aerial maneuvers
..wifey took a shot of these fruit flies trapped in our homemade fruit fly trap.. it reminds me of those prehistoric insects trapped in amber.. i also cloned out a few of them and, voila, it looks like a sequence of shots of a fruit fly doing some gymnastic move.. a flip and a somersault perhaps?
Having an interesting vision and impeccable timing helps if you want to be a good photographer. However, these days we have all kinds of digital technologies so that we can cheat and tweak a photograph to suit our mood. Saturate a colour here , add a few other characters there, chop a frame or transform loud colours into muted black and white– whatever we feel like.
If only we had such corrective and creative systems for other things. Imagine– if we made a sloppy mistake in a billiard or poker (www.partypoker.com) game, we could go back in time and enhance it to match the right decision. At school, if we bombed an exam we could go back and delete our errors, filling the page with genius instead. Wouldn’t that be great? Perhaps in the future. For now we’ll stick to photography and these fruit flies.
