When The Maelstrom of Life Whirls Around You...
... just grab a camera.
It went like this. Today's Smile on Saturday theme is the rather nice one of camera.
So what to do? Ideally, it had to be either a good photo or something different. Well, good photos aren't really me... What then?
Eeek. I had a Bright Idea... never a good thing; it really needs a health warning :) What about doing one of my axial rotation ICMs of the camera in the mirror?
The theory was that the camera would take itself and, if done well, the hapless photographer's image would spin around, suitably obfuscating (lovely word! :) ) their selfie imagey thingy...
As ever, the shortest word in that last sentence proved the most problematic.
If anyone tells you ICMs are hit and miss they lie. They are all miss unless both the wind, the stars, magic and serendipity are all going your way, and about as likely as an azurine moon in a month of Sundays.
So 90 shots later this is what we have. Thank goodness I was wearing a check shirt. I'm actually standing upright with the camera held out in front.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Smile on Saturday :)
[(Two) hand held in mixed lighting.
Developed in Photolab trying to rescue the camera from the blacks and the check shirt too while keeping smooth blurriness. Also colour work to get rid of the tungsten + daylight issue.
In Affinity sharpened with USM; white vignette.]
When The Maelstrom of Life Whirls Around You...
... just grab a camera.
It went like this. Today's Smile on Saturday theme is the rather nice one of camera.
So what to do? Ideally, it had to be either a good photo or something different. Well, good photos aren't really me... What then?
Eeek. I had a Bright Idea... never a good thing; it really needs a health warning :) What about doing one of my axial rotation ICMs of the camera in the mirror?
The theory was that the camera would take itself and, if done well, the hapless photographer's image would spin around, suitably obfuscating (lovely word! :) ) their selfie imagey thingy...
As ever, the shortest word in that last sentence proved the most problematic.
If anyone tells you ICMs are hit and miss they lie. They are all miss unless both the wind, the stars, magic and serendipity are all going your way, and about as likely as an azurine moon in a month of Sundays.
So 90 shots later this is what we have. Thank goodness I was wearing a check shirt. I'm actually standing upright with the camera held out in front.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Smile on Saturday :)
[(Two) hand held in mixed lighting.
Developed in Photolab trying to rescue the camera from the blacks and the check shirt too while keeping smooth blurriness. Also colour work to get rid of the tungsten + daylight issue.
In Affinity sharpened with USM; white vignette.]