While visiting my in-laws up north in Marinette Wisconsin I got to work on some personal work, relax, and experiment. One thing I was working on while up in the north woods was some abstract photography. Here is one of the shots I like…
More to come soon.
This weeks photo of the week, “Drops with Night Lights”. This photo was taken late at night as I was sitting in my car. It was raining outside, it was peaceful and there were city lights in the background. It was one of those moments when everything seemed peaceful, just for a couple of seconds… So in that moment I took out my camera, quietly as to not disturb the moment, and snapped a few photographs of raindrops collecting on the windshield of my car.
“Drops with Night Lights”
Milwaukee, WI
Canon EOS 3
Arista Premium 400 @ 400
Jake Rohde
Valo Photography
“Power Lines Sunset”
From the series “Atmosphere”
Milwaukee, WI
I have decided that each week I will pick my favorite photo from the week and post it along with a brief description of the photo. I once tried a photo blog where I would post a photo per day, but in the end it seemed as though I was posting for the sake of posting, and not posting work I liked at all. After thinking about it a bit more, I think I can handle posting one photo per week that I really like. This week the photo comes from a series I am currently obsessing over which I like to call “Atmosphere”. I commented a little bit on this series in a past posting about experimentation, and I think it is still in it’s infancy. But I really do like the images I am making in this series. I have always been one to lean towards an image that says something, or an image that pops, more so than a technically perfect image. I think some of my favorite images are not technically “correct” at all, and for that matter they are not always compositionally “correct” either. To me a good image is more than a compositionally “correct”, sharp, grainless, noiseless pictures. To me a good image is something you feel when you look at it. I guess maybe that is what I am trying to do with this series of photographs. Escape the technical and concentrate on a feeling.
So I hope you enjoy this image of the week, and I hope you will continue to enjoy the images I post here.
As always I would love to hear what you think.
Yesterday Simon and I went out to catch some evening light. We wondered around North Ave for a while to photograph some people and urban scenes. As I was walking around I was thinking a lot about experimentation. I just recently picked up a new lens, an 85mm prime, which is a focal length that I haven’t used all that often, especially for walking around town. So my intent yesterday was to just experiment with the new focal length in ways that I normally wouldn’t. Initially I brought it along to possibly shoot some portraits, but then the more I thought about experimentation, the more I tried to take photographs that had nothing to do with people… I really believe that experimentation is so very important in any artistic medium. Without experimentation an art form would never evolve. So I made yesterdays walk around about experimentation. When I returned home, most of what I was experimenting with, was completely worthless, but some of the photos were worth keeping. Which brings me to another topic. Failure. With experimentation, one must never be afraid of failure. A lot of experimentation ends up in failure. I have learned to not be afraid of failure. We can learn a lot in our failures. Without a thousand failures we would never land on that one thing that works.
Simon’s experience last night was a little different. He concentrated on a more human aspect and experience. You can read about that here.
So what are your thoughts on experimentation, failure and the interconnection, or lack there of, of the human experience?
Simon Experiments with some street video using the new 5D MkII. Exciting possibilities.
Below is a series of photographs I have started to make. These were a result of an experiment. This experiment is still in it’s infancy, but I am really liking the results so far. Right now I am calling these “Atmosphere”.
