tychofelldown

PICT0221, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

My drive fell down and got unplugged when I was uploading, and during recovery I found a lot of messed up and oddly recropped photos that I LOVE yes I have mentioned this before.

flickrspam

PICT0350, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

Since getting people I adore watching my photostream, I've stopped just dumping whatever's in my archive or camera right onto flickr. There's a process now, but I miss just throwing up everything I shoot and getting weird snippets of nothing get 'wow' comments or favorites. A little surprise that's a reward for the good photographer habit of shooting everything a hundred times without ceasing.

UPDATE I still have the most fun when I have no idea what I'm doing

conser 02, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

I still want a big beautiful DSLR, which is still weird to me, since I spend most of my time totally destroying the high quality capture of what is literally before the camera. I like surprises, like this ridiculously overexposed roll of 400 used in a pinhole (NEVER put 400 in a pinhole during the day, I cannot stress this enough.)

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.