This
past weekend Ingrid and I arrived back in Halifax, Nova Scotia after
two intense weeks of working together in the Republic of Ireland
creating the images for the Ingrid, the Ireland Portfolio.
The
trip was a great success, in spite of some challenging weather, narrow
Irish roads, and the seductive nature of cod & chips (for me) and
actual Guinness on tap (for others).
In twelve days of photography, Ingrid and I worked together in over thirty locations, and though it is early in the culling and processing stage, I already know we have made some of the strongest fine art nudesI have made in years!
During the project, I created a little
over 10,000 images (about 2/3 colour and 1/3 infrared), utilizing over
640gb of hard-drive space. In addition to 8,800 images of Ingrid, this
count includes around 40gb of video files, and around 2,200 images of
miscellany (urbanscapes and landscapes for the most part, but who can
resist photographing wild horses, and four super-cute kittens?). After
culling, I suspect the number of finished images will be around
1000-2000, but that is just a rough guess.
With our return to Canada, the Second Stage of the Ingrid, the Ireland Portfolio (making the images) is complete, and the Third Stage
begins (first culling, then editing the photographs, posting the Photo
Diaries, and ultimately, selecting and printing the final twelve
portfolio images). I have already copied the images from the travel
drive onto my desktop computer's Drobo drive, and have added them to my Work in Progress Lightroom catalogue, where I will process with the culling and processing process.
Initially, however, the vast majority of my work is being done on an iPad Pro; the Lightroom Mobile app
makes the culling of 50mp images MUCH faster than the same process in a
Lightroom catalogue; this is because Lightroom Mobile creates renders a
smart preview of the raw photos in the Lightroom Catalogue and syncs
that smart preview to iPad. Smart previews are smaller versions of the
original raw file that retain all the flexibility of a raw file at a
fraction of the size. Using this approach, I have already culled over
2,500 images in a couple of days!
The below map shows the majority of the
sites Ingrid and worked in (some images have not been GPS tagged yet, so
some locations are not represented on the map).
All documentary photos by Angela Creaser
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