091 - Idalka in Black

091 - Idalka in Black
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

Hah, after so many intense images with quite hard concepts and/or strong imagery, I fancied a change and instead used flowers.

It was a family occasion, the position and the light was right, and I just snapped it across the table. Of course, it took a fair amount of processing (i.e. more than an hour), but I was pleased that my current theme of pulling strong images from poorly focussed or badly lit photos seems to be working and I was able to retrieve everything that I found important in the image.

I came across a quote from Picasso today, something on the lines of 'some painters make a yellow blob of the sun, while others make a sun of a yellow blob'. I feel this kind of sums up what I mean by my editing - I make the picture I imagine from the blob that is the actual photograph I took. Another way of saying it would be 'it is what I do with all my material to express what I see rather than expecting one piece of equipment to capture what is there'.