Monday, October 08, 2007
Knowing the Limits/Strengths of your Capture Medium
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Ninotaira, Hakone-machi, Kanagawa-ken.
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Shall I be the first one to say I'm stumped? I don't know what I'm looking at nor do I get the title.
Colin: Knowing that my B&W film renders blue skies white helped immensely in the post processing dodging and burning of this photograph to add to the illusion.
The top of the picture looks like an exercise by Dali whilst the bottom half is one of those generic post-modern figures that owe something to many ancient cultures. Unlike your previous post, this one does not avoid the presence of the museum (and a utilitarian bit at that) but I don't think that it matters given the strange cocktail of sculptures and concrete.
It's almost as if the two figures in the foreground are fleeing a madhouse behind the wall.
If the foreground figures are fleeing the madhouse, the floating figures must surely be the evil henchman sent to recapture them and bring them back to Dr. No's lair.
Does not matter what medium you used. Indeed you used it well.
Your sculpture pictures each tell a story.
This is unreal.
I don't kknow what i am looking at either but somehow it makes me smile. Maybe being Belgian and having been bathed in Magritte helps :-)
I can see the faint remainder of something under the flying sculptures, it almost looks like a rocket exhaust!
It is a stark utilitarian background for the earth bound and skyward sculptures.
I find the path on the right a bit of a distraction.
Disorienting a nice allusion. Might be taken for a Photoshop combo. That said, I'm still trying to put the two sculptures together as to what it might suggest...
A fascinating effect and another welcome view of this museum and its works. The unattractive wall adds a different feeling to this one entirely, but it is still a beautiful design and shows the sculpture off well.
The surfing/flying figure is quite a puzzle.
rex: that 'exhaust' was the white podium the sculpture was sitting on. Given what I said about blue skies and my film as soon as I saw the colour of the podium I knew I'd have an easy job dodging and burning. Wasn't sure how far to take it - the original scan the podium is much more pronounced.
Thanks for all the comments. I have a few more in this series but I'll get them on my website rather than subject you to them all here to critique!
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It's almost as if the two figures in the foreground are fleeing a madhouse behind the wall.
Your sculpture pictures each tell a story.
This is unreal.
I don't kknow what i am looking at either but somehow it makes me smile. Maybe being Belgian and having been bathed in Magritte helps :-)
It is a stark utilitarian background for the earth bound and skyward sculptures.
I find the path on the right a bit of a distraction.
The surfing/flying figure is quite a puzzle.
Thanks for all the comments. I have a few more in this series but I'll get them on my website rather than subject you to them all here to critique!