These are recent night pictures from the weird warm snap two weeks ago. I'm kind of sick this week and the day job has an impending deadline, so already my resolution of more discipline is crumbling. Once it gets warm I'll be much more serious, but this isn't feeling so good.
Anyway, I feel pretty good about this recent group. One of the things that happened with the end of the ICP classes is that Katie and I brought in work to show the Sunday class a little about what we were up to and where our criticism was coming from and it turned into a nice critique situation, where I had to talk about my work a little bit more rigorously than I've been accustomed to since school's been out. In a sort of round-about way, I think she was getting at the idea that some of the night pictures might be too direct and a little bit boring, so I've tried to be a little more elliptical and subtle with these new pictures and I like the results.
I think the main thing with this in the way I work is that it's hard both to hold my concentration when I'm out at night, and also the details that the camera records are always even visible at night, so they're easy to miss. Basically, it's easiest to see lights at night, so that's what I was focusing on, with more steady but less exciting results, I think. I'm trying to pay more attention to shadow detail and anticipate what's going to be in more of the picture, beyond the sort of otherworldly lights that are obviously the most attractive thing about photographing at night.
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Sinister Images, Indeed
So here are the pictures I managed to get from Long Island the night the nice folks of Lynnbrook called the cops on me. I also have a few more prints from the turnpike that need to be printed.
More tomorrow. It's warmer now, so hopefully this weekend I'll start getting into a more disciplined shooting schedule that usually happens once it gets a little nicer.
More tomorrow. It's warmer now, so hopefully this weekend I'll start getting into a more disciplined shooting schedule that usually happens once it gets a little nicer.
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