yes I feel like a small Lego man in the middle of a big space, slightly batter and mis-matched.
After what has to have been one of th longest working weeks in a long time, about fifteen hours a day I shot this late last night. Originally the it was no more than an abosult desire that having given so much to my employers and very little to my phohography that I had to do something for me.
I couldn't be bothered with too much 'fafing' around so I set the camera to manually, droped the internal flash power to 1/16 and shot a couple of frames, my 50mm f1.8 is very forgiving and great quality.
Once I opened the files in RAW converter it struke me than the small figure on the screen physically represented my my mental state and possibly my physical one too. Stubble check, looking and feeling battered and beaten check, stuck in the middle of a big space with no idea which way to turn check, slightly mis-matched and ill at ease with with my self check.
I know this is starting to look like a really unhappy blog, but then I I cropped the image and got things into perspective, I tweeked the levels and boosted the colour curves and finished by sharpening things up.
Hey presto things are looking a lot brighter, sharper and balanced.
Once I'd uploaded him to Flickr and opened him up to the world I felt a great sense of achievment, I took a look at some old images and realised that my work had most deffinately got better over the past year, I looked at my contact pics and commented on thier work and felt like part of the community again.
I'm going out this afternoon with my mum and my kids to the beach and as well as having loads of fun, ice ceam in the cold I will take at least one great picture.
So whats my point, well no matter how bad things look, how much time you've given to those things you have to do or how little time you've spent on your photography.
One image, one vist to Flickr or one positive comment made can turn things around.
Enjoy and keep smiling.
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