Inspired
I guess I needed the moment of self reflection, of doubt, to get new insights and ideas. It certainly brings a feeling of comfort to realize you go through this moment of pause, a loss of creativity too, to be and get insprired again.
These photographs are from a small outtake just last Sunday while mountainbiking.
All photographs by Wouter Brandsma
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Tags: B&W, creativity, GX200, inspiration, joy, Photography, Ricoh, Ricoh GX200, thank you
Inspiration(?)
Somehow this month felt like a typical winter to me, despite the availability of light. I think my photography sucks this month, I feel uninspired and have no creativity. And I have hardly been photographing too. Maybe I need a project, theme, or subject to be focused on. So maybe, maybe, do you have an idea for me, do you?
I thought this Olympus PEN story in stop motion was very inspiring.
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Tags: inspiration, Photography, stop motion, Video
Experimenting
Alright, I am a black and white photographer. It is what I prefer and how I often do see things. It helps me structure the mess of colors you often see. On the street you don’t have the opportunity to dress people up, to change the background. The color palet in urban areas is often very diverse and colors do not always complement each other.
I really want to experiment with colors though, but I do like to restrict myself to a more complementary color palet. And that is something not often seen in photography in my opinion. For a painter or in cinematography it is very normal to restrict the colors to a small palet of destinctive colors. I have done so too in the past when I did some motion graphics for a couple of corporate and promotion films being restricted by the identy of the companies. And maybe it is just me, but somehow I do like using applications like Adobe After Effects, Autodesk Combustion, and plugins like Colorista and Magic Bullet Looks from Red Giant Software. Yes, Photoshop is very powerful and can do all that too. But somehow these digital video tools are so effective for color correction and color grading.
So instead of using Photoshop or Lightroom I used the Looksbuilder application for the Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks plugin to edit both photographs. For these photographs I had a color scheme that can often be seen in movies nowadays. It is a color scheme based on complementary colors with teal colored and desaturated shadows and and more orange like highlights.
All photographs by Wouter Brandsma
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Tags: color, complementary colors, movie look, orange, Photography, teal
On June 19 Chase Jarvis posted that he wanted to give away his iPhone asking his viewers to post their cell phone photographs to his facebook fan page. More than 3,500 photographs were submitted within a week! And yesterday he picked his favorite photograph from the submittions and made somebody a lucky person. He also created a gallery of his favorite one hundred photographs (including mine). Pretty incredible stuff and very inspiring too.
More cell phone photography was mentioned at the Lens Blog of the New York Times. This is the work of photojournalist Shawn Rocco who is probably one of the most prominent cell phone photographers around. He also posted an interesting article about editing his cell phone photographs in Photoshop. I am stunned how powerful his photography is.
In between I posted some cell phone photographs I took this night with a Nokia N95 while mountainbiking.
All photographs by Wouter Brandsma
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Tags: B&W, cell phone, Chase Jarvis, N95, Nokia, Nokia N95, Photography, power, Shawn Rocco
Kodak retires Kodachrome
Eastman Kodak is retiring its Kodachrome color slide film after 74 years. I used to photograph mostly with slide film, including Kodachrome 64, and this news kind of saddens me. Yes, progress is unavoidable and often great, but loosing things that were of historic significance is sad too. See here a story and gallery at the Lens photoblog of New York Times.
Photograph by Wouter Brandsma
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Tags: 74 year, end, Kodachrome, Kodak, retire, slide, slide film
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