Final image for Eighties Magic!
9 September 2007, Photography
| I recently finished the final image for Eighties Magic, so whether you saw my sneak-peek a few weeks back or not, be sure not to miss the final! | |
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Bryan |
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These last few weeks have been very busy for me, and personally I am beginning to wonder how some of you keep up your blogs so regularly. Regardless, because I truly wish to stay connected with you... here I am.
I am not a huge video game person, but I do enjoy an occasional 15 minutes with the old XBOX, and a skateboard or snowboard game. In-fact most of the games I own are games that can be played for a few short minutes here and there. This is because I don't have the time to get deeply involved with role playing, or other such games. However, years ago after a near fatal snowboard accident, I spent over two months on my back, unable to move, and I played "Splinter Cell" the entire time. Needless to say, I beat the game, but more importantly, I feel I did learn something.
Even-though the hallways, and most of the buildings and courtyards were modeled after real places in the world etc, they were fake. They were places created for my enjoyment. The scary thing is I feel almost emotionally attached to some of those levels... as if only "I" experienced them. I also sometimes feel I was somehow smarter than the computer generated soldiers that I battled, as if I thought of something they didn't plan on.
The reason I have told you this is because I also feel strongly attached [even] "emotionally" attached to my photo's. So much of each image I create is from idea's and visions in my head. Not to mention all the time I spend --even days-- working on them. I then begin to feel that I was there... as if I was there "that night", (which in the case of "Eighties Magic", wasn't even a "night" at all), smelling the exhaust fumes from the car that wasn't running , and catching --ever so slightly-- the faint odor of the gas-station restroom ,spilling out from a door that was closed and in fact locked. Even in ninety degree weather, in the middle of a summer day, I can still feel the "cool night air".
I shot this gas station near my home in Utah, where I live. The subjects were shot weeks earlier, and the car was shot just a few days later. I really wanted to capture the gritty feeling of that "night", as if I could wipe the sweat and lipstick smudges off his face with a towel. As if at any moment, a short stocky gas station attendant would waddle around the corner scratching his head, in confusion.
It's just like those video games to me sometimes, where I am able to look back and almost physically remember being there... and yet --at least as it is with my work, most of the time-- it doesn't even exist. So hopefully you guys can "get inside" my work, and get to where you "remember" the location, or "feel" you have been there... somewhere, sometime in the past. Trust me, it's really cool.
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10 September 2007 - 14:04:05 -
Team Louish
I love the burnt wall by the transformer on the neon sign, which resulted in a blown "rest" neon part of the sign. Nice.
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11 September 2007 - 20:22:06 -
utahjamie
Awesome work, they never looked better!
signed-mother of subjects and class drop-out
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5 October 2007 - 8:43:52 -
Bryan
-Utah Jamie
It is always very exciting to hear great things from people who know my subjects, especially their mother:) Thanks!
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Amazing photo. How do you get that final result!?
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14 October 2007 - 0:06:49 -
Bryan
-Photosbyrowell
I am glad you enjoy the image! To answer your question, it might help to know my backround, (refer to my blog entry "The LOOK"), and know that some of these images take 30+ hours to complete. So the FINAL result is more like a huge process of layers and trial and error till I like it. Keep up the good work!
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28 October 2007 - 15:47:36 -
DEREK
Wow... did you add skid marks or is that a shadow?
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28 October 2007 - 20:04:50 -
Bryan
Derek, yes, I did some study on 4- way skids, glad it worked! Thanks
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10 December 2007 - 10:31:00 -
Bum
this is actually a pretty bad ass picture :D i give it you 10 bum points :D
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