Unpredictability

Those Tulips & live light paintings, where difficult to manage. It's results often turn out unpredictable. Most of them turned out mush. Kind of like seriously failed images.

And then suddenly, one turned out really nice.

A touch of van Gogh type of background - with wavy light trails from behind (made with the "Ants on a Melon" Critter LED + black brush). Really cool, as it stuck directly into my eyes as pleasant and different.

However, regardless what I do with light painting... i just never seem to come close to what I visualize it to turn out. (I am quite flexible - so it isn't a problem. But i am surprised that it often doesn't even come close to what I expect it to turn out).

Short: I never seem to get a sense of deep connection between my TOOLS and their effects / results in photos. It is surprising (and a bit annyoing), because I am really good with visualizing things in photography, and working with getting there.

On the contrary, I am also sometimes open to "unexpected results" and even "errors". In other words; A sort of 'uncontrolled photography'. Where the photographer allows things to "become", rather then trying to determine /steer the results.

"Uncontrolled Double Exposures"

Earlier times, I use to put a film roll into Hasselblad XPan panorama camera in the photo studio, take 21 images - rewind them - and then expose the roll anew. That way, uncontrolled double exposures emerged - which at times creates very interesting, at times even strange "interactions" in the person what was in the frame. You never knew, how the person got combined (with him or her self) in the final double exposure.

The Hasselblad XPan had no double exposure mode. Nor has/had the Leica M6.

Where are they ??

Gosh, I thought I had more negatives scanned with "uncontrolled double exposures" - but no, barely any.

July 2000 • Johannes

June 2000 • Ralf