Dual Views - A Side Project with Lisa Toll Week 28
For week 28, it seems relevant to share the words Lisa sent through with her photo:
Well. Fuck it. Here’s my 7/20/25 photo. This is the second photo I shot in my attempt to create an image for our project. The settings are somewhat normal- ISO 800 so not insanely noisy when I had to lift the shadows. This project is an exercise in just doing a thing and letting go of perfection. Is there a narrative in this image? No, it is just layers of clouds at the end of the street where I live. They layered clouds caught my attention as I looked east to see if I could make something.
Image captured at 7:12:07pm, sunset was 7:34pm.
Golden hour was more like blue hour and I just couldn’t make a photo I felt proud to share. I took 30 or so during a 40 minute period. Each successive image became more and more difficult & what little light I had to work with fell off fast.
I will chalk this one up to learning to let go of the need to control & only share work I’m “proud” to show. This image just .. “is”. That’s it, nothing stunning, nothing hidden waiting to be discovered, it just is.
I experienced my own struggles with my week 28 photo, for reasons that aren’t too dissimilar from Lisa’s. The sky has blown out highlights, a huge no no in the photographic world. There are protective covers around the base of some of the vines; despite them no longer being needed the owner of the block hasn’t yet had a worked remove them. The colour of them is, to me, ugly. If I’d have taken the time to change in camera settings I could have made the sky look better and positioned myself so the wraps aren’t in frame. But I was in a hurry, cold and tired after a long day. So my photo has imperfections too. As Lisa pointed out, letting go of perfection is a big driver of this project. The photo was taken, the brief was met. Now I let go and move on to the next photo.
Kim
Love this journey we are on friend!!