Ally @ silver cloud

[crawdaddio]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/crawdaddio/allyatsilvercloud700.jpg

[Aprilraven]

gives it a ghostly image...almost eerie...

great great shot... i love this.... very retro....almost 40's ish....

[Calliope]

I've been finding your compositions and tones on your recent images very fascinating. I love it! Can I ask what goes through your mind when you take the photos? The way you compose your photos leaves a lot to the viewers mind - allows us to think and put our own spin on things. I don't know if it's your intention, but I really like it!

[crawdaddio]

Thanks Calliope.
I try to leave many of my photos up to viewer interpretation.
What goes through my mind? That's a toughy.......

I think about exposure and DOF first. I wanted this one to be narrowly focused and underexposed. I think about what it is that moved me to raise my camera, and try to convey that. I constantly experiment with composition and point of view. I figure I take about 10 shots to every GOOD 1. I frame alot of images completely a&& backwards from the 'rules' I was taught, and have taught myself, just to see what happens. As I develop and print and edit (and screw around even more in the darkroom or PS), the photos take shape and some I like, and keep, and a bunch just get archived. Many times I don't even really have an idea of what am trying to capture, some kind of emotion maybe, and it really comes out in the editing process. The click of the shutter is just the beginning.....

~DC

[Calliope]

Well I love it crawdaddio... I'm really impressed with your thought process. I'm gonna try what you do and see what I come up with. Wish me luck :D

[JonMikal]

each of us is well versed in photographing whole things, but we may not be so well versed in photographing parts of things. parts of things are not so easily seen because of our emphasis on the whole. your technique challenges us to fill in the missing pieces which invite many interpretations.

very well done as usual daddio!

[Anicole]

I've really been enjoying your path ... keep it up!