[pure-silver] Re: Recent Work
- From: "Tim Daneliuk" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "tundra" for DMARC)
- To: "pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:38:54 -0500
On 3/26/21 12:59 AM, Kurt Griffin wrote:
Tim—
Thank you for sharing these. Having grown up and spent much of my adult
life in the “West,” I’ve only recently started viewing my “new” (7.5 y) home
in the midwest with a photographic eye. Looking at your photos, I see many
objects/scenes I could have photographed nearby. Photograph*ed* ≠ making an
image anywhere nearly as compelling as what you shared, but it helps motivate
me to get out with a camera and some film. Thanks for sharing!
—Kurt in Sioux Falls, SD
The hardest pictures to see are the ones right around you. You tend to filter
them
out sort of instinctively, and breaking through that requires conscious intent.
This was as true when I lived in the wide open vistas of Alaska as it is now
living
near a major metroplex.
I will say that reading the light and making it interesting in the Midwest took
a while
to understand. Compared to almost every other place I've shot in many
countries,
the Midwestern US light can be very flat and uninviting. But when you find it
properly.
it can just sing.
Technique is one of those things you have to learn so it becomes instinctive and
you can therefore forget about it. I revisited my technique starting late last
year
because I introduced Pyrocat-HD, and later, D-23 into the mix as well as low
agitation
processing. (Which I documented and shared here a while back.) These new
variables
required a technique refresher so I could ... forget about it again.
Compelling images comes with repetition. I have dozens of prints that I think
"sing".
But I have *thousands* of negatives that - for one reason or another - are
trash.
The truth is that you have to keep putting yourself in the position to find
those
compelling images. Or put another way, Chance Favors The Prepared Mind ...
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