Capturing the Hydrangea for the Second Time

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Over at “The Online Photographer”, Michael Johnston has been writing about artistic and technical style. I certainly have a technical style of working that I adapted from George DeWolfe’s writings. I take the image to monochrome and create the best image that I can without the distraction of color. The I bring the saturation back up as high as I can stand. It creates high contrast images, both in the tonal contrast and in color contrast. My artistic problem is that I have abandoned subject matter. It’s about light and objects for me at this point. It’s the response of the medium. It’s a modernist approach that’s not particularly photographic.

As the temperatures drop and the sun stays lower in the sky during the day, I find the light more inspiring. I’m picking up the camera more now. I’m hoping to do a portfolio review from the last year’s work and set some direction for the coming year. I’m beginning to feel like I’m narrowing in on subject and stye, with these selective focus compositions at one end and the empty suburban/city scenes on the other. There will always be the flat abstracts, but I don’t feel I’m getting anywhere with them.

Author: James Vornov

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