Helios
This past couple of months were truly hard in means of coping with the new task at hand..medical internship. We have lots of obligations or is it ?? I think they make us feel that we are responsible of something, we're only there to learn, learn from and not to teach from learning.
Long story short I've passed in Cardiology, OB/GYN, now I'm in the ER. In the ER so far I feel it like it's my element, all the time action pumped up full of adrenaline and you partially fell responsible when you diagnose a myocardial infarction or start a cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
So why I named the post Helios ? Helios was the personification of the Sun in the Greek mythology and because of this sun I have made the best shots I ever accomplished in my short experienced time. I was reviewing my photography the other day and found out how much my style has evolved into something that even I was amazed of seeing...I love the sun and the painting it does to the nature and cityscape. It's also a key element for portrait photography in the nature, as I don't own a studio I must cope with what I have and bend the rays into my favor. I also noticed a change in the complexity of the composition, I opt now for more simple composition with fewer lines and fewer focus points. I tend to make something out of nothing and tend to tell a story out of a single object. That I think is the goal of each photograph is to spot a glimpse of the story that you're trying to channel and let the imagination take over.
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| Temples of Baalbeck |
As you can notice in the above photograph, the sun is the key element not the temples although the caption is about the temples. It's all about the story so my story here is that I was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the wrong time, why wrong because 20 minutes from the date when the picture was taken a torrential storm started falling on my head with liters of water. The photograph is edited in photoshop RAW as I made it look a bit HDRish, the foreground was black so bit by bit I somewhat made it pop out so the details of the temples can be seen as well as the rays of the sun that are painting the sky. The sun looks like it want to set itself free from the clouds'prison..this is the power of the shot, the Sun. Another example of this rays breakthrough :
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| Old roman market |
Let's talk simple, as you can notice in the above picture my object of concern is pretty limited in this case It's more of the sun than the old market that attracts the eye at the first place. Next will share other simple compositions that made the photographs somewhat attractive :
Here again is one example of "take your camera with you wherever you go", I was eating lunch with some friends when I spotted this distant boat, I was fortunate enough to have the sun high in he sky making the waves pretty well visible, adding a great texture to the sea. That was the day when someone tried to steel my stuff ! luckily I had all my precious belongings with me and never again I wont take a Locker. (August 2012).
Here I managed to squeeze in this "what's left of the flower" behind the sun, it's shot@ f/22 so I can have the sun streaks pretty clear or to get the star burst effect, I made them appear just behind the flower. This shot does not tell a story of some sort but is a pretty cool background wallpaper that I enjoy every time it's on my desktop.
This flower was a survivor, it's straight on a track for tractors, I was with my father on a hunting trip, you can barely notice him in the background blurred by the DOF. I particularly like how the sun illuminates the flower and directly behind and in front of it there's some shadow.
This pomegranate was hanging from its tree, I spotted it from down. what's great in this photograph is the color palette : green, blue, red. The red is the contrast part and in fact the focus point and the point of interest of my photograph. I made it look like it was hanging from the sky, making it pretty surreal. Again the illumination was just perfect, illuminating just the fruit and partially illuminating its tree and the tree behind it.
This is one of my all time favorite as it really tells a story, super simple, lovely color palette and great illumination. In fact I used the fill in flash at -1.0 because this is not a wall it's the bottom part of the balcony and there's no sunlight there. At first there was nothing in particular when I was walking around the spot, I stopped to tie my shoes and when I looked up I saw this amazing little crawler lonely on the bottom of the balcony. This photograph is labeled Summer-Autumn transition, it clearly marks the boundaries between the two seasons. The blue and the white are very pleasant to the eye even if it's stops abruptly, the eye first looks at the plant then on the hole picture, the plant looks like an intruder but the hole story is in the plant. The parallel lines and the rule of thirds are what makes the composition powerful.
Finally the Autumn has arrived dressing the nature whit all these colors, making a scene like looking through a kaleidoscope:
This photo above was cross processed adding this shade of greenish blue to the scene contrasting with the bright red and orange and yellow of the leaves
In this one I love the bright red..and only red, giving an extra contrast to the composition
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