It’s hard to express just how I feel, after a day of viewfindering with my adapted Nokia N82. I know, I need to practice more, my “scanning” has a very low resolution. But the experience of photographing this way is intoxicating. I found that if I relaxed and didn’t try to somehow make mental images of the sound I was able to just frame and shoot. I could check the LCD to find out if I captured the sound pattern that I had picked up with the N82. That’s pretty accurate framing in my case. Haven’t had a chance to look at the batch I shot today with someone, and I processed them with a basic preset. But they all sound pretty interesting to me, especially this one, that I took in Tilburg station, which has a fantastic roof by Maaskant.
This image’s sound: a rippling noise, with a clear line ascending in tone, and one descending.
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…and can you hear the sound of other’s images?
I first saw your images on flickr, and then read your entries here.
This and some of the top views in the white water rafting run reminded me of your video in the metro about framing which taught me a lot..
i can review others’ images in the same way as I do my own, so yes, I hear them. Hard to describe - I like something with clear characteristics, contrast between light and dark and strong shapes. These are easiest. I suspect I’ll be more finely tuned to this over time. Early on, I used loupes to see images and this gave the same loss of resolution, and I liked or disliked going by the impressions I had. This is not so different.
that video was lost in the “great crash” that necessitated a global reset of the server, deleting all its contents. I should make a new one and add the sound coming from vOICe, somehow. Ah! that’s a next project then.
Amazing. Even vicariously, this is energizing me.
Yes, energizing, that’s the word I was looking for.