge and a chance to expand.
SO this is the result of a two weeks of windshield shots (I got a few more on the way home from the NAIAS this evening but haven't gone through those yet. )
A sunset on the way home, the way I often see them - reflected in the hood of my truck with the road zooming by - except I inverted the image so that the sunset was facing the correct direction.
Roughly divided into thirds, my truck, the sunset and the road.
Hexanon 57mm f/3ish
I'm a big liar, this was the Leica Elmarit 35mm @ f/5.6ish (notes got mixed up, sorry)