Not quite what I had in mind. I wanted to make the background completely black and have the signs glowing. The flash fired even though I believe I had it overridden, so I will need to figure that out as the idea that’s starting to develop in my mind won’t work with flash. And yes this is a double exposure that isn’t one of those ghost signs.
I know I like looking at other artists work and thumbnails don’t give a very good sense of the brushwork so here is a deep zoom of my painting that will be at the Langley Centennial Museum and National Exhibition Centre June 11 to Aug 24 2011. http://wkoopmans.ca/Deep_Zoom/daffodil_time/embed.html
It’s sure hard to hold this sucker still. Yes this camera creates very large 6×9 cm negatives but the problem is that to get sharp images you really need to use a tripod. All of these shots suffer from some motion blur when you look close enough or if they were enlarged. Also the fact that you only get 8 frames on a roll puts them in the $2 per exposure cost range.
I use disposable palettes, you know those waxy tear off sheets. I don’t lay out my paints in any consistent way and I placed my bird feeder where the cat to bird ratio would be the highest. OK now that I have those things off my chest maybe I should explain. I have a wooden palette that I made probably 20 years ago when I thought you needed to have one to be a painter but no longer use it. What I do use are the disposable ones and the main reason is that I work on more than one painting at a time and I often use different colours. I like that there is a temporary record of what I have mixed, when I come back to a painting I can mix some fresh paint right beside the old and get a good match. The main draw back in keeping them around is they don’t stack very well.
As for the bird feeder it’s one of those ones that attaches to the glass with suction cups so there is an invisible barrier, right about cats eye level.
Taken with the Sony DSC-V3, the top image was shot at f4.0 again showing that you can get interesting bokeh under the right conditions with a small sensor.
Just a couple of images, one of which was the last on a roll of film as I walked to Lens and Shutter to drop it off for processing. In the second image I love how the shrubs appear to be recoiling from the lone one on the other side of the line. Sometimes to see possible images like this you need to envision the world as it might look in a photograph. This is made easier when the subject is simple and appears to be in a single plane like this one, but really a photograph is ultimately shapes on paper. Looking out in our three dimensional world and assessing it in two is hard work but the camera does not choose for you, it’s just the tool you use to do the conversion you can share.
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.” – Garry Winogrand
I received my painting that will be part of the Fraser Valley Biennale at the Reach Gallery back from Abbotsford Art Gallery where they did an excellent job of framing. I really like the subtle highlights from the metal edges and the matt look of the black. Great work and thank you.
I went to Clayburn Village to see the Old School Market which had a fun mix of antiques and new craft items from many different vendors. I picked up a couple things myself and took a few pictures.
The circle in a square of the laundromat dryer came to mind when I saw this hub on an old loader. It’s obviously been painted several different colours as well as the dark staining of dirt encrusted grease. Up close there is actually a lot of interesting textures and I took a few digital images for a possible future painting. The filmwas a fresh pack from the fridge and you can see that it didn’t develop evenly on the bottom, I’ll have to wait until next week to find out if that is how all of them will now be.
I took both these pictures this week with my Sony digital camera and as I was importing them into Lightroom it just struck me how different they were, that’s the great thing about digital cameras. I think that it’s easy to forget how much creative power we have through technology. This trend will continue as new features are added to cameras and I for one look forward to it. On a side note anyone who has seen enough of my images will realize I often take pictures of whatever catches my eye whether it something people consider a traditional subject for photography or not.
