As I’m currently travelling and trying to capture new images, here is another memory from the Boston 2015 winter. Charles River was not fully frozen yet, and a group of ducks was visibly enjoying its new playfield!
White Color Palette
When visiting Boston before our move back in 2014, someone said to us : “if you don’t like New England’s weather, wait 5mn…“ Indeed, weather changes can be spectacular, like just after that first snow storm end of January 2015. However, while the light was warm, temperature was well below zero Celsius, and my fingers […]
The Moon on the other side
Having the chance to live abroad is obviously a great opportunity to capture images very different from our usual environment. It was the case for me during the Boston historic winter early 2015, when several snow storms brought up to 3m (100 inches) of white powder. While it was a pure logistic nightmare everyday, it […]
The sloping museum
Nothing serious, just a little break !
Don’t move!
When attending a sport event or a show, except if being an official photographer, we barely choose light or emplacement. Sometimes, we may not even be allowed to take pictures (!!), so forget about pro gear and fast lenses. It can be interesting to deal with all these constraints, while trying to capture only the […]
Three little cars.
Maybe because they are unusual, pictures taken from above with a tele lens are often interesting. As I was looking down from the Empire State Building, the traffic flow started to become abstract and aesthetic. I knew I just had to be patient…
Silver Ring
Lightroom is really a fantastic tool to experiment what would have taken hours in the darkroom, in particular for local adjustments usually done on silver prints with a paintbrush and a potassium ferricyanide solution (to lighten some areas or details). The original idea present when capturing the image can then surface.
Patterns
Sometimes, we are attracted by a shape, a contrast, a light, and we take a photo that will stay in our archive for months…Until we take another one, and another one, and all of sudden, we realize that all these images are part of the same collection built unconsciously. The work is then to get […]
Interlaced
When going close enough, even the most familiar objects can become abstract and graphical. Take advantage of a nice soft light to have a full grey scale, enhance the local micro contrast when developing (much easier now than with argentic photo prints), and enjoy nature curves and lines.