Christmas is coming!!!
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I can hear "Suicide is painless" in the background....
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What can I say.......
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All kidding aside, this is a great image. One of your best.
The odd angle of the wall to the right, the way the chair rail defines the shallowness of the space. All very quiet, very subtle, very impressive.
A question - is the box on the wall something common where you live? In other words, would a viewer there recognize that object? I see it as just a 'thing', jutting into the picture, without definition or explanation, which I like but I'm aware that might be a cultural effect.
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Glad you like it.
@arail1 said:
A question - is the box on the wall something common where you live?
It's a generic kitchen cupboard, the kind you'd find in cheap flats from the sixties or seventies.
@arail1 said:
I see it as just a 'thing', jutting into the picture
As do I. It has no meaning - it's just there for compositional reasons.
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@solo said:
That just screams Yule time, you have captured the spirit of Christmas in an athiest home.
I know what you mean - I have known people who use the holidays to do their yearly grand house cleaning.
However, I have never thought Father Christmas to be a religious figure. Strictly speaking, Yule (especially spelled like that) is not a religious feast at all. So as an atheist I have never found it necessary to be especially gloomy during Christmas, I just take it as it comes and have fun with my family.OK, somebody may mention St.Nicholaus, but Lutherans (my brand of atheism has a Lutheran background)don't believe in saints anyway.
Anssi
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@unknownuser said:
It's a generic kitchen cupboard, the kind you'd find in cheap flats from the sixties or seventies.
That's interesting. The proportions of it made me think it was something smaller, like an electrical fuse box. Knowing it's a kitchen cupboard makes the space visually larger to me. The mind telling the eye what to see.
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The space is rather large, and I'd prefer people to perceive it that way. Obviously I don't know whether that's a good idea. Did you like the image better when you perceived the space as relatively small?
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Anssi, I too am atheist, that's my non religion, my family have the choice to believe what they will, they fortunately do subscribe to evolution and the scientific age of our universe.
As for Christmas, we certainly do celebrate it as we do Easter, Halloween, Valentines day and Independence day, an excuse to celebrate for the sake of it, a change of our daily lives and an anticipation for the kids.
We do not attach any historic or religious connotations to it but rather embrace the family and jolly times to be had.
Unlike the southern baptists that preach no false gods yet exhalt Santa at Christmas to kids who idolise him, only to be told as they get older that he does not exist (all lies) and that celebration is really about the birth of that scrawny hippie looking dude.sorry about the OT.
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Quite allright.
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@unknownuser said:
The space is rather large, and I'd prefer people to perceive it that way. Obviously I don't know whether that's a good idea. Did you like the image better when you perceived the space as relatively small?
Yes, I liked it better as a shallow, awkward space. The odd trapezoidal shapes flip back and forth from 2D to 3D when I see it as a shallow space, less so when it recedes further away from me. But that might just be the effect that occurs when you first hear a piece of music and from that time forward, other performances of it sound 'off'. I will never be comfortable with the new MOMA because it's not the old MOMA, etc..
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@arail1 said:
The odd trapezoidal shapes flip back and forth from 2D to 3D when I see it as a shallow space, less so when it recedes further away from me.
That's indeed the sort of spatial ambiguity I'm after (most of the time). In order for it to work, I apparently need to put a sock in it. Noted!
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stinkie, I originally thought it was a much smaller space as well. I think I also prefer that small space feel. It seems more claustraphobic that way and seems to reinforce the dismal feeling of the image imo.
-Brodie
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jams sock deeper
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What sort of photoshop work did you do hear? I'm assuming some noise, blur, and perhaps some slight color adjustments? Or is the blur strictly rendered DOF?
-Brodie
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Desaturation, noise, gaussian blur and levels. In this order.
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I was wondering if you desaturated. Do you render in color then? If so why? Do you find you end up with more control post-process or more realism perhaps?
-Brodie
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Sorry, Brodie, I was thinking of another image I just did. This one I didn't desaturate, as I didn't use any colors. When I do use color, I usually do desaturate the image a bit. Nothing to do with control or realism: I just muck about until I feel the image looks good.
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Have you started selling this stuff yet? Do you have an online portfolio of your work or anything?
-Brodie
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@unknownuser said:
Have you started selling this stuff yet?
No. I feel it isn't good enough yet. I am fussy.
@unknownuser said:
Do you have an online portfolio of your work or anything?
I have a site, but I haven't done anything with it yet - for the reason I stated above.
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excuse me . ..are we getting off topic?
That is one Angry Elf
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