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Wednesday
Feb012012

selectivity # 1-3 ~ something different (for me)

selectivity # 1 ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen1044757-16356121-thumbnail.jpg
selectivity # 2 ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
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selectivity # 3 ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
I'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.