Spaceship Suburbia

Lately I have been beating up my ‘photographic self’. I am bit frustrated creatively. Sure, I discover images while I am traveling, I throw myself into unknown situations to see what my creative self can do, and I consistently try to improve myself as a photographer. However, I haven’t had a project to focus on. I’m not pre-visioning my images. I’m not actively creating images in my mind, prior to discovering them. In the face of this lull, I decided to assign myself a project. If I wasn’t going to do it, no one else was. What did I come up with? I call it Spaceship Suburbia. The goal, to morph the everyday into images from the Cloud City. I’m not expecting a Pulitzer, or a show at the Guggenheim. I’m just hoping to have a bit of fun and force myself to translate what is in my head to a .TIFF. Wish me luck!

Here is my first image from the new project. To capture it, I deployed my stability system, mounted an 80-200mm light refractorer (made up space word), and set my white balance to stun (err…incandescent).

News: Remember the Heart and Lung benefit show this Friday night. Feel free to drop me an email if you have any questions. It is for a great cause!

Capture Notes:

Nikon D300
Nikkor 80-200 AFD
Gitzo Traveler

Processing Notes:

In an effort to expose myself to new techniques, I decided to give a fellow Flickrer’s tutorial a try. It worked out pretty good.

You can find it here.

Thanks! jfdpl686