Week 11, Wednesday - The Island
"It's all kind of blurry and I'm not sure what happened before. I feel like I'm suffering from a mild memory loss, but I'm now back at the island. I've been here many times and it looks same as before. If you would ask about it, I could describe, not just the geographical character of the island, but also all the roads, houses and my earlier occasions there. It seems I've been living here quite some time already, but I can't never tell how I exactly came here in the first place. All I know is that sometimes I'm not here. I'm somewhere else, but can't recall what those other places are. [...]"
Today I'm starting my second season, Season of tilt, which will deal more with my dreams, memories and inner feelings. I'm trying to stray out of the objective reality and use photography to express something else. One could describe it as a psychologically tilted season which merges things from subconscious. I should also add that I'm sincerely grateful for Lensbaby which has been kind enough to support my second season with their most interesting lenses. For this season I'll be using exclusively Lensbaby Composer Pro with three different optics: Double Glass, Sweet 35 and Edge 80. Therefore Season of tilt will also concentrate on exploring the creative possibilities offered by Lensbaby products and you might want to follow it through just to learn more about them.
FlyPenFly, really like the mood you have created here. Nice work!
Shot this morning with Nex 7 and Zeiss 24 1.8. After a brief play with an A7, I am sticking in the 'Nex' camp. I have a ton of great autofocus and manual focus lenses. Just can't give up the 24 1.8, 35 1.8 and 50 1.8 for a completely manual focus experience on A7.
Week 11, Friday- The Fish
"This is one of my earliest memories. It's hot summer day, me and my father are in the kitchen. He has a big fish in a white plastic bag. It's still living and twitches a lot. My father want to show me something and tells me to watch carefully. He takes the fish out of the bag, puts it on a chopping board. The fish still twitches and he has to squeeze it tightly to hold it there. Then he hits the fish in the head and after couple tries it becomes senseless. 'Now I will show you something', he smiles and takes a long knife. [...]"
Great images FlyPenFly! You certainly know your stuff!!
Week 11, Saturday - Where is God?
"When I look back to my early childhood I'm not sure if I believed or didn't belief in God. However I'm very certain I believed in what most children do: if I think or wish something hard enough it will become reality. This kind of belief would suggest that there is someone who listens and fulfills these wishes – the God. However, when I was a little bit older, say 10 years old, I'm very sure that I didn't belief the bearded man in the skies. Did it make me a young child atheist? No, of course not [...]"
Week 12, Tuesday - The Cars
"As promised in earlier post, I posted something that would exemplify the character of the Edge 80 optic. Because Edge 80 has a flat field of focus, tilting of the lens produces a nice buttery-like out of focus areas with a slice of sharp area within the picture. How much you tilt the lens and how large aperture you have affects where the out of focus area will appear and how wide the sharp area is.[...]"
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Toni
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Toni Ahvenainen (1976)
Year of the Alpha - 52 Weeks of Sony Alpha Photography: [url]http://www.yearofthealpha.com[/url]
Flickr-account: [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/109262328@N06/[/url]
Spring in the desert today near Florence, Arizona. Canon FD 300 F4 L with 25U extension tube on Nex 7 for first two images and Canon FD 100 F4 macro for images 3 and 4 .
Harry Palmer
Week 12, Wednesday - Tic-Toc
"I must say I really like the smooth out-of-focus character which Edge 80 gives for this picture. It adds just right amount of visual interest in picture and doesn't come out as a too obvious effect. However, I must say that coming from OSS and autofocus equipped Sony lenses, there is a bit of learning curve with Lensbaby. [...]"
Season of Tilt Week 12, Saturday - Raindrops
"The power socket on the wall looked a bit like this when I was three or four years old and was playing with it at home. At those days my uncle was a repair man for all things electric and I had watched him fixing all kinds of stuff. I must have been inspired by him when I thought the power outlet on the wall needed some fixing as well. I took a workbench and carried it next to wall. With couple of screwdrivers and other tools in my hand I climbed to the chair. [...]"
