I was out driving with my car when I saw this scene at the side of the road. I had to stop and while I started my iPhone app (VSCO CAM) the head line started to form. Something about destruction but still a calm over the whole scene.
I took the photo and stood for a minute and thought about all the people that lost their lives during World War I and II.
Ok, I have done it. What? I used VSCO film presets on landscape photos. Up until now I used it only on portraits and urban shots – never, ever on “classic” landscape shots. Now I did it and I like it!
What have I turned into? A film-o-holic? I do not know..
There is a new adventure around every corner – that was the feeling I had when I was walking home from my work the other day and passed by this path going straight into the woods.
The mysterious feeling is amplified by conversion to b&w in VSCO CAM and added fill light and fade.
Have you ever tried to be a tourist in your own town? I tried it yesterday and it made me think different and something I must do again – very inspiring!
The problem I had was that instead of finding what is universally beautiful, I had to find what is characteristic for this place and time. So, I started to think about my hometown (Strömstad by the way) and it was spring which means almost no boats (no tourists as well), cloudy day and there is about 5000 people living there. Ah, yes – it is by the sea.
I hope when you look at the photos you get the same feeling of the town (very little people, yes) that I had that day.
Processed with Lightroom 4 and VSCOfilm Fuji 160C
Once in a while I get the urge to start photographing with film. I’m old enough to remember when film was the only thing and you had to wait (for ages) to get the result. But back then I had a very small interest for photography.
Today I find myself thinking about buying an analog camera, some cool film and use one of my lenses I have to my digital system. But I hold back those ideas with the fact that I will be very disappointed when I get the film scans – I have too little experience with the analog medium.
But when I see photos like the one that Laura Leslie took during FIND (Film Is Not Dead – workshop by Jonathan Canlas) the need to pick up an analog camera and give it a try is hard to suppress. Please visit her post to see more of her analog beauties.
This is NOT my photo, it is (c) Laura Leslie
I have started a journey that I should have done a long time ago. I got a kick by an earlier post I wrote.
I’m going within myself and take the kind of photos that I love to take – push the button when I feel great about what I see (regardless of what kind of rules there are) and not what I believe you would like to see.
I hope you will like it anyway. Sure, there will be quite a lot of experimenting but somewhere I will get back with a whole lot of new knowledge – about myself.
Please join me, here are my first steps on the new journey:
so right
old school
time is only a reflection
light leechers
echo
easter time
(all of the shots is processed with Lightroom4 and VSCOfilm Kodak Portra 800++)
I just have to replicate on the following statement from Jonas Peterson on his Facebook page.
We’re so connected today. With everything. Everyone. But still I can’t help but think that many aspiring photographers would be better off trying to connect with the person they have within instead of desperately trying to connect with everyone on the outside. The more you worry about what they do, the less you’ll be able to do what you should do.
This morning I hit 10,000 likes for this page.
I guess it’s worth celebrating, but it also scares me.
The day I’m led by the fact that I’m being followed, I will be doomed.
I’m a big fan of the photographing art that Jonas Peterson is making and of course I figure about how he do his magic. Yes, I listen to the photographer that is inside me but for the moment that one will not make me move forward – I need input.
We have since we where born looked up to someone – a role model. Someone that we think very highly of and searching for recognition. Fame is a drug – and it bites back.
With the very open society we have now, it puts very high demands on both the apprentice and the master. You can be famous within seconds and you get a lot of apprentices but you can not answer them all (how can you? They are more than a small town!) and just guess how hard the competition is to be “seen” by the apprentices.. It has never (I guess) been easier to get in contact with people that are living legends. Send a twitter or a Facebook message and all the questions and “see me” needs can be fulfilled within seconds.
What happens in the other end? That is something that I have thought about – you pro’s must be drowning in input from all kind of social networks and still not trying to neglect your real friends (and work!).
Who is the winner? None of us. That is why I love the statement from the Jonas – listen to your inner voice, both pro and wanna bee’s. Otherwise there is a danger that the focus is lost..
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