Dream Boy
I'm at a loss for words ...
Typically I would've written a poem to express my thoughts and feelings ... but I've had a serious block for several months now (haikus are about all I can muster). Perhaps because I'm just not finding much inspiration these days, or perhaps it's just that I'm at yet another crossroads in my life ... time will tell. Anyhow right now I seem to find it ezier to express myself visually .. so here you have it.
This is my 1st conceptual image .. actually inspired by the brilliant work of my friend Mark (aka goodmolecules on Flickr). I don't even remember how I found my way to him initially, but I take it as a gift ... a very special gift ... and so now I too have ventured into that wonderful world of imagination, too ... of fantasy and illusion.
Mark's photo stream: www.flickr.com/photos/goodmolecules/with/5124328514/
Much like my poetry ... I just let this flow .. a stream of consciousness of sorts ... although I had a basic concept and image to begin with ... a dream boy. Then I decided to just choose from my raw photos. This gave me some limits ... for while I have years of jpg images .. I only have a few months in raw. That was a good idea as even still there were a lot to look thru. But, ultimately when it came right down to it the selection process it was relatively ez, because like I said ... I just let it happen, even though I did start with almost twice as many images as I used here ... some just didn't pan out like I envisioned .
Anyhow ... sometimes I knew exactly what I wanted to do with an image .. and sometimes I just stumbled onto an effect that I liked. In any case the learning curve was steep and tedious. I've been processing almost entirely in RAW because it's fast, effective and has built in limitations, but by including PS for this conceptual piece.. I found the choices almost endless ... and this in itself added a lot to the challenge (when is enough enough ??). It took a couple weeks to create ... and as I got into it more I found I had made several bad decisions along the way, but by then it was too difficult to go back and correct them. At least I learned from them ... I hope.
I find the creative process exciting, fun, enlightening, challenging, time consuming, frustrating, nerve-racking and rewarding.
Finally, I'd like to say a special thx to my artist husband Robert for his constant support (he has many years of PS experience in graphic arts), patience (esp with my inability to grasp some of the harder concepts), critical eye and encouragement. I couldn't have done it w/o him by my side .. and still there is so much more to learn.
Dream Boy
I'm at a loss for words ...
Typically I would've written a poem to express my thoughts and feelings ... but I've had a serious block for several months now (haikus are about all I can muster). Perhaps because I'm just not finding much inspiration these days, or perhaps it's just that I'm at yet another crossroads in my life ... time will tell. Anyhow right now I seem to find it ezier to express myself visually .. so here you have it.
This is my 1st conceptual image .. actually inspired by the brilliant work of my friend Mark (aka goodmolecules on Flickr). I don't even remember how I found my way to him initially, but I take it as a gift ... a very special gift ... and so now I too have ventured into that wonderful world of imagination, too ... of fantasy and illusion.
Mark's photo stream: www.flickr.com/photos/goodmolecules/with/5124328514/
Much like my poetry ... I just let this flow .. a stream of consciousness of sorts ... although I had a basic concept and image to begin with ... a dream boy. Then I decided to just choose from my raw photos. This gave me some limits ... for while I have years of jpg images .. I only have a few months in raw. That was a good idea as even still there were a lot to look thru. But, ultimately when it came right down to it the selection process it was relatively ez, because like I said ... I just let it happen, even though I did start with almost twice as many images as I used here ... some just didn't pan out like I envisioned .
Anyhow ... sometimes I knew exactly what I wanted to do with an image .. and sometimes I just stumbled onto an effect that I liked. In any case the learning curve was steep and tedious. I've been processing almost entirely in RAW because it's fast, effective and has built in limitations, but by including PS for this conceptual piece.. I found the choices almost endless ... and this in itself added a lot to the challenge (when is enough enough ??). It took a couple weeks to create ... and as I got into it more I found I had made several bad decisions along the way, but by then it was too difficult to go back and correct them. At least I learned from them ... I hope.
I find the creative process exciting, fