Not sure if this has anything to do with the Moleskine sketchbook but just at the moment I can’t stop drawing. The drawings also seem to be changing – however only time will tell if this is permanent or just an effect of the summer heat – I’m not a great lover of things getting too hot.
Jai Ho
This iPhone thing keeps starching at the back of my brain and so I have revisited the vaults again to find yet another image I just haven’t got around to work on – today it is Whitby in North Yorkshire which I visited back in late autumn last year. This time all the post production has been undertaken in Photoshop CC rather than in camera. One of the advantages of the later iPhone is that the JPEG quality is such that it does allow significant port production without too many artefacts starting to appear – however this still doesn’t have a patch on RAW files for their flexibilities.
It is true – the vampires have taken my blood – where is the garlic when you need it? Of course this is doing a total disservice to hard working health professionals who are only doing their job with great humanity and dedication – I feel sorry and I will now hold me head in shame.
Away from the mock hyperbole it was that time of year for a check to make sure that my slowly disintegrating body is still in something like working order. I should get the result next week when I have a meeting with another nurse. So back to image making and to continue the iPhoneography theme I have stopped using the iPhone to capture the drawings I have made – the quality just wasn’t there compared to my Canon G1x.
Over the past few days I’ve been taking stock of my iPhoneography practice – beyond what I wrote this morning. One of the things I have discovered is that there is a certain amount of animosity about the whole name iPhoneography and it depends which blog site you were following it was either iPhoneography or iPhotography. Either way the iPhone appears to have had a profound impact on photography as a whole since it was launched. It certainly has had on my photographic practice.
The memory plays tricks on you – especially when you are not as young as you once were. This morning I’ve been undertaking some research on image captured by an iPhone and I thought that I had been making these images from almost the date that I bought my first iPhone – March 2009. However, it turns out that I didn’t really start until 2010. The first blog entry with the tag iPhoneography also dates back to May 2010.
Now this is interesting because this is also the year that I started to realise that I wanted to draw and paint. I have no idea whether at some unconscious level ( well der of course you won’t) this was me rejecting my previous photographic life and embracing the new or is it just the clarity that 20/20 hindsight give you?
Whatever the case may be this is one of the first images I captured with an iPhone and bothered to keep. I reprocessed it this morning which once again raises the question just when was a photograph made?
I find there is something really satisfying about making a quick Disney Doodle. When you do this you come to realise that the creative minds behind each of these were not only great artists in their own right but also master technicians as they had to create characters that not only were able to portray the emotions demanded by the movie but also had to be very easy to draw. In the days before computer aided animation every frame had to be drawn and coloured by hand and so to ensure that they moved smoothly the drawing had to be very simple. They really did master the ability to emote with an economy of mark making.
After breakfast I worked on this a bit more – interesting face – shame about the likeness
Nothing like an experiment before breakfast. Yesterday I found a wonderful artists and then discovered that she had a video on YouTube. After thinking about things overnight I got up this morning and tried out what she had described and then realised it is how I make many of my drawings. However, the difference is on acute observation and then working slowly until you have the image – something I am not very good at!
This image isn’t of anyone really as it was an exercise – now for breakfast as I am starving.
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