My first thought was to go for the grain, but I decided it would be almost clich�, so the first roll went to TX, which can provide a nice, controlled grain structure, which can be manipulated a bit with the condenser and the dichro head enlargers. But that's just technical stuff.
The trick is to find the situations and the images that represent what's happening in this person's mind and in his life that show the turmoil, depression, and estrangement he feels. The first step, for me, is to photograph interior of the the house. Here's a case where some specialized equipment may be helpful. The widest, fastest lens that I have is a 20mm/4.0, although there's a 20mm coming that's a stop faster. I'm kinda kicking myself for not getting the Olympus Zuiko 21/2.0 a while back, but it would have required buying a separate camera or having the lens expensively modified for the Pentax. I'd love to get hold of a 18mm or a 15mm to capture a somewhat broader expanse into which I can place the subject, but then there's the tradeoff between speed and view. Well, there's plenty of time to experiment. Cotty wrote: > Archetypal references suggest grainy black and white images of faceless > individuals vs. the world, placed at odds with everything else, discarded > and discordant. It would be only too easy to go for these shots. Truly > recording depression is not an easy task, but you knew that from the > outset. Off the tip of this head, I haven't a clue. Long and hard > thoughts needed. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
