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You may ask: why the frame border? It’s a long story but here’s the relatively short version. Some 8 years ago I stopped creating frame borders around my images. Reason: people found it distracting. And I found it distracting that people were distracted so I stopped doing it, for no real reason other than eliminating an external distraction. Fast forward, present day. I’m in an ‘artistic interbellum’. Which is good because that means I’m changing and change is good. I’ve been searching for different artistic motives in my work, deeper meanings, stronger emotions and how to communicate them. Perhaps you’ve noticed, since I didn’t post much the past year. Which doesn’t mean I wasn’t doing anything, artistically speaking. Actually I was doing more in the past year than in the 5 years before that, but only in my head. Anyway, I found, among many other things, that art needs to be physical. It’s not just what you express and depict in your images and what you intend with those images that matter, it’s also how you present it. It needs to be tactile. Concrete. Physical. So I print almost all of my work. Large. On very nice paper, maybe textured, maybe glossy. Mount it on something really solid. Put a frame around it. That’s concrete and physical. But on the Internet it loses all physicality. It’s just one image out of billions. It tends to be more illusory then. Take a family snapshot or a snapshot of your cat that you like. Print it large. Really large like 20 by 20. Feet, that is, not inches. Put a frame around it. Get the picture? It becomes something different. Perhaps not art, but anyone confronted with this 20 by 20 feet large framed print of your cat snapshot will sense this is more than a picture. The viewer can’t ignore it. It’s there taking up quite some space and it will dominate anything in its proximity. It communicates to you saying: I’m big and I’m in your way. And if the print falls on his/her head, they will feel it’s quite tactile. Put it on the Internet and, unless your cat is Grumpy cat, no one will be impressed. I feel I’m digressing now although I was trying to make a point. The Internet degrades a picture to something without any tactility. It levels out all great art and all snapshots to just a collection of pixels that you can’t touch. A Rembrandt will look faded, a Rothko will look like something any 3 year old could paint. Very different from when you see it in real life: the frame, the canvas, the layers of paint. The subtlety and transparency of colors, and most importantly, the size. And the depiction of the object/subject matter itself. It’s communicating with you. All that, that’s art. My photos will look like meaningless, non existing, illusory snapshots on the Internet. Because you can’t touch it. There’s no scale. No matter what picture you look at, they always have the same size on the computer screen. It can’t communicate. So I put a frame border around it. To communicate to the viewer I give meaning to it and that it’s not just a random image. Not for me at least. To give it the illusion of something that is meant to be tactile as soon as I print it, large, and it takes up space in this world. And you can touch it, smell it, throw rotten eggs at it if you want. You may or may not like my frame border, you may find it distracting. That’s all okay. But I’m not going to remove it. If this relatively short version was too short and you want to hear the long version then you will have to wait till I finish my (pseudo) philosophical musings on art, fine-art and photography. Or maybe I won’t.
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Maelstrom | Moutsalia Lake, Epirus
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f/16 | 10 sec | ISO 50 | 17 mm
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Theme : Landscape Photography
Series : Live your myth in Greece
Location: Moutsalia Lake, Epirus
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The storm closed in at sunset, the retiring sun painting its roiling contours, making it appear as if the sky was aflame.
Committed to expired Fujifilm Provia 100 using a Leica M3 and 50 mm Noctilux f1 lens. Developed using an E6 kit from Ars-Imago and scanned using an Epson V850 using Silverfast.
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Niagara River, looking down upon the infamous whirlpool. Never expected the beautiful emerald green water.
A few detailed shots of the waterfalls at Gulfoss. The names I have titled the shots with are my own interpretation of what I saw!
so today, joe and i went to drayton manor. we had never been there before, and neither had my dad. we got there and it was absolutely pissing it down. we got out though and we went on g-force first which i didn't really like due to the fact the chain life was upside down and you were only strapped in with a bar across your waist. secondly we went on shockwave which is that stand up roller coaster which again, i didn't like cause it felt as if i were falling out. i normally like roller coasters ):
we went on maelstrome, above which is one of the reasons i wanted to go today. i really enjoyed this right, partly because you felt so weightless and your stomach felt all weird like on a swing haha. we went on plenty of other rides but to be honest, i don't think you're interested.
right, so today joe and i also took two disposables, but we didn't finish the entire film so they're not going to be developed for a while yet. i apologise.
I went out photographing with a friend this weekend and revisited my favourite Brutalist building: Toronto New City Hall (1965). (No one calls it New City Hall but it is 'new'er than Old City Hall which was built in 1899).
