Petzval Seasons...
I have always looked at sharpness as just one of the tools in the box. and having been out of photography during the digital revolution, there seemed to be an ever-restless quest to a goal of clinical sharpness and augmented contrast and pallet, which was taking photography into a homogenized glossy magazine utopia.
My quibble, is not indeed with the in-house styles of magazines; it is more with the loss of the ability to emote, that photographic art has lost in a quest for the sharpest and most saturated. This is because the un-sharp, the halogenated and the blurred are not used to as a narrative to a body of work, never mind to convey feelings to the viewer.
It is with this as a personal goal, I set out to create a project that harnesses these elements in conveying the spirit of the seasons. To do this I settled on using foliage as the subject matter, while using digital technology rather than film. Essentially, I want to show that digital can be as emotive as film, if you want it to, and as importantly to show that this can be done on a budget that excluding the camera can be achieved with less money that rattles around a pocket. It is important to me that photography is an accessible art to all, and if financial barriers can be overcome, this is all to the better.
Further to this aim digital manipulation was restricted purely to general contrast, saturation and other basic settings, so that the delivery of the final images was not beyond the capabilities of the average PC user, at the end this is an exercise primarily in photography not digital art.
My quibble, is not indeed with the in-house styles of magazines; it is more with the loss of the ability to emote, that photographic art has lost in a quest for the sharpest and most saturated. This is because the un-sharp, the halogenated and the blurred are not used to as a narrative to a body of work, never mind to convey feelings to the viewer.
It is with this as a personal goal, I set out to create a project that harnesses these elements in conveying the spirit of the seasons. To do this I settled on using foliage as the subject matter, while using digital technology rather than film. Essentially, I want to show that digital can be as emotive as film, if you want it to, and as importantly to show that this can be done on a budget that excluding the camera can be achieved with less money that rattles around a pocket. It is important to me that photography is an accessible art to all, and if financial barriers can be overcome, this is all to the better.
Further to this aim digital manipulation was restricted purely to general contrast, saturation and other basic settings, so that the delivery of the final images was not beyond the capabilities of the average PC user, at the end this is an exercise primarily in photography not digital art.
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