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  "PageContent": "<h3>clunie's focal point | occasional comment reflecting on the visual side of life</h3>Creativity is a curious thing. It’s almost as if it has a life of its own and simply visits me on occasion and in different ways. I can’t particularly summon up a creative process. Well, I can go through the steps I’ve taken before, but that’s no guarantee that anything creative is going to happen.On some occasions, I can have a creative idea pop into my mind where it’ll live for a while, develop and grow and I’ll have a clear mental picture of the photograph I want to create. I’ll then consider how I go about creating that photograph. This has been the case with my absence photographs, most recently The Absent Photographer.This image is not for sale and may not be used commercially in any form. I am not monetising this blog or any other media in which I use this image. I do not own the copyright to the image of The Beatles or the Abbey Road text used in this composition. Under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringingMy wife is a member of The Rock Choir and was recording with them in the famous EMI Abbey Road Studios. I wasn’t going to be allowed to go in, so I decided to spend a little time taking photos around the area. Of course, I’d have to get a shot of the pedestrian crossing made famous by featuring on the cover of The Beatles Abbey Road album.I was determined that I would, however, give this a different treatment. Lots of people get photos of themselves crossing it, Beatles-style, and I wasn’t interested in following the crowd. The only thought I’d had before heading there was to do a long exposure. I had no idea what the composition might be and decided to make a decision on that once on location. Setting off, the only thought I had was that a long exposure might be something that would offer a different take on a very familiar subject.The Rock Choir were due to go into the session at 9.15am on a Sunday morning and already at that time there were tourists queued up taking photos of themselves on the crossing which is only yards away from the gates to the studio. I hadn’t previously appreciated the proximity, or that on the other side of the crossing was a fairly significant junction.There were few safe vantage points available to me and, it was clear that the crossing was busy with tourists and unlikely to get much quieter, so I found a nice low wall on the street side opposite to the studio on which I could safely set up my GorillaPod and protect it from accidental nudges etc. Working that way also meant no big tripod on the pavement causing any kind of obstruction. I set up with the camera facing over the crossing and just including the gatepost of the studios on the far right of the shot.I determined the length of exposure I wanted to use, mor at least have as a baseline, and also decided on the aperture I wanted. In this instance I wanted a reasonable depth of field and opted to shoot at f11. From there it was a case of adjusting ISO and ND filters to end up with an exposure time of around 6 seconds. I also set a shutter delay to minimise any risk of camera shake and set about taking many exposures. Some included the inevitable tourists crossing the road, others I managed to have free of people but included passing vehicles, cyclists etc. I had little idea of what the images would look like until I got them into Lightroom and on the computer screen.Most of them I felt offered little of interest. But one really stood out and became the base of the ultimate picture. What I assumed was a family group had crossed and regrouped on my side of the crossing. I didn’t spot it, until I saw the photo on screen, but the man had bare feet, imitating Paul McCartney in the album cover (which was originally photographed by Iain Macmillan). I can remember rumours going around at the time of the release of the album suggesting that this was a hint that McCartney had died. This thought, along with the effect of the long exposure had me thinking of ghosts. That led to the idea that maybe I could suggest with this image the “ghosts” of all those people who had been photographed on this famous crossing.On the far side of the crossing was a small group of people waiting their turn to move into the road for a photograph and I felt that they were a distraction to the composition, so I spent some time in Photoshop cleaning up the background so that the attention was much more focused on the now intended subject. I also liked that the “look right” wording and arrow were pointing in the direction of the studio. After spending some more time editing and refining the image, I let it be for a couple of days, mainly to allow time to consider how I felt about the picture. I had a feeling that, whilst it did convey what I had come to think of as the ghosts it was, somehow, still incomplete. Coming back to it I began to muse on the bare feet, the idea of ghosts and the rumour of Paul McCartney having died. It then occurred to me that the “ghosts” should include the originals; The Beatles themselves. I therefore took a shot of the album cover from my own copy and carefully isolated George, Paul, Ringo and John before blending them in, in a smaller scale, this time walking at 90 degrees to the original across the crossing and in the direction of the studios. To complete the homage to the album and also to confirm that this is Abbey Road, I used the wording from the album to blend into the crossing, so that the message becomes “Abbey Road, Look Right”; and that’s towards the studio.At that point I felt the image was complete leading me to write this blog to illustrate one way in which the creative process works for me and how we can all find new ways to tackle very familiar subjects.",
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