tell me again why i can’t make a living making pictures? what the hell.

I had a great night the night we made this. And I think if life could feel like that more I wouldn’t have this river of anger pouring through my gut. I wouldn’t seeth like i do.

sometimes you just need to just let it suck and figure out a better way next time.

back before everything went to shit. before the problems, complications and illnesses (my own and others), I walked for a time on a sunny summer afternoon with my mom. we followed the river’s edge circling around, ultimately, to a sports and recreation center which you see above as the small corner of human input.

using my uber wide 12-24mm again i think i was able to disjoint the sky some. make the angles awkward. capture the spatter of my favorite kind of clouds and in converting it to black and white further simplified the point. which, for me, is the play of light and dark.

but then, that’s always the point for me.

this shot came early in the day, within a half hour of us getting started and I still hadn’t really worked out my lighting (or the top of her head would be lit better) and I was using my 12-24mm @ about 16mm i think. But what it speaks to is what a natural kara is. Her understanding of the smallest details makes even a very simple–and completely organically arrived at–shot interesting. It’s in the bend of the legs, and the arm down the back. you can’t teach that and it’s a lot of work to try to instruct a model to positions like this.

the color setup and wide angle don’t hurt either.

ps. these photo discussion posts will eventually be moved over to my photo site, but for now..