The complexity by which we navigate each focal plane, creating a story told through the blending of the lens can be something somewhat unbridled and spiritually moving. In approaching the capture of light this way, it has created a much more technically challenging and difficult setting in order to capture shots the way I wish to see them.Īllowing your eyes to revel upon the majesty of the land and bringing many compound subjects into a scene that leads the eye, all while creating leading lines that draw you into the scene with multiple focals, it seems that much of what I do in the digital darkroom tends to break many of the rules in traditional forms of art expression. Which has largely made my work much more intense and very focused on getting exactly the light that I am looking for. As we are ever evolving and changing the way that we perceive our surroundings, the digital darkroom has allowed us as creators and artisans to push the envelope as to what we had captured in the moment and transform that moment into our version and interpretation of the moment that we had experienced as a visual masterpiece. During earlier times, it was an art itself to simply expose your photo properly, however, now the artistry comes in the form of capturing light over a given landscape in a way that evokes emotion and a connection to the light and the land. Technology has easily bridged many gaps and in some ways has made the actual taking of the photo quite simple. Yet the one thing that remains the same is that capturing the right light no matter your chosen workflow, remains absolutely critical in order for the finished vision to reveal itself. These moments truly exemplified incredible landscape photography to me and then there were other times which I had developed multiple rolls only to find out I had contaminated the film and beautiful shots were ruined with light leaks! Then fast forward up to the present time and my workflow is much significantly changed. The rewards of capturing that special moment just right were absolutely critical in those days! I can recall times developing film where I would see an image and be blown away by the magic of the moment and that I had caught it just right. Oftentimes, you would have to do some really on the fly guess work on metering your light quickly before the moment was gone as I can recall many times where I simply missed the moment attempting to try to capture light and, in the process, missed an image simply because I didn’t get the settings right. Back in those days, you really had no idea of how these images would come back looking like. Much of my youth was spent traveling abroad to places and destinations where I was taught to capture light. I was born into a time where photography was fairly accessible to most of us quite readily.
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