Untitled 3, McMinnville Spring '22
One of my newest image series from the first photo walk here in Oregon. I really like these images. They resemble my style from Bozeman closely, but feel different, at least to me… Which is only natural. New place, new images, and evolution in style, even if it is slight. That’s the beauty of creating art in a different or new space; you always seem to see a change in style that stems from the change in space! I love the style of photography and editing I developed in Bozeman, but I am excited to grow and change as an artist.
My editing style is also a little bit different as well.
I am definitely happy with the feeling of both of these images. I experimented with editing to embrace and accentuate the haziness and softness to try and provide a serene, yet unsettled feeling. Like I talked about earlier with Untitled 2, the green-toned shadows comes back in both of these photos. A change that seems to have taken place is less grain in the entire Untitled 3 series than before… I am going to experiment with it more in the future. Something that isn’t my favorite about the technical quality of these is that there is more softness than haze if that makes sense, and it takes away from the subject matter more than I’d like. Something to work on with editing.
I ended up editing these mostly to help with speeding up the workflow and with the thought process. It is evident in the final images. These two above are edited to emphasize the warm highlights and cool sky. I really like how the sky in the second image catches the light pollution. It adds a ton of depth. Although I kinda hate light pollution… Once again the first image utilizes the green shadow tones to cool the shadows and not totally blacken them. Otherwise, the photo was a bit flat outside of the highlights and midtones, which was just a part of the image. Something else I did with these was messing with the grain and noise again to create a more, maybe nostalgic, look… Not sure exactly, but I enjoy the results. These are technically my favorite images of this series.
Here are the last four images of the series. They are more standalone photos that I edited all separately. The first photo was definitely was by far my favorite out of camera, and when I took it, but the edits seem to fall flat and did not do too much for it. The flower petals that show are in shadow, and since it was taken during blue hour, they are cool and it makes them look almost transparent. They are normal flower petals nonetheless, unfortunately, I had no timing with the lighting. Such is life when you shoot very spontaneously. I may go back before the petals fall with better lighting. We’ll see… The shot of the bridge was cool. I tried initially to edit it hazy and soft, but could never get the have without desaturating or de-contrasting the photo. I do like how it turned out though. It reminds me of my Bozeman photos more as far as lighting goes. I also like the tree root and branch shots. I don’t have much to say about them right now.
Lastly here are the contact sheets:
