Atop a Parking Garage, Las Vegas by austin granger, on Flickr
Atop a Parking Garage, Las Vegas by austin granger, on Flickr
Originally Posted by Dan Quan
I know this is a BORING image but so far it's the best scan I have managed and this is the 2nd and torn roll; P67 with Xenar 150 @ ƒ5.6 Pan F+ in DDX. Just plain overcast lighting, outdoors just barely under the back porch with a light blue mottled BG and a flat flat scan. This has a simple curves layer and a selective color layer only but is sharpened. Now that I think I have a better understanding of what settings the scanner likes I can start working on my lighting ratios and light quality for careful contrast and added interest, then comes the "creativity" if I can muster it; I am eternally hopeful.
Assignement: make a portrait with a person wearing sunglasses in a way his eyes are shown in the picture.
Result: DONE!
2 hours in photoshop with a file from ordinary lightning and digicam and I doubt it could come so nicely,
Cheers,
Renato
Henceforth ye shall be known as Renato the Encourager!
“Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile!”
― Robert Doisneau”
A winner!
J.
Thanks Jonathan. I was happy to come across the cups, which were rolling around in slow circles from the wind. I like pictures where you can see that something recently happened, but you don't quite know what it is. I mean, obviously, a group of people came to the top of this garage to do some drinking, but who? And what did they talk about? That could make an interesting collaborative project actually-combining fiction with photographs. You were an English major, no? What'ya say? Here is the "evidence": https://www.flickr.com/photos/austin...7648955968536/
I've always liked the idea of "implied narrative" in photographs, and your series is a great example of this. Photographs that beg questions are intriguing, I agree, and they almost always involve a human element. I rarely see a photo of a stream flowing past some trees that brings questions to mind. But if there were a pair of shoes on a rock in the foreground, that's a different story. Isn't this why crime dramas are so perennially popular? All you need is one dead body and the questions start crawling out of the woodwork.
And yes, I was an English major, the operative word being "was." I gave up on writing years ago to focus on images. What I would have given to have been able to turn in two photographs in lieu of every 2,000 word essay I had to write in college!
J.
P.S. Chris Van Allsburg's Mysteries of Harris Burdick is a wonderful example of a book of singular images begging for stories to be told about them.
Well, thanks! I just hate when good work is ignored - actually, I think I emulate a compliment that I'll never received and, maybe, I never ever will!Henceforth ye shall be known as Renato the Encourager!
That's life, as far as I like it, I don't care too much about it,
Keep posting,
Cheers,
Renato
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