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These are three pictures of my dog curled up on a granite cliff on an island off the West coast of Sweden. I was going to upload them separately, but I realized how harmonically they fit together as a series. Editing, I boosted the color in all three images, changed the saturation and tint, and increased the sharpness, all with the goal of amplifying the beautiful colors and conveying the different textures in the photograph, such as my dog's hair and the pink cliff. In the first image, I like the misalignment--it looks dizzy, seasick (in a good way that emphasizes the nautical look of the image); the lines of the cliff are on multiple diagonals, my dog is lying in a slightly twisted way, and the horizon is not horizontal. The same lack of alignment is evident in the other two pictures as well, which, aside from their sameness of subject, links them together.
Tinny
The two bottom pictures are variations on the topmost one. When I saw the original, I thought that when editing it, I could go two different ways: boosting the colors to make it brighter and more cheerful, or fading the color to give it a more dated appearance. Although both work, I personally prefer the second variant for several reasons. I think that the irregular angles and skewed lines, together with the distorted image in the water, give this picture a worn, old-fashioned tone--it actually reminds me of old, neglected buildings in the American West (this picture was taken, like the granite picture, off the West Coast of Sweden). Something I like about digital editing is that, with a single picture, the possibilities are numerous, and consequently, one original picture can be altered to convey several different messages and moods.Tinny
I used my sister's huge digital Canon camera (I think?) to capture this picture from our boat on the West coast of Sweden last summer. With this picture, unlike the ones I posted earlier, I don't really feel like I had to do much to get a good picture. I saw this rock formation and decided to photograph it, and the simplicity of this picture is part of what I think makes it work. Its other crucial parts, I believe, are the uneven proportions that it is divided into and the multi-toned rosy color together with the blacks and grays. As with the swan picture, it is confusing at first sight, which is something I enjoy about it. But ultimately, it's simply a straight-on picture of a beautiful granite mountain off the Swedish coast--yet its description even makes it sound complex.Tinny
These are three pictures of my dog curled up on a granite cliff on an island off the West coast of Sweden. I was going to upload them separately, but I realized how harmonically they fit together as a series. Editing, I boosted the color in all three images, changed the saturation and tint, and increased the sharpness, all with the goal of amplifying the beautiful colors and conveying the different textures in the photograph, such as my dog's hair and the pink cliff. In the first image, I like the misalignment--it looks dizzy, seasick (in a good way that emphasizes the nautical look of the image); the lines of the cliff are on multiple diagonals, my dog is lying in a slightly twisted way, and the horizon is not horizontal. The same lack of alignment is evident in the other two pictures as well, which, aside from their sameness of subject, links them together.
