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The Beautiful Darkside :: Photographers Challenge 01
"I'm terrified of seeing the beautiful darkside win..."
The other day, my friend Alyssa and I were discussing our frustration with our lack of time for shooting conceptual photos these days. With client work, multiple jobs and countless other responsibilities seeming to creep into our creative time, it's hard to find a few hours to plan, set up, shoot, and edit a conceptual photo. Determined to challenge ourselves, we created the "Photographers Challenge" - each month, I'll choose a theme for Alyssa and she will do the same for me. The theme can be anything: song lyrics, a color, an image, a word, a concept... anything at all!
The theme she chose for me, for the month of January was "The Beautiful Darkside" (Inspired by the song from The Classic Crime.)
I mulled the concept over for a LONG time and after one failed attempt (we got rained out) and one cancelled shoot, I finally shot this tonight. The circle of light keeps out the wild, but the fear is still prevalent. Some of the battles we seem most incapable of fighting are the wars within ourselves.
I know this shot looks a bit textured out, but rest assured, not a single texture was used in the editing - it's all the natural walls of a very, very old coal room!
You can visit Alyssa's photostream here!: www.flickr.com/photos/intocollidingentropy/people/alyssar...
Special thanks to my sister, Michelle, for once again being such an INCREDIBLE model!
The Beautiful Darkside :: Photographers Challenge 01
"I'm terrified of seeing the beautiful darkside win..."
The other day, my friend Alyssa and I were discussing our frustration with our lack of time for shooting conceptual photos these days. With client work, multiple jobs and countless other responsibilities seeming to creep into our creative time, it's hard to find a few hours to plan, set up, shoot, and edit a conceptual photo. Determined to challenge ourselves, we created the "Photographers Challenge" - each month, I'll choose a theme for Alyssa and she will do the same for me. The theme can be anything: song lyrics, a color, an image, a word, a concept... anything at all!
The theme she chose for me, for the month of January was "The Beautiful Darkside" (Inspired by the song from The Classic Crime.)
I mulled the concept over for a LONG time and after one failed attempt (we got rained out) and one cancelled shoot, I finally shot this tonight. The circle of light keeps out the wild, but the fear is still prevalent. Some of the battles we seem most incapable of fighting are the wars within ourselves.
I know this shot looks a bit textured out, but rest assured, not a single texture was used in the editing - it's all the natural walls of a very, very old coal room!
You can visit Alyssa's photostream here!: www.flickr.com/photos/intocollidingentropy/people/alyssar...
Special thanks to my sister, Michelle, for once again being such an INCREDIBLE model!