Been here a million times and was looking around the old building wondering why i could never get a good comp out of the place and figured since it was full of graffiti, it deserved something different, camera graffiti. So i was a little bored with photography and decided to play around and came up with these. Most, probably wont like this stuff, but i tell you what, i sat here and took 400 pictures till it got dark and then used the lights from the 'burban and picked up the last one, which fittingly i called sewer rat for the graffitiest, not me but the guy who did it.
Yowzers! I'll have some of whatever you have been smokin'. These aren't really my cup of tea, but I like the 3rd one the best. Some of the graffiti seems to be hovering in a fog. Very ghostlike, and creative.
I don't know what you would ever do with these kind of images, but the creativity and open mindedness might just spark an idea that could be used towards a more "practical" type of photo. Number one example is Marc's condensation trick. I think he mentioned that he did it the first time almost by accident. I have played around lately with zoom and pan blurs with some success hoping to stumble upon something that we all haven't seen before. You never know what may come of experimentation and out of the box techniques. I say keep it up.
Posted by Marc Dilley on March 10, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Hmmm. The second and third ones, where you can easily recognize the source image, have promise. For what, I'm not sure, but they're quite interesting and the colors on all of them are fun to look at.
Posted by Cliff Dodge on March 13, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Thanks for the comments. I actually sold one of these too... guess who.....yep a teenager. Groovy man. :)
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9 repliesI don't know what you would ever do with these kind of images, but the creativity and open mindedness might just spark an idea that could be used towards a more "practical" type of photo. Number one example is Marc's condensation trick. I think he mentioned that he did it the first time almost by accident. I have played around lately with zoom and pan blurs with some success hoping to stumble upon something that we all haven't seen before. You never know what may come of experimentation and out of the box techniques. I say keep it up.