Just a couple more using vary lengths of time in the water. Varying how they are positioned as well.
Waves
Category Archives: landscape
Further Degradation in the Waves series.
So I spent some time soaking some other prints in the ocean water. I love the way this is altering the prints. As time moves forward I am soaking them individually rather than multiples at a time as well as floating them on top of the water.
Either way I feel that the spirit and theme of the work is working well together. I really am altering the representation of the thing that they are of.
Robert Adams: Inspiration
Robert Adams has continued to inspire my work in the photographic arts. Though I may take some of his ideas and some of the ose of others and begin to combine them. I started a project that was heavily influenced by his seascape work last fall, I plan to continue this work but it has gone through a few changes and reedits of the photos.
The following was inspired From Adams’ sea scape work. I posted the before but i have never posted the new edit’s of the images. My first time editing the images i tried very hard to follow with his asthetics of the more blown out image, mostly high key but with occasional areas of dark black.
After hanging these on the wall at the begining of the semester, and stareing at them for weeks on end, I was no longer ok with the original edit, and though I have not done all of the images yet I am happy with my new image.
The new image I decided to go darker, more contrast and to provide some texture into the image through Nik color effects. Some how to me this felt more tactile, and really portrayed why I love the ocean as much as I do.
Next step on this project is to make some physical prints, and destroy them.
This is the re edit of the piece. I am actually much happier with this and I may consider doing a purely black and white one as well
Curves
Flower Fields Washington Spring 2015
So these are some photos I took this spring in washing state with all the flower fields in bloom. Considering that I was shooting from a car window kind of on the fly the seem to be decent images. I really wish there was time to take and create an HDR image of these I really think that gathering more detail in the bright flowers and more contrast in the sky would have created a much better image.
I guess this is somewhat of a lesson in dealing with circumstances. I feel the photos are well exposed but having a broader range may have helped a lot in the final images.
Simoneau Guillaume Inspiration in Post Process
So I started thinking tonight that I was unable to go out and shoot this weekend, but I stated in the previous post that i felt some of what i enjoyed about Simoneau Guillaume’s work were things I felt i would need to do in post processing. So I started working on the post process. I went into some images i shot in Arizona almost a year ago that after shooting I kind of imported and ignored and have slowly been picking my way through them since.
I decided the red rocks and landscape of Sedona Arizona would go well for this project of light blasted saturated images. I felt that i wanted to re create the c-type print look. The c-type print was what most of our child hood memories were printed on, the prints are contrasty and hyperstaturated. So I went with it, after achieving a clean look in lightroom i moved to analogefex pro, to try and achieve this look. I thought there might be something close in the presets yet there really was not, i decided to get a saturated preset and moved in deeper adding light leaks on my own and making them different for each image. Guillaume did not have use any vignette in his images, but I felt these images needed to be darker on the edges.
Joshua Tree National Park; golden hour
I have been working with light for a long time. I have been comfortable working in many situations for a long time. However sometimes I forget how amazing the “Golden Hour” can bee, it seems to make every thing fall into place, my golden hour photos however i did choose to go with black and white, I feel that the lighting speaks volumes in gray scale and also the images i was photographing wer of Joshua Tree National Park which overall color wise is fairly beige and I am of the belief that if color does not add to the image it does not need to be included. The golden hour led to long deep shadows and a beautifully rendered sky. I am enamored with these images and hope every one enjoys them as much as I do.
I have actually learned a few things I had forgotten while shooting these images. The golden hour is truly worth its weight in gold, it actually makes the image stronger to start with, you almost only need to worry about exposure and composition. The long shadows and strong highlights make for very rich images.
Joshua Tree National Park also helps in creating images every time you turn around in the park there is a new image that only needs to be framed and exposed. I actually think this is one of the most scenic parks in the United States and one that is severally over looked because it is a desert, which is truly fine with me, i would actually hate to have this wonderful place as over photographed as Yosemite or the Sequoias. I find Joshua Trees also very photogenic are their own, and are not at all ugly though many seems to think so.
Jerry Slough Photography 