monday's experiments
"evaporation"two pictures, one from a couple days ago, the other from today
"afternoon chores"
two pictures superimposed
"river rock"
a series of 9 pictures of a few rocks in the Columbia - the contrast between water and rock is quite beautiful in real life, I tried to give it back a bit here.
posted by ursula @ 4:43 PM
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All 3 of these are very arresting. The colour palettes of the first and third really appeal to me but they are all beautiful.
For the images that are of different subjects, what motivated you to combine particular images ? Was it just the spatial and tonal relationships, or is there some connection for you between the pieces ? I'd love to understand more about this part of your process.
Are these 'straight' layers, or have you moved pieces of the images around to better interplay ? One idea is to consider transforming/ resizing and masking elements - though that starts to stray more towards the bounds of straight compositing for my current comfort levels.
Beautiful work again!
Thank you!
The river rock picture is straight blending of 9 images using the decreasing percents formula (100/layer#). After blending, I adjusted the histogram of the picture to provide a bit more contrast, as blends of many layers tend to make for "dull" pictures. I was working today on textures: rough rock and smooth water.
The two top images are also straight blends (100/50), no resizing of the images to start. The people picture I cropped slightly afterwards (cut off some from both small edges - I generally prefer not to crop much).
For the people picture, it was just that I thought they might look good together. The bottom picture is flipped sideways, which created a sort of tunnel effect. They were made a couple minutes apart, so the light is very similar in the two.
For the other composite (evaporation), they were not made at the same time. The branch picture is a couple days older. The bottom picture is trees reflecting in a pool on the Columbia, flipped upside down. It looked like the trees were evaporating, so I thought, maybe if I incorporated a picture of a branch with drops it would work, sort of like the drops are evaporating. It was just a spur of the moment idea after the fact, not while making the pictures.
I'm intrigued by the notion that I probably could never shoot a new photo again and still be able to produce wonderful images, just from all the rejects and successes sitting on my harddrive right now.
I don't know if that is liberating or constraining, but it is sure kicking around in my head just now.
That thought had never crossed my mind before. I think I am too driven to go outside and explore to worry too much about it :)
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