In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: Your comments are welcome!

kenievans Loc: Dallas

Your comments are welcome!

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Dave Chinn

kenievans wrote:

Your comments are welcome!

Kool Keni !!! Love the image and I'm not much of a flower fan anymore. This one does stick my attention. Love your title and the song as well. Altho, my first thought was "Purple Rain". Nicely composed & captured.

Some song facts: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/iron-butterfly/in-a-gadda-da-vida

There were too many to list so I just posted a link for you to view if you so desire.
Dave

kenievans Loc: Dallas

Dave Chinn wrote:

Kool Keni !!! Love the image and I'm not much of a flower fan anymore. This one does stick my attention. Love your title and the song as well. Altho, my first thought was "Purple Rain". Nicely composed & captured.

Some song facts: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/iron-butterfly/in-a-gadda-da-vida

There were too many to list so I just posted a link for you to view if you so desire.
Dave

I'm glad you like it Dave because it's not really flowers. They were all green plants that I "colored ". Purple rain would have worked as well but I liked the association with Iron Butterfly. Thanks for posting the link. It is a fascinating story.

Dave Chinn

kenievans wrote:

I'm glad you like it Dave because it's not really flowers. They were all green plants that I "colored ". Purple rain would have worked as well but I liked the association with Iron Butterfly. Thanks for posting the link. It is a fascinating story.

Oh Wow !!! Even more so kool. Very well done, I would not have known if you hadn't mentioned what was done. I can understand the association with 'Iron Butterfly' and "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" fits so much better. I just mentioned "Purple Rain" because of the color and that was the first thing I that came to mind.
Dave

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Yo...Dudette...why am I suddenly recalling the aroma of...pachouli?

Dave

kenievans Loc: Dallas

Uuglypher wrote:

Yo...Dudette...why am I suddenly recalling the aroma of...pachouli?

Dave

The smell of...patchouli. Ahhh the memories.

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

Keni, when I looked at it, the first thing that came to my mind is wow a lot of purple. After your explanation I understood why. I like the composition, I also like the coloring idea. What I would do is take the purple out of those areas that are not flowers. Such as the rocks. But that is me, and this of course is your image.

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

kenievans wrote:

Your comments are welcome!

I like it. Nice job! Thanks for sharing.

In the Garden of Eaden. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, was the first full drum solo I learned/copied when I was a young rock star wannabe, it was a fun solo and people loved those long solo's at the time, I sang it too - my vocals were never my strong point!!!! Many fond memories.

aflundi Loc: Albuquerque, NM

kenievans wrote:

Your comments are welcome!

Did you over-sharpen and over-saturate for a creative reason? Can you say more about why you post-processed that way?

kenievans Loc: Dallas

NJFrank wrote:

Keni, when I looked at it, the first thing that came to my mind is wow a lot of purple. After your explanation I understood why. I like the composition, I also like the coloring idea. What I would do is take the purple out of those areas that are not flowers. Such as the rocks. But that is me, and this of course is your image.

Thank you Frank. I hesitated about coloring the rocks but they are sandstone and the lighter color didn't work for me with the rest of the image. I appreciate your comments.

kenievans Loc: Dallas

olemikey wrote:

I like it. Nice job! Thanks for sharing.

In the Garden of Eaden. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, was the first full drum solo I learned/copied when I was a young rock star wannabe, it was a fun solo and people loved those long solo's at the time, I sang it too - my vocals were never my strong point!!!! Many fond memories.

They still hold the record for the longest recorded solo! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

kenievans wrote:

They still hold the record for the longest recorded solo! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

kenievans Loc: Dallas

aflundi wrote:

Did you over-sharpen and over-saturate for a creative reason? Can you say more about why you post-processed that way?

My original inspiration was the song. The story goes that the writer was so drunk he was slurring his words which is why it's called In a Godda Da Vida instead of In The Garden Of Eden. I suspect that given the time it was probably more than just alcohol. I wanted the garden to look psychedelic and not quite real. Having never done psychedelic drugs this is how I imagined it would look. I did crank up the clarity and sharpening to give an edge to details.

DaveC1 Loc: South East US

kenievans wrote:

Your comments are welcome!

Keni, I really like the color pallet you have for this image. I also would have thought you started with a flowering garden here. Good work.

Oh, and for the record I did see Iron Butterfly live once. They were really good live.

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

kenievans wrote:

My original inspiration was the song. The story goes that the writer was so drunk he was slurring his words which is why it's called In a Godda Da Vida instead of In The Garden Of Eden. I suspect that given the time it was probably more than just alcohol. I wanted the garden to look psychedelic and not quite real. Having never done psychedelic drugs this is how I imagined it would look. I did crank up the clarity and sharpening to give an edge to details.

More "surreal" than psychedelic, they would need to bobbing and weaving, pulsating, moving and grrovin!!!