Room for Rent (and other stuff)

[F.Gordon]

Nuttin' special. I've been spending more time readin' than snappin' lately so I grabbed this filmsie snap I took in January and played with it a bit. Just trying to learn some stuff so when a snap like this presents itself in the future I can do a better job... hopefully. :eyes:

Next is a little quote I grabbed from a mag I recently picked up. I liked it because it kinda’ sums up my own personal approach to this whole pixie dust thing.

“I confess to making photographs for my own enjoyment; and consider myself as the audience.”

What else? Ordered a new camera. Now I have to setup a darkroom in the Dead Spider Gallery. Really anxious to try this out. Also, one day last week I tried to spend a few hours snappin’ but there was like 400 mile an hour winds so I chucked the whole thing. Went looking for a Camera Store I heard of and found it. Shock of shock this place actually had everything I was wanting/looking for. I picked up a penile implant for the zooms, a HD4 filter, and they actually stocked Fuji Velvia 50 and 100 film so I picked up a few rolls.

And finally, if you’re still with me here. This is an excerpt from a series of photography essays written in 1941. It deals with the subject of “space”.

Space
Page 1,540.

To any of the space arts, space is all important. The photograph as a pictorial organization of space is itself in space. The size (space) of the photograph as we hold it in our hand or look up at it on a wall at a distance (space), affects our feeling about it.

Our lifetimes’ experience in seeing things and moving among things in space has given us instinctive reactions. How we think of space and what we do with it in our pictures basically conditions the esthetic result. First there is the objective aspect of space in reality. In this sense space establishes dimensions, position, and direction. It is the receptacle for objects. But the photographic image of natural objects in space at once involves our whole subjective experience, gradually acquired by seeing, touching, moving, liking, disliking.

As photographers, we employ space as the theater of the forms within our pictures. We use space further as the passive interval necessary to rest the eye between the dramatic onslaughts of these forms. We can create the emotion or meaning which we want our beholders to experience from space and its forms, by controlling lighting, camera angle, proportion, and all the other pictorial factors.

Every object, event, or scene has its life in space, and its characteristic gesture or set-up. Space is psychological as well as physical. A child’s smile seems to radiate in space. To dramatize a character you hate, you constrict space; to evoke serenity in a landscape, you harmoniously enlarge space. Space can be made to push, pull, oppress, exhilarate, separate, or condense forms. Proportion, tonal depth, and modulation make this happen.

The lighting of space is a vast subject. To light all over, to light in zones, to light for texture or to subordinate texture, to light in order to throw objects into strong relief or to make objects merge from space -- these are a few possibilities. The function of space is the most neglected phase of composition, yet through space the picture “breathes”.

And this is my example of a snap with “breathing” space.
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I'm trying to quit smoking right now so please consider that when reading this or any future posts of mine.

:yoiks:

[JeffR]

1. Love that pic

Good luck with the smoking thing. Are you using any stop-smoking aids or just plain ol' willpower?

[F.Gordon]

5. Thanks. And...... thanks

Using "aids". Hardest time is night. Gives me an excuse to go wander out and take more night snaps.

[Immad2]

2. I love that new camera! How did you find that? Room for rent is my fav

Great work and good luck on the quit smoking journey. I quit December 23 1989. It was a chore but worth it.

[F.Gordon]

6. Found camera

Was lookin' for this artsy fartsy place and found a link to a link after I saw some prints done on it.

Thanks for the encouragement....
:hi:

[bvar22]

3. The Photonbox

They are really beautiful.

I disagree with one claim made in the FAQ about the curved back of the camera.

He says:
"a semi-circular film plane, as on the cameras shown here, maintains a constant aperture-to-film distance, giving equal exposure across the image."

I believe you would need a hemispherical camera back to maintain a constant aperture-to-film distance.

I really like the top B&W pic.

[F.Gordon]

7. I have no idea.... trust your knowledge on this

I guess I look at it like a "bowl" that collects light as opposed to a ball that lets light fall off it.
:shrug:

He shows some examples. I'll find out I guess. Have a ton of ideas I want to try with this. Using such a long exposure.... can do some funky stuff.
:crazy:

[ConsAreLiars]

4. Good work! You have a very distinctive style and vision.

That, plus determination, is what sets the artist apart from the duffer.

Not sure why, but that photo reminds me of my SO's favorite Wyeth. Maybe because it also conveys a mood and sense of timelessness, an archetypal moment. Good work.

[F.Gordon]

8. Thanks for the kind words

Since I'm a huge Wyeth fan..... means that much more. I have miles to go before I ever develop a "style". I'm still just having fun and learning. If I get too serious I'm afraid I'll lose my interest.

Again.... thanks.
:hi:

[CC]

9. Love the feel of the

first pic though both are great. Careful you are crossing the line from amateur in to way beyond amateur, no matter what you say.

How is Mrs. F surviving you quitting smoking? That one of the many things on my list of to do stuff this summer. Hoping if I try in the summer I can use staying in a pool to help. Hard to smoke in a pool. And then maybe I won't feel like killing someone while quitting.