Monday 13 August 2007

STUDY NO. 1 - KILMARDINNY DUCKS

Given that taking photos is about doing what you can with what you have, gems can emerge from the most ordinary of situations!

Wee Ishbel and I feed the ducks on Kilmardinny Loch. Between chucking bits of bread to the geese, coots, mallards and swans, and using the small Sony digi, I took this photo. (The big camera is away for repair as She-Who-Shall-Be-Nameless dropped it).

It is 9:30 in the morning in early August. For the record, the original photo [below] is untouched.


Working with digital photographs is great fun a experimenting with Photoshop software is simply amazing! It is so-o-o sophisticated! However, the problem with Art is that it is totally unscientific! I couldn't possibly repeat this experiment!


Furthermore, these exercises raise more questions than they answer. Why are certain colours highlighted in the Arty Photo and others not? If these colours can be saved in a colour palette maybe there is something here worth following ... off-at-a-(another)-tangent!

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