Faceless

Subtitle: Because “headless” sounds creepy.

I like to shoot from the hip but I’m not terribly good at it. After a few interesting accidents with hip shots, I developed a framing pattern I started to like - headless people.

   <img src="_image.jpg" alt=" How many feet in a frame?  ">  How many feet in a frame?   

I’m pretty sure this is how projects go. Photog tries a thing, it doesn’t work, tries again, it doesn’t work again in the same way, Photog ignores it and tries again because Photog is thick-headed.

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Usually, I go for it in camera but I occasionally crop to get it. Cropping like that can take a “meh” photo to “kinda interesting.”

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Not necessarily good but kind of interesting. The toy camera/cross process helps too. I feel it enhances the spontaneous nature of shooting from the hip.

I have a handful more on my Flickr account here. I need to figure out what I’m going to do with these photos again…

Cover photo from an old photo walk with Alyska way back in 2011 (just after we started dating). She’s holding my favorite Russian analog Zorki-4K.

Faceless

Subtitle: Because “headless” sounds creepy.

I like to shoot from the hip but I’m not terribly good at it. After a few interesting accidents with hip shots, I developed a framing pattern I started to like - headless people.

   <img src="_image.jpg" alt=" How many feet in a frame?  ">  How many feet in a frame?   

I’m pretty sure this is how projects go. Photog tries a thing, it doesn’t work, tries again, it doesn’t work again in the same way, Photog ignores it and tries again because Photog is thick-headed.

  <img src="_image.jpg" alt="">

Usually, I go for it in camera but I occasionally crop to get it. Cropping like that can take a “meh” photo to “kinda interesting.”

  <img src="_image.jpg" alt="">




  <img src="_image.jpg" alt="">

Not necessarily good but kind of interesting. The toy camera/cross process helps too. I feel it enhances the spontaneous nature of shooting from the hip.

I have a handful more on my Flickr account here. I need to figure out what I’m going to do with these photos again…

Cover photo from an old photo walk with Alyska way back in 2011 (just after we started dating). She’s holding my favorite Russian analog Zorki-4K.

I try to be well rounded.

Grit

Down and Out

   <img src="_image.jpg" alt=" Will drum for @mentions.  ">  Will drum for @mentions.   

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.

   <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.

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.