Wednesday, March 11, 2009

First Lights


WALKER EVANS: "Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: It is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is defining of observation full and felt."

PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL: I did succeed with a few of the images I shot into the sun with my old Nikon 4300, but it was always a compromise. Without a tripod the only way to reduce lens flare was to angle the camera further away from the lens than I really wanted. The result was to reduce the wattage of the grass.

This is the most successful of the grass images taken before returning to 35mm SLR format. It was taken at the north end of the Macriscostas Preserve in September of 2005. When I took this, I knew I had a future in grasses no matter how sinful shooting into the sun was. Three months later I purchased a Nikon D70 DSLR (suddenly regretting all the Nikon lenses I had sold a few years back), and the great file swelling began.

3 comments:

Jo's-D-Eyes said...

Hello Ted,
Yes its not easy to make a good photo of grass, YOU made a great shor here!
its the light what makes it complicated, see my blog today I show you, be welcome

Thanks for your kind words:)

JoAnn/Holland

GMG said...

Hi Ted!
Must confess that these greens impressed me even more than the grey ones! Lovely series!

Blogtrotter has Akbar’s capital city for you. Enjoy and have a great weekend!

Emery Roth said...

JoAnn and GMG, Sorry for the delay in replying, but I have been getting my computer ware back in order and mounting a small exhibit.

JoAnn, I spent a whole summer basically shooting grasses and fields of wildflowers. It was a favorite subject then and one I often return to now. Thanks for your comment about the light.

GMG, I had a hunch you'd like the warmer images better than those which were snow-bound.

I'm hurrying off now to catch up no both your blogs.