Red Illusion

[focalintent]

Red Illusion, originally uploaded by Focal Intent.

Favorite of this set, which is my favorite of the three sets aroraborealis and I did when she was out here visiting. Played with some fun ideas with mirrors and reflections and such. I can't wait to do more!

(Still playing around with ways to reference sets of photos from flickr and such - i don't think I will continue with this setup for long)

And, as usual - there's the flickr gallery and the Gallery 2 version.

Comments

[quiltpunk.livejournal.com]

these are stunning
the hand is one of my favorites
hands are power
i like that it's the hand
*the* the body in reflection
but everything about them is beautiful

[sol3.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (And also - many thanks to aroraborealis who was quite fun to work with :)

[tcb.livejournal.com]

very, very nice. you';re making me want to start playing with people :)

[sol3.livejournal.com]

It's fun - it's a very different sort of shooting, I find. Then again, many things are different from each other, and i really like that. Shooting someone is like something between a set up, arranged, still life (with the lights, backdrop, environment) and shooting a party or an event (moving! lots of moving!). Both, of course, being quite different from the "i'm going to sit my tripod here and shoot the city until i get the right combination of fog and light". Et so on, and so on.

Ever feel like there isn't enough time in the day to play? : )

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

I agree that this is the most photographically interesting set, though, of course, I love a bunch of the photos from the other sets, too :)

It's interesting how hard it is to look at photos of myself as photos rather than photos-of-me! I really love what you did with the mirror, though, and I especially enjoy looking at the "pairs" where the focus in one is the mirror and in the other is me -- really interesting!

If you end up doing the DP challenge you were talking about, I'd be curious to see the results of it.

Yay!

[sol3.livejournal.com]

I agree that this is the most photographically interesting set, though, of course, I love a bunch of the photos from the other sets, too :)

So do I! This set happened to be the quickest for me to narrow down to a set of favorites. Of course, it helps that i've been thinking a lot lately about the history of me and shooting people through mirrors, so I may have been a bit, er, focused on that one.

Alas, I missed the deadline for the DP challenge thing - though I may still try to play with the color work anyway, for laughs.

I can't wait - i've got a shift adapter to use my medium format lens on the canon showing up. What this effectively means is it gives me a way to play a game where I can do a head on shot of a mirror with the camera, but have the camera -not- appear in the mirror : )