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So, what to make of
this picture? Strong composition? Um... no. Dramatic lighting?
Nope. Fascinating subject matter? Definitely not! It’s early
March and we’re looking at flat dead grass and dormant scrub trees,
after the snows have melted. Yawn. The original photo was much
more boring; an over-the-top study of pale beige bleakness. The
only thing that could have been more boring was if it had been a
cloudy day, which would have probably rendered the “features” almost
invisible.
Yes, the original photo needed a loving rescue, like Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree.
But printed large (on 17" x 22" paper) the eye wanders joyfully over myriad details and subtle colour differences (see this close-up), all evoked and refined by image manipulation techniques and a determination to make something out of nothing. Would cropping down to one or two strong elements have made a better picture? In some ways, yes, absolutely. But at what cost?
It’s all a matter of taste... and what makes the emotional strings resonate.
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All photographs will be sent unmounted and unframed. For help in visualizing what this image would look like framed, we have these examples:
1. with a simple black frame and white matte
2. black frame white matte on a wall
3. with a colour-coordinated matte and frame
4. colour matte and frame on a wall
5. close-up crop
And yet, the dead grass was formed into swirly
bunches, which did have some shadows from the still-low Canadian
sun. And the weed clumps had a little colour that was not beige.
And the larger space had a kind of lonely, melancholy look to it
that might encourage some to indulge their feelings of either
sadness - because things looked so forlorn - or happy anticipation -
because the warmth (and another kick at the can of life) was
evidently, and most assuredly, en route to this locale.
Yes, the original photo needed a loving rescue, like Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree.
Did the rescue succeed? By some estimates, no. (see first
paragraph again)
But printed large (on 17" x 22" paper) the eye wanders joyfully over myriad details and subtle colour differences (see this close-up), all evoked and refined by image manipulation techniques and a determination to make something out of nothing. Would cropping down to one or two strong elements have made a better picture? In some ways, yes, absolutely. But at what cost?
It’s all a matter of taste... and what makes the emotional strings resonate.
Click here to see more pictures.
All photographs will be sent unmounted and unframed. For help in visualizing what this image would look like framed, we have these examples:
1. with a simple black frame and white matte
2. black frame white matte on a wall
3. with a colour-coordinated matte and frame
4. colour matte and frame on a wall
5. close-up crop