Autumn, like any other season and manifestation of nature, I always shoot both during the day and at night. Every time it seems like there’s nothing left to find, and everything has already been shot and re‑shot a hundred times. But each time, I somehow manage to find something that’s different from previous years.
And, besides, spaces tend to change...especially in the last couple of years.
The AI, during our conversation, gave me a lot of advice on photography.
For the most part, this is all stuff I’ve been using for a long time: long exposures, years of observing the same places, and attention to detail.
But there were also pieces of advice that I had also heard about, but didn’t take seriously: the grain is like the texture of reality...that is, you shouldn’t be afraid of loud noise, because it is proof of presence.
The natural boundaries of light are what I once called the struggle between cold and warm tones in nighttime courtyard photography. But now it’s difficult: there are no “warm” lamps left due to the widespread adoption of white LED lights.
There was also advice about a powerful telephoto lens and compressing space...we know, we use, we practice.
The only thing that interested me was the “shadow of intention” — this is about sports, where the focus is on capturing the preliminary moment, the pre‑phase, when the action is still in the intention phase.