selectivity # 1-3 ~ something different (for me)
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 11:15AM ;)
selectivity # 1 ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
selectivity # 2 ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
selectivity # 3 ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenI'm not in any way certain where I'm going with this technique / series, but it's something I've been pondering for a while.
The pondering began a number of months ago when I began to notice how a scene looked on my camera LCD after having turned the camera on with a previous set manual low-light exposure setting (upon shutting down, my camera retains the last manual exposure setting), which rendered a much brighter scene in a funky / interesting over-exposed kind of manner. I began to wonder if the look could be translated into print form.
After a lot of experimentation - amount of in-camera over-exposure verse image processing "rescued" highlight detail together with selective image processing density building - it appears that it can be translated into print form. And, I really like the look of the results.
That said, as you may already have deduced, I'm not into effects / techniques for effect / technique sake. So, at this point, the pictures are biased much more toward the illustrative rather than the illuminative. They are more Decorative Art than Fine Art, although there is something lurking in my mind about the medium's characteristic of selection.
Who knows. This might just be a dead end but I'll keep on playing and see what develops.
Reader Comments (7)
You for sure caught my interest with this selection. I think one could go overboard with this approach, but all of these have "it" (whatever it is) which makes one stop to wonder at them.
#1 almost looks like it could have occurred naturally. (light snow and fog between foreground and background elements.) #3 on the other hand is the weakest image for me. It looks like a "fog overlay" that was masked to show the barn below.
I have always admired good high key effects. I find these very interesting. You should reconsider these to be more Fine Art rather than Decorative Art.
I love it Mark can't wait to see more.
#1 reminded me of this Stein shot for some reason
http://www.iambo.com/blog/archives/2008/06/18/Amy%20Stein%201.png
Regardless of what you decide about whether you like the reults or not, the look has definte market potential I think. Now, is that bad or good is another story.
Very pretty effect ... reminds me of the graded wash technique used by watercolour painters (not that I know anything about painting).
Imagine if this technique becomes popular with the pretty picture crowd and is referred to as the "Hobson Effect". Oh, the irony!