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Tar Dance

popum

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This is one of the nicest examples of abstract photography that I've seen in quite a while. Please tell us more about how you made the shots.

Mike
 

Godfrey

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Thanks for looking, Mike and Diane!

This is one of the nicest examples of abstract photography that I've seen in quite a while. Please tell us more about how you made the shots.
Well, there's not much to tell. I'm working with a bunch of very outdated film and seeing what I can get from it. I set the camera to f/2.8 or f/4, set the EV compensation to +1.5, and go looking for photo ops. Film is processed at the local lab and scanned on a Nikon LS-IV. At first I was looking to do B&Ws, but I was playing with some ideas inspired by Japanese calligraphy (good call, Diane! ;-) and liked what happened with a color rendering more. They're full frame, no cropping, and a kind of "inverted vignette" or beveled edge effect happened when I made a mistake on some settings. I liked it and developed it a little further.

Most of it was seeing these things and then abstracting them into the seemings of language ... then I saw the dance which made the title of the set and the names.

I made a couple of them into hand-printed notecards ... they really look nice printed on a heavy, slightly coarse textured paper. I'll be offering them as part of a two or three movement folio set, or as a boxed set of hand-made notecards.
 
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