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  • KevinFRK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Your photos are generally hard to “parse” for your intent, but in this case I feel especially uncertain.

    The composition, that is the chosen subject, angle and crop, makes sense to me. I might have looked for more interesting wood grain, but this suits your apparent style.

    What I don’t get is both the choice of high noise/low resolution, and choosing to let the top left exposure blow out. Is it that it’s just to get a “I never meant to take this shot” vibe, while entirely intending to?

    • Joshua W Murray @lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the comment! My only intent with Astronomatopoeia is that it’s a series of scenes or objects, taken with black and white phone apps, that I find interesting when I’m out of the house. The photos are unplanned, spontaneous, and at the will of limited app functions.

      I rarely adjust these photos in post as the real challenge to myself is to take and post a picture a day (or close to that). I tend to compose asymmetrical shots, binary objects, or lone hero subjects. I think Astronomatopoeia falls somewhere between the spontaneous action of street photography and methodical composure of fine art.

      So, yes, ‘I never meant to take this shot’ but I like it when I take it like this.

      • KevinFRK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Ah - using a mobile phone, I should have guessed, and a phone does suit what you are trying to achieve. It also means you are not carrying around a bulky expensive thing, which is a bonus.

        Shooting Black & White is a different sort of limitation: to me B&W only suits scenes where there is very little colour variation, as otherwise you are just throwing away information (yes, I have a computer background!) which feels wrong. Looking back on what you’ve posted, (in my opinion) you’ve generally stuck to images where B&W works.

        • Joshua W Murray @lemmy.worldOP
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          1 year ago

          I’d love to find a small digital rangefinder with a larger lens to carry everywhere with me. 25 years ago I always carried Grandpa’s Yashica Lynx 14e and 4 rolls of Tri-X with me “just in case”. It was fun.

          I like how the approach to black and white photography is different from color. For B&W I concentrate on contrast and form as well as the subject but with color my focus is on saturation and the ‘shape’ of color. I don’t think information is thrown away. I think it’s about working with the strengths and parameters of the medium.

          Or sometimes it’s just play. Astronomatopoeia is play.