@lleo Ah good, that worked then! I have other shots with the statue in focus but they didn't have the air of mystery that I wanted for this - also the reason why I desaturated the colours.
@joansmor Hi Joan, she's a gold painted plaster statue who used to live in our sunroom in the UK but who is now the resident Queen in one of two large rockeries in the garden. She is out of focus for the 'artistic' reasons already mentioned but also because she doesn't now have much paint left and is looking a little sad... I'll see if I can't find a PoV and a treatment suitable for her 'Goddess' status.
My eye gets pulled away by the blur in the background. Maybe it's the light in my screen. Okay I just pulled the screen forward and can see better. Don't know why I keep pushing my screen back. Next time I say something ask me if I need to pull my screen forward. You can't imagine the difference this makes. You probably understand why.
@joansmor Laptops - especially the older ones - tend to have screens with narrow incidence light transmission which means that if you move, even slightly, from the viewing sweet-spot, then the quality, brilliance and contrast of the image degrades rapidly. You need to sit 90 deg square on to your laptop and then tilt the screen until the point at which the highest contrast of the displayed image and the maximum colour depth coincide. I'm going to bed now... major dental appointment in 9 hours time - ughhhh!
There's a sense of secrecy in this image, like we're only allowed a glimpse of the rock nymph. I like the way the leaves create a frame around the picture.
Really like how you have focused on the rock rather than the nymph, giving her a bit of privacy ;-) and a sense of mystery. Also really like how we need to look at the photo properly (which of course we should always do) to appreciate her fully.
May 20th, 2014
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