Now, I’m 50 years old. I’ve been taking photos for some time
now. I have 57,657 fifty seven thousand
six hundred and fifty seven photos on Flickr.
I even like some of them.
Now I’m guessing that I just need to find 7 photos that I
like and learn something from them. I
don’t actually need to find the bestest most fucking favoritest seven photos
that I have taken my entire life. I don’t
need to AGONIZE about it.
I also need to print them, so I need to take some time to
print them. Also, this notebook isn’t large enough to glue 5x7 prints so I need
to rip this page out and paste it into a larger notebook.
prickly rasp fern @ the UCSC arboretum. 17 April 2016 with the Leica Q.
- This is an example of the sort of photo that I
try to make that I call a “quirky out-of-focus landscape” It’s dreamy. It’s
like something out of a dream. Even if you’re lucid dreaming, if you try to
focus on any one thing, then everything dissolves into nothingness. This is the
moment before that happens.
2. It’s a landscape, so it’s a landscape orientation. That seems kind of stupid, but choices must be made. This photo was made away from my eye. The way I made this photo was to take it (away from my eye), and look at the photo, and try again maybe aiming the camera a little different or hope AF found something in focus. I kept the same aspect ratio the same – because?3. I’m not sure if this photo has lines. It has regions. The top 1/3 suggests “sky.” The middle third features brightly lit out-of-focus ferns. The bottom third has a few in-focus ferns. I think the in-focus parts of the frame capture the eye 1st – then the eye explores the rest of the frame.4. The light here is amazing. It’s also high contrast. The mood is all about the light. If the light were different – I may not have taken the photo.5. My eye wasn’t at the camera when I took the photo, I was above the scene without the benefit of a screen that pivots to the eye. With this perspective, I’m in the fern forest. If I were taking the photo from my eye--- I would be above the fern forest.6. There is not “moment” with this photograph as it’s a totally static subject matter. The only moment is in answer one. The moment before your dream scene fades away.7. The in-focus ferns are the pattern that echoes each other as well as the out-of-focus fern shapes that echo the in-focus shapes. There’s lots of contrast – there are a couple of dark areas w/o fern shapes in them.8. For this particular image, I think everything in the frame counts.9. The red/green and the blue/orange complement each other, the red in-focus fern against the out-of-focus bright green background draws the eye there.10. The image is “balanced” in a dynamic full of energy sort of way. Or it is out of balance as only the bottom ¼ has any in-focus elements or the framing could be a little less extreme --- put the frame down a bit—1/3 focus instead of ¼.
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