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Dereliction - Colours of Abandonment
Previews Now On-Line -- Exposure Festival is February
Nine (9) weeks on the road, 11,000 km, 5000 photographs, 33 different beds, 25 Loonies and the Jeep still wasn't clean! Five provinces: Alberta & Saskatchewan, Otago, West Coast & Canterbury. Two Countries: Canada & New Zealand. We have some fantastic new material to share...
Our Urban Concept Gallery in Calgary will be open every weekend in February 2015 for Exposure Festival. Be sure to save the date: Sunday February 8th, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm is our opening reception. We will have a few surprises to reveal...
We are currently showing Corrosion at Art Matakana, Country Park, Leigh Road, 45 minutes north of Auckland, New Zealand. Wineries, summer concerts, and Farmers Markets abound in this area: fresh food, good wine, live music, fine art - who could ask for anything more?
Meanwhile tease your visual modality with the new imagery at imageseekers.ca, on Flickr, or on Behance.
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Back on Arthur’s Pass Hwy 73, just before Otira on the Taramakau River, West Coast, New Zealand. We're watching for that abandoned house we’d seen before, but the light was terrible. Second attempt, light was good, but wind howling as usual, so the reflector was buffeting, bouncing light all over the place, making it difficult to nail the best angle. Tried silver, and gold too, another reason why I shot so many frames. Loading the take into Lightroom survey mode I was immediately blown away by the pattern of the whole. Compiled in Photoshop the file size is 535 Mb, the JPG is 97 Mb!
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Adventure Planning
Ghost Town Trails
To start with we just wanted to reconnoitre – see if there was enough abandoned dereliction left around to warrant a longer photography expedition. So the adventure began: we hopped in the Jeep and headed south for two weeks on the gravelled Saskatchewan Ghost Town Trail. We found 2 Dereliction stories: Abstractions plus the Context of desertion. Next we decided to sweep through the Alberta locales our research had targeted. Familiar with the Drumheller area we soon found big empty townships in the middle. But the edges were intriguing… Research mapped a lot of places to go, things to do, and people to meet in Saskatchewan. We decided on a centralized approach for our five week expedition: get a B&B for several nights and do forays out to photograph. Results are beautiful, fascinating, intriguing…
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Colours
Creative Control of Light
We capture beautiful art in camera because we manage the whole process. Light reflectors soften shadows and pop scenes. Polarizing filters reduce glare to reveal colours. Technically, digital photography is always “photo-shopped” to interpret and combine three recorded colour channels: red, blue, and green. Shooting JPG format leaves processing to the camera: five different cameras will automate five different reds. Shooting RAW allows creative control over the camera and developing. The sequence is different with digital: we don’t use a yellow filter in the field anymore, we apply the effect in Photoshop (or Lightroom). So what we do now isn’t really any different than what we did with film: over expose, under develop (zone system); decide on a red, yellow, or green filter (contrast control); slip a cyan gel in the enlarger (adjust saturation); burn, dodge, crop…
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