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Owen Fiene January 9, 2024

f? | 1/200 | ISO400

New [old] Lens

Recently picked up a converter for my old Canon FD 50mm 1.4 SSC. So far, the most difficult thing about it getting back into MF mode in my head and also my need to get some contacts again as the glasses interfere too much with my focusing. But it is really fun to play with a lens that I once carried every day for 2 years.

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Owen Fiene January 4, 2024

Family time!

f/5.6 | 1/80 | ISO200

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Owen Fiene January 3, 2024

f8 | 1/160 | ISO200

Winter Moon

Taken on 27.12.23 at 12:04, this photograph illustrates well how crazy the light is here in Iceland in December. The moon was neither rising nor setting, instead hovering on the horizon and you could track the movement of earth over time as the moon travelled parallel with the mountains in the distance and slowly growing in size as it approached the mountain closer to my position on the coast. Perspective changing all the while, a perfect allegory of life.

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Owen Fiene January 2, 2024

f2.8 | 1/80 | ISO1600

White Christmas

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Owen Fiene June 12, 2023

Summer of Green (Zine, 2023)

Where are you being thrown out?

Where is the last

memory

you

being

discarded?

I was asked this by a man on an island; someone from the past. It rang true as everyone is being consumed by the digital black hole that is memory. We lose more to it by the passing day. We gleefully send information into it at an alarming pace.

Think of where the last memory of you will end. Entropy? Singularity? So where are your memories being lost? They are being thrown out by something at this very second. A brain somewhere is losing the memory of your first whatever it is and it will never come back. Post it to wherever, it will disappear at some point. Only tangible things last into the future long enough to change the way the memory of you survives.

If you don't produce a single tangible thing, the memory of you dies with the last person to think of you. You end.

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Owen Fiene June 5, 2023

f/5.6 | 1/640 | ISO400

As I approach the gravestone, the first thing that catches my attention is the meticulous organization of the surrounding shrubs. They are expertly shaped and trimmed, as if each leaf has been carefully pruned to perfection. Yet, amidst this impressive display of horticultural prowess, the gravestone stands out in contrast. Its weathered surface and fading lettering suggest the passage of time and the weight of history. It seems almost out of place amidst this pristine landscape, reminding me that even the most well-groomed exterior cannot erase the memories and stories of those who have passed on.

(AI wrote the above paragraph)

What really happened was that as I approached this marker I was struck by the amount of geometry represented in the space. All of the dominating shapes being derived of rectangles. The next step in capturing the photograph was determining the best way to meter the light. I wanted to give the green a lot of power, so I under-exposed in order to show the highlight of the bright green against a dark shadow. Leaves tend to allow for so a lot shadow directly next to highlights and it is important not to lose either in order to create the range that makes the colour most natural. After my first exposure, the idea of showing more of the marker came to me and with a step closer, I was able to give the gravestone more of a elongated rectangle.

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Owen Fiene May 30, 2023

f/4 | 1/100 | ISO100

Summer Morning

As of late (seemingly the last 3 three years) I have been busy. It’s so nice when I get the chance to walk with my son on a morning full of sun. I’m looking for things like the photograph above. The sun making a highlight on the trees in a way that can only be found interesting when you take the time to stop and look at it.

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Owen Fiene April 26, 2022

ƒ/5.6 | 1/320 | ISO100

Now that I’ve completed sharing a roll of portraits, I’ll follow it up with…another portrait. But this one is special to me, it’s easily one of the most amazing photos that I’ve taken in a while. Sometimes things just come together like so and make it special. The lighting here is really crazy as it looks as though Maggie is on a stage with the background added in later in post. I’m super proud of this one (and the photograph ;) too).