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Depending on where we stand, the view of the world is blurred to some degree. Change your position change your view.
So this began life as a photograph and then acquired some extra grain....hmmm. And then I found myself on an "at home" holiday for afew days. So then during time enjoying a springtime garden I shot and created some textures......hmmm. And then had a play and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed creating this.
The textures are all weathered wood origin and there are five dressing the original and all much enjoyed. So I must confess I am really behind on comments this time. The big plan was to really get up to speed with all this leisure time but you know, family, children, life.
I'll be there soon..........promise.
My attempt to photograph what I see, not what I know is there... opens the door to creative thinking and curiosity for the viewer.
Gallery Assis - Saturday, November 24th, from noon
SLT until 2:00pm, for the opening of My new series,
"Beyond Perception".
I will have five new pieces featured, which are exclusive to Assis.
There are far too many judgments and misconceptions with everything, though some often carry more then others. But if you take the time to look beyond those, you can see what's really there. I would like you to come have a look for yourself, and tell Me what you see.
While you're here, be sure to have a look around at all the other talented Artists' work.
There is no dress code, just come as you are. Be yourself, be comfortable and have some fun.
Olympus OM2n / Zuiko 35mm f2.8 / Kodak Ektar 100
If you'd rather see the camera it's here
Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” - Dorothea Lange
As stated in the quote above, photography has taught me to see, where my way of seeing the world is kind of split into two parts: one "eye" perceives the world as a whole, where the other one is my photographic eye which thinks in motifs and pictures. These two perceptions are not the same (at least for me) since beautiful things don’t necessarily look beautiful in a picture because there are so many factors which can make a picture less attractive. Conversely, you can use so many techniques like changing the overall composition, the depth of field, the dynamic range, the colors etc. to make a picture interesting.
So this is a first attempt to this idea, where I just quickly made a close-up of my eyes. Since the weather wasn't really good I was too lazy to go outside and thus I placed my camera at the windowsill and took a picture with my macro using a remote control. Hope you like it!
Found these dead leaves lined up and the sun shining on them. It looked really beautiful even though they were dead.
I’m often asked about the world that insects can see when people enjoy my UV fluorescence images, often confusing two very different things: UV reflectance and UV fluorescence. This post will hopefully demystify that, with a simple Shasta Daisy!
On the left, we see the visible-light image of the flower. Pretty ordinary! It’s really just here for reference to the images in the center and right. The central image is UV reflectance, and the right image is UV fluorescence. You can see why I do a lot more UV fluorescence work!
UV Reflectance is the direct observation of ultraviolet light. This requires some tricky hardware, you need:
- A camera modified for full spectrum photography (shot with a converted Lumix GX85)
- A bright source of UV light
- A lens that has very good ultraviolet transmission properties
- A VERY good “UV Black” filter that allows for the transmission of ultraviolet light but zero visible or infrared light.
In contrast, for Ultraviolet fluorescence photography, you need:
- A pure ultraviolet light source
UV Reflectance can reveal hidden patterns in flowers that insects are able to perceive along with visible light. They don’t see UV light exclusively, but their vision extends into this spectrum and some flowers take advantage of that. Daisies do not. Sunflowers, on the other hand? Solidly yellow petals to our eyes will reveal a dark bullseye pattern in the ultraviolet spectrum: donkom.ca/bts/DKP_9769-UV.jpg . Marsh Marigolds have a slightly more complex pattern ( www.flickr.com/photos/donkom/34783610615/ , which also shows visible and infrared versions). Not all flowers use this technique of reflecting back UV light to guide insects towards them, and while it is fun to explore the patterns it doesn’t have the same drama and colour as UV fluorescence.
Directly observing UV light is difficult, but UV fluorescence is a much easier subject to tackle. You use your regular camera to collect regular light, albeit in a darkened room. You just need a good pure UV light source that doesn't leak into the visible spectrum which would contaminate the results. When ultraviolet light hits the flower, some of that light excites electrons in the atoms of the flower. Those electrons rise to a higher orbit but very quickly decay back down, and in the process of doing so release energy in the form of… visible light! UV light goes in, visible light in much smaller quantities come out. You camera captures this visible light.
This is “unnatural” in the sense that there is no way to observe this in nature – the sun clearly emits visible and infrared light in far more abundance than ultraviolet light. UV fluorescence is not what insects can see, it’s what no living thing could see without the aid of the inventions of mankind. It’s “real”, but also hidden from reality. And on the other side, there is something elegant about the mostly-black flower that we know to be white to our own perceptions. The world beyond our own reality is worth exploring.
Can you tell I’m going through my shot list for my upcoming book?? This kind of information will be found within the pages of Macro Photography: The Universe at Our Feet, currently being funded on Kickstarter - www.kickstarter.com/projects/donkom/ - it would be great to have your support for the project and also get a copy when it’s out in December!
…. Oh hey, you’re still here? You actually wanted to know MORE about UV reflectance? Sure, here we go.
The lenses with the cheapest cost and best transmission properties can be found on eBay from the seller “igoriginal”: www.ebay.com/itm//273878542781 .
The filters included with that lens are decent, but if you want the very best at cancelling out visible AND infrared light, you need a two filter combo from maxmax.com:
XNite 330C: www.maxmax.com/shopper/product/15065-xnite33052c-x-nite-3...
XNite BP1: h www.maxmax.com/shopper/product/15072-xnitebp152-x-nite-ba...
Those links are for 52mm filters, which would fit on the above-mentioned lens. You’d still need a camera converted to full-spectrum photography, and one of the biggest outfits for that is LifePixel: www.lifepixel.com/?ar=3
Down the rabbit hole you go. :)
Which quote has more significance to this image?
This is a gift, it comes with a price
Who is the lamb and who is the knife?
Midas is king and he holds me so tight
And turns me to gold in the sunlight
-Florence & The Machine
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost
« La réalité est une chose mystérieuse et fluctuante, car la perception que nous en avons ne reste jamais la même. » de Joe Tan
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Highest position: 15 on Sunday, November 18, 2012
I decided to try editing this image with paint.
This is the start of a possible series that will explore manual photo editing. Please do not mistake this for a full painting. It's goal is to make the viewer question what it is and what it is not.
We perceive the world as we see it. Our perception is based on what we see and what we want to see.
The reality is, if you imagine positive, you’ll end up in having a positive image of your surroundings.
Sunsets have always been part of my inspiration, it always attracts my attention, that brings me close to the nature.
(Clifton Beach, Karachi - Pakistan)
I absolutely love the fact that the title is portrayed in the picture.
'Selective perception' is the process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages while ignoring opposing viewpoints. It is a broad term to identify the behavior all people exhibit to tend to "see things" based on their particular frame of reference.
La vipère aspic est sourde, comme beaucoup de serpents, mais sa langue bifide lui permet de percevoir son environnement proche. ( Vipera aspis )
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I have been thinking about how we look at things that aren't real. I'm talking about spaceships, cars and photoediting.
I mean, we know how a car is supposed to look like. We see them every day, real cars, our brains are tuned to them in terms of how they look and move around us. Spaceships are a different thing, we're not that used to seeing them around. Does that make a difference when making images with a scale model? Is a spaceship an easier sell than a car?
I made an experiment with the Maserati Boomerang model I've been building during the past couple of months.