Thursday, January 1, 2009

Composition in Barn Board & Autumn Leaves


BROOKS JENSEN: "For years I've noticed that I see some of my best photographs when I'm really tired. I believe this has something to do with the natural quieting of my thoughts and the cessation of the tendency to intellectualize about my images. Thinking non-thinking is the key. When I quiet my mind, it's as though I hear and see better. When I insist on thinking, my pictures look contrived."

PHOTOGRAPHER'S DIARY - Old barns are a palette upon which the season's paint themselves. I've been wanting to post this particular shot since I took it several months ago. It pairs nicely with the last blog entry, not only because the literal subject is the blacksmith's shop, but because it seeks to minimize depth cues and put a bit more emphasis on the flat rectangular surface. How different the effect of this surface of very 3D leaf textures from the softened flatness cast by the fog! What do I think it's about? Lines and colors and textures and time.

(60mm, ISO 400, f22, 1/100th)

1 comment:

GMG said...

Hi Ted! Hope you survived the food and the champagne, and entered 2009 in great shape! ;))
Happy New Year!

I also have those Vox Turnabout vinyl records with Beethoven’s piano Concertos, bought in 1970 at 99 Portuguese Escudos each (roughly $4.00 at that time)… It’s a pity that Brendel decided to retire, but it seems to be the ordinary course of live. And it seems to be also the same with our senses…

Blogtrotter will be posting on Delhi the next weeks; lots to see… Hope you like it and wish you a great weekend!