Still experimenting with mannequins found in store windows, high contrast, and collage. I liked it last night (insanely late at night when I finished). Looking at it now as I prepare to upload, I'm not sure I'm satisfied. You may be seeing more refinements of this later. Inspired still by Ray Metzker's work, from the artist challenge a couple back.
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I suppose I'm a bit obsessed with this. I couldn't resist trying to tweak it almost immediately. I've posted it in my Alternates album: http://365project.org/mcsiegle/alternates/2014-10-11
@kali66 Kali and @janim Jani, I keep tagging you for these. Your feedback has been very helpful. I may go back into photoshop and tweak this some more. A few things I'm not fond of -- the gray bit in the third row, second column, I think I need to just clone that to pure black and white. And the third and fourth column on that row is feeling like too large an expanse of white. It was really late last night when I called it quits. Your opinion?
I think the grey bit works really well - adds an additional texture. I also like the positioning of the hands. One thought I had is whether to move the first column third square to the top as a contrasting balance to the bottom right hand corner?
I like this one, more concise really great high contrast! thanks for showing me . it is intersting how the shapes work through several squares, I am thinking there is a lot of scope to play with here
Hi! I am your Get Pushed partner this week. I can see that you are a fan of the artist challenges so for Get Pushed I would like you to pick your favourite artist who is not a photographer, and take a photograph inspired by their work.
@anne_k Thank you, Anne. I think I've only done a few artist challenges, but Metzker really grabbed a hold of me, so it's a good challenge to decide what artist I'd like to interpret. I'll look through your album now and get you a challenge.
I love this whole concept. I agree on making that one gray bit pure black and white, and that image is better on your other attempt. The large white area does get a lot of attention, and if that was not your purpose, maybe you need to change it. I personally like that there is some starting point, where to look first and then work your way around the image. The thing I love the most in this image are the parts where the mini-images blend seamlessly into each other, and I would really focus on how to get that effect as much as possible... For example, move the top left corner image to the left so that the leg turns into arm in the picture below.... I think the other collage has a stronger bottom row, there's more blending of images. Would be cool to see that bottom row (+ the fixed "gray bit" image) in this collage. Finally, the image with the line pattern (bottom row #2) is very strong graphic element, love it among all the hands and legs. Looked really cool as inverted also!
Enjoy!
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