Still loving the style and effect you're creating Anton, do you have a Market for these at all? The images you're producing are very saleable in my opinion
Thanks very much. I'm not sure there is a market, though I have never pursued looking for one - its for personal pleasure. Though I can imagine some people would like them hanging on a wall, I don't think I'm comfortable enough to go down that path yet.
I've been thinking of doing something similar to this but with a night time city environment instead of a landscape. The first really does remind me of some darkroom stuff I did way back, moving the print around during development time and doing a lot of funky dodge 'n burn!
I like the style a lot, I like to see imperfect photography when it's on purpose. It's always a refreshing change. My only concern is it's so easy to pump out a ton of work these days it would start to loose it's appeal quite quickly, so for me if I were doing this each shot would have to be rather special. Have you seen Tony Sweet's work? he does some nice abstracts now and then, uses a soft filter of some sorts, which could help you to reduce sharp edges?
Always great to get comments like this. I would love to be able to try out this sort of thing on film but whilst travelling its a little hard to start demanding hobbies like darkroom processing - though not impossible. I had a look at Tony Sweet but didn't know where to look for the shots you were describing. In regards to the soft filter, the shots seem to come out soft enough with the technique, and I actually intentionally over-sharpen them in post since I like the scratchy effect that is left behind on textures that reflected light strongly. In regards to workflow, I'll comment on that below...
I think the only problem with the style is that a lot of images can be very samey and it needs constant work to produce something new and distinct (but thats probably true of all landscape work).
This is very true, and I have managed to see in some of my last sets that some of the images so end up looking a little similar, but that is down to subject, technique and processing. I have tried to mix it up a little each time I have went out and I do see variety. Fun fact: for the first shot, I actually fell backwards while taking the exposure. You see how the board path has double-exposed? I tripped over. For me, right now, its incredibly inspirational to see some of my work come out like this as well as the refreshing change from standard photography, so I'm keen to keep getting out there and trying new things just to see what happens. But I respected very much about comparing that to regular landscapes - its very true, at least in my experience. But as you said, it needs "constant work". I might not be able to put that in every week, but over time, I am. I think the reward is more that justifying.
apologies at having missed previous posts.........
Just what are they off, and what technique has been applied?
I a struggling to get my head around it.... to me it looks like you've set focus at 1m on manual and then shot a blurry landscape........ sorry but at the moment, I am not getting it.
You're trying to "get" it, that's the problem. I don't mean to sound pretentious. I was getting a little fed up of taking photographs and having people comment on exposure, light, filters, processing, sharpening, contrast, tones, curves... all of that which really detracts on what the photograph is supposed to be about. I understand this is a photography forum and with it is supposed to come some kind of a learning curve - I know I certainly learned things from here. But this isn't a technical exercise to demonstrate prowess... simply look, and if you like it, you like it. The technique is camera movement, and are of landscapes. Its supposed it be evocative. If it evokes nothing in you, then look at something else that does.
