May 2010
The story behind it
01/05/2010
Spring explodes all over. I get up early, to photograph. The nightingales are communicating among each other. There is a fresh dew on the grasses, bringing the air dust down. The air is clear and the temperature is low, but nice. The Sun rises with warm colours, crystal-like, providing energy to all that is alive, full of colour. There are purple flowers, yellow ones, white. The green colours are strong and saturated. The poppies are all over the place, coming about in various growth phases. This is a morning that I will never forget, well grounded. Comment
Technical issues
01/05/2010
It was taken with a DSLR, with the Nikon 105mm f/2.8 AF Micro lens, with ISO at 400, aperture f3.2 and exposure time of 1/750s. No tripod, for this speed, aperture and ISO. The idea, on purpose, was to unfocus, at manual focus mode.This is, for that, a photograph of simple execution. But original, for the way of seeing and registering visual reality. The 105mm lens is known for its nice "Bokehs", i.e., the shapes of the unfocused objects. But this photograph is, all of it, "Bokeh". It leaves you to imagine the details, sparked by the dark spots and the shapes of the poppies.
Critial review
01/05/2010
No realism here! Impressionism. It is up to the observer, to build up its own interpretation and emotional response. Not through any contours, nearly invisible, but by the combination of colours and general shapes. Notice that the dominant colours, red and green, are complementary. Jointly, this results in a strong photograph, in colour, special brightness and contrast. The black spots, on the bottom of the flowers, provide visual rhythm. The unfocusing was neither exaggerated or too little. What would the pictorialist photographers and painters of the 20th century say?Where you should place it
01/05/2010
I suggest its placement in a place of private personal use, with full indirect natural light. Its print may be enormous, since it is not a photograph of detail. It is a photograph of colour and general undefined shapes. It stands large upsizing and resampling, with no problems. I feel that, by my interpretation, it is true, it is a positive photograph for a positive place and positive minds! |
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