Black and White Images From Imnaha
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Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. My name is Billy Newman. I’m a photographer based in the northwest, and I try and shoot a lot of landscape images. I’m also working on a lot of commercial photography and product photography stuff. I’m trying to build my career in the arts, and you’re listening to my podcast, it’s on my website, and it’s on iTunes, it’s on a few other places that maybe you can find it if you googled it something about my name, or something about the title, but who knows what that’s gonna be. Today, I’m talking about cool photo that I photographed in the imnaha River Canaan out in Eastern Oregon. And it’s a one that I think I was talking about the other day on the podcast, but just went up on Instagram, that’s at Billy Newman. And it’s a black and white conversion of a raw file that I shot out in Eastern Oregon in the river, or the imnaha River Canyon, which is just over from the Hells Canyon river area. And it’s really beautiful over there. It’s really one of my favorite spots, that in the wallowa Mountains, Hells Canyon, it really seems like that northeast corner of Oregon and probably into Idaho as a lot of cool landscape stuff that I’ve always been pretty fond of pretty interested in that kind of terrain and landscape. And so I love getting out there and I love getting to the back country, or out on the Forest Service roads a little further away from the heavier population areas. Like you know, the tripod holes that are left over at all the national parks, if you’ve if you’ve ever done the national parks tour, you kind of know what I mean. But a lot of the kind of on rails locations within the national parks have a lot of people out there a lot of visitors and with that you kind of get a lot of duplication of the same sort of creative style or, or creative opportunities, you know, you get everybody looking at half done from the same spot at the creek in Yosemite, or, or whatever other location, it might be that you can consider as a as sort of a not overused, because they’re still beautiful and interesting. And each person should get the opportunity to go there and photograph them or you know, make something of them for themselves and of themselves. But it’s difficult to sort of find that original take or the original angle, it’s kind of material that’s sort of been over before. And and in that you sort of have to get a little bit more adventurous when you’re trying to be creative. And you have to you have to find some new pieces to kind of put together or culminate into something that’s as special or as interesting to look. And yeah, so trying to work on some of the distribution around some of that that artwork stuff. But But yeah, so process and through a lot of the photos from the September trip that we did, through a bunch of Eastern Oregon. And that’s all been really, really great, I’ve been happy to be able to get out and try and get a bunch of photographs handled. But yeah, I’m trying to look around through Lightroom. And I’ve been putting a lot of work in editing a lot of the photos in the library from the last month or so. But this image from M na, it’s got a lot of detail and contour in it from the erosion pattern that’s happened, from the way that the waters eroded the imnaha River Canyon out of what was probably a more flat surface area, originally, you know, a long time ago. And it’s really interesting to kind of look at the water erosion patterns as you move around and travel across Oregon, but there’s a lot of really amazing features that you get to see. So that’s kind of part of why I tried to pull this into a black and white photo, to try and focus the eye a little bit more on some of the details and contours of the line in it instead of the saturation and kind of draw a pull of the color. I remember learning about that kind of early on when I was getting into photography when I was going through and I was reading a bunch of books about about photography and color theory and design and, and like composition and all those sorts of things, they really come together. It’s such a, like a practiced art form, there’s really nothing you read and then understand Absolutely, it’s really you read it, and then you spend a lifetime kind of learning about it. So you get closer to the practice of coming in properly. And that’s always been said, there’s just just an interesting piece of being a human or being conscious and sort of how your knowledge about a topic develops over time. But just even in that of understanding color theory and composition, it’s so much more advanced for myself than it was years and years ago. And there’s so many other people that are such such further along are so much further along down this road of understanding and and sort of competently being a good athlete, if you could kind of think of it in that sense of just being able to perform and like show up and perform and get something really amazing and beautiful. And they’re just able to understand how to put different pieces together in ways that are more visually interesting. So it’s it’s an amazing talent and a really amazing refined skill. That’s, that’s practice and take, you know, it just takes a lifetime to get good at it sort of like practicing medicine or what is like the application of practical Sciences is the practice of them. It’s not really the execution of them. It’s not like it’s a different topic. But it’s interesting that you know, you kind of see some of the similarities where you find out about something that is absolute, but then you just have to practice its implementation and especially in art or in creative fields, you really see that that kind of come up a lot where no one no person’s creativity, or there’s no perfect form of creativity as a truth. And so a lot of people have to find all these different avenues to try and approach it. Or to try and demonstrate, you know, something creative. And really with creativity, you you have to do something new or something novel all the time. It’s not that you can reproduce or, or pathologically go down that same route that had existed before, and derive as much value from it. It’s especially true in comedy and music and a handful of things, it seems like, it seems like just the idea can get burned out, it’s kind of strange that can be so that’s why you have to kind of keep pursuing novel things and keep pursuing something better, or you know, something more. But as little old me here in Oregon, I’m just trying to pursue something pretty. And something interesting while I learn about the art of photography, and learn about the business of it, I put so much effort and time into trying to figure out how to how to put together an act, you might say, or how to put together a portfolio, what is good art, what is photography, I don’t even know if I got that heavy into it. But just what is interesting to me, what stirred me up. And so yeah, I’m currently trying to focus and double down on the business side of that, and now that I’ve developed, at least a little bit of a backbone in the art side of it, and I’ve been trying to pay my dues for the past couple years of, I don’t know, if they’re hell gigs, you know, you talk to successful people sometimes that are a little older, and you know, a little bit more devout, and whatever their career is, and they talk about the early days of you know, how it wasn’t always that way. I don’t know, if I really have health stories like that, you know, have really terrible gigs, or anything, I’ve really always been quite fortunate in the type of work I got to do. But definitely entry level, definitely entry level for a long time. So lots of stuff, lots of clients that aren’t quite everything you would always want. And that’s sort of I guess, how it goes at the beginning. But I still kind of pursue it and trying to learn. And I don’t know, trying to get like a valid amount of experience before I really have to put that forth. And before I really start charging for it, by the way, too. So I just got to work every day and trying to put together photos videos, trying to hum in distribution, that’s a big one. Got to figure out the distribution of some of these. I’m working on great stuff. But I really need to work on how many people get to see all this great stuff. And yeah, that’s something that that’s always kind of keen in my mind. So I don’t know, if you want to help my distribution, you can go to Instagram and check out at Billy Newman to see this photograph. I just put up the ima imnaha River Canyon in Eastern Oregon. Really beautiful spot out there. But yeah, it’s kind of a cool area, that vantage point, it just kind of shows like sort of an angle like a caddy corner angle, up the in the high River Canyon, as you see the draw the erosion of the way that the water is pulled from the top of the mountain down to the riverbed. And it’s just really interesting to see all those contours right as the sun’s coming up. So you see a lot of detailing shadows and stuff in the landscape. But yeah, fun times over there. Man. That was a busy trip all over Oregon during that. So if you want to check out more, go to Billy Newman photo calm at Billy Newman on Instagram. Again, thanks a lot for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast.