snowy friday
"the old bridge"
"fall in winter" Two composites using methods described in chapter 2.
The first (the bridge picture) is a composite of one clear/one much lighter oof image, although in this case I did the oofocusing digitally using gaussian blur, lightening with curves; blended at 50% in normal.
The second is the same image twice, second layer flipped both vertically and horizontally, blended in normal at 50%.
posted by ursula @ 2:32 PM
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7 Comments:
It is hard to kee pup with you Ursula :) These two are great and it is obvious that you are becoming quite accomplished. Now that you have done so much experimentation, using your new talent, I would love for you to use this to tell a personal story is the form of "the old bridge", drop-moss-leaf, and "afternoon chores".
Thank you!
A story, with all three of those? Oh boy. That'd be hard. I'm not a writer. And anything personal is even harder :)
Its just that I hate gratuitous pictures. I want something from the artist to come out of be there just waiting for me to find. Those three that you have taken and I have mentioned are the type of photos that hang with me. They have so much potential to tell a whole story. I wasn;t thinking all three to be embedded, rather making use of thr style of the three to paint us a picture of something you wanted to say or share.
OK, that makes sense. But I tend to not think in stories, more in impressions.
The old bridge really is the old bridge over the Columbia, in Trail, BC. I've been looking at the bridge ever since we moved here almost 2 years ago, especially on rainy days, because it is so shiny then. I wanted to give a feel for its shininess, and how the houses on the West Trail hill look so tiny hanging there, even though they are very close. This is the kind of bridge that you want to go on, but it's scarey, because you can see the dark, cold waters between your feet as you walk across, and if a car comes by, the bridge shakes, and creaks, and on rainy days, you can just imagine yourself falling into the Columbia, and everything would be dark and cold and shiny.
The "drop/moss/leaf" is simply stuff that I see all the time on the trails. There's a lot of moss around here, and it's beautiful, and often there are water droplets close by, not on the moss, but close - they are very useful for out of focus light spots. The leaves tend to be further away and paler, like background textures, but not really quite there. That's all I was thinking of, stuff I see on the trails.
"Afternoon chores", I was sitting at the bottom of one of the covered staircases that are everywhere here, watching the light play with the street and weeds and rocks, and this boy comes by with his paper delivery bag, so I took his picture walking away, then this father/son came walking up the street, and the son was also carrying a paper delivery bag, the father was carrying a briefcase or something like that, and they were just gently walking and talking, and the sun made such beautiful colours all around them, it was just so peaceful and gentle, sort of like life should be all the time. I though if I put the two pictures together I could maybe give a bit of the feel of the gentle warm afternoon sun, and the friendship between parents and children, and stuff like that. I don't know if it works for others, but it sort of works for me - it's like walking into a tunnel where the air is warm and pleasant and glowy.
I don't know if this will make sense to you, but its more or less the "stories" behind the composites.
May I ask, is that what's bothering you about your pictures, making composites without there being a strong thought behind it to build it up?
You see all of those words were in those pictures. That's why those are so great. You had something in mind when you took the shots and you wanted to tell or show how you feel about something. The notion of a story or a mood being behind those really comes through and I think that is why I like them so much.
Some of these shots we are taking as we work through the book are just to get a feel for the process. I think you are moving forward now and are using the process to tell your story. I am still stuck back at just taking shots. I also feel a little rushed. On DPC I need the whole week for a challenge to let the concept and idea grow in my head before I set out to capture it. Here I am still at the try it stage and haven't yet found a way to integrate it into something I want to say. Does that make any sense at all?
It does.
Thanks a big bunch!
Wow, I love all these shots in this blog. I'll be back for sure.
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