Multiple moonset failure

 

I like Picasa's photo editor, the cheesy focal black and white, and even the automatic multiple exposure.
It's paradoxical to want more control over fake multiple exposures, since there's very little control in a real multi-exposure using film.
I never want to delete any photo, the maxim still stands that putting garbage into a process means you'll get garbage out of it, but there's a versimilitude in using bad photos when going for an 'accidental' aesthetic.

Interview by Zeitguy

lyr 08, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38275128@N00/

1. Do you give much thought to how much your photo resembles something you have seen before, or think you have seen before?

Yes!

I start with a cliche like 'long exposures of water' and I learn how those work, making mistakes along the way, then I try to relate it to my experience, of those pretty misty long exposure water on the rocks shots, have I ever seen one of flooding around picnic tables? Of a duck pond with a sofa in it? So I usually go out to shoot with twin goals, pretty photos to emulate, and something I feel is lacking in most of those, otherwise I'm just not motivated enough to do it.

When cropping or not cropping I tend to think of movie formats, square frames for the intimate films of the 1950s, standard format for the hyperactive or grandiose forms of widescreen.

Back up fell down while uploading, spontaneously generated a gallery

 

peep eye again

PICT0003, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

Are your photos not looking ridiculous enough? Stick a tube over your lens, and put a five dollar apartment security peep eye on the end! Your automatic focus will do the rest.
I have for the moment abandoned the war against purple glare halos. I surrender.

Extreme hand held

DSC03578, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

This is an idea that can work, I swear. It almost does in this picture, I just don't like the computer screen and I'd like more diversity in the spacing of the fish, but it's kind of neat.
I realized that flash stencils don't require a tripod for the lighted image part of it to work, so they're a great way to get out that 'blurry nonsense' compulsion, when using a long exposure capable camera.