“Cherchez la Lumiére” (Seek The Light) was originally my stand-alone blog with photo-philosophical musings and bits & pieces from “behind the scenes” or “behind the camera”. This is the continuation and archive of those articles.
A simple example of batch-processing two exposures in Lightroom Classic before blending them in Photoshop to remove detrimental lens flare.
In landscape photography, epic sunsets are often considered to be the ideal — clouds in the sky, ablaze in orange, pink, red, magenta, yellow. An empty clear sky is frowned upon as boring but guess what… I beg to differ. ;)
“There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don’t need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world.” (Edouard Boubat)
I just stumbled upon a news bit in which images, made by the Hubble and James Webb telescopes respectively, of the Eagle Nebula (M16) gas pillars known as the Pillars of Creation are shown side by side. I remember when I first saw the original image, with its unbelievable shapes and colors. It captivated me and fired up my imagination, of “space, the final frontier”, and all that. :)
Meandering thoughts touching upon AI-generated work winning an art contest, humans using formulas to create visual works, and whatnot.
Cole Thompson’s idea of “photographic celibacy“, the idea to limit one’s intake of photography*, has been mentioned here and there already in my blog. And just like Cole, I always thought about it from the perspective of not getting influenced by other’s work: because I’m prone to that, I find the idea convincing. A few days ago, Bruce Percy** added another quite compelling reason: