In Charlotte at the Light Factory, the annual Member’s Show is opening this Saturday July, 11th from 6-9pm. It should be a good show and you can see some of my work there too. Can’t beat that.
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Light Factory Member’s Show
July 10, 2009A moment’s gesture
July 9, 2009Its always interesting to find that little bit of luck you sometimes get when making a photo. That decisive moment, or fortuitous gesture that brings it all together. That is part of the magic and intrigue of photography. Things can just come together for that one instant, and if you’re there and ready, you can capture it.
Copyright Scott Lessing Hubener
Portrait of Stephany
July 6, 2009A month or so ago I photographed Stephany at her home. She worked with me for the afternoon allowing me to make some portraits. There were several places in her house that we used for settings. The kitchen had this great wallpaper that was so dated, but full of character. The house had this cool living room, too, with great window light and a couch and paint color that rocked. Then we also took some pictures in her room, which is the photograph below. It was the last room I saw and on my first impression the least favorite setting. However, the picture that I took there is probably my favorite from the entire afternoon. The other settings did work well, and produced some nice portraits, but the shot of Stephany looking out the window seemed to have so much more working for it.
Originally I thought the sparseness of the other rooms may have worked better for making a successful image, but the bedroom with its more cluttered appearance really adds a dimension that was lacking in the other photos. Also, the colors with the flash seem to grab the viewers attention. Lastly, the pose of her on the futon and looking out the window adds an element of mystery.
Copyright Scott Lessing Hubener
More Wrestling
July 1, 2009I’m working on getting together a slideshow of the wrestling I’ve been to over the last couple weeks. Last weekend I got some audio to go with the photography and I’m editing the audio now to add to the slideshow. Once I’ve gotten it completed I’ll post the entire slideshow. There are just so many photos that are worthy of the matches and I want to do justice to the whole experience, both visually and the auditory theatrics and pummelings that go into it.
One of the photos that I really love is this one below of the ref “finding” some contraband brass knuckles on one of the wrestlers and scorning him for attempting to bring it into the ring.
Copyright Scott Lessing Hubener
Barnardsville
June 21, 2009Portrait of Hayes taken last week up in Barnardsville. I spent a couple hours up there and photographed the community.
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Wrestling
June 15, 2009Wrestling!
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June 5, 2009
Back to working on my 19/23 highway project. The photography series of food I’ve been working on is almost done, and there are some events coming up that I can incorporate into the 19/23 work, including documenting a wrestling series! There are other activities that I need to fit into this project so I’ve been making some lists and examining “holes” in the work.
This photo was taken the yesterday and was one of my favorites from the roll. I saw the scene and went to set up the camera but then hesitated. I almost didn’t take the shot but then pressed the shutter. The image came out as well or maybe even a little better than I guessed it would.
Copyright Scott Lessing Hubener
It Was 20 Years Ago Today
June 4, 2009A pic of the mysterious Tank Man. Lens Blog has a good story from the various photographers who captured the photo. Apparently, there is still uncertainty to the man’s identity and fate. Of course China isn’t talking. They are also interfering and attempting to disrupt any international coverage taking place now to commemorate the event by blocking shots in Tianamen Square.
Copyright Jeff Widener/AP
Food
May 28, 2009More food shots for my 30 Photos in 60 Days project. I’ve gotten about half of them done and still have about another 30 days left, so I’m right on schedule.
Copyright Scott Lessing Hubener
Do more by doing less
May 23, 2009I’ve not been feeling it lately. Not sure what the deal is but this week has been difficult to create new work I’m satisfied with, or any at all for that matter. A lot of things just don’t come together or seem lackluster. I even made some portraits and stupidly didn’t set my camera to the X sync for flash so none of the images came out. That’s something I haven’t done in a really long time. On the up side, I can go back and do them again, so its not a total loss. Maybe I’m not inspired, but that doesn’t really feel like the problem. One potential issue is overthinking things, and that could definitely be a little bit of the problem. When things are going well, you just flow and go along for the ride and sometimes when it seems things aren’t flowing right, one tends to be overzealous or force things, and that just doesn’t fly.
Especially when photographing people, I can tend to get impatient. Portraits take time; that’s the main ingredient and at times my patience is lacking. But I recognize this and will try harder by trying less. It reminds me of the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, where Paul Rudd’s character plays a surf instructor teaching Jason Segal to suff and admonishing him, “don’t try to surf, don’t do anything, just don’t do it”, he says. He then tells him to jump up from lying on his board but this time when he does it to do less. So Jason just lies there, and Paul says,”Well no, you gotta do more than that.” I think that is the situation going on here.
