Channelling Todd

At the Taylor-Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition this year they featured photographs by Todd Hido. As I liked his portraits, I bought a book of his photographs ("Intimate distance") to discover his portraits were quite a departure from his usual style. One of his earlier collections was called "House Hunting" which is a series of quite ordinary US houses photographed at night, with one prominent lit window. He uses a unusual, unrealistic colour palette. As I had failed to take an image earlier today for my "Single in February" challenge on the US fora, I thought I would channel Todd and take an image in the spirit of his work. This image was created by using five bracketed images so that I could get both the window without blown highlights, but also the shadows of the trees in the moonlight. Whether it is art, I have no idea, but it is certainly in the right spirit!

Pentax K-3, SMC Pentax-FA 31mm Ltd, tripod, Photomatix Pro and Lightroom.



Feb 22: channelling Todd par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

Not sure why, but sometimes Lightroom seems to export jpgs darker than the edited raw files look in Lightroom. I've lightened-up by Channelling Todd image a little as the original looks a bit dark once I posted it (and I cannot edit the original post).



Feb 22- Channelling Todd (lighter) par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity