Daffodils Revisited
March 31, 2008 — HeyJulesRound Two with the daffodils. This time, instead of going for such a literal look, I tried a few additional editing tricks - things like desaturation, gaussian blur, diffused glow and dragging the shutter. Mmm, mmm, but I like the results.
April 1, 2008 at 5:04 am
I was just sitting here thinking and admiring.
The thought that came to me was component or composite? We love to get the whole picture. And I ran a bunch of words through my mind and came down to focus and detail came to mind–but not in the traditional sense. It’s more like attention.
Remember Drivers’ Ed where they instructed us to get the big picture? We were required, for safety’s sake, to attempt to see everthing. But here in these pics, you call us to look at the pieces and parts–the things that are overlooked, but the things that put together make the whole. There would be no whole without the pieces.
And this threw me into the realm of people as pieces. I work with people who are in pieces and so it’s hard for them to see how they could ever fit back into the whole. How does our piece fit? Do I hoard or hide it? Or do I bring it to the only Place where it can make sense?
Wow, all that from the center of a jonquil.
April 1, 2008 at 6:51 am
Going through the photos several times ~ just ’saw’ a profile of a face in thr third one.
Has a pale hook of a nose…
April 1, 2008 at 10:51 am
I WANT A CAMERA LIKE YOURS!!! And of course I would also have to have your talent and eye!!! *sigh*
April 1, 2008 at 11:13 am
Tina, yes…that makes total sense.
Barbara, I see it!
Debbie, you’d also need the same lenses and a copy of Photoshop and all the Photoshop books and tutorials that I have had to read through and then you have to be willing to screw it all up and start all over MANY MANY times! I worked all night and got four shots to this point. FOUR. I took over 100 images to start with. I need to take a week off at this rate to get through them all! But it is so much fun to just sit and create all night long…just letting one mistake take you to someplace new and try to fix that and move the photo forward…I just love the entire process from beginning to end!
April 6, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I can’t tell you how much I love these! So beautiful….
April 9, 2008 at 9:37 am
Great Daffodil images. Love your composition and framing. Very nice.