Tag Archives: Abstract
Roboticist
“Yeah, they’re bright in a hollow sky” Produced entirely from the (figurative) road without the aid of any of my usual photography stuff, but then I got lazy and didn’t post it for three weeks. A proof of concept, maybe.
Filed under Abstract, Black and White, Landscape
Bleak House
It’s a cipher. This is another from my first-ever Holga roll. In addition to setting the counter to 645 (vertical rectangles 6×4.5cm) instead of 6×6 and therefore overlapping exposures, this one was accidentally set to bulb, resulting in blurring and … Continue reading
Filed under Abstract, Black and White, Film
Saint Elizabeth
A photo posted on another photographer’s blog yesterday reminded me of one of my favorite photography truisms: Just because you don’t know what it is at first glance doesn’t mean it’s bad. In fact, I think too many of us … Continue reading
Filed under Abstract, Black and White, Digital
Ian Curtis
This is another cross processed shot. The thick film base that my methods don’t clear necessitates drastic steps to get the darks back, which results in the lovely artifacts on this image. There’s just something about this one that I … Continue reading
Filed under Abstract, Black and White, Color, Film, Self-Developed, Street Photography
To Do
Photography is decontextualization. A photograph is a still image torn from its larger context. This moment occurred over the summer, and though what I was doing at the time is completely different from what I’m doing now, I can still … Continue reading
Filed under Abstract, Black and White, Digital
She Thinks
Photography is abstraction. There are many ways to define abstract. Every object that we construct meaning around it itself made up of smaller elements, and to abstract is to break things with constructed meaning back down to their unnegotiated parts. … Continue reading
