Thursday, May 21, 2009

Panorama

I pass by the site of this construction every week and I never really notice it. To me, it was just there, it was something I passed by. I never really paid attention to it until I really got up close to it. I was looking for a cool panorama to shoot and I passed by the crane and the color and the height really got my attention. The one by it, which was black actually didn't catch my eye because it blended in and was normal. I loved it so I shot it and I was hoping it would turn out well, turns out it's one of my best panos. I love how the bottom of it is disproportionate because it adds to the photo, it's one little weird thing that you just have to notice. I would always go to the same old places to shoot, the park, my house, other people's houses, etc. and I really wanted to find new places, places that were hidden to me before. I wanted to find places that I had never shot before and I succeeded. I've realized through this that sometimes, the coolest photos are never in the places you expect them to be. They're in the most normal places boring places, but the photos turn out awesome because it's not something everyone shoots. People would usually be like, what is cool about this place? It's just a crane and there's nothing that cool about it, but there is. This photo is one of those. Before I found this crane, I was feeling frustrated that I couldn't find something good enough to shoot and when I saw this, the frustration didn't go away that fast, but there was a happiness in me. I think the crane shows my emotions from then, it's a red and it's successful and a great photo but the hard metal texture of the crane and its strength shows the little bit of frustration left in me at the time. I think the reason it's good is mainly because I was shooting how I felt and it somehow just came to me naturally rather than me trying to search everywhere for something that didn't fit.

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