Clara Unfocused

This is a gently tweaked (lightening saturation) fragment (maybe

1/100th?) of a very bad photograph. Moral: don't be too quick to

trash your disasters.

great lesson, beautiful photo

Now i think what you meant in your comment on my "Bonfire of anxiety". Greatly you turned something which your thought as "bad shot" to something which you can use for some sort of purpose. By the way, did you try it on b/w ad high contrast? just a thought. Kind regards Tero

No, I hadn't thought of B&W because I thought the pastelish colors were a fundamental strength of this image. I'll certainly give it a try. I do love color but it's true that B&W (which I haven't done for decades) can bring out qualities in images which aren't revealed in color. Thanks for the suggestion!

THIS IS wonderful! I would put it through a dry brush filter myself and then it becomes ART ;) ha!

 

Actually this is absolutely stunning and I have several pictures that I haven't tweeked at all that I have taken in the car of my son and I right at sundown. VERY scary like but I love it as the colors fade some and then the slow lights are so evident.

 

This is just perfect like this. Always a treasure to get something out of the throw aways.

Come to think of it. Micki, I guess it's not surprising that this would appeal to you since you have such a facility for digging into your shots and coming up with gold. There are some photographs which are the product of careful intention and control of the capture and others which result from post-capture exploration (and--perhaps most--some combination of the two.)

 

I don't know what possessed me to delve in to this, the very epitome of a discard-able shot. It was probably just the impulse to explore image manipulation tools which were then very new to me (and which I have yet to master.) In any event, it taught me a valuable lesson about using those tools, not just to produce interesting images, but to understand the inner dynamics of images.

 

 

 

 

 

This just goes to show - that shots we intended to take, but turn out not as intended, should always be kept as there often seems to be a reason for them turning out the way they did. There are always lessons to be learned through experimenting, and this one has worked a treat. I'm glad Micki spotted this as well :))

Cheers

Pete

Thanks Pete! This, by the way is one of those shots (I've identified several in my portfolio) which comes out very nicely printed on "plain" paper. It occurs to me that that might be true of your Stanmer Church photo.