{"id":333030,"date":"2021-10-09T14:39:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T18:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=333030"},"modified":"2021-10-09T15:38:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T19:38:19","slug":"how-to-make-more-enigmatic-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/09\/how-to-make-more-enigmatic-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO MAKE MORE ENIGMATIC PHOTOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What makes an enigmatic photo? A photo which is hard to decipher (even by you), in which you gotta squint closer to make sense of what you’re looking at. A photo that feels other-worldly. The only monochrome sublime aesthetic I’ve seen thus far is from Josef Koudelka<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

1. Experiment with different lighting situations <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Something interesting I have noticed and learned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To shoot minus-exposure compensation photos (as dark as possible) photos in the harsh Southern California sun is fascinating … the light renders differently on different surfaces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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No amount of post-processing can make a black and white photo to have a certain look in terms of the light reflections in a surface in a photo. Just stick to one camera, one lens, one JPEG filter … and keep that variable consistent, and what you experiment with is different lighting situations and environments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe this is the great secret behind making interesting photos in a boring environment — make the light itself your subject-matter and focus of your photographic experimentation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Disclarity <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The goal is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strive to make photos in which when you look at them, you don’t quite remember what it was … and you must use your memory and imagination to figure out what you’re looking at. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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What makes an enigmatic photo? A photo which is hard to decipher (even by you), in which you gotta squint closer to make sense of what you’re looking at. A photo that feels other-worldly. The only monochrome sublime aesthetic I’ve seen thus far is from Josef Koudelka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-06-at-11.57.44-AM-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1241&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333030"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333044,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333030\/revisions\/333044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}