What's more, I actually like these pictures.
I've been feeling really uninspired recently. I took a chance yesterday and experimented with no real goal in mind. I hit up the local thrift store (Savers) and purchased some totally random stuff to make pictures with. Props, if you will. I could just as easily have used stuff sitting around the house, but I was pretty sure I was going to destroy whatever I played with. I've been like that since I was a little kid - I like destroying stuff!
Here you are - my take on "Fine Art"... whatever that means. (as usual click to enlarge)
These are my top picks, but I posted a few more on Flickr
My main weapons were water and used motor oil. I purchased a couple vases, a platter and a bowl/pan. For a subject I chose fake flowers. Basically my theory was: mix - photograph - repeat.
Because I knew I was going to be making a mess, I decided to do these outside. Luckily for me Boulder still has plenty of snow hanging around and yesterday was wonderfully overcast, so my lighting was coming from every direction. If I had been in a studio I couldn't have gotten more perfect light.
I shot everything at F/8 on my fixed 50mm lens. I ended up at ISO 400 and about 1/250 sec. I could have gone faster... used an aperture like F/5.6 which probably would have worked great... but I didn't.
The inspiration came mainly from two sources.
1) On the TV show NCIS - a character called Abby displays art in her lab made from really abstract photos of molucules, blood spatter, whatever. I tried to find a few examples via Google - but didn't come up with anything.
2) Dixon Hamby [link] who posted this picture on Twitter the other day which is what motivated me to use oil.
Anyway. That's that. Have a great Monday (I know, its hard).
