And other musings on Cangiante, Sfumato, and Unione
Everyone else is watching the competition… I’m watching the light. . . . . .
I love looking for the light. In this case a tunnel, of sorts, that is under a high school’s stadium seating. It’s really fun when I’m just hanging out to tune into the location and see if I can find an interesting shot. I’ve been working lately to add people to the images. This creates an extra layer of what I look for. Fined the shot and then see how you can put someone in it.
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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955