REAWAKENING TO LIFE

Ilford HP5 with the Ansco Speedex R – a great pair of horses across the street from my work. Somehow they figured out how to jump the electric fence and run around our property. I figured it was only fair that I get some frames of them. She only charged at me once.

I finally figured out how to scan in the edges of the frame. I usually do not crop my images, so I like to print all the way out to the border, showing the frame and make of the film. Mmmm….

Two posts today – lucky you.

Taken in Rothrock with an Ansco Speedex R on HP5 – a $5 buy at a fleamarket. I am a fan of the out-of-focus spins you get in the background and foreground of the image, which a lot of the old lenses have at their full aperture.

A reinterpretation of a natural scene – I feel that photography and camera/lens design has always tried to capture *exactly* what the scene is, and the image quality was limited by the technology of that day when the camera was produced. I think very few cameras are designed to give the images it captures a special look, like designing a lens that purposely creates a spinning blur. I think about my Canon SLR which is designed for very little image distortion and accurate color reproduction, and I feel that most of the images that are produced striaght from that camera are stale/sterile in comparison to a camera that uses inferior lenses that were made several decades ago.

I feel that photography will never be able to faithfully reproduce what we see in real life, so why try so hard to? Take images that reinterpret the scene and choose a camera/lens in the same way you would choose a paintbrush for a particular texture.