Grainy Flowers
May 23rd, 2004 byI pushed my digital camera to the extreme range of it’s sensitivity the other day while taking photos on Mt. Pisgah. The results weren’t spectacular as I wasn’t spending much time on composition, the light was low (although colorful) and I wasn’t working with a tripod. But the results were promising enough to make me want to head back to play around with it again. Grainy, gritty and full of a short range kind of contrast that I actually quite like.
I think I have to put myself though some self assignments and get out of my journalistic straight-shooting frame of mind. I’ve always been a straight shooter; sharp, clear, good exposure. When I’ve made deviations from straight shots it’s always been so extreme that it’s obvious that it’s a “illustration”. Maybe now it’s time to just play around and have a bit of fun, give my camera a workout and see what it (an myself) can do. To see what kind of IMAGES I can create or find. You know, pay a little more attention to things like form, line, texture, contrast, color rather than content. I guess even in my drawing I’ve been very much a realist. Or when not a realist my drawings have been very idea driven. And maybe my range has been limited in that I haven’t developed my sense of pure form. Hmmm.
Anyways. I had fun shooting the other day, and for the first time in a while I came home and was actually surprised a bit by what I found in the images. So that’s good and I think I’m just going to roll with that for a bit. 
The image with this entry isn’t really all that clear because of the conversion process I use for this site when I upload images. I’ll post more and better conversions soon.