The August book club (see yesterday's photo for a link to info) is all about seeing in different ways. Today, I mostly did this through following the spirit of one of the exercises -- stay close to home and look at things in new ways. In this image, I took several daytime shots of the grasses that were the star in "Sunset on the Marsh" (July 27th). All were daytime shots with various exposures. Then, I took the slightly overexposed one, edited it for an angled instead of vertical frame, then processed it in the four ways you see here, two monochrome with different tones and exposure and two color, one with color heightened and one with it more washed out. The natural bokeh (CSC-30) didn't really change in structure, and interestingly, seemed to set off the grasses in pretty much the same way in the color versions. In the monochrome it more or less seems to blend into the grasses than set them off. A fun study this afternoon.
Main album shot is the result of a study of b&w versus color and b&w winning: http://365project.org/taffy/365/2013-08-02.
Quick update...it's 1:00 a.m. and I'm SOOO tired!! I'm so sorry I won't be able to comment on your photos from yesterday (much less tonite), but will catch up this weekend and look forward to it!
Love how each photo invites the viewer to focus on something different..the vivid sky,the soft green,the light and shapes.Love how your exercises are producing such lovely results!
Wonderful collage! Each shot lovely on it's own. The same shot but each with such a different feel. Lovely processing! Mind you when I see this image it reminds me of the Andy Warhol set of Marilyn Monroe - how strange your thought processes can be!
Great study and collage. It's interesting what different tones do to same shot. Love every one of those shots but the sepia has the most apealing atmosphere but in the upper right one the blue is so intense, can't decide which one of them I like best.
Lovely composition and play with hues, light and composition. I totally would have made a diamond in the center out of the stem in each frame, but I sometimes don't know when to leave well enough good.
@vankrey Oh, what a great idea that would have been!!! Darn -- never occurred to me! I might have to give that a try at some point. @shepherdmanswife As @olivetreeann suggested, I should have asked folks to pick one -- just to see what would have turned up.
@wendyhgill Thanks! I'm processing at the moment to try to rescue a horrible photo day -- hoping I can do something worthwhile instead of post from a much better set of choices from yesterday's folder!
@taffy Hey Taffy, I'm putting together a post for my blog about the first week of the Book Club, and I was wondering whether you'd let me include this image and quote some of your description of the process. (I'll link back to here too.) Thanks!
@archaeofrog Hi -- that's so sweet of you to want to use my photo! Of course, I'd be honored! If you need full name or other information, let me know. You can also reach me at taffy@uic.edu (easily found on google, but if you email me there, I can send my private email address).
