Space station

[habakuk]

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[aprilS]

I can see this hanging on the wall in someone's ultra-modern condo, with a high view through enormous windows, all chrome and steel furnishings, and thick white carpets. No pets or kids.

[habakuk]

Teehee. Thanks, April. No pets, no kids. I consider this tag as a official attribute of this shot.

If you think the colors are too bold - please complain to Ted, not me. He's the source of inspiration for this one.


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[eob]

If you think the colors are too bold - please complain to Ted, not me.

I think that the colors are the main interest of this photo...

[Ted Byrne]

If you think the colors are too bold - please complain to Ted, not me. He's the source of inspiration for this one.

What colors?

[habakuk]

Pffff! 

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[Theo]

I love the colors should i complement you or ted? I like the perspective too the lines take me right into the back of the photo with ease and let me come back down to earth with ease!

Bravo Zulo

yours

[habakuk]

Ted didn't really see colors here. What contrast is to you, saturation is to Ted.   I like being pushed beyond my common comfort zone in the photographic work. This is how we can test our assumptions and beliefs... and this is how we can expand our own borders.

I did something strange for me here: I took a bottom-up perspective architecture shot. But I kept close to my way of perception: make it into something beyond the "thing"... give it a meaning, a story (potential). And this wouldn't have been possible without a bold color palette.

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[Ted Byrne]

And equally importantly Roland, it wouldn't have been possible without the intent to express a feeling or idea. Part of me wonders if that intention was something you left the house with one morning, camera in hand, to find and express. Or if, as you were hunting that day, you discovered this structure as an opportunity to communicate that intent. Or... if as you were reviewing on your digital light board ... if as you looked at the images which you took that day you discovered this image and the intention occurred to you. Or if as you discovered this image on your light board you found it of sufficient interest that you chose to work upon it and during the work, the intention dawned upon you.

I guess what I wonder was whether you had an epiphany and went out and expressed it, or whether you took an image which expressed an epiphany to you. Or whether what we do is not really all about process. And I wonder whether the process is one of discovery from the hunt through the final signing of the print? No, I don't really wonder anymore. Increasingly I think that we do conceptual work, and the potentials inherent in the concept unveil themselves as we peel each veil away at every part of the process.

You're right, the discovery that color intensity works well here was part of your epiphany. Or one of many as the process unfolded. It is part of the great joy of the process of creation, right? I wonder who got more joy from Beethoven's works, the musicians, the audiences... or the Master?

Ted

[eob]

One of my most favored photographers Jerry N. Uelsmann worked totally "in reverse", so to speak. He wandered around looking for things that may look interesting in 2-dimensional world of photography. Then, after printing contact sheets, he tried to put together some of those captured things to make a more elaborate composite. Sometimes he used two negatives, sometimes more. He either printed sandwiched negatives with a single exposure on paper, or he used several enlargers with one negative in each enlarger and made multiple exposures on the same sheet of paper. If the combination did not work to his liking, he replaced one negative with a different one - until the combination looked alright.

Funny thing is, many people (including me) thought that his images had very elaborate symbolic meaning, while he was admitting himself that he never tried to pass any symbolic messages in his images. It was all pure visual imagination...

I guess, my point is that you can start your conceptualizing at any stage of the creative process. As long as you arrive at a work of art, it doesn't matter how you get there...

[Theo]

I guess, my point is that you can start your conceptualizing at any stage of the creative process. As long as you arrive at a work of art, it doesn't matter how you get there...

i agree but man the road is such an adventure/frustration/joy/head pounding/jubilation all wrapped up with a crashed hard drive man i love computers lol

[eob]

Computers need love, too - just like photography...