Tag: Abstract

Rust and Gray Paint

Rust and Gray Paint

This is a section of rusty metal on the WWI shore batteries. I thought it was an interesting pattern. I took this with my first digital camera, an Olympus E-10 back in 2002. I’m pretty impressed that the quality is as good as it is. If you increase the zoom to 300% it falls apart and just isn’t usable. But at this size, it looks pretty good. This was taken at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, while I was visiting for the day. I was living in Olympia at the time … it was another 15 years or so before I moved here. Another reminder why I like it this much here.

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Camera Movement Part A

Camera Movement 1

I recently had the pleasure to take a photography course taught by Brian Goodman at the Northwind School of Art here in Port Townsend. Brian does a lot of wonderful documentary images of people and places, but he is also quite gifted at abstract images that use camera movement (both in camera and using Photoshop filters). These are two I took of a hillside right after the first class session. Out of the camera, the images were just faint blurs … but increasing color contrasts and texture settings in Lightroom created the feeling I was trying to achieve. (no use of Photoshop … strictly in camera movement and Lightroom exposure adjustments)

Camera Movement 2
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Abstract Double Exposure

Abstract Double Exposure

I have been trying out various film cameras to find some I like. They are cheaper now than they were when new … but more expensive than several years ago, as film is making a comeback. This shot was one where I removed a roll of film that I hadn’t started, but was loaded in a camera that I had decided to return (it was a Nikon F6 … a beautiful rugged beast of a camera, but just too heavy). When I loaded it into the ‘new’ camera (a Nikon F100) it wasn’t synced up exactly right and I ended up with a partial double exposure. I thought it was an interesting abstract ‘still life’.

I decided to keep the F100 … it was one of the last film cameras that Nikon made … and was fully automatic, with full compatibility with current lenses. The other 35mm camera I decided to keep was the Nikon FM3a … a fully manual camera (with built in light meter). It’s much lighter weight… but won’t accept current lenses.

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