Figure 1 – “Dusty Rose,” IPhone photograph. (c) DE Wolf 2014.

Figure 1 is the latest addition to my collection of IPhone images of folded fabrics.  This one I entitle “Dusty Rose.”  I just cannot resist, especially when the light is right. Isn’t that always the case.  We live for the light.  I just love the variety of form and the intensity and purity of color.  In these images I hope that form and color are equal elements. Too often in photographs color is so dominant as to create the illusion that you’ve accomplished something.  Form is always required as well, at least in good photographs.

I have commented before how, when I use the IPhone as a camera, I imagine that I am using a large format camera.  Actually, what I am imagining is that I am using my father’s Ciroflex, twin lens reflex.  This was 2 1/4′ by 2 1/4″ and I always marveled how, in contrast to 35 mm photography, it slowed down the picture taking process and forced you to concentrate deeply on composition.  So the use of the IPhone really brings back fond childhood memories.

And as for composition, there was a tendency to center the V here, to make the image perfectly symmetric.  But that would have created to strong a sense of static equilibrium.  I chose instead to make the image just a bit asymmetric, just as the distribution of light and shadow is asymmetric in the image.  This makes the composition more dynamic and alive.