Photography; A blue winter study
So, continuing with the photography experimentation, I spent some time capturing Trinity in London, as she remains the most beautiful subject possible for a photography study.
Here, I was using the manual focus again with the Sony Alpha 7S + 50mm lens, and let me tell you this - catching a cat’s yawn / anything catty on a manual focus, is quite the task!
So I was definitely reminding myself of the time spent using cameras before smartphones came out, because I used to do the same thing with ladybugs, foxes, anything cute that would wander through our gardens in London, back in the 90s and the 00s. #nostalgia
Reflect: The way that winter light is such a wonderful shade of blue in the unfiltered and unedited photos is absolutely fascinating to me. I feel like I am literally seeing the pure frequency of a lightwave, like red shift and blue shirt, but here, in my own home. Now, I clearly have not set any white balance functionalities, or any functionalities for that matter - these are pure and unedited. So the next steps might be to play around with the settings a bit more BEFORE taking photos, rather than rely on Photoshop for the post-production afterwards. Something else I have been playing with during the Surrealist painting as been the idea of putting in a coloured or tinted undercoat of paint - in my case, pink or warm, feminine colours - and what I could do is create the same concept with photography, or I might choose to go blue - to differentiate even more with the warmer undercoat paintings.
Plan: Explore the camera functionalities, explore post production, explore analogue and film photography too, in the upcoming weeks. Continue taking photos when the instinct takes me! Here, I saw the first signs of snow, and felt the desire to capture it before it became a snow storm. That stage of chilly nature just before the snowflakes become snow and snow before a thick later of slippery sleet and frozen dark grey ice. Here, the nature was still green and shining through.
Act: It was literally freezing outside but I went for it. Next time, more layers! Next time also, further afield. Take the camera into nature. Disappear for a weekend. Go offline. Capture reality. Encapsulate magic. See what all of these millions of buttons do on the camera (!) and replace social media with getting lost in the moment. This can be a plan for March’s Low Residency.
Observe: The moment itself is beautiful. The photograph of the moment is even more beautiful. The surrealist interpretation of the moment is sublime. The surrealist interpretation of the photograph of the moment would therefore be…?
