Journal in Light

It has been a few weeks after I phrased my first artist statement. I went to photograph quite a few times, actually. And photographing under the constraints of my first assignment was a great experience. In fact, I could walk through nature and see beauty while at the same time I did not feel the pressure trying to capture it.
I was being present in the moment.
While I did not skip on obvious really good photographs, I also had situations, in which I decided not to take the picture. “This is a picture for someone else to take”, I thought to myself – a very liberating thought.
Just by the constraints of the assignment I did not take too many pictures. But after working through them, I feel proud of the ones, I have found.

It was fascinating to me, that I had so many black and white pictures, 80% to be precise. At first, I did the rendering to B&W only for testing purposes, to compare colour and B&W. Yet after a while I realised, whenever I’m converting images and pull out all the colour, it tells a different story. With colour it appears to be messy, distracting. With the colour removed, I could visually communicate the verge of the situation.
I also included a lot of negative space. I think, negative space is something, that is conceptionally easily learned, but practically very hard to translate beyond the given rules of composition. However, I’m proud of how I included negative space in such a way, that it shows the ephemerality of the situation.

Truth be told; this is only the start and there is a lot of improvement needed, but the track I’m on feels good and safe.