Lilac
Nov 1, 2016 08:46:43 #
Nov 1, 2016 09:05:49 #
I find it very interesting! It is restful. It also flies in the face of convention by having a thin strip of sharp focus in the midground rather than the foreground. It arrested me. I have looked at it for several minutes, trying to determine if I like it. I think I do, for its somewhat quirky restfulness. It's well composed. It's a very different approach to what might otherwise be a somewhat cliched picture, which I think is what stopped me and made me look long. On balance, therefore, I do like it! 
Nov 1, 2016 09:25:51 #
Chuck_893 wrote:
I find it very interesting! It is restful. It also... (show quote)
Thanks for taking the time and your comments Chuck.
A rather ordinary subject so I did a bit of lateral thinking.
I'm glad you ended up on a positive note with it.
Nov 1, 2016 09:50:39 #
Frank2013
Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.
Sorry Rob, for me the lighting of the cat just doesn't match the rest of the image.
Nov 1, 2016 10:02:43 #
Frank2013 wrote:
Sorry Rob, for me the lighting of the cat just doesn't match the rest of the image.
That's OK Frank, I don't mind.......
Cheers.
Nov 1, 2016 10:25:35 #
winterrose wrote:
In a field of Lilac
Your title made me think of that old song "We'll gather lilacs in the spring again" but as it's a field of lavender I soon put that thought out of my head
Nov 1, 2016 11:44:26 #
" I taut I taw a puttytat..." laf, laf, laf, yes it was a "puttytat"!!! Okay, lilac it isn't, but lavender it is, which color,
however, is "lilac", call it what you may. I would hang this on a wall as it would surely delight anyone who entered
my dwelling for years to come! The selective shallow DOF runofthe mill is saved by a couple eyes peeking out at us.
Thank you for the photographer's vision and the "creative" use of the lens in this fashion. May I use this on my
monitor to greet me every morning?
however, is "lilac", call it what you may. I would hang this on a wall as it would surely delight anyone who entered
my dwelling for years to come! The selective shallow DOF runofthe mill is saved by a couple eyes peeking out at us.
Thank you for the photographer's vision and the "creative" use of the lens in this fashion. May I use this on my
monitor to greet me every morning?
Nov 1, 2016 13:00:04 #
winterrose wrote:
In a field of Lilac
This is interesting but for several reasons isn't quite believable to me even though it may well be a single shot taken with a very creative approach that's simply unfamiliar. The cat looks almost like a cartoon figure in there, and his colors are so much brighter and richer than the colors of the lavender, which looks dulled out by bad light, overly reflective with lots white speckles and lines that look like specular highlights.
If it were mine, I'd be too happy with the concept to let it go, but too unhappy with the dull colors of the lavender and that annoying white stuff to be satisfied. So I'd probably develop differently, with lots of color work and give way to the illustrative effect altogether, either in PS or some kind of filter work blended back with PS. It is too unique to discard.
Thanks for sharing an unusual image.
Nov 1, 2016 13:11:53 #
Oh fer Pete's sake, I never saw the cat! Jeeeeepers. Well, now that I have, I have to agree that the cat may be...something. I always think "If I had made it," but I've never thought of doing something like this. Is the cat overbright? I don't think so since I didn't see it (although now my eye goes straight to it). "Unusual." "Unique." I think one thing that might work better would be if the cat were looking directly at the viewer. That would be more startling when the viewer (blind in one eye and not much better in t'other) finally finds the fershlugginer cat! 
Nov 1, 2016 17:27:51 #
winterrose wrote:
In a field of Lilac
If I may ask, was the image shot with the shown depth of field in mind, or was it changed after to achieve this effect, and what was the purpose of the image while you were there in the field taking it? Did it speak to you in some way, were you working a creative aspect, or was there something else? S-
Nov 1, 2016 20:32:36 #
If one views this as an image meant to be believable then one is possibly going to be disappointed. If however it is a viewed a quirky and interesting conceptual image it ticks all the boxes. The bright cartoonish cat weaving its way through a field of artistically presented lilac/lavender works just fine. Is it fine art? maybe not. Does it tell a story, does it need too? maybe not. Will it make some smile? Yes for sure. Will it inspire some firmly entrenched under the mushroom of serious snapping to get out of the box and think differently. One can only hope so. On many levels a thought provoking image and I look forward to seeing more images produced with the same aims in mind as this one.
Nov 2, 2016 01:34:49 #
St3v3M wrote:
If I may ask, was the image shot with the shown depth of field in mind, or was it changed after to achieve this effect, and what was the purpose of the image while you were there in the field taking it? Did it speak to you in some way, were you working a creative aspect, or was there something else? S-
There are many aspects that can make an image interesting or attractive. Colour, great detail, lighting, etc., an unusual subject, or a usual subject shot in an unusual manner.
This image if shot in the usual manner would have been a forgettable cliché.
Presented with not a lot in the way of an interesting subject to work with my approach here was to create visual conflict.
Conflict in an image is one way to hold attention as the viewer works through it until satisfied that it is reconciled.
Here my intention was to cause the viewer a division of attention between the busy but conventionally in-focus area and the very much blurred but equally dominant foreground flower stalks.
The pussycat I thought I’d throw in simply to make the shot interesting for those who like pussycats…
Seriously though, the shot needed something, I thought, and a little rubber duck came to mind, but then I remembered that lavender always gives Squeeky the sneezies……
So I asked Boofhead, my neighbour’s moggie, to pose.
Nov 2, 2016 01:50:30 #
Nov 2, 2016 02:00:31 #
minniev wrote:
This is interesting but for several reasons isn't ... (show quote)
Thanks for looking and your comments Minnie. For info the pic was shot as is, no layers, no trickery. (except for that cat)
82mm at f8, 1000'.Nov 2, 2016 05:07:16 #
Chuck_893 wrote:
Oh fer Pete's sake, i I never saw the cat! /i Je... (show quote)
No need for feeling a bit sheepish Chuck, a couple of people I have shown this to didn't see the Lilacs....
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