New Public Display Continued..

• Published March 24th, 2009 by Mike Hucal III
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 For those of you following yesterday’s post I am happy to say we have added a couple of images that will be displayed at the Waterfront Place Building.

I selected the first image below because it represents one of the key fundamentals that I teach and live by here at my studio.  Look for art in everyday life!  While at Bradley Park in Peoria, I saw this scene.  The significance of this scene is that I was looking in the opposite direction playing with my kids and normally would not have had a camera in hand.  Today though I was there hoping to catch some moments of my family for my own use.  While I certainly accomplished that task I was presented this scene by following on of the simple rules I like to use when photographing.  LOOK!  Sound simple and yet silly but this scene was nowhere in my line of sight.  Something yelled turn around in my head and there it was.  To get the angle I needed I climbed to the top of the jungle gym and captured the scene.  The other key to this image was that I knew as I was shooting it what would be done postproduction.  This is what I call “seeing” the image.  Digital has given us the ability to capture hundreds if not thousands of images all with out the regard for the final image.  It is so easy to delete the images that we don’t like later.  I heavily encourage the students in my digital classes to stop doing this.  Obviously this image was edited postproduction to produce the painted effect you see in it.

The second picture was a result of a relationship formed prior to us ever picking up the camera.  Here the wind effects are real.  This couple desperately wanted some pictures by one of their favorite ponds.  Once again had I just settled on that request this picture would have never happened.  Their trust in me, and their devotion for each other, made this shot possible.  With a little help of Mother Nature I had very little if anything that needed to be done to this image!