I attended a two-day meeting in Tampere, and we had stormy weather during the first day. I went out for a short walk before dinner, and tried to take some long-exposure photographs by the lake nearby. The wind was so strong - 20 m/s or faster - that the camera wouldn't keep still when I put it on top of a rock or some other support, so I didn't get many sharp photographs.
However, some of the blurry photographs are rather artistic, there is a bit of painterly feeling in them, as if painted by the storm. The first one was taken handheld so it is even blurrier than the other two.
Do you think that these photographs work as photographs?
(Posting title is from Killing Him: A Radio Play by Yehuda Amichai, translated by Adam Seelig and Hadar Makov-Hasson.)
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They certainly work for me. They remind me of the work of Todd Hido, one of my all-time favorite photographers.
Thanks, Joe. I have to check out Todd Hido.
My two all-time favorites are Pentti Sammallahti (for black-and-white photographs) and Sam Abell (for color). And then there is a long, long list of photographers I admire greatly.
The last one is especially beautiful. One I would have been happy to have made myself.
Thanks, Cedric. Allowing the wind to move the camera may be something to try again - randomness in action, or one could perhaps use the term "invisible hand".
#2 and #3 are it for me. They have just the right amount of apparent "reality" and the right dose of movement to make them go beyond the rendering into a more suggestive style of imagery.
Thanks, Markus! Sometimes accidents are for the good...
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