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The choices we make.
"Contemporary artists are experimenting with photography in diverse ways other than through focus. This book considers a whole litany of what might be called 'photographic errors'. When Taryn Simon made a portrait, she chose to underexpose, and therefore erase her subject. In direct contrast, Paul Graham's landscapes are so intentionally overexposed that a number of readers returned his book to the publishers convinced that there had been a printing problem. Ed Ruscha's series, taken from a moving car, features skewed horizons and cropped subjects, whereas Daido Moriyama, whose aesthetic has been labelled 'blurry, grainy and out of focus", barely stops walking to capture a frame. Portraits are equally mishandled: Lee Friedlander obscures his face with a light bulb, Anne Collier fractures hers in a mirrored disco ball, John Baldessan is portrayed with a palm tree sprouting from his head and Philip-Lorca diCorcia catches his subjects unaware, showing slack, adrift expressions...
...Photography is not simply an art form but is one of such shape-shifting variety that it is possibly the most important art form of our time."
- Jackie Higgins, Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus: Modern Photography Explained (Thames & Hudson, 2014).
With a special guest appearance from Odin's cat
In case anyone was wondering, i am not dead, just a bit busy.
Pictures from a walk with my dog. The Damhus Lake with city lights. The IS on the E-M5 II is quite amazing...
Milwaukee Road Historical Associations special charter hosted by Metra heads south past Rondout Illinois on the CP C&M Subdivision by the soon to be replaced searchlights.
I was driving home and this late afternoon sky looked impressive enough for me to see if I could make something of it. Sadly my bedroom window was not the optimal viewpoint and naturally the scene faded within moments. Still the result has something of the atmosphere...
As I explained in the description to my "Suburban Dreams" slideshow, each of these photographs are related to the other. www.flickr.com/photos/luminosity7/52638166831/in/datepost...
They are not random shots, but each tells us one more thing about the nature of a typical modern working class suburb. I always work in series, but this collection was most definitely planned. The twilight setting and light is all part of the creation of a mood. Is it possible to find things of beauty in the midst of the mundane and ordinary? That's more about philosophy than photography. And why I am such an odd fit for Flickr.
Sweet dreams!
* As if I need to explain myself, but it appears that on Flickr many people do not understand that the choices photographers make also can include soft focus. A sharp photograph here would have destroyed the kind of light I wanted coming from this window (enlarge the photograph to see its luminance). There is also the serious issue of peering into someone's room without their permission. So the choice was obvious. I will continue to make the photographs I wish to make - this is part of a series of 65 photos on suburban dreams - and if you do not like them then may I kindly ask you to refrain from visiting my page! Thank you to those of you who understand that there is more to photography than reproducing what can already be seen with the naked eye.
This is a busy line, I've been trying to take a photo without passengers for years, I finally succeeded.
Fallout 4
Psy-Fi x INSTA.LIGHT ENB
Psy-Fi ReShade
Photoshop (levels)
Inspired by my comrade in screen-shooting Magdalena A, I tried my hand at mashing together two of my favorite ENB setups (both made by the always fabulous L00). Still wants a bit of tweaking, but it's getting there. Got to scratch that itch for densely textured, low-fi, grungy, film photographic verisimilitude.
After the rain the clouds break up to reveal subtle colours in the sky. People are on their way home after a hard day's work. And so are the birds. Like the next photograph, slowing the exposure enough to create movement was important. In the context of my video slideshow this is like a freeze frame.