Tag: colour

  • Movement Form and Colour

    Movement Form and Colour

    Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, blue, orange, yellow, muted, wedge, shape
    Unstable Air, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)

    When people ask what I photograph, I usually launch into a long involved explanation – how what I’m doing evolved from who I am. But… judging from the glazed looks on peoples faces, that’s not working. So here goes another somewhat shorter attempt.

    When I moved to Toronto I began looking for a new way to document the city. I decided to concentrate on the dynamism and movement symbolic of a city coupled with the underlying structure – the form and colours.

    And that’s what I’m still doing, abstract expressionistic images of the city – movement, form and colour.

  • Technical Prep

    Technical Prep

    Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, blue, orange, muted, wedge, shape
    Supersaturated Wind, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)

    In the throes of optimizing colour and settings so I can create the best possible print layers.
    Still working.

  • Tone Palette

    Tone Palette

    Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue, green, yellow, vibrant, wedges, blocks, shape
    Bright Spring Haze, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)

    Still working on the virtual layered render for Light Signatures so I can analyze and refine the layers for an optimum effect. Now have to figure out how to fly the camera around and render a sequence in Blender so I can see an all around perspective. I had hoped to be able to do that live inside Blender but it seems there’s no way to properly show the transparent parts of each layer in the preview window – drag – would have been done now if it did.

    In the meantime still shooting for Convergent and working on this AM look. It’s coming along well and now that we’ve hit early summer there’s a lot of bright green in the images from all the new growth. Interesting how the tone palette changes for each season. If I have the patience I’ll try to shoot source material in the AM style for one complete year so I get the full range of colours… guess we’ll see if I last that long.

  • Cold Front

    Cold Front

    2014
    Archival Pigment Print


    40″ x 60″

    edition of 10

  • Photograph As Document

    There seems to be a move back to photography as a document. Perhaps this is a backlash or result of the artifice or rather, the perceived artifice that digital photography and programs like Photoshop can achieve. The odd thing about this (mis)perception is the ready consumption of artificial imagery in advertising and popular media like films. I’m pretty certain the majority of people are completely unaware of just how artificial all the marketing imagery is that they daily consume.

    So in photo art we have this extreme opposite trend toward pallid, dry, off colour, dystopic presentations of reality that make me think of the 60’s ektachromes from my family’s photo archive. Alright, I guess. Interesting in their own right, I suppose. But I don’t see them breaking any new ground. And yesss, that’s what I’m trying to do – break new ground. I’m not interested in re-doing something that has already been done.

    I’m interested in connecting with the emotion of living – getting to the root of what it feels like in this moment or that moment – in this place or in that place. Presenting that in it’s most raw, uncluttered, elemental form through shapes, colours, sounds, movement – the fundamental symbology of our human existence.

    Really I think this is what all photography is striving for at its heart (even all art really) – just using different methodologies. My method currently involves abstraction. The funny thing is I never intended this – never intended to make abstract images. It just kind of happened when I began to think of things – when I began to look for ways to simplify the images – when I began to investigate ways to connect my images to the emotional response of what I was seeing, it just spontaneously emerged.

    Its all about the feeling – isn’t that what all art is about? what all creative expression is about?
    How it feels?
    How it makes you feel?