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How much should you charge for a photograph?The Wandering Tree project
This rather odd series of photos came about in the summer of 2008. I'm no longer sure why, exactly, but I decided it would be cool to spray-paint a couple of large branches white, and lug them around to various different locations and shoot long exposures with them in the foreground. For two months I worked on this idea, which was pretty tiresome—the branches were heavy and difficult to balance upright, with a tendency to topple over halfway through a 200sec exposure, for example. Ultimately I just became fed up with the whole thing, and the branches ended up starring in another complicated project. (Last time I checked, the shed had been torn down, and the branches nowhere are to be seen.)
Now I find these photos strangely compelling, like snapshots of a couple of tree-tourists wandering around Iceland ... Wish I'd had the patience to make a few more.
Comments
A very good idea - I like the idea of "landscape plus", where an artist brings some feature of their own.
(In my case, I tried it with boots too.)
I've always found trees and especially birch and similarly barked trees compelling, that's what those branches remind me of.
But I have a technical question. Besides the fact that trees are unusal in Iceland why do those look photoshopped into the picture, in every picture?
Is the atmosphere in Iceland really that heavy that a 20 second exposure blurs what you haven't focused the camera on?
...., and what kind of paint is that?
not 20 second, most of these are well over 200 seconds. and I was there lugging them around and balancing them so I know they're definitely "there", but I completely see what you mean about them appearing ps-d into the pictures. Partly I think it's the stark contrast to the landscape, how out of place they are :)
OK, thanks for that. I've taken alot of pictures of birds and things and they are nice but it is easy. I think I will try some of your more arty techniques to make pictures of more mundane things interesting this year. Although I would have scoffed at it a few months ago your approach is definately creating interesting pictures and you are not just lucky.
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