Now how is that for a cliche. I must say, however, if it had not been for my sleep dysfunctions, I would not have gotten so deeply into film and begun to teach film classes. Many evenings I had to lay down and rest, and I could watch a lot of the great movies as I rested.
The same with digital photography. I've never been a person who could sit still for more than fifteen minutes. But with sleep dysfunctions, well, I'm down resting. My head may be too foggy for high mathematics, but I can play with images and color from my photos on the computer.
My daughter gave me a rating of C- on my last batch of photos I was proud of. They were, of course, about 3 out of 150 I had taken. "I'm tired of seeing all the bright colors," she said. I had been thinking the same thing.
I believe half the reason I work the images up in bright colors is that they look good in thumbnails for potential customers to purchase on the internet. I'm going for darker images now, and then I'll be doing more pastels.
I am still drawn (not always) to the idea that a picture is a flat surface, and we should treat it as a flat surface and not play games and try to imply depth. But that's just an aesthetic idea, useful to me for a period of time. I'm already starting to move beyond it.
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