U-Man – Do you mind if I borrow your mood idea?
I don’t know how to answer this without seeming pompous. Yeah. I mean, no, I don’t mind at all. It’s not my idea. It just is. Go spend 30 minutes googling ‘black and white photography’. You’ll see what I mean.
Shit. Everything I do has been done before. I spend at least an hour every week looking at other people’s photos. It’s a good thing to do late at night.
Just yesterday I was looking at this photo blog of some dude up in Alaska. Sacredartichoke or something silly like that. Anyway, he had a pic of raindrops in a puddle. The text that went with it discussed the ugly mess just outside of the photo frame. That – along with this b&w theme – and the fact that it is rainy and yucky today -and many other things – made an idea crystallize in my head. I have often thought about “good light” for a photo. This implies that there is “bad light”. Well, today the light is “bad”. It is dreary. It has a sad mood. I just spent two hours down in the dingy, old, worn-out, industrial part of town taking photos that I hope will induce some sort of emotion in black and white.
I’m rambling. Go take pics of your moody hubby. 🙂
I’ve heard of that Sacredartidude I hear he sits out in the frigid cold with a camera for hours on end.
Something wrong with that guy.
Don’t sell yourself short U-man. You may not think you are original but you have a unmistakable style to your photography, and a great eye.
