it wasn't until "arctic blast 2008" that i was able to take this photo. had passed the spot multiple times. even set up my camera/tripod. but, never enough light. thanks to our recordbreaking winter wonderland, there was enough reflection that i was able to photo in less than the hour or so previously required.there is something about this tree that makes me immensely happy.
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This is really amazing! I love the perspective. It feels so real in a deceiving manner, such as Esteban Pastorino Diaz; mainly because of the focus shifts and this strange feeling that it could be fake, but that it is not.
ReplyDeleteIt also has the qualities, mainly because of the snow, of Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz. They create snow globes and they have this dwelling doom that some of these images your showing encapsulates. Do I want to continue farther upon this path, with no trace of foot prints, into a dark abyss? What is going in your mind T :)
These are looking great.
This is a really beautiful image, I think its stronger in a way than the previous photograph. LOVE this series I wish I had the skills to take night photos. This has a feeling of painting in it, I love how photo can inspire painting but painting is now inspiring photo a great deal as well. That blue looks like ink or oil paint that was pressed with some kind of plastic. The red tone in the sky brings out the blue and green in the trees so intensely it really lends to the mystery in this series, very hitchcock.
ReplyDeleteI almost imagine a few lights in the sky, not stars but like all the factories you could see in wilmington. You should play with the colors and what you could really pull out of them in all the photos. I like the monochrome nature with just a few pretty saturated colors.
Can't wait to see more.
thanks ladies!
ReplyDeletegab, i totally love those snow-globe photos! definitely loving and looking to capture a sense of other-worldliness. same going on in my mind as always...
erin, these images are definitely inspired by paintings! i'm so glad you noticed!! as i've mentioned before, i am really in to gerhardt richter, esp his landscapes. so, i was definitely referencing those subtly out-of-focus paintings.
some of this direction is stemming from my digital photo class. there is something really grating to me about all this digitization/high definition/infinite resolution biz. so, part of the motivation behind this series is a reaction to the idea of perfectly capturing "reality." (sounds familiar, right?) to counter the "perfection" available thanks to photoshop, i used a plastic lens camera which distorts the image at the edges (hence things falling out of focus the further from the center), creates a soft vingette, and often causes strange light flares. also, i cross-processed, expired color film. that gave me a subtle, but still somewhat altered color shift. uhm...what else? oh yeah, i shot all at night, when all available light is artificial and falls along a pretty broad spectrum of colors.
so, there's the manifesto. already a ton of schoolwork keeping me busy. but, will post more images, soon.