Westminster Palace & Big Ben
Westminster Palace, Big Ben, seeds, vision and meaningful connection.
This write-up consists of 2 parts: the technical part, which most people find interesting and I find boring, and the part where I’m thinking out loud, which most people find boring, but which I find interesting. Or perhaps you find none of it interesting. It’s all good! I’ll start with the technical part and further down this write-up you’ll find the rambling part.
Part 1: Technical info.
Observation: a scene and subject shot to death. A composition that even my great grand mother would consider a cliche.
Facts: a 3 images horizontally shifted and tilted long exposure stitched panorama shot from Westminster Palace and the Big Ben, London.
Central image: no shift, no tilt. 360s exposure. Left image: maximum shift left, maximum tilt left. Right image, maximum shift right, maximum tilt right.
Result: this panoramic photograph with a selective plane of focus in the centre of the image.
All 3 shots taken with the 16 stops Firecrest, totalling 48 stops. Every shot: 364s (6 minutes) @f/7.1 and ISO 100. Lens: 24mm TS-E.
If you want to know more on the technical execution part then go to my website: www.bwvision.com/products/
Part 2: Thinking out loud/rambling part.
I haven’t been very active on social media for the last 6-7 months.
Here’s a thought that crossed my mind many times in the past 7 months of social media celibacy: What is vision? Do I have one? I will spare you the details of all the thoughts and mental struggle that came after that and get straight to the point: vision is often confused with visual style. A visual style is the result of a vision. When people talk about vision then in most cases they’re actually talking about a visual style and just few people are really talking about vision. I did that too, hence in retrospect, I didn’t talk about vision, just about visual style. A vision is highly personal and can’t be copied, it’s an attitude, a belief, a feeling, a way of thinking that can be translated into a visual style but can never be copied. More importantly, I think: a vision needs a connection with the world we live in to make it a meaningful vision and not just a hollow aesthetic creation. It should be a comment. A statement. A feeling. Trying to copy a vision is like trying to be someone else. Who would want to be someone else?
A visual style on the other hand can always be copied, no matter how complex the original vision that resulted in the visual style. Vision is a seed, the soil it grows in is its meaningful connection, the flower that grows from the seed is its predestined result, its form of expression: the visual style.
What am I? Who am I? Where do I come from? What do I want, what do I feel? What moves me and what do I want to change? The honest answers to those form your vision. The artistic expression derived from that notion will have a visual style that shows its origin and its meaning: The seed and the soil it grows in. Your vision: your uniqueness as a human being and your connection with the world you live in. If it doesn’t show, then you’ve (sub)consciously replicated a visual style. You can try and replicate the flower and manufacture a plastic flower: it will look the same but it won’t feel the same. So that’s what I’ve been doing lately. Finding the seed that I have in me and fertile soil to plant it in. I’m still struggling to find it but I’ve grown this colourful picture in the mean time. You can read more thoughts on this subject in my blogpost: www.bwvision.com/vision-visual-styles-critics-fine-art-ph...
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Westminster Palace & Big Ben
Westminster Palace, Big Ben, seeds, vision and meaningful connection.
This write-up consists of 2 parts: the technical part, which most people find interesting and I find boring, and the part where I’m thinking out loud, which most people find boring, but which I find interesting. Or perhaps you find none of it interesting. It’s all good! I’ll start with the technical part and further down this write-up you’ll find the rambling part.
Part 1: Technical info.
Observation: a scene and subject shot to death. A composition that even my great grand mother would consider a cliche.
Facts: a 3 images horizontally shifted and tilted long exposure stitched panorama shot from Westminster Palace and the Big Ben, London.
Central image: no shift, no tilt. 360s exposure. Left image: maximum shift left, maximum tilt left. Right image, maximum shift right, maximum tilt right.
Result: this panoramic photograph with a selective plane of focus in the centre of the image.
All 3 shots taken with the 16 stops Firecrest, totalling 48 stops. Every shot: 364s (6 minutes) @f/7.1 and ISO 100. Lens: 24mm TS-E.
If you want to know more on the technical execution part then go to my website: www.bwvision.com/products/
Part 2: Thinking out loud/rambling part.
I haven’t been very active on social media for the last 6-7 months.
Here’s a thought that crossed my mind many times in the past 7 months of social media celibacy: What is vision? Do I have one? I will spare you the details of all the thoughts and mental struggle that came after that and get straight to the point: vision is often confused with visual style. A visual style is the result of a vision. When people talk about vision then in most cases they’re actually talking about a visual style and just few people are really talking about vision. I did that too, hence in retrospect, I didn’t talk about vision, just about visual style. A vision is highly personal and can’t be copied, it’s an attitude, a belief, a feeling, a way of thinking that can be translated into a visual style but can never be copied. More importantly, I think: a vision needs a connection with the world we live in to make it a meaningful vision and not just a hollow aesthetic creation. It should be a comment. A statement. A feeling. Trying to copy a vision is like trying to be someone else. Who would want to be someone else?
A visual style on the other hand can always be copied, no matter how complex the original vision that resulted in the visual style. Vision is a seed, the soil it grows in is its meaningful connection, the flower that grows from the seed is its predestined result, its form of expression: the visual style.
What am I? Who am I? Where do I come from? What do I want, what do I feel? What moves me and what do I want to change? The honest answers to those form your vision. The artistic expression derived from that notion will have a visual style that shows its origin and its meaning: The seed and the soil it grows in. Your vision: your uniqueness as a human being and your connection with the world you live in. If it doesn’t show, then you’ve (sub)consciously replicated a visual style. You can try and replicate the flower and manufacture a plastic flower: it will look the same but it won’t feel the same. So that’s what I’ve been doing lately. Finding the seed that I have in me and fertile soil to plant it in. I’m still struggling to find it but I’ve grown this colourful picture in the mean time. You can read more thoughts on this subject in my blogpost: www.bwvision.com/vision-visual-styles-critics-fine-art-ph...
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