Water is Art: The Pictures of the Week (KW 33)
Drops, waves and fountains: It’s summer and this week we see muted tones, lots of birds and water in different shapes.
Drops, waves and fountains: This week, color as a design element takes a back seat to most of the week’s images. Instead we see muted tones and lots of birds and water – understandable in the hot summer time.
This week, photographers Dominik Schnoor, Thomas Egenberger and Reinhold Hopf show that water is always good for a work of art. Schnoor managed to get the picture of a fleeing duckling by accident, because the little animal swam away faster than planned. Instead of the delicate feathers, the focus landed on the turbulent water surface of Lake Garda. But that’s what makes the picture so appealing. The chick is still recognizable as the trigger for the turbulence in the water, but the ripples in the evening light play the leading role.
The picture of the day by Reinhold Hopf is also about turbulent water. In contrast to the duck photo, the photo of an air gun bullet severing a water column has nothing to do with chance at all. It is the result of precise planning and some preliminary work. For this, the photographer built well thought-out electronics and set up four external flashes. Despite all the planning, the image result varied in the individual tests. Reinhold Hopf explains this by saying that as electromechanical components, solenoid valves have a certain tolerance. This was not the only hurdle for the project, explains the photographer. “The integration of an air gun including an automatic trigger seemed to be relatively complex, so a solenoid valve was also used to fire the bullet. Behind this was a compressed air tank and in front of the solenoid valve a plastic tube with a suitable diameter. On the opposite side was a box with plenty of Paper installed as a bullet trap.” The effort was worth it, as his impressive photo of the artfully severed water column shows.
The third picture in the round on the subject of water comes from photographer Thomas Egenberger and is limited to small bubbles against the light in a very minimalistic way. The high-key shot only lets us guess at the water through the small group of bubbles and a section of the water surface, which is what makes the photo so fascinating in its simplicity. The photographer reveals: “To enhance the minimal effect, the photo is placed on a larger background that has been uniformly worked out in white. I retouched the disturbing water stains on the glass pane and the waterline a bit.”
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The pictures of the week (week 33) (7 pictures)
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(Image: Reinhold Hopf)
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