Pedantry in Art

So I posted a question regarding light leaks on a facebook page dedicated to die hard film lovers. It's safe to say I was surprised by the comments...

I asked if anyone knew any good safe tips for the technique as I really want to give it a go without ruining any other photo's or anything else. I was expecting tips , as I had asked however I was being encouraged to turn away from the idea completely. why? because people saw the technique as a fault.

Man , I was surprised! I wondered if they had read the post properly or if they thought I wanted to destroy my camera in the process but nope, simply just middle aged dude's telling me that it's a fault , it isn't something I should want to try or experiment with.

'As light leaks are a sign of an equipment fault and are random at best. Why ruin a perfectly good photograph ? It doesn't make sense'

You know what I say to that? AGHH.

Art doesn't have to make sense! and it is NOT a sign of equipment fault , not necaserily all the time anyway.

It's a CREATIVE technique.

I think possibly the most infuriating comment I read was :

'Then what your saying is the photograph isn't strong enough to stand on its own without the adornments of faults ?'

I had no idea that photographers could be so narrow minded, luckily I have yet to physically meet a narrow minded artist.

I love light leaks , I have seen so many pieces of art on Lomography.com where photographers have used light leaks purposely within their work along with dozens of other wonderfully eye opening experiments. I applaud those who encourage creativity and open mindedness. 

Until today I actually thought that all artists surely had to be open minded and creatively encouraging to create their own pieces? I mean how can you create a piece of art without being creative? I don't know , that's just my perception and opinion. Maybe I'm the one being narrow minded and uncreative haha.  

Both photographs there have accidental light leaks. (light being exposed to the film prior to processing causing random splashes of colour).

-Ella-

 

 

Minimalism

Something different from my usual work....

Not too sure how I feel about them yet. They are my response to a college project about minimalism photography. I really didn't like the idea at first but once I did a bit of research and started shooting I wasn't overly disappointed with the results as expected.

Thoughts?

Camera: Canon 600D

Lens: 18-55mm

-Ella-

Defying my Photography OCD

A thought...

There is so much competition between photographers in capturing the most perfect composed & technically correct image that theres oppotunities missed.

I've learnt a lot during my short time studying photography and whilst composing my images , that I know what technically makes a great image but sometimes when you see something so beautiful whether it be a stunning landscape or what you may think has the potential to be a perfect portrait but you might be unable to flawlessly get it right in the camera because somebody else might be in the shot (accidental photobomb) or maybe theres one leaf too many in the autumnal picture you want , you should press the shutter anyway!

''Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.” 

- Ansel Adams

what inspired this little rant you ask? 

 They did :)

Because , I am so in love with the colours in both of the photographs. These were taken with film , no photoshop has been used to enhance the colours at all. One of my favourite things ever is sunsets and sunrises. I have such an adoration for them and I was so excited seeing these two prints from processing. However they are not perfect , not technicially at all. The crop isn't wonderful , there are tree's where I wouldn't particularly want in the shot if I were to reshoot but I'm actually happy that I ignored my photography OCD (believe me that's a thing) and I snapped away anyway.

 When I got my OM-10 I found this on pinterest , the '10 golden rules' and number #6 is one of my favouties which relates to what I'm trying to say. Sometimes , just stop thinking and take the photo.

-Ella-

Found Film

Finally found my lost film roll! which was actually the second roll of film that I shot using my Olympus om-10 , it's an expired Tesco roll (tesco branded). These are my favourite shots. I'm constantly improving my photography and I think even from my second to third roll I can see improvement. 

Camera: Olympus OM-10

Film: Expired Tesco Colour 400