110 - Ania Blues

110 - Ania Blues
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

I decided for this image to return to the wipe technique. It seemed appropriate as again I had a poorly lit image.

One of the funny things is that if you have a surface with a shine to it this method reduces that shine - as shine seems to be related to the amount of mixed different pieces of light. This is not so much of a problem for my images so far as the loss of distracting details seems to underline more what something is than the actual object. So much of what we see is stuff which blends together - trees in a wood, cars on the street, people in a bar. It can be a shock to zoom in on parts of this image and to realize just how much work the mind does in blending - because here, unlike reality, there is no ever-increasing detail layers.

This is a bar in one of the many cellars in the old town of Lublin, this one especially dark but with rather good sofas.