Shot May 2008 in al-Rakah, with the 10D and 24mm, 15 seconds at f/8 and ISO 100. 24" print.
No, this isn't a metaphor for my life, but I am exhausted from a couple other works that are fighting me. But there should be a new frontispiece later this weekend, one way image or another. (Spent all night working on Yesteryear, but it looks like rubbish once I check it on a more reliable monitor. And the planned frontispiece, Them Birds and Bees Ain't Got Nothin' on Me (?!?), is taking its sweet time to come together.)
This one would be the most brutal color correction I've ever done - all the tungsten light pushed it into lurid piss orange beyond anything that Aperture could correct easily. But, fortunately, had done it all late last year. I couldn't handle another brutal struggle right now!
As you've surely noticed, I have a hard time making meaningful art without people or at least implied facial expressions within it, so I'm proud of this one. Also another rare case where I saw all the story and significance even as I was pressing the shutter. Usually I don't feel them until after the fact. But I saw this and went running for the tripod.
This is such an incredible image. Really powerful, harsh and dark. I'm really, really digging this one.
Posted by: JNgaio | 31 October 2009 at 10:24 AM