Bleagh!
Today was not a good day for me photography wise. Everything else was fine I just didn't have the patience to focus and take a decent picture. Although I really like how this one finally turned out :-) it is nothing like my original idea for today :-(
I discovered something about myself today - I don't like being pressured for time, not when I have a very specific idea anyway. Also, if I am not careful and I come back from a location shoot without anything I am particularly happy with then I also, maybe, sort of have a tendency to get frustrated with and stop paying attention to the details of a scene such as; will this lighting be conducive to taking portraits at this time of day? - you know, kind of important stuff and then would subsequently become even more exasperated when these new shots were not working straight away. Grrrr..... Or maybe I was just in a crappy mood today and am still trying to deny it to myself.
Anyway, this image was really interesting to create. It was like an exercise in year 9 physics. I knew that there must me a method of taking a portrait using a mirror without seeing the camera in the shot - reflective angle and all that - but I had never given it a try. So, I figured I'd just use trial and error to figure it out. Whilst it appears in this photo (to me anyway) that I am looking at myself in the mirror and seeing the same image you're seeing, the angle if the mirror is actually such that if I were to look directly in the centre of it I would see the lens of my camera and to create an image that looked like the one above I had to "fly blind" so to speak and focus my gaze in completely random places ( click on the photo to go to the Flickr website and scroll over the notes on the photo to see where my gaze ended up landing).
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Photo taken in my bathroom using a mixture of ambient lights
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My original idea, the one that got crushed, had me running down a hill at our local park only I knew when I started out that I wouldn't have much time (maybe 10 minutes?) and on top of that I conveniently forgot how allergic I am to the particular type of grass at this park (oops :-S). So running down the hill barefoot during bindi season after a wave of warm weather that had succeeded in giving the grass that nice (sarcasm warning) crunchy feeling turned out not to be such a good idea and after a few unsuccessful tries I was reluctant to reframe and go for another round... if you know what I mean. o_0
Nevertheless I'm still quite partial to the idea so I do think I'll give it another go... when I have lots of time... and maybe after a month or so of heavy rainfall :-P
No one can ever say I didn't suffer for my art!
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Photo taken using plain old afternoon sunlight
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There were a few other concepts attempted today, but as I said, I was in a mood by that point in time (which I like to think is rare for me) and if it wasn't working I was quicker to scrap it and move on to a new something than I was to make the necessary adjustments to make it work.
I like the half passion you have for your art. Both photos are good . Park cute .bathroom my favourite :)
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