Lightbender: July 2018

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Wires

Wires

digital photograph, 2018

Shot a couple of weeks ago in Blue Island, IL. Sometimes it's fun to go to an everyday place and see if you can come up with something interesting while just doing straightforward shooting. I'm kind of proud of this one.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Red Towers

Red Towers

iPhoneography, 2018

apps used: Snapseed, Fragment, Procreate

Sunday, July 22, 2018

ATM

digital photograph, 2018

Along with iPhoeography, I've been really enjoying a somewhat more straightforward approach to photography this summer. Collage has definitely taken a back seat in my creative work. This is a recent photo, shot last Thursday, post-processed yesterday and today. There's a deceptive amount of manipulation in a mostly normal looking photo like this. To compare, here's the original, straight from the camera with no adjustments:

Saturday, July 21, 2018

from above

collage on paper, 2014

A collage I made a couple years ago, but I never got around to posting anywhere.

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Emoji Pillars (version)

Emoji Pillars (version)

iPhoneograpny, 2017

Made (at the same time as this version) on my iPad from a photo shot in July. 2017 at the United States National Arboretum in Washington, DC.

apps used: Snapseed, Proccreate, Fragment

Sunday, July 15, 2018

Civics Lesson

Civics Lesson

collage on postcard, 2018

Chinatown Sign

Chinatown Sign

Chinatown Sign (manipulated)

I did a little shooting in Chinatown last week. It was mainly an excuse to get out of the house, I had a cold coming on (which has turned out to be particularly nasty) and knew I would likely be cooped up at home for a few days.
I shot this photo at the Chinatown Mall. The original version has pretty minimal processing. Thinking it needed something, I ran the photo through an online glitch processor several times, and started combining and editing several glitched versions on top of the original. The bottom photo is the result. A little overdone, maybe, but I like it.

Monday, July 9, 2018

Recent Collages

balance

collage on paper, 2018

span

collage on paper, 2018

ninja

collage on paper, 2018

parting

collage on paper, 2018

tumble

collage on paper, 2018

Here's a few collages I threw together quickly a couple weeks ago. The background images are all photos I shot with an ultra wide-angle lens I bought a few months ago. They were shot for some other things I'm working on, and printed on a low end office laser printer, not a good photo printer, as I like the visual noise the cheap printer adds. The figures are all cut from various exercise books and manuals, and are leftovers from the Diet And Exercise collage series I've been working on for the past couple of years.
Shooting with an ultra-wide lens often results in odd shifts in perspective, which allowed me to create surreal interactions between the figures and the drab backgrounds. Rotating the figures in unnatural positions seemed to amplify the surreal aspect, and made the perspective seem even odder.