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When I took this picture the other night, I was irritated that I screwed up the focus again, but I vaguely remembering thinking, i bet i'll love that one the most though. I took a few more and got what I wanted, but it looks so... sterile, and crewdson. Its almost too cinematic.
It was bizzare to watch this storm roll in. First of all, we're in the middle of a construction zone cabin, where planks are everywhere, and we're sitting in lawn chairs. The deck is framed out for screens, but there aren't any, so the wind whipped along the deck. It rocked the camera back and forth during the long exposures. A bunch of them were blurry.
I've never been able to photograph "lightning" since that fluke that happened the first semester I took photography at Elon in 2000. Saturday night, the sky was crazy with lightning, it never went dark, there was always some light somewhere in the sky.
So out of the two, why would I like this one more? Its out of focus, and blurry, and looks like every other kid's lame experimentation in photoshop. cool, filters.
Maybe its from working with albumen a few years ago. Its like for me, for just a second, this little digital image gets texture and feels dense, the shadow of a the tree feels slippery and full of silver, totally covering the tooth of the paper.
Doesn't this remind you of a scene in a horror movie? It seems like overly dramatic cinema lighting, i guess exactly like crewdson. So which do you prefer? I guess its kinda a toss up, to think they were taken back to back, but look so different, all I did was twist the focus from one extreme to the other.