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In my previous post, I wrote a bit about my recent trip to Caddo Lake with Kevin Benedict and Josh Krasner. Here's a second of what will eventually be 4 or 5 postable shots I got from that short trip. Shooting from a moving boat, sometimes in low light conditions, with a long lens, turns out to be more challenging than I had expected. I had tried some swamp/bayou shooting in the past so I already expected it to be difficult to find compositions, but just getting a shot that was in focus enough to be usable was more difficult than I thought it would be. What was surprising to all of us was how impressionistic many of the images turned out to be, as in having the look of being painted in the impressionist style.
Images are strange things in that sometimes they trigger memories and associations for us, and those can often be hard to pin down precisely. The second I saw this photo on the larger screen I had an immediate association to Japanese or Chinese landscape art. I'm no art historian, nor do I possess an especially refined knowledge of art, but nonetheless the mental connection was strong. I started to do a little research to see if this was justified at all. I was unable to unearth any Chinese or Japanese landscape paintings that bore any real resemblance to this. However, I did discover that the Chinese landscape painters were among the earliest to focus purely on landscape as an art form rather than just a backdrop for people, and the Chinese ink on paper style influenced Japanese ukiyo-e style, which in turn was a major influence on the European impressionist painting movement. So apparently I wasn't completely unjustified in making that mental association. But if you google ukiyo-e, you'll [possibly] say to yourself "WTF is he smoking? I don't see it at all". I did find this Japanese artist, Koukei Kojima, whose beautiful work I found to bear some resemblance to the feeling of some of the photos I took in the Bayou: www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2013/02/Koukei...
Regardless of whether this connection to art is justified, I fell in love with the image, which I rarely do, not because it's an especially great image but just because of the impressionistic style that jumped out at me. Don't get me wrong, I do love this image still even after working on it for hours, but I'm fully aware that it's missing some of the elements that maybe classic landscape photographers would prefer to have in their shot. I don't care. I like what I like. I hope you do too but no offense will be taken if you don't.
ps. the mist is fake. mostly.
Part of the Daily In Challenge on Pentax Forums.
Day 18
K3II with the 50mm and Raynox
M250 Marcro
Shot with in camera Pixel Shift
My first post in several weeks, as I've had two things holding me up: 1) non-stop travel, which has been exhausting, and 2) I wanted to dedicate my next post to my oldest daughter Madison and I just didn't have quite the right picture. Madison is now a senior in high school and starting to look at universities to attend next year. She has been very interested in exploring her Canadian roots, and I went to university in Nova Scotia, Canada (Acadia University in Wolfville NS) and loved it, so I suggested she check out Nova Scotia. I had the great pleasure of accompanying her over US thanksgiving holiday for a short visit to Nova Scotia to look at Dalhousie, King's and Acadia. All 3 were a delight, and I think the Maritime culture and feeling pulled at her the same way it did to me many years ago, and it was wonderful for me to be back after so many years. So, without trying to exert any undue influence, I have a feeling she might be Maritime bound next year, and I would be immensely proud (of course, I am regardless of where she choses to go!).
This is the delightful fishing village of Lunenburg Nova Scotia on the south coast, about an hour south of Halifax. A popular tourist destination in the summer due to its combination of brightly painted maritime houses and its authentic fishing port atmosphere (and incredible fresh seafood!), but it was quite empty on this cold November weekend. We headed out for a sunrise shot looking across the water at the village to get some reflected sun. While it wasn't an epic sunrise it was enough to bring some colour to the clouds and cast a beautiful golden hue over the village.
So I dedicate this quintessential Maritimes shot to Madison, a wonderful daughter and amazing girl about to cast her own net out in to the world. Needless to say I hope she goes somewhere picturesque, like Nova Scotia ;-), because I will miss her so very much and will be visiting frequently!
[EDIT] A couple of fun facts: Lunenburg is in fact a UNESCO World Heritage site (as of 1995), and it's renowned Lunenburg Academy schoolhouse building was featured in a series of commercials by Cisco with Ellen Page (a Canadian actress from Halifax NS). The sailing ship covered in white in front of the Fisheries Museum of the Maritimes (big red building) I believe is the Bluenose II, which will be meaningless to any non-Canadian and famous to all Canadians (bluenose.novascotia.ca/home-port).
Linhof Technikardan S45
Schneider-Kreuznach Apo-Symmar L 5.6/210
21mm front rise
f36
4 seconds
Kodak Ektar 100
Gitzo GT3532LS
Arca-Swiss Z1
Lab development
Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture
Note: my images are processed to appear correct on a calibrated, professional grade colour-accurate monitor set to Adobe RGB output / 6500 K temperature / gamma 2.2. Many consumer grade screens (particularly mobile phone screens) at default settings will display these images with too much saturation and contrast, so please bear this in mind when viewing on such devices.
(Best viewed fullscreen in the lightbox)
Picklesimer Rock House Falls, Nantahala National Forest
Pentax K-1
Pixel-shift super-resolution mode
SMC Pentax 1:3.5 35mm
Iridient Developer
Another Pentax Pixel Shift photo, this time taken outside at Gloucester Cathedral, these wonderful stone carvings are above the main entrance.
Manfrotto Tripod, Pentax Remote, Lens = Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM ART, stretched and cropped (15% approx) in Snapseed on iPad Pro and 'Photos' on iMac.
For an in depth description of Pixel Shift :-
www.pentaxforums.com/articles/photo-articles/how-pentax-k...
For a review of the Pentax K3 II and Pixel Shift etc. :-
www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/pentax-k3-ii/pentax-k3-ii-...