Chiaroscuro

And other musings on Cangiante, Sfumato, and Unione

Looking up into the rain

Foul weather can make for a great day to photograph.

Many years ago, I took a class in Santa Fe, NM, with Rodney Smith. He was a well-known photography educator at Yale and a New York Advertising photographer. He told us how he loved the light that happened just before it started to rain. If you look at any of his images, you can probably see the kind of light he was after.

The image above was taken with my iPhone and processed in Hipstamatic. The image below was taken from the same spot using my Leica M240. Sometimes, the like just isn’t the camera to use. I love the images anyway.

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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

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