Frontierland, Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World
Big Thunder Across the Rivers of America
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5, 1/2000s, 24mm, f/8, ISO 400
Big Thunder Across the Rivers of America
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Always Catching Yellow
Monorail Monday – Always Catching Yellow
Future World, Epcot, Walt Disney World
Always Catching Yellow
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5, 1/400s, 46mm, f/9, ISO 200
Cloud 9
In January of this year I received an email through the contact form on this blog. It was from a graphic designer is Chicago who was searching the internet for an image of an empty parking lot. He stumbled upon an image of mine from this blog post – Relieving Parking Lot Boredom. More specifically he was interested in the last image of the post – From The Corner.
This graphic designer, Brian Maher, BZA, was working on an album cover for an independent producer and was hoping I would allow him to use my image. I can honestly say that I was immediately overwhelmed by the thought that an image I had taken, one that was from the beginning of this photography journey would even be considered for something like this. Of course, the next thought to enter my mind was why not an image I considered one of my best? But I do not need to bore you with the internal machinations of my mind.
I had some serious thinking to do about this request. It was actually a really good thing. It forced me to evaluate why I do this photography thing. What am I after? What are my goals? In the end I realized that I do this picture taking thing for me. I love that other people enjoy my images. And don’t get me wrong, when an image on Flickr makes it to explore and the LIKE count goes through the roof, my ego follows.
Part of my decision process also considered the effort Mr. Maher put forth to contact me. To explain what he wanted to do and was willing to move on if I decided to not allow him the use of my image. He went above and beyond, I respect that. I allowed the use of my image only asking for credit and a link back to my blog. I didn’t give it another thought until today…
I received an email from Brian. He did end up using my image which you can see here – MANIK Nightfall. I really like what he did to the image. It is not unlike some of the manipulations I do of my own images to create the picture I see in my head. And I won’t lie… it is really cool that this is from one of my images!
If you can’t tell… I have been floating all day on cloud nine!
Full Moon Over Japan Pavilion
World Showcase, Epcot, Walt Disney World
Full Moon Over Japan Pavilion
Nikon D5100, Tokina 12-28mm f/4, 122s, 12mm, f/11, ISO 200
Height Check
In The Shop – ITS16
Height Check
Nikon D7100, Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5, 1/100s, 48mm, f/4.5, ISO 3200
Bolt Heads
In The Shop – ITS15
This is another image from my shop wandering while looking for lines. I envisioned something different when I was taking this image so I didn’t include it in the exercise. I played around with onOne Software’s Perfect Effects 9 last night and this crazy image popped out. I included the original file (normal adjustments in Lightroom) to let you know what I started with…
Bolt Heads
Nikon D7100, Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5, 1/125s, 85mm, f/4.5, ISO 400
Bolt Heads – Original
Nikon D7100, Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5, 1/125s, 85mm, f/4.5, ISO 400
Lines 5 – Redo
Creative Project – Lines
A friend at work suggested a rework of the 5th image in the Creative Project – Lines post. He is more of a naturalist than I am and really enjoyed the look of the wood grains and textures. He was interested in a more natural wood look and possibly less centered and straight for the composition. I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see if he likes this version better…
Creative Projects – Lines
Creative Projects
A few years ago I found a book on minimalism by Steve Johnson titled The Minimalist Photographer. I was fully involved in Google+ and contributing to quite a lot of the daily themes at the time. I have spoken here before about my fascination with abstract and minimal photography so this book felt right at home for me. The book was a great read and further encouraged by dive into those genres of photography. I didn’t hesitate to sign up for emails from Steve’s blog.
Although it was an older post of the blog the subject of the recent email was Circles and Dot and Getting Out of Ruts. I was completely won over by the method of over coming a photographic rut. I’m not positive I am in a complete rut, I might more attribute this phase to the long winter, but either way it inspired me to approach my lunch time wanders in the shop in a new way.
Today I chose to specifically look for images with lines. I wasn’t going to look for my next image to print and frame but more to exercise my eye and find the images in simple objects. I also applied the similar method as described in the post and only allowed myself a couple of minutes for processing on each image. To remove any distractions I processed each as monochrome. Let me know what you think…
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