This video is a product of playing. Whenever I record guitar playing it is all just exploration. I never have a plan in mind. I ended up with this brief piece which I thought of as loping. I then wanted to create some kind of video that would accompany it. I wasn’t sure what it would be, but eventually realized it should be in slow-motion. Fortunately the iPhone handles that very well, so I set up the phone on a tripod and walked away.
Seeing as it is cold, and grey outside, I thought I’d stay inside and experiment with some still life/lighting. I used light from a window, a reading lamp, and my iPad on a white screen turned up as bright as it can go.
Black beans
Nuts
I’m sharing two pictures for this week’s Create2020 project entry. I’m sharing two because while they are very different they both draw me in.
With the first one I was out after a trace bit of snow and noticed the pattern on the ground and took a quick shot. It was one of those, I don’t really know if there is something here or not. I mean, it is just the ground. But I like it, and I don’t particularly know why.
This 2nd pic is obviously much more dramatic. It’s dramatic in part because I made it so with my image processing. I’m still coming to terms with my role in “making” a picture. There is part of me that wants “natural” pictures without my making it unnatural, but especially with digital photography me and my choices are a very active part of what makes for a picture. I’m not crazy about “hyper-real” pictures with all the colors and light so over -process that the pictures looks amazing and nothing like real life, I think the black and white and high contrast emphasizes strain and forces.
When talking with my spiritual director about Create being my word for 2020 and my need to devote more energy to creating things I said - I really want to create things that cause me, and other, to stop and reflect. Things that draw people inward. So, I guess that’s a bit of a mission statement for my creative endeavors. So, I will strive to post one creation each Friday preferably created that week. (This picture, however, is from late Nov. but it is one of my faves from last year.)
This is what I’ve been given – so what do I do with it? It’s just all messy and brown, and the sky is usually grey, and the sounds are few. This does not make for captivating video.
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