William Oldacre Photography

Tag: hard

  • Bifurcate

    Bifurcate

    north wind, 2015 by william oldacre
    North Wind, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)
    south wind, 2015 by william oldacre
    South Wind, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)

    It’s looking more and more like the Convergent series is split along two possible lines – light vs dark or soft vs hard focus.

    Initially I was thinking the light vs dark split was the way to go but lately I’m far more enamoured with the light images that I’ve been posting and now I see a new split between soft and hard focus – pinhole vs lens images. Both are interesting but honestly I’m leaning toward the hard focused images like this top one.

    These images are more representative of movement – my central theme.

  • Off-Hand

    Off-Hand

    Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, brown, muted, smear, cars, streaks, shape
    Hot Haze, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)

    The things I do today in an off-hand casual way are not necessarily new things – but they certainly are much easier to achieve. It wasn’t so long ago that I sweated … or froze, in my basement darkroom trying to cull forth the image in my mind’s eye – not always with full success. And now in moments I can fully realize my imaginings – yet they still require forethought and insight to make them in the first place.

    Every now and again I remember a digital lab I saw years ago in the east end of Toronto that had several Sun digital imaging workstations that must have cost hundreds of thousands each at the time – doing the kinds of things I do on my laptop in seconds.

    The path to success in some parallel dimensions has shortened but in the rest still requires the same fortitude. Some things stay constant – just how we achieve them changes, other things change completely. Interesting times.