My SoFoBoMo book is finished, on this, the 31st day since I began the project. Here's a bit of the intro I wrote for the book:
I've always been fascinated by what photography can show us that goes beyond the literal and expected, and been especially appreciative of so-called "happy accidents" - images that come into being without the usual controls in place (whether by the photographer or by the camera) that regulate all the aspects of picture-taking which ensures you serve up the optimal, "successful" photo. Serendipitous images tend to display a bit of chaos, a bit of ambiguity, a bit of uncertainty. Their power lies in how they may unsettle expectation.
Some people consider such images to be technical failures, or worse, too much work to understand. But these are the images that I find I am personally most interested in looking at, and more importantly, want to look at again and again.
What one admires, ones strives to emulate. And so I took this month to concentrate on achieving my own happy accidents.
Which, as it happens, doesn't involve a whole lot of accident. You still need to consider technical details such as exposure and composition. If it were as simple as waving the camera around and firing the shutter repeatedly, I'd have a whole lot more images to show for my efforts. The month produced a lot more failures than successes.
If you are interested in learning how each image was achieved, I included an index in the last few pages that provides the particulars.
All the images included in this book were taken between May 28 and June 21, 2009. I'm very happy with the results, and I hope you enjoy them, too.
Go see my book at SoFoBoMo.org.
Congrats to your finnished book! I liked it a lot, and some of the pictures are really masterpieces in my opinion. The defocused ones where my favorites, but there were many others I loved, such as the flowers (long exposure and different predetermined focus points, something...) which appeared as if 'vaseline' was smudged on the lens.
ReplyDeleteOps, pardon the spelling, finished it is. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the book. I find that your photos have a cumulative effect. By the end of the book I'm on the verge of seeing differently. It's similar to the (vague) notion of a "voice" in poetry. I guess this is a "look" but with an emphasis on the looking.
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