Such persistence to arrive at an excellent image will be rewarded in
the after life, if you go there. :-)
On Jan 21, 2009, at 19:17 , John Sessoms wrote:
John Sessoms escreveu:
I've had this image in my head for about 30 years now, and have
never been able to do anything with it until now. Never would
have been able to do this with film.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/3214812646/
That kind of happened with this shot. This church is a couple of
blocks around the corner from my house.
I bought the house I live in about 35 years ago. The winter with all
the snow storms that led the city to enact their gotta' have chains
or 4WD if you go out in the snow happened soon after.
I was walking back home from where my car was stuck when I saw the
church surrounded by the snow with a full moon rising just off to
the left. It's an image that stuck with me.
It doesn't snow much in Raleigh. I'd tried to get the image on film
a couple of times when it did, even though that meant waiting for
years on end until a winter when we had a snow storm. But I could
never get a decent exposure ... there's just too much tonal range
for the latitude of film. I did try combining different
transparencies making masks using lith film, but it was just too
much for the limited facilities I had access to.
In the meantime, the front lawn of the church has been replaced by a
big parking lot. They added a private school there, so the parking
lot gets scraped as soon as the snow stops so the parents and
teachers have a place to park when the school re-opens after the snow.
The shots from the angle I wanted to shoot from don't have snow in
front of the church. I can probably clone it in, but I'm not sure
how I feel about that.
From this angle, you don't see the giant sea of asphalt.
Joseph McAllister
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