I wanted to work with my object upclose, making it more mysterious in its shape. I concidered the lines of the blue and made that my main focus for the lens. I found that having a more open aperture captured just enough of the colors to get a calm, cool feeling. Having the aperture open and bluring the corners disguises the object ( a cloud light) and gives the viewer less direction.
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They are all really beautiful and have a really indearing quality to them; really due to the mystery in the objects you choose. I'm particularly drawn to the sencond one; mostly because I have no idea what it is,(a lamp maybe?) but also beacuase it has nice flow and color to it.
Who is melly?
you haven't added your 100 words about the use of line/shape and the way in which the images are about how the camera sees (not how our eye sees) and what is being communicated.
I'll check back and comment when you do
best
jane
melly is melissa. and i know i havent done my 100 words yet because i just put pictures i took up to show. i havent really decided which one i want to talk about.
kerrian you took the words right out of my mouth! :) melissa my faovirte is absolutely the second one. i love the curving line that sweeps through the composition, creating a sort of movement. its definately interesting because i'm not sure what it is.
I enjoye this series because the lighting and detail both give an archival feeling. You have taken simple objects and made them feel somehow more important.
Im very much attracted to the picture you took of what it seems to be a necklace. Th dimming of the warm light romanticaly hits the jewlery and the capturing of the camera almost makes it seem magical.
Melissa--the tension in the image is between the defined line that divides the image in half and the amorphous shape(s) in the left side. This contrast between very opposing qualities of clear/sharp/focused, and amorphous/hazy/blurry are intriguing to our eye always. You say its a cloud lamp, but since I dont' know really what that means, I very quickly stop trying to figure out what it is, and just look at it as pure abstraction, meaning that it is almost completely removed from any perceptual or objective representation. Its always the case that abstraction highlights an artists use of formal concerns, since there is no subject per se to engage our background/bio/experiences of the world as represented in your image. So abstract images are completely unforgiving of poor formal choices. Good use of the log to get comments to sort out which pic you find most compelling.
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