By The Dawn's Early Light
Feb 17, 2024 18:39:23 #
A couple of weeks ago, the weather turned remarkably warm, so we went down to Fort McHenry. One of the images I shot was of a bunch of trees without any leaves, silhouetted against the sky. I was particularly taken by a "gesture" a couple of branches made, as seen in the image here; it was a small bit of what my 120 mm could gather. I cut it out, enlarged it, and pasted it onto a sky I shot a couple of years ago. The sky was shot pretty early early near the end of 2022, the tree rather late. Feedback is more than welcome; indeed, it's why I'm posting.
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Feb 17, 2024 21:49:01 #
You did a fine job with using the early morning sky and the tree is reaching for it! Great job! Love the Y-shaped tree!
Feb 18, 2024 07:44:40 #
cbtsam, a title is needed to direct my interpretation of your image. ** Is this somber ... "Red Skies in the Morning Sailors Take Warning" foreboding or sunrise thing-will-be-better promising? Regardless of which, it is striking and the blend of blue and red with crossing parallel lines for each color is mood effective construction. Placing a foreboding vulture perched on a limb would unquestionably define the image.
**Page 253 of Suler's work on the psychology of images:
"Especially in online photosharing groups, people like to create titles and write descriptions for
their pictures. Because text interacts with images in all sorts of fascinating ways, the words you
choose to accompany a photograph of artwork can expand, modify, or dramatically alter a
viewer’s interpretation of that piece. "
https://johnsuler.com/pdfs/photopsy.pdf
**Page 253 of Suler's work on the psychology of images:
"Especially in online photosharing groups, people like to create titles and write descriptions for
their pictures. Because text interacts with images in all sorts of fascinating ways, the words you
choose to accompany a photograph of artwork can expand, modify, or dramatically alter a
viewer’s interpretation of that piece. "
https://johnsuler.com/pdfs/photopsy.pdf
Feb 18, 2024 07:50:04 #
Feb 18, 2024 07:58:42 #
I think it works for an uplifting mood (both in color and the design of the limbs) and, as tcthome says, as an example of excellent minimalism.
I very much like the slight diagonal of the slightly soft clouds. You have a great artistic eye, Sam!
I very much like the slight diagonal of the slightly soft clouds. You have a great artistic eye, Sam!
Feb 18, 2024 08:00:49 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Beautiful. Did you play with the sky or is that the actual color?
Thank you. Yes, I tend to play with everything.
Feb 18, 2024 08:01:11 #
Feb 18, 2024 08:01:43 #
veralisa296 wrote:
You did a fine job with using the early morning sky and the tree is reaching for it! Great job! Love the Y-shaped tree!
Thank you, Veronica.
Feb 18, 2024 08:08:55 #
dpullum wrote:
cbtsam, a title is needed to direct my interpretat... (show quote)
Well, there is a title: By The Dawn's Early Light, referring to the morning sky and the tree's location at Baltimore's Fort McHenry. As for one's response to the image, I think the ambiguity you experience can be an advantage.
Feb 18, 2024 08:09:13 #
Feb 18, 2024 08:10:01 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
I think it works for an uplifting mood (both in color and the design of the limbs) and, as tcthome says, as an example of excellent minimalism.
I very much like the slight diagonal of the slightly soft clouds. You have a great artistic eye, Sam!
I very much like the slight diagonal of the slightly soft clouds. You have a great artistic eye, Sam!
Thanks so much Linda. Like so many of us, I get lucky every little once in a while.
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