As you will remember from our recent tea, Professor DR Schreiber practices the science of "natural philosophy" as a historical conjurer. At a recent small gathering, the professor invited a local photographer to capture the spirit of LBT. Little did we know that Mr Glen Bledsoe is also a member of the magicians' guild, applying the art to his camera lens. Here is an excerpt from our correspondence, after the shoot:
Mr Bledsoe:
"The low lighting was a particular challenge. My camera doesn't have a particularly high ISO compared to newer cameras. At 1600 the images were still dark and very noisy. However, thinking more like a painter than a photographer I post processed them in a way that reminds me of paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries."
Mme Theo:
"I was musing to myself, after seeing the first batch, that you seem to have transferred a magician's art of illusion & glamour and transposed it onto your photography. Is it a conscious effort, or just a surprising side effect of your two hobbies overlapping?"
Mr Bledsoe:
"Artists of all kinds create illusions. As a writer I create illusions in my readers minds, paint pictures, tell stories. Magic is much the same. Good magic tells a story while it creates an illusion. Photography or any of the graphic arts is similar. The purpose of a photo or a painting is to get your viewer to notice something visually that you, the artist, notice and want to the viewer to see as well. You may have to alter slightly or extensively that image so that the viewer will notice it as you did. That alteration is the illusion."
Here are just a sampling of the fairy glamour sprinkled over the evening:
Catch some magic yourself & contact Mr Bledsoe here: http://glenbledsoe.com/
To find out more about Natural Philosophy, you can find the professor here: Historical Conjurer
Best Regards,
Mme Theo
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