I tried a new method with the color grading and distortion. I like this much better than the old one, it makes the photos look less real and more dream-like.
I have to apply these edits to every photo manually. It starts to get tedious after a while and makes my carpal act up, so while I’m going to have the edits on the final photos, I’m not going to be putting them on every photo leading up to the final version.
I tried to give the photos more of a self-contained theme and atmosphere here. I’m hoping to make something that’s open to interpretation as to what story it is trying to tell, with more of a dream-like atmosphere. I think this more ambiguous story, without any words or dialogu,e is the way to go on this.
This is partially because I felt like my initial story of “I find these boring places interesting because I don’t get out enough” is honestly just sad, not in a tragic way, but a pathetic way. The kind of sad where you just sit there and think, “Wow, this guy is boring!” and then move on. Does this mean that I’m going to have an epiphany and suddenly start going outside more?
No, I get overstimulated by nature. It is filled with dirt and bugs and sticky substances that get on my hands and won’t come off and grime that gets under my fingernails and in my ear and gunk that gets tangled in my hair and mud that dries on my skin and dead things everywhere like that dead opossum that I used to walk by every day on my way home from middle school that started becoming covered in shrooms and maggots and flies and beetles or when someone is mowing the lawn and shreds a chipmunk and you become scared of stepping in the lawn because you don’t want to get chipmunk guts all over your shoe.
Ok I think I’ve let all of that out now. I don’t edit these posts much, if it is not obvious. I prefer to just get my thoughts out as they are, rather than attempt to edit them into some form of pristine, falsified version of what I think on these matters. I am, as the kids say, “keeping it real” or something like that.
Getting back on topic, the photos are much more focused on the mechanical backside of the gas station this time around. They left the gate open this time, so I was able to get some different photos to give a better sense of action through each scene.
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I really like the way you edited these images the way the pixels change in the dark images really feels like the way your eyes try to correct in the dark.