52Frames - Week 28 - Edited By Someone Else
With the freedom to shoot any subject this week, and have someone else edit, I wanted to shoot my favorite genre, Street Photography. However, with Covid, I also had to avoid mingling amongst strangers.
Out on a drive, camera at the ready, I saw this old, non-descript motel; one of those likely frequented by truckers back in the day when Milwaukee Avenue was a major truck route before the advent of interstates and superhighways. Today, who knows...hourly rates maybe?
I shot about a dozen frames (none of them stellar), selected 3 of them and sent off to a super-creative photographer in my 52Frames Mini-Group, Anna Hylton. Anna described her creative process as follows:
"I loved the old timey hotel marquee - I can just picture it lit up with neon - very Route 66! so I decided to focus on it with a severe crop. Similarly, I chose the b&w because the inherent colors do nothing for the scene (that's the rule I use: do the colors add anything? if not, ditch 'em!). I added a 50px white border to bring some support to the whole thing AND to give it an old-timey, polaroidy feel..."
IMHO, Anna did an amazing job! I am very grateful for her excellent work and the lessons I learned from her process.
Taken 7/8/20
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