|| iTunes: Jonsi--Go Do ||Earlier this summer, I decided I wanted to do a photo project for this break from school. Specifically, I wanted to document major events of my summer vacation, but I wanted the images to be out of focus. My reasoning behind it was this--I can remember these things now and I can see them in my mind as clearly as I could look at a photograph of them. But in a few years, I might be able to remember what I did this summer but it's going to be fuzzy and out of focus. I'll lose the unimportant details of what happened. So, I wanted to try and capture an image that would be more representative of the memories I will have of this summer.
At first, I just took images that were out of focus. But last Wednesday night, the Coffee Shop crew and myself went for "area night out." Every department of camp goes off site once a week for some bonding time. I get to pick where I want to go since I don't have a team exactly, except for Josh Clark who is over at Adventure Outpost 90% of the time, and we only see each other when we're uploading and editing pictures at night in the offices.
So Matt, JoAnna, Lauren, Rebekah, Heidi, and I all piled into the van to go to Eagle River. It was during this van ride that it occurred to me that using a synthesized tilt shift lens effect (literally taking out the lens and tilting while holding it up to the camera body) would be more appropriate than just having the pictures out of focus. Because somethings I will remember more than others. Really unimportant details will fade, but somethings will be more prominent in my memory. I really liked this idea. I wish that I had thought of this sooner, but I think that the project will still be able to work, even if it's only covering half of the summer.
