I know a grafitti covered rather sad, but proud looking, store front is every real estate agents dream.? Gotta give it to her/her for slapping that big sign on there anyway. Sadly, when I looked to see how much it is renting for, I couldn’t find it on their site. Darn.? But I really like it the way it is and the light was interesting. I wonder what type of commercial enterprise it might become?
I saw this car and scene last week but the car was in the shade and the sky was cloudless. Just my luck to pass by again today and find this. ? Despite the warm light, my fingers were almost frozen. I think I’ll be doing more interior work during the next few months.
I’ve always been attracted to photographing things in my own backyard. When I was a teenager, it was literally my backyard and my friends at school. Today it is my adopted neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For me photography has always been about capturing my surroundings. For many others, it is about traveling to foreign places where the local culture and people make for exciting images. Not to knock that kind of work, but it is often like fishing in a stock pond.? I like the idea of forcing ones self to think about their normal surroundings in a different way. And the best part is discovering something or someone new.
To me this is part of what makes a real photographer. It is about researching an idea, the exploration and finally as a reward, a well deserved image.? It is not about the camera, which school you went to, how many frequent flier miles you have but about your inner ability to bring together light, composition, emotion, color ect. into harmony in your images. (And I’m not taking about in Photoshop!)
All of this said, the other thing that separates real photographers and photographers is craft. I just don’t have respect for those who haven’t mastered it. For most things are digital these days. Process raw and print your own images!! It is like the old film darkroom but faster and better in so many ways.? I spent hours and hours in a rented darkroom in high school, but every print I made was mine. The ability to beautifully print your work is part of being a photographer, just uploading a jpg to Flickr dosen’t make you one.
Enough with my rant for now, got to process some work to post!
These places had caught my eye before, but it was never right until this night. Something came together and I finally got what I was looking for.
I’ve been stalking a building in my neighborhood for a project I’m working on. I saw it and I was like, wow, I gotta shoot this. The next morning I got up bright and early, but not early enough. I had this idea in my head about the way it would look in the morning with the sun just barley on the horizon. Alas, I was about 30 min too late and it was too light. I also had another problem. Weekday mornings the street is full of large trucks getting their daily loads to bring into the city. I determined it would then only be possible to shoot it on the weekends. Only the next weekend I was sick and it didn’t seem like a wise idea to get up at 6 a.m. and stand out in the freezing morning. Finally, this weekend the weather cooperated and I felt better. Only the shot sucked! Maybe I was once again too late, or maybe it would never work. But I’m not one to give up and I decided to try it at night. So here are the results. I got the the building and the lights of a truck speeding past. I was hoping to find a way to include the trucks in my story, but they are large and usually not that visually appealing. Does it work?
I’ve been stalking a building in my neighborhood for a project I’m working on. I saw it and I was like, wow, I gotta shoot this. The next morning I got up bright and early, but not early enough. I had this idea in my head about the way it would look in the morning with the sun just barley on the horizon. Alas, I was about 30 min too late and it was too light. I also had another problem. Weekday mornings the street is full of large trucks getting their daily loads to bring into the city. I determined it would then only be possible to shoot it on the weekends. Only the next weekend I was sick and it didn’t seem like a wise idea to get up at 6 a.m. and stand out in the freezing morning. Finally, this weekend the weather cooperated and I felt better. Only the shot sucked! Maybe I was once again too late, or maybe it would never work. But I’m not one to give up and I decided to try it at night. So here are the results. I got the the building and the lights of a truck speeding past. I was hoping to find a way to include the trucks in my story, but they are large and usually not that visually appealing. Does it work?
Since starting graduate school in September, I’ve been pretty much neglecting my blog. So after a few weeks of trying out new templates and dealing with the usual frustrating things- I can finally start posting again. (Actually, it was often my sports writer husband who was doing the dirty work, god bless him….)
It is pretty necessary these days as a photographer to have a website and so I’ve been updating that too.? I know, I kinda sold out to Live Books and bought a student site for a year. But it is a pretty good deal so check it out if you are sporting some university plastic this year. It is really easy to use and between learning the art of color management and fine art ink jet printing, I can use “easy” anything.
