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little_tippler · 09-13-2006, 02:47 PM

I've never posted here before, so here goes. A while back I was experimenting with my camera and made these photos. They relate pretty closely (IMO) to my art work (you can see some of it in Tilted Artwork if you're interested). Maybe one of the mods would prefer this to go in that forum? Feel free to move this of course.

The shots are blurred because I moved the camera, and it is an effect that interests me because it creates parallel realities to what is actually directly there. In terms of art work I like it because it's something attractive but not something you can "capture" as it were, blurriness gives a sense of warmth but you can't exactly describe what it is, "name it" so to speak. I also like to show some of what is really present but also then obscure/hide some of it, adding to an attractive confusion of sorts. There is also a fragility and delicateness that comes from the blurring and movement.

I also found that by moving my digital camera in specific ways and with specific lighting I could get quite clear double or triple images. These shots are all taken by myself of myself, with natural or ambient lighting and with no gimmicks or posterior "photoshopping".

I just wanted to post some of these to get feedback on what you think of these "effects" and if anyone has other curious shots of their own to share, I'd love to see and comment on them also. Thanks!

09-13-2006, 02:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
little_tippler Leaning against the -Sun- Super Moderator Location: on the other side	Natural but interesting effects obtained in photographs I've never posted here before, so here goes. A while back I was experimenting with my camera and made these photos. They relate pretty closely (IMO) to my art work (you can see some of it in Tilted Artwork if you're interested). Maybe one of the mods would prefer this to go in that forum? Feel free to move this of course. The shots are blurred because I moved the camera, and it is an effect that interests me because it creates parallel realities to what is actually directly there. In terms of art work I like it because it's something attractive but not something you can "capture" as it were, blurriness gives a sense of warmth but you can't exactly describe what it is, "name it" so to speak. I also like to show some of what is really present but also then obscure/hide some of it, adding to an attractive confusion of sorts. There is also a fragility and delicateness that comes from the blurring and movement. I also found that by moving my digital camera in specific ways and with specific lighting I could get quite clear double or triple images. These shots are all taken by myself of myself, with natural or ambient lighting and with no gimmicks or posterior "photoshopping". I just wanted to post some of these to get feedback on what you think of these "effects" and if anyone has other curious shots of their own to share, I'd love to see and comment on them also. Thanks! __________________ Whether we write or speak or do but look We are ever unapparent. What we are Cannot be transfused into word or book. Our soul from us is infinitely far. However much we give our thoughts the will To be our soul and gesture it abroad, Our hearts are incommunicable still. In what we show ourselves we are ignored. The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged By any skill of thought or trick of seeming. Unto our very selves we are abridged When we would utter to our thought our being. We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams, And each to each other dreams of others' dreams. Fernando Pessoa, 1918