Friday, August 13, 2010
Emma
Loves to draw. Has to draw is more like it. Recently while out together we witnessed an event so brief that I had no time at all to photograph it. "Don't worry Grampa. I've got it." By her drawings I could see that indeed she did.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
People photographers
Some photographers I know have been overheard claiming to not be people photographers. When I look at their work, "most excellent dude!" I find that their images of and about people are my most favorite. Many of us derive a great deal of pleasure pursuing ultimate landscape or nature photographs and as the journey is the experience that's great. If however we want outstanding landscapes they're available in packages of 12 for about $10 in any stationery store...and if we don't need the calendar printed on their backs we could get last years images for about half price.
People on the other hand are compelling. They demand we look at them and attempt to determine what's in their minds. If I consider hiking with my children and now my grandchildren the views are why we start but the life we discover along the way is what excites us. As exhilarating as the surf is it's the tidepools that fascinate us as they teem with life. As a species we are drawn to life as a moth to the flame.
Over 50 years ago I was privileged to see Alfred Stieglitz image Sun Rays taken perhaps 70 years before that. This image of a woman in a sun dappled room caused me to truly look at a photograph for the first time. His later work with the Strands and of course Georgia O'Keeffe is marvelous. His Equivalents I think is non sensical.
Of all Ansel Adams work two stand head and shoulders above the rest I think. Moonrise over Hernandsez without the glowing crosses is a nice image of the moon and mountains but nothing more. I love his image, interestingly also of Georgia O'Keeffe giving the Will Rodgers look alike Orville Cox a look. What's that look anyway? "How YOU doin" perhaps??
It's not easy to take people images, posed or spontaneous but that's what makes them special.
People on the other hand are compelling. They demand we look at them and attempt to determine what's in their minds. If I consider hiking with my children and now my grandchildren the views are why we start but the life we discover along the way is what excites us. As exhilarating as the surf is it's the tidepools that fascinate us as they teem with life. As a species we are drawn to life as a moth to the flame.
Over 50 years ago I was privileged to see Alfred Stieglitz image Sun Rays taken perhaps 70 years before that. This image of a woman in a sun dappled room caused me to truly look at a photograph for the first time. His later work with the Strands and of course Georgia O'Keeffe is marvelous. His Equivalents I think is non sensical.
Of all Ansel Adams work two stand head and shoulders above the rest I think. Moonrise over Hernandsez without the glowing crosses is a nice image of the moon and mountains but nothing more. I love his image, interestingly also of Georgia O'Keeffe giving the Will Rodgers look alike Orville Cox a look. What's that look anyway? "How YOU doin" perhaps??
It's not easy to take people images, posed or spontaneous but that's what makes them special.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Palouse & frost
OK. Not iPhone. I was reviewing some images to transfer to the iPad (there's the connection) and found these taken early on a frosty morning in February.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Multiple Apps
iPhone4, VintBW. Borders added with Camera+. Photo fx Ultra added 2 layers, one high contrast and one grain. Finished product is 2.85mb and 7.5 megapixels.
Wing Luke Museum, Seattle
ps. after posting this image I noticed that the grain filter induced some color so I ran the image back through fx Ultra using a B&W filter...this is really fun and easy to do.
Wing Luke Museum, Seattle
ps. after posting this image I noticed that the grain filter induced some color so I ran the image back through fx Ultra using a B&W filter...this is really fun and easy to do.
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
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Expired film, Zeiss T lens and Auto flash...
...and whaddya know.
I was particularly interested to see how it would handle the first image below. The camera was quite close to the subject with white napkins and cups in the foreground, light face and hair with strong backlight. "Shit oh dear!" When I have to make the exposure decisions I usually move, or ask the subject to move. What it did was spit out a tiny bit of flash...not a complete flash more like a "fla." Well the results speak for themselves. I should probably go give them their senior discount back huh?
I was particularly interested to see how it would handle the first image below. The camera was quite close to the subject with white napkins and cups in the foreground, light face and hair with strong backlight. "Shit oh dear!" When I have to make the exposure decisions I usually move, or ask the subject to move. What it did was spit out a tiny bit of flash...not a complete flash more like a "fla." Well the results speak for themselves. I should probably go give them their senior discount back huh?
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