Out of Steam

It was a crap photograph but with possibilities. The copy of a copy of a copy route was entertained, but instead I processed the image very thoroughly. There comes a point in the processing mayhem where it is still crap, but as far as it is going to get from crap before it begins a return journey to Crap Central. I think I might have started the return leg.

I know it's on the wrong axis. I like it that way. It disguises how completely crap it really is.

The lens was a £10 Cosina Cosinon 135mm f/2.8. The filter was a dirty window. The softening was provided by light but persistent drizzle. The black-and-white treatment is simulated Tri-X 400 ISO. There are two frames because I like fake presentation to rejoice in duplicate.

Camera: Camera: Fujifilm X-E1.

John FitzGerald, Nautilus, Andrew Trundlewagon have particularly liked this photo

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Ingo Krehl ^club

:-))

3 years ago.

Andrew Trundlewagon ^club

Perfection is the enemy.

3 years ago.

The Limbo Connection ^club has replied to Andrew Trundlewagon ^club

Thank you for the words of comfort. And for the very few who achieve perfection, what is there left to do?

3 years ago.

John FitzGerald ^club

The positioning of the hands is interesting. S/he seems to be holding two ends of a stake passed through h/er/is body. There is, however, no blood apparent. Quite the conundrum. What might John Berger have said about this? Let's see. Ah -- "The camera which isolates a moment of agony isolates no more violently than the experience of that moment isolates itself. The word trigger, applied to the rifle and camera, reflects a correspondence which does not stop at the purely mechanical. The image seized by the camera is doubly violent....". Well, that clears it up.

3 years ago.

The Limbo Connection ^club has replied to John FitzGerald ^club

I think she had a stitch from running over-energetically. I saw no stake. I feel confident that she made a full recovery.

3 years ago.

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