I went quite strong with the processing, so I would appreciate any feedback. I feel like I am still searching for a style, but I must admit that I am having fun along the way.
This is a new addition to my Brutalist Toronto project. Brutalism is a style of architecture, popular from late 1950s to the early 1970s, which emphasized "heavy, monumental, stark concrete forms and raw surfaces" - Dictionary of Architecture and Construction
An epic seascape in Newhaven, East Sussex during Storm Francis earlier this month. #
Storm photography has an element of luck with it and im not convinced if anyone tells you otherwise. You need a composition you are happy with and checking to see where the waves are at their best is key, but beyond that you have to sit back and wait for that perfect moment.. and this didn’t feel too far off it.. thanks nature
Snow makers were hard at it in the early morning hours last weekend and created quite a maelstrom of ice crystals when set against the rising sun.
[Explore #469]
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Cornus Kousa tree.
This is an in-camera ICM.
And I kind of want to ask what you think an out of camera ICM would look like.... but after the awe-inspiring response to the random interrogative musings of my last post I dare not ;-)
This is a picture of the red strawberry-like fruit on the Cornus tree in my back garden.
The capture is a combination of a zoom blur and a twirl-around-the-lens-axis ICM. Which sounds terribly complicated but wasn’t.
All I had to do was hold on to the zoom barrel and twist the camera, zooming and rotating at the same time. Because the camera was held more or less steady the results were more even than I normally achieve when dancing around the camera.
The only thing that remained was to point it at various parts of the tree at varying distances to see what worked. I chose the tree for ICMs because of the red/green contrast at this time of year. This was one of the better results - I quite like it because of the cobwebby look in the middle.
Do have a go yourself, if you’ve not tried this sort of thing. Zooms vary a bit in the way they work so your technique may be different but it’s a lot of fun.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image, but without getting too dizzy :)
[Handheld in reasonably bright conditions.
Developed in DXO Photolab 2 increasing the contrast and vibrancy but reducing the saturation (a more subtle way of improving the colour). Reduced both Clarity (to minimum) and Microcontrast to smooth the swirls. Prime noise reduction.
Processed in Affinity Photo reducing Clarity further and then sharpening what was left using High Pass/Linear burn at very low settings. A bit of inpainting to get rid of a hair on the sensor (!).
Added a curves adjustment layer in LAB mode set to increase colour contrast, but all at reduced opacity; the idea was to increase the colour range a bit but not overdo it.
The main remaining problem was uneven brightness and vibrancy across the image, the top right corner being brighter and duller. So I added two adjustment layers both gently masked using gradients for Vibrancy and Brightness (perhaps that should be called Darkness :) ).
No vignette.]
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Excusez-moi mes amis. Ordinairement, j’aime bien vous parler, mais là, c’est impossible.... Je dois tenir la barre du bateau solidement parce que ça brasse!
Excuse me my friends. Usually, I like to talk to you, but now it is really impossible .... I have to hold the helm of the boat firmly because it rocks!
POR NUESTRA LUCIDEZ, APAGÓN GENERAL!
Día 15 de febrero, de 22:00 a 22:30 (una hora menos en Canarias)
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LA FOTOGRAFÍA ES UN ARMA CARGADA DE FUTURO
El texto precedente es de Rafaluna, quien encabeza un movimiento de insumisión al que me sumo y doy todo mi apoyo.
Para más detalles, id a leer directamente su palabra, que se alza mucho más potente y lúcida que la mía: www.flickr.com/photos/15181453@N05/
Being ill has its benefits, not having to go to work, one of them, and being able to read a book, the other.
I've just finished Jasper Fforde's 'The Eyre Affair' which is an achievement in itself, I'm hopeless at finishing books. I highly recommend 'The Eyre Affair,' it's a blast. If you like Shakespeare, guns, time travel, Douglas Adams, Jane Eyre, vampires and multicoloured Porsches, then this might be the book for you.
Thank you for looking.
The hosta leaves turn such a great colour in the fall. Add some rain and strong backlight and they look even better.
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© 2015 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
The storm over the distant shore was pretty intense even as the sun was breaking through the clouds to the left and illuminating the tree line (this is a single exposure). You can see the deluge of rain in the downspot, and this cloud formation is also internally lit by lightning at the moment of the exposure. I'm quite pleased with the great look of this image and what I was able to capture. In a bit of irony, this is the same location that I shared from an image called "A World of Peace". How things change!
Technical Information: Canon EOS 6D, Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8 Di VC USD, Processed in Adobe Lightroom CC, Adobe Photoshop CC, Alien Skin Exposure X (use code "dustinabbott" to get a 10% discount)
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