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Oh my god! Several of these have a very different look to them. The oily kind of surface is really intriguing. I just love the colors and light. I still really want to see what these look like really big! I like the new softer ones that are similar to others you've done in the past as well. They are a nice contrast to the edgier and more geometric ones. Really beautiful!
Oh brother, I didn't even see your little blurb at the top of the post where you mention that these are bubbles. I was still thinking "ice". But that's a good point--they work very well together, don't they?
Yeah, the softer ones are my favorites too but I cant help but want to star forever at those little ghost looking shapes that formed in the oily spots. It was so much fun shooting these but also very limited. There wasnt a ton of variety on the types of shots I got so its my guess these will be my only bubble shots.
Im trying to find new ways of getting similar types of abstracts but its hard. I was hold the camera while Ryan drove home from Stacy's wedding and got some really cool light shots. They feel very abstract to me too. Im really not at all sure yet what it is about abstracts that I find so attractive but I think its because they are, and arent, what they are in their original state. A bubble becomes something more in abstract. Its a world with people and homes and everything. Same with the ice and now the night time crazy shots of the lights. I have dragons and aliens standing in line for a roller coaster and fire over water and all sorts of things, but they are still just lights, here on Earth even. It just fascinates the hell out of me that everything you can take a picture of, which is everything you cant point your camera at, is what it is before, during and after you shoot it but it also so much more when the photograph is viewed. Shit, does that even make sense?
Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. And it's different for each of us--well, those of us with any imagination, I guess. Could you imagine NOT being able to consider the things you mentioned? What a drag that would be. How sad life would be without that kind of thinking and seeing. Oh, and as for the oily thing--I had seen something on TV about why we get the rainbow colors in a thin slick like that. It has to do with a substance being stretched very very thinly. For some reason, it causes the rainbow effect. I can't remember why that is, but if you notice, the colors on the surface of a bubble are at their most vibrant just before it bursts. A scientist once told me that he was working on an experiment where he had to slice sections of something and the slices were so thin, they did this. They were for viewing under a microscope. So, for me, when I see the bubble colors, fragility comes into play too. Yet another level of thinking....
BTW, I added some random studio shots from last semester to my blog. There's one of Evil Scott that always makes me want to laugh. Poor Scott.
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Oh my god! Several of these have a very different look to them. The oily kind of surface is really intriguing. I just love the colors and light. I still really want to see what these look like really big! I like the new softer ones that are similar to others you've done in the past as well. They are a nice contrast to the edgier and more geometric ones. Really beautiful!
From the looks of it, I used the word "really" at least four times in that post. Apparently, I was really excited to see them--haha.
Oh brother, I didn't even see your little blurb at the top of the post where you mention that these are bubbles. I was still thinking "ice". But that's a good point--they work very well together, don't they?
Yeah, the softer ones are my favorites too but I cant help but want to star forever at those little ghost looking shapes that formed in the oily spots. It was so much fun shooting these but also very limited. There wasnt a ton of variety on the types of shots I got so its my guess these will be my only bubble shots.
Im trying to find new ways of getting similar types of abstracts but its hard. I was hold the camera while Ryan drove home from Stacy's wedding and got some really cool light shots. They feel very abstract to me too. Im really not at all sure yet what it is about abstracts that I find so attractive but I think its because they are, and arent, what they are in their original state. A bubble becomes something more in abstract. Its a world with people and homes and everything. Same with the ice and now the night time crazy shots of the lights. I have dragons and aliens standing in line for a roller coaster and fire over water and all sorts of things, but they are still just lights, here on Earth even. It just fascinates the hell out of me that everything you can take a picture of, which is everything you cant point your camera at, is what it is before, during and after you shoot it but it also so much more when the photograph is viewed. Shit, does that even make sense?
Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. And it's different for each of us--well, those of us with any imagination, I guess. Could you imagine NOT being able to consider the things you mentioned? What a drag that would be. How sad life would be without that kind of thinking and seeing. Oh, and as for the oily thing--I had seen something on TV about why we get the rainbow colors in a thin slick like that. It has to do with a substance being stretched very very thinly. For some reason, it causes the rainbow effect. I can't remember why that is, but if you notice, the colors on the surface of a bubble are at their most vibrant just before it bursts. A scientist once told me that he was working on an experiment where he had to slice sections of something and the slices were so thin, they did this. They were for viewing under a microscope. So, for me, when I see the bubble colors, fragility comes into play too. Yet another level of thinking....
BTW, I added some random studio shots from last semester to my blog. There's one of Evil Scott that always makes me want to laugh. Poor Scott.
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