Lately i've been trying to look at things differently, gain new perspective. So i think thats what drove me to pop on my wide angle lens and distort the world for a little while. To see things i see everyday in another way. How often do we lean in close and really look at how the light falls on the small details of the forgotten pieces of life, things we pay no mind to, because they are always in our view. Thats also why i chose black and white. I wanted to focus on the light and shadow,the angles of view, shapes and contours.
Its that simplistic stuff they made you shoot in high school or college to force you to see the light, and what it does to your subject. I always hated those projects in college, the still-life of it anyway. I always felt i struggled with it because it bored me a little. There's no emotion in a coffee pot, or bowl of apples. I always preferred people or animals better, there's a life there, with feelings and emotions and they show them all to you if you can get that right moment. But still-life always felt like a whore of a subject to me back then, just sitting there while you do your thing, not really involved or adding anything of its own to the activity(in this case being photographed, didn't want you perverts getting too off track now).
Maybe i wasn't as enlightened then as i am now. I had more fun with it today than i ever really remember i ever did in college. Maybe thats because i wasn't trying to be artsy, like i felt i needed to in college, but just enjoying shooting just to shoot. Enjoying playing with the light or funny shapes, different perspectives, just an opportunity to get lost in that little rectangle.
I wandered the house, looking for light and shape and texture. Looking for the simple, sometimes even static compositions. Breaking rules just to break them, to see outside the boundaries in a way.
I still got kinda bored in the end. Its just not as high paced as i like. Still life is too slow,so to speak, for me. However i enjoyed slowing down for a small time, and i guess i got some fun shots out of it after all. The doorknob shot is one of my favs. probably cause i'm in it, ;P Well, I must be making dinner now...i wonder if meat-loaf is photogenic ....
Lately i've been trying to look at things differently, gain new perspective. So i think thats what drove me to pop on my wide angle lens and distort the world for a little while. To see things i see everyday in another way. How often do we lean in close and really look at how the light falls on the small details of the forgotten pieces of life, things we pay no mind to, because they are always in our view. Thats also why i chose black and white. I wanted to focus on the light and shadow,the angles of view, shapes and contours. 
Its that simplistic stuff they made you shoot in high school or college to force you to see the light, and what it does to your subject. I always hated those projects in college, the still-life of it anyway. I always felt i struggled with it because it bored me a little. There's no emotion in a coffee pot, or bowl of apples. I always preferred people or animals better, there's a life there, with feelings and emotions and they show them all to you if you can get that right moment. But still-life always felt like a whore of a subject to me back then, just sitting there while you do your thing, not really involved or adding anything of its own to the activity(in this case being photographed, didn't want you perverts getting too off track now). 
Maybe i wasn't as enlightened then as i am now. I had more fun with it today than i ever really remember i ever did in college. Maybe thats because i wasn't trying to be artsy, like i felt i needed to in college, but just enjoying shooting just to shoot. Enjoying playing with the light or funny shapes, different perspectives, just an opportunity to get lost in that little rectangle.
I wandered the house, looking for light and shape and texture. Looking for the simple, sometimes even static compositions. Breaking rules just to break them, to see outside the boundaries in a way. 
I still got kinda bored in the end. Its just not as high paced as i like. Still life is too slow,so to speak, for me. However i enjoyed slowing down for a small time, and i guess i got some fun shots out of it after all. The doorknob shot is one of my favs. probably cause i'm in it, ;P Well, I must be making dinner now...i wonder if meat-loaf is photogenic ....
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