Getting Fresh air for the Creative Person! Open that front door and start walking!
Hi Asher,
I have changed the frames to dark charcoal, see below. Is it better this way? PS: I've added extra space between the individual images as per your recommendation.
These pictures are coming alive. I wonder. The charcoal matt separates them much better from the white that works well with the typed text. This extra work of separating the pictures and showing them each separately makes a big difference in the individual experience as we pause the extra moments long enough for the essence of the photograph to speak to us and pull us inwards to its unique world.
I have started to visit art galleries and talk to the curators to learn more about this. They too spend a great deal of time working out the best way of showing images. This is something that folk often overlook. Thanks for helping us understand whats going on here.
Of course, you have also made the adjustments you mentioned to Janet but even taking these into account, the twig now thrusts forward and the drop of water is now a dynamic being. This, I contend is the release of the picture by giving us hat dark matt from which the eye re-calibrates its baseline reference and not against bright white.
Janet Smith said:
They make a wonderful series, but this one & the first one keep drawing me back, I like taking this sort of shot myself, I'm wondering how it would look with the shadows slightly deeper, and the colours ever so slightly richer?
Cem Usakligil: Original Photograph and Presentation
Cem Usakligil: Photograph and Presentation updated
Now the picture can be seen as much more dimensional. I'd divide the credit for this improvement to the adjustments and the border. However, the actual images are still very close in appearance of the various elements so I'd allocate most of the causality of the improvement to the new border and spacing.
This snow picture needed this separation as the white ice has "exploded" from nowhere as it does here.
Kudos for breaking out of your home and just allowing things to impact on your mind. This is actually one of the most important attributes for creative folk. It doesn't matter if you are a military planner, a scientist or an artist, being able to stroll and take things in as they come, something I call "centripetal" acquisition of solutions as opposed to trying to solve problems energized from one's central goals and needs. Normally, one has a project and one goes out to find solutions to what stands in one's way of success. That I call "centrifugal" acquisition of solutions. That's what the ordinary person does.
The exceptional way is to be able to wonder and at the same time allow the muses to enter. By going in new areas, now open to
novel experience that on the face of it, would seem unrelated to one''s core needs, one becomes able to harness the creative force of imagination, analogy and projection to get new concepts to bring home.
This little journey you took with an open mind, allowed you build substantial images of things others would walk by. We must all do this. Opening the front door and breathing in the fesh air is the first step. Good job!
Asher
