September 14, 2009
September 12, 2009
Silent night hours
Last night, whilst my partner went to see a dance performance, I decided to stay home. I happily pottered around the house, made a yummy roast and came up with a few important discoveries.
Well... not that any of this is new, but yesterday I discovered that time is the most important factor in photography. I know I know - we have known this for a while - but using a digital camera, in a sense, I forgot all about time. Not so much that I forgot it, but I let the camera think for me and while this worked when I used film, it does not necessarily work with a digital camera. A digital camera gives you what is in front of you and not colours as I see them, or wish them to be. With film I knew what I had to do, to achieve the imagined colours. In digital photography most of it is done in post-processing and hence my question - is it still photography? So while I can do the colours in photoshop, I prefer to create my images with the camera and not in photoshop. And this is where time came up.... it manipulates colour and changes the original, to something you dream up. Over the last few years I have learnt (and hopefully will continue to) so much from trying different films, pushing, cross processing and making a million mistakes. I always had enjoyed (still do) using vivid films, pushed to achieve altered colours, but it has taken me a while to understand how I can achieve this with digital. Well I still do not know how to achieve all of the imagined colours with my D camera, but I am slowly getting there.
Photogaphy is to invent colours with time - no photoshop used.
Well... not that any of this is new, but yesterday I discovered that time is the most important factor in photography. I know I know - we have known this for a while - but using a digital camera, in a sense, I forgot all about time. Not so much that I forgot it, but I let the camera think for me and while this worked when I used film, it does not necessarily work with a digital camera. A digital camera gives you what is in front of you and not colours as I see them, or wish them to be. With film I knew what I had to do, to achieve the imagined colours. In digital photography most of it is done in post-processing and hence my question - is it still photography? So while I can do the colours in photoshop, I prefer to create my images with the camera and not in photoshop. And this is where time came up.... it manipulates colour and changes the original, to something you dream up. Over the last few years I have learnt (and hopefully will continue to) so much from trying different films, pushing, cross processing and making a million mistakes. I always had enjoyed (still do) using vivid films, pushed to achieve altered colours, but it has taken me a while to understand how I can achieve this with digital. Well I still do not know how to achieve all of the imagined colours with my D camera, but I am slowly getting there.
Photogaphy is to invent colours with time - no photoshop used.
September 11, 2009
To see the summer sky
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." Albert Camus
September 9, 2009
Shadows of colour
I don't know when I started to photograph shadows to see the true colours of black + white.
September 8, 2009
September 6, 2009
September 4, 2009
Journey
A couple of weeks ago I found ‘too much chocolate‘ and was very excited to read about the TMC+Kodak grant. Initially I felt a bit disheartened when I discovered how their interviews are structured, as I wanted to use this idea for an online magazine and thus confirming my internet law... for ever idea one has, you most certainly can find somebody who has done it already... I guess not so surprising, but still...
The idea for the online magazine is still on hold, whilst I try and establish a new idea + get all the other work out of the door. I am always interested who is behind the scenes, so... here is Jake Stangel. Talented, clever and full of adventures.
The idea for the online magazine is still on hold, whilst I try and establish a new idea + get all the other work out of the door. I am always interested who is behind the scenes, so... here is Jake Stangel. Talented, clever and full of adventures.
Ferns
I am currently volunteering at the School of Botany - University of Melbourne and a couple of weeks ago I thought it would be very interesting to photograph some ferns. When I arrived there - I met Daniel who is currently doing an research projects on ferns. He collected these over the last couple of years and over many hiking trips and I couldn't have been happier.
August 31, 2009
Wish I could be there
Yesterday I received an email from Joseph Bellows Gallery announcing their latest exhibition with Bill Arnold. I have no idea how I got to be on their mailing list, but was very excited to be, as it was a pleasure browsing through their amazing artists list.
Arnold says, "I think the job of the artist is to cheer for life in all its parts. Nothing left out. Nothing exalted. No attempt to improve. Only to show something be it tragedy, ecstasy or buffoonery. We are part of a million, million year process and the artist's job is to celebrate being part of it." His photographs are imbued with a spirit of observation and discovery and show us beauty in the everyday and mystery in the mundane. I couldn't download the images, so you will have to use the link.
The exhibition will be on view from September 5th through October 10th, 2009. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 5th (5-8 pm).
Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Avenue La Jolla, CA 92037
Tel (858) 456-5620 Fax (858) 456-5621
Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
Arnold says, "I think the job of the artist is to cheer for life in all its parts. Nothing left out. Nothing exalted. No attempt to improve. Only to show something be it tragedy, ecstasy or buffoonery. We are part of a million, million year process and the artist's job is to celebrate being part of it." His photographs are imbued with a spirit of observation and discovery and show us beauty in the everyday and mystery in the mundane. I couldn't download the images, so you will have to use the link.
The exhibition will be on view from September 5th through October 10th, 2009. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 5th (5-8 pm).
Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Avenue La Jolla, CA 92037
Tel (858) 456-5620 Fax (858) 456-5621
Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
August 30, 2009
Open for mistakes
When I first saw these images by Bryan Graf I was certain that they were photographed with film and opened while the film was still in the camera and not a digital camera, but the longer I look at them - less I seem to know and my certainty fades.
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