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The only truth to any photograph is how the observer feels about it, and that Truth only pertains to that observer.
All photographs are only 2 dimensional representations of reality. If one wants reality, go outside and look up.
Before Digital Photography Photographs were still manipulated for many reasons. To Achieve balance, textures, flow of direction, are but a few reasons to manipulate a photograph then as well as today. Remember the word, ” Photograph” means…Light Graph..a graph, illustration, made with Light, not paint, nor pencil, charcoal or ink, but with light. Its still a Graph. To Turn A Graph Into a ” Print”, worthy of hanging on the wall in home or museum,requires work, or processing.
Personal taste establishes how much ” shop” is acceptable. As mentioned huge moon on ocean horizon can be offsetting as a huge Mars right outside the bedroom window. Over saturated photos are usually only cool to a select few, but even there, what feeling a picture brings the observer to, is the goal. For some over saturation acts like ” interference.” in whatever is being communicated. If ” Shopping” Interferes with communication rather than facilitates communication, then the Shopping FAILS.. So thats my answer To Shop Or Not To Shop..If Shopping Interferes, Diverts, Scrambles The Communication,,then change, adjust, redirect the Shopping.
All photographs , digital or analogue are subjective. You are taking a 3 dimensional observation and turning it into a 2 dimensional representation. The key is..knowing what you are communicating with that Light Graph and know how much and how little you need to facilitate or interfere in that communication….imho.
The lean into the winds keeps the balance of the pic , nice shot Keelin. It is all what our minds do with photos.
I take Pictures of Clouds Therefore I Am..
Nice delicate capture Hans! Distance between near and far seems to curve as distance increase.. We don’t travel straight to the moon do we? ;)
A little fun with texture and contrast
Im literally haunted by that photo hygge. Everytime I look at it ..its changed, I see another aspect of it. I’m letting it register a bit at a time to make it last longer I suppose.
Hey Alec! Still Teaching? and those Hawaiian Shirts?( if i recall correctly)..Im still with the clouds here in Az. I think I just wore out my 4 or 5th digital camera . Xmas mite be good to me. Yes B&W has been a lot of fun exploring. Keeps me from the Nonsense going on overhere this side of the pond. I look forward to seeing your posts . Its good to know about phenomena that doesn’t happen in the sky this far south. Have Fun!
Well here we are at 100 posts on this 6th Vol..amazing! Since you’ve brought up Impressionism Hans perhaps that is a good place to wrap up Vol 6 with the shot below! It was taken during the same time as these Virga shots.
Thank you Hans for your kind words. Another shot from that same shoot is already in the gallery; the one of virga with a tree at the park. I’ll go back and check for a color version. I should have one or two. It was an extraordinary shoot where if you took a shot in one direction you had to hurry not to miss another worthy shot in the opposite direction. We don’t get a whole lot of cloud but when we do , its fast and furious. That shoot was no exception.
Nice work above. Like the abstract!
Heres another Virga from the same shoot.
Anything But Natural.
