I try to be well rounded.

Grit

Down and Out

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I’ve been playing around with tonal range contrast in the black and white photos. It has an interesting effect in the feeling of a photo - they feel more realistic, more gritty. This is especially true when you’re backdrop is a cityscape with concrete, stone, brick with so much texture.

In the above two photos, I think it adds something nice and sort of iconic to the first and doesn’t really do a ton for the second. Subject and method of editing matters. While mid and shadow tone contrast doesn’t make the second worse it doesn’t really make it that much better.

So. Interesting view of editing. I think I’ve sort of intuited it but never really though about the degree to which certain types of edits can affect the presentation of a photos such that it can change the mood that much.

Well, I mean, I knew it but never really understood it.

Something has shifted in the last few years in my perspective on the world that has affect per how I take photos. Curious what it is.

Not sure what to make of it beyond that I like it. I think photos are better for it but not like super high caliber.

Whatever that means.

Aside: that I can get so much tonal contrast differentiation editing RAW files on my iPad now is freaking awesome.

Two small things

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

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Two small things

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

   <img src="_image.jpg" alt="   Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.  ">    Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.   




   <img src="_image.jpg" alt=" There is a gap, a silence and emptiness, where there is not thought between you and existence. ">  There is a gap, a silence and emptiness, where there is not thought between you and existence.

When you can get it

Get It

I’m mostly trying different apps on my iPad Pro trying to find what handles RAW files better and gets images closer to what I want.

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This is Photogene 4 which I apparently downloaded in 2013 abd eventually ditched. Don’t remember why…

This is better insofar as I can cross process better than in Snapseed. I cross process when the images have a little levity. It’s like my editorial look instead of my documentary look.

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Is that style?

Opening the books.

Did you know I used to be a professional photographer? (I had a tax ID and everything.) I shot a few weddings, some modeling, and some products; I really enjoyed, even the gruelingly long days following a bride and groom through a day of prep, we’d, and party.

But my real, true love was Street.

I love the narrative of a normal day. I love the story you can see in people, in a single shot.

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I like the little moments that people just exist in.

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I like cold, ugly reality.

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I like the fleeting glimpse of another world.

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And I love the little joys and absurdities.

I eventually put down the camera when I started getting Bunny arose off the ground. Now, as I find a little more consistency and, frankly, have my brain in straight, I’m finding more desire to shoot again.

With my brain on straight, I want to find the story, the arc, the dynamism out there.

With my brain on straight, I am less of a closed book to the world.

With my brain on straight, I can actually see those perfect moments.