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Stuck inside on a sunny day, study will be the death of me. Especially when it is for calculus, algebra, kinematics, mechanics, electricity and magnetism. UGH.
Dune Study, Evening. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
An interpretation of soft dune forms and colors in evening light, Death Valley National Park.
When photographing sand dunes I spend a lot of time looking for just the right combination of shading, texture, line and curve, and color. But in the end, it mostly comes down to the light — the light that colors the sand, creates the shading, and illuminates those lines and curves. It seems like every photograph in the sand dunes is an ephemeral, one-time thing, and the particular combinations of conditions will never be precisely replicated. Unlike some other subjects, where the primary elements of the scene don’t change much, each visit to the dunes takes me to different places and photographs.
On a late-March trip to Death Valley National Park, I revisited a location that I had photographed with great success a couple of months ago. This time Patty accompanied me, and I wanted her to experience the light that I had worked with on the earlier visit. That did not happen. Two months ago the evening sky was clear, and warm-colored sunlight illuminated the western-facing dunes. This time the sky was filled with clouds and the light was soft and the colors far less intense, producing and entirely different experience.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Complete title is Study of a Female Head for the Kneeling Woman in The Transfiguration, 1519-20. The original is in black and white chalk. Nice exercise in using shading to produce volume, in the hair and the muscles. Quite the muscles, btw.
With Yeti for It Tulabelle True, Sign of the Times Poppy, Rock Candy Rufus Blue, and Spooky Sooki - the Return
Just a trial shot from the open window of my study. The prominent tree is nearly 200 yards away. The break in the hedge is the site of a badger sett!
I had to try to get my rescued 35mm slide projector lens to focus at infinity. This photo is my first attempt with the lens hand held against the camera body whilst I tried to balance against the window. To say I was pleased is a bit of an understatement.
However I've spent a couple of hours this afternoon trying to get a permanent fixing to the camera and then the focus just right. The lens has no focusing along its barrel. I'm not quite there yet so tomorrow .....
Argus 4" f2.8 Projector lens.
PHAENO STUDY #1
Frohes neues Jahr!
Nachdem es zum Ende des letzten Jahres etwas still geworden ist hier auf schmaidt.de gibt es jetzt wieder neue Fotos. Zwischen den Feiertagen habe ich die Zeit gefunden, dass von Zaha Hadid geplante Phaeno in Wolfsburg zu fotografieren. Als großer Fan dieser Architektin hatte ich das Phaeno schon lange auf der Liste. Das Gute ist: Es ist fotografisch immens ergiebig. Das heißt, ihr könnt in nächster Zeit immer mal wieder vorbeischauen und die Serie verfolgen, die es von mir vom Phaeno geben wird.
Der erste Teil der Serie ähnelt vom Bildaufbau her stark anderen Bildern von mir von moderner Architektur. Ich liebe einfach die spitz zulaufenden Winkel im 1:1-Format. Gerade bei Zaha Hadid konnte ich aber keinesfalls auf diese Perspektive verzichten, da die extrem spitz und dynamisch zulaufenden Gebäude-Ecken klarer Bestandteil ihrer Architektur sind. Schon bei ihrem Erstlingswerk, dem Feuerwehrhaus in Weil am Rhein, zeigt sich dies ganz deutlich und hat sich bis heute in ihrem Stil gehalten.
So far,
Martin
PS: Die genauen Aufnahmedaten findet ihr auf www.schmaidt.de im Blog!
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PHAENO STUDY #1
Happy new year!
After there were not that much photographic news in the last weeks in 2014 by myself, I found the time to shoot the Phaeno building in Wolfsburg (Germany) by the architect Zaha Hadid. Since I'm a great fan of her, the Phaeno has been on my list for a long time. The good news is: The building offers so many interesting perspectives such that there will be a whole series of photos of that building in the next days/weeks.
The first part of the series is somehow quite similar with respect to composition than other fine art architecture shots by me. I simply love these dramatic lines and angles in the 1:1 format. And especially with a building of Zaha Hadid, I cannot ignore this perspective since these lines and angles are a characteristic part of her architectural work from her beginnings on.
So far,
Martin
PS: The exact data of the capture can be found on www.schmaidt.de in my blog.
A quick study of the rocky shoreline of the Winnipeg River, viewed from the water. Knife painting on stretched canvas (oil, 11 x 14 in).
No.1 - Polyphemus Moth
No.2 - Twin-Spotted Sphinx Moth
No.3 - Luna Moth
No.4 - Eight-Spotted Forester Moth
No.5 - Cecropia Moth
(I finally got 'em up on Etsy!)
Shot at a dress rehearsal of amateur dramatic club production, processed in Lightroom, converted to BW using Nik Silver FX. Added graffiti along with some dodging and burning in Photoshop.
At an art exhibition I noticed an older gentleman who definitely seemed to be the life of the party. He constantly was surrounded by adoring and beautiful young women and seemed to be a fair replacement for Dos Equis.
Rajko Radovanovic was born in Yugoslavia behind the Iron Curtain of the Cold War. He studied art in Zagreb Croatia and Brighton UK where he attained his BA in fine art. He has shown his work in galleries and museums across Europe and the United States. Today, he resides in New Orleans Louisiana and has recently become a US citizen.
Rajko's work spans the range from video, performance, installation, photography, painting and sculpture. In Yugoslavia he was known for taking the symbols of State oppression, the hammer and sickle, and for incorporating them into provocative work. It's a process Rajko calls deconstruction. In the United States he does the same using police batons, guns and crosses.
After talking with Rajko a while, I chose to photograph him beside his work "Angry American Artist (a study towards greater anger)". The piece appeared from a distance to be an orthodox religious cross, but on closer examination it had police batons incorporated into it's framework. I took a couple of conventional shots, with my strobe to the left, but Rajko's hat and posing did not give me what I wanted. I moved my strobe on a stick to the right lower and fired it up into Rajko's eyes, generating a menacing shadow behind him. Yes. That was the shot I desired.
Once I had my 100 Strangers shot of Rajko, I invited him to the studio for a couple of beers and a studio shoot once the gallery closed for the night. Rajko happily accepted.
Later, at the studio Rajko, my wife and I visited and became fast friends. I shot a series of portraits of Rajko and showed him some of my own work. He encouraged me to have my thirty year old drawings and paintings framed and shown. I explained I didn't have time for that, that I was still producing at a furious pace and if somebody else was interested they could do it. "I will be dead soon," I said, "and I want to use my time to produce, not enshrine past work." We talked about how the world has changed since we were young. Rajko is from a country that no longer exists. I am from a country that is changing rapidly too. And the way that artists communicate, show their work, and reach their audience has totally changed in the last twenty years as well. The old paradigm is gone. A new era has arrived.
Thank you Rajko for being the 181st stranger in my 100 Strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the flickr group page.
Strobist: SB400 camera right, low. Triggered by Nikon SC-17.
10x15 cm ,coffee,carbon and Artgraf watercolors.With a aquote of Paul Klee, Thanks for the visit have a nice day.
Bart van der Leck, "The Tempest" at the exhibition "Piet Mondriaan en Bart van der Leck", Gemeentemuseum Den Haag