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Picture sales and an open notebook of thoughts from Orginal Robart
I promised to talk more about Aspects of Winter and now that I have released the final version of the image its time to do so. There’s a small copy of at the bottom of this posting, it also links to a larger version so that you can take a better look at it.
I started Aspects of Winter wanting to show the build up of colours in a snow scene, and I think going from black and white, to sepia, finally to a painting style of colour achieves that. As I was working on getting this right I released that there was something to gain by including a little unevenness. The images themselves are not clones of each other. Each is an individual photograph, and each has been cropped individually. The idea is to open up the view through the series of images and to try and capture that up and down trudge that is the hard work of walking in deep, and freshly fallen snow.
Aspects of Winter is an attempt to capture the changes in colour and movement that comes with snow.
What’s next – lets see what happens when I move this to a T-Shirt design.
This week I took a walk in the snow. Well actually this week there was little but choice – it was walk in the snow or not walk at all. The nice thing about snow is that we don’t see a lot of it where I live. That does not mean I am against snow, what it means is that snow transforms what it falls on and it is nice for these sudden changes in the world to not become routine. If I had a lot of snow I may not notice the subtle changes it brings to the world around me so readily. So I welcome snow. It gives me a chance to review my world with a fresh set of eyes. This is a good thing to do and a recommend exercise for anyone. Take a look at something you see regularly and try to review as if you had never seen it before. Its a good creative exercise and may help you come up with some good ideas.
Near me there is a park that I sort of do not use a lot. Its mostly an open space used by people playing football. During this walk I entered it and noticed that the snow was untouched and perfect. I also could not help notice how snow changed the light, shadows and contrast. In this park there is a line of trees so being a sucker for perspective shots I started to take a series of photographs, playing with focal point and light as I did. So far so good.
When I reviewed my photographs I noticed that with a bit of cropping and a bit of adjustment I could create a series of images that went could expand along the view and also move from mono to colour in a near painted style.
So I worked up the images.
Then noticed that they would make a good set and maybe even a T-Shirt design.
All this from a walk in the snow.
The first image (part 3) is already up on m gallery and is available now. Over the next couple of days. This is the one that I feel is the strongest of the 3. It has a touch of snow other worldliness and also the ordinary creeps in too and I like this balance. When I finish the final compilation and T shirt design I’ll talk about the process behind these too.
In the meantime I hop you like Aspects of Winter. Click here to view it.