HDR
Taking a series of exposures and letting something cold and mechanical compare and decipher them seems so removed, but I enjoy it as a means of capturing a greater reality, not really a greater reality, just a somewhat closer version of reality. As more exact replica of sense perception. One can put their feelings onto the surface of the landscape in a more direct way. The compositional advantages are interesting, to say the least, working with light in a different way.That is the journey, seeing light, a new and different way every day. Photography is merely the chaotic interaction of light and time documented in a unique way. We change our world in our attempts to document the incoherent and yet inescapable lightness that is being.
Trying really to find something that might express the feeling of something that can not be captured, such is noumena, but its different now, not deeper, better or worse, just different. Learning how to see light through the lens of altered dinamic range has evolved my sense of light, optics, and composition. I will not say that HDR is necesary for any shot, most obviously not, but that in terms of true ability to create the ultimate understatement of the dramatic landscape it is an extensive resource. A deep well of inspiration.
Walking in Oxley has become a source of inspiration, tracking deer, watching birds, all sorts of wildlife really. Sometimes it is very quiet, and you can hear the smaller animals whiskering about in their nests in the leaves and sticks. The sense of an armadillo walking by in the moon light. Someething that you could not photograph propperly or it would be ruined. We either document, change, or walk on. I was glad I was wearing boots for this shot as I looked down to realize I was standing in inches of water.
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