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Alternative perceptions

Postby zafra52 on Sun Aug 08, 2021 12:28 pm

I took the picture of this week sometime last week. However, this week I have been thinking about how people see the same scene and colour it with their own perceptions and misconceptions ending up in an alternative reality, hence this picture. I hope you like it.

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Re: Alternative perceptions

Postby gstark on Tue Aug 10, 2021 10:29 am

Interesting perceptions indeed.

You've certainly enjoyed playing with this in post, which is something that I heartily endorse.
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Re: Alternative perceptions

Postby zafra52 on Wed Aug 11, 2021 12:29 pm

Thank you Gary. I did have some fun, but more so with some of the comments I got from the people that weekly receive the pictures. Some comments were " Oh my God! You must have ingested some funny mushrooms in a rich Rioja sauce", another "If I print it, how should I hang it on the wall, upside up or downside up" and "how did you managed that? Did you paint the lens with highlighters, took a picture and then turned the camera and took the second one?"
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Re: Alternative perceptions

Postby ozimax on Thu Aug 12, 2021 3:35 pm

Nice treatment Zaffs. I like it. A bit psychedelic. 1960s maybe?
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Re: Alternative perceptions

Postby gstark on Fri Aug 13, 2021 10:25 am

zafra52 wrote:"how did you managed that? Did you paint the lens with highlighters, took a picture and then turned the camera and took the second one?"


All done in post I expect.

On a semi-related note, I find it amusing to see people comment on things like this, which are all too easy to do in post, as being something new.

I find it quite amusing because I have yet to see anything done digitally that one cannot do in a wet darkroom. Yes, it's usually a lot more work and trouble to do it in a wet darkroom, but that also makes it a whole lot more fun as well.

And for me, much more satisfying.

<I need a wet darkroom> :(
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Re: Alternative perceptions

Postby ozimax on Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:27 pm

gstark wrote:a wet darkroom


Is this an inside room with a leaky roof... :biglaugh:
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Re: Alternative perceptions

Postby gstark on Thu Aug 19, 2021 9:43 am

ozimax wrote:
gstark wrote:a wet darkroom


Is this an inside room with a leaky roof... :biglaugh:


And no windows.

OSX is fine. :rotfl2:
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Re: Alternative perceptions

Postby zafra52 on Sun Aug 22, 2021 1:50 pm

That brought dark and wet memories at university when I took a photography subject. We have to work with b&W films (we didn't have a colour lab) to create a portfolio of pictures to be marked and exhibited at the end of course. At the end of the course my photographic and dark room skills were still very crude and elementary (still are), but did I have fun taking and developing trick photography!
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