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Autumn Leaves (2003)

bensavoca — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:26:41 +0000

More from the photo shoot in Cincinnati.

Anemone II (2003)

bensavoca — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:21:36 +0000

These flowers were in the same meadow as ‘Anemone I.’ Those two images, as well as another of a bird nest in the field, I bundled together as a three-photo set, had prints made, and framed them for my mother for Mother’s Day.

Yellow Leaf (2003)

bensavoca — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:20:54 +0000

When photographing, I often exploit my independence from film – I take a number of shots of the same subject. Still, I also discipline myself not to delete images from the camera’s memory card until I see them on my computer screen.

This image was one of about fifteen I took of this branch. Some focused on the leaf, some on the branch. Some were oriented to have the branch straight and the leaf diagonal, and vice versa.

Looking at the images on the LCD screen on my camera, this would have been one of the images that would have been up for deletion. Luckily, I held onto it long enough to see the great detail in the barck of the branch.

Bee (2003)

bensavoca — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:19:33 +0000

Leaving the DAAP building one day in May, I heard a buzzing in the sculpture garden nearby. Bees were pollinating the freshly opened flowers, so I decided to whip out my camera to document this rite of Spring.

I must have underestimated the speed at which these little insects moved. I hardly had time to focus, let alone set up a shot and take it. It got to the point where I switched to AutoFocus and started shooting randomly into the flowers.

This method luckily produced this image. The bee was in focus, positioned dynamically in the shot, and the diagonal stems of the flowers provided an interesting line system from which the bee and his perch may diverge.

For a full-resolution image, see my ZenPhoto gallery

Anemone I (2003)

bensavoca — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:16:08 +0000

In Spring of 2003, the design task for Studio was to develop a sustainable school building for a Waldorf elementary school. We made frequent visits to the site, a lovely meadow teeming with flora and fauna. My Fuji’s built-in macro lens came in handy for close up shots like this one.

Autumn Leaves (2003)

bensavoca — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:13:30 +0000

Brilliant days in autumn are hard to come by, but the combination of the azure sky with the intense colors of Fall provided quite a palette with which to work. To think of the infinite spectrum of color in the universe, and it has to be boiled down to a measly 256 colors to be displayed on the Web.

Tower of Light (2003)

bensavoca — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:33:11 +0000

Beacon (2002)

bensavoca — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:32:33 +0000

Power Plant (2002)

bensavoca — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:32:03 +0000

Cincy by Night (2006)

bensavoca — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:28:20 +0000

Cities based along a body of water lend themselves to night photography. The skyscrapers glow upward from the streetlights below, and reflect their multicolored light onto the water.

The night was just windy enough to gloss over the water, and make for a classic ‘postcard’ shot.