Rough night for reshoots

[olivermoss]

I went tonight to reshoot my favorite piece of street art. My current shot is not great. I shot it at like 3 AM, streetlights off, no store lights, etc. Portland hates lighting it's streets. Anyway, I didn't pixel peep and realize that my ISO sucked. I went out tonight carrying a tripod so I could ensure a perfect shot.

My previous shot:




The piece is gone. Someone took it and goddam it, it wasn't me. I'd never take someone's street art, but in this care I was tempted. No reshoot for me, it is no more.

I then went to do a very overdue reshoot of yard art. I am pretty sure I found the house again, but the art is no more. The yard had hands coming out of the dirt holding remote controls. A bit dated, but very Portlandy and the hands were perfectly sculpted. I cannot find my original shot. It must be somewhere, but I cannot find it or find where I might've hosted it for posting.

I walked 6 miles with my normal camera gear and a tripod. For what? My health? Okay, that is a good reason. Also a small furry void creature decided to love me aggressively for about 5 blocks. Portland streets can be dark, so dark I can't see my feet. A super fluffy black cat ran into me and demanded pettings. The cat then walked between my legs for five blocks with her tail around my right leg. Very sweet, but I had to sort of waddle to make sure I didn't accidentally step on fluffy toes.

I am going to look again for the hands, but I suspected they were gone. They were too good. If they were still around I'd see other shooting them a lot.

Comments

[st_aurafina]

Oh no, small furry void creature!!

[mistressofmuses]

That is a serious bummer about the art being gone. :(

The skull piece is *amazing*. I'm glad you do have a picture of it (though I'm sorry it's not as good a picture as you would like.)

While my area doesn't have as impressive an outdoor art scene, I AM always disappointed when something neat disappears. (Usually here it'll be a cool bit of graffiti or something that gets painted over or defaced.)

I am happy that The Void chose to accompany you, though.

[olivermoss]

I love the skull. I still have the raw files so maybe I could find a way to sharpen it? I could give it a bash at least.

I really need to be quicker on the reshoots in case something happens.

[mistressofmuses]

It would definitely be worth trying! Even this picture without messing-with looks decent to me.

The fairly temporary nature of so many art pieces is sometimes very unfortunate. I realize that that's often an intrinsic part of street art, is knowing it won't be there forever, but it's still sad when things disappear before you want them to.

[olivermoss]

Ah, that picture is already de-noised and I am hiding the blurriness by downscaling it. My camera can do good in the dark, but I was tired and didn't check the pixels.

It's sad to see a piece that nice disappear, while like some broken CD mobiles seem to last forever. And that's part of why it's good to get pictures while they are still around. I need to up my game so I have less regrets.