THE REALITY OF IMAGINARY IMAGES

"WHAT AM I LOOKING AT"

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07.21.2019

-- This is a full frame photo

-- With the verticals almost lined up

-- (Look at the mortar joints on the left)

-- Yup, not quite vertical

-- Remember mortar joints are just like having a ruler

-- Marching all over your picture.

-- But that’s not really the exercise here.

-- Nor is the ability of the PC lens to have obfuscated the photographer

-- So his reflection has mostly vanished…..

-- What’s got me all worked up about things

-- Is, what really is the image

-- When I take a film-based image

-- I mostly know what I have in my hands

-- Not so, once I’ve passed it through the “confuser”

-- My image has been sharpened, “anti-aliased” and a number of other processes

-- That have pushed and pulled my creation

-- Sometimes for the better

-- And sometimes in ways I don’t want to go to

-- Somewhere in the translation from Pixels to Grain

-- There’s the image I really made

-- So I think it’s driving back to the darkroom…..

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-- Ocean Ave. New London, CT, (USA)

---Nikon F2#4, Nikkor 28mm PC, O filt, 1/125 sec @ f11

---Eastman 5222 W/ HC110 (H) Epson V700

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