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Contrastes Urbanos By Salvador González-Barba https://flic.kr/p/2rBPkrg

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© Landscape with Figure, circa 1908, by Clarence H. White (1871 - 1925)

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Monday’s Photography Inspiration - Henry Peach Robinson

Born on July 9, 1830, in Ludlow, England, Henry Peach Robinson would emerge as a pioneering figure in the realm of photography, leaving an indelible mark on the medium through his innovative techniques and artistic vision. From an early age, he exhibited a keen interest in the visual arts, with a particular fascination for the emerging field of photography. His journey into this realm began when…

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Looking for Light - A Journey

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When given the task brief “Looking for Light A Journey” I took immediate inspiration from one of the photos by Todd Hido used as an example in the brief. The photo featured a room of a house without any furniture, very bare, with the warm light of a sun rise or sunset filling the back wall stuck in my mind. Looking at the image I felt a sense of something missing and absence about it. The absence of people, existence, furniture and life and the wonder as to the cause of the absence.

I wanted to find a space where I could capture this mood as well as capture a similar light coming through the window. A feeling of warmth, cold, history, emptiness and abandonment. Also I wanted to capture depth and detail in the images using long exposures with the lens focal setting at a medium or high f number. The location I found was an abandoned farming croft house tucked away in the hills behind Dingwall. I came across this croft house a few years ago while on a little walk. The condition of the croft was pretty interesting as it was still fairly intact, showing signs of its former inhabitation. It even still had old wall paper clinging onto the walls in the living room. But there were still large signs of deterioration within, wallpaper rotting, floor boards missing, back wall in the kitchen area partially collapsed. But it still felt like it could have been inhabited within living memory.

 The first image I had set was of the fireplace in the living area. I arrived around 3pm as the sun was about to set under the hills to the west. Golden light was pouring through the south facing window and on to the fireplace.  Rather appt for the fireplace to vast in the warm glow. I set my camera on a tripod in the back corner of the living room. Lens focal length set to f/ 8, ISO 100 and exposure length between 2 and 3 seconds. I took several versions, some in landscape and some in portrait. Very pleased with the final results and would need very minimal adjustments in post-production optimizations.

Second images I wanted to have a colder, lonelier feel. This featured the door of the living room leading out to the corridor and the boarded-up front entrance to the croft with light peering in between the door panels.  Camera still on the tripod, repositioned next to the front wall of the living room facing out into the corridor. Camera settings still the same as before to capture the deteriorate details of the house.

Third and final images was to be an exterior image looking towards the croft. By this time the sun had gone down, darkness was creeping in. I wanted this image to look like the ghosts of the past still inhabited by having light emanating from the living room. I set up and torch in the fireplace and a large candle in the window. This shot was still rather tricky to achieve as I only had the one lens with me and I had to move away a fair distance to fit it into the frame. Camera settings were the same, but this image required a bit more optimizing in post to get the atmosphere I really desired with the warm orange light coming out of the living room window.

 I am very happy with what I was able to achieve with this shoot. I think the colours are rich, the images are dripping with a moody atmosphere, the light in each one gives off a different vibe.  

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