“zigzag”
Today was day two of my project and I definitely found myself in a more relaxed state of mind about the whole thing. Probably because I had a few “go to” subjects I could revisit today after exploring quite a few options yesterday.
Interestingly some of the photos I tried again today didn’t turn out as interesting as yesterday. A couple of them were made with a different lens and another few just didn’t have the same lightning conditions.
I have come across the phenomenon many times before with my nature and landscape photography in particular. In nature it’s next to impossible to shoot the same subject in the same way on two different days. You will always have variations. In my case today this even applied to something as banal as the detail of a washing machine! And I abandoned the washing machine shot, but I still might come back to it.
So what’s the moral of the story? Get the image while you can. You never know what the conditions will be like next time you revisit a location or subject!
I wonder if anyone can guess what the subject is in this image?
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3. June 2010 at 4:14 pm
Is it an inflatable toy?
3. June 2010 at 7:08 pm
Nope!
Any other guesses from anyone before the big mystery is revealed
3. June 2010 at 9:12 pm
A set of pencils?
3. June 2010 at 9:31 pm
I see what you see now Timo, but nope!
3. June 2010 at 9:37 pm
This image is actually a macro study of one our lamp shades (it’s from Le Klint who makes a certain style of lamp shades).
I had made a few images of it the first day of the project but my wife told me “it is too obvious it’s a lamp shade” so obviously she preferred a more abstract interpretation.
So I made a few macro studies and liked how they turned out. To me, of course, it’s still somewhat obvious what this is, but I’m actually pleased that it’s a lot more abstract to others (at least from the above two guesses).
Thanks Ingrid and Timo!