After several years of taking and editing photos and constant drive to replicate the exact look of the subject, you get a little bit bored and tired of that ”picture perfect” look. That is the first signal that photography is seriously getting under your skin and that you will never get tired of it.
You start experimenting, first with editing, and then suddenly you become more adventurous with which photo subjects you choose, start to see the compositions and light differently, and start taking photos which look beautiful to you, not others.
That is the moment you stop to be a replicator and step into an art photography. Am I there yet? Not quite but I am getting closer to it.
Are these photos underexposed, overexposed, sharp, in focus...to be honest I don't care! I love the look and feel of every single one.
It was a night-time and this tree was illuminated only by a street lamp, it looked spooky and I simply had to get the scene.
Two photos of ”nothing”, almost empty space, but the sky was gorgeous and the red dirt was in contrast with it... crazy colors and worth printing and framing.
Light experiment...drove in a car and put my camera on long exposure...light traces really look like a painting.
Pale black and white of simple snail shell...nothing spectacular ;-).
I am not too big of a fan of HDR, but it looks nice on this grass bush.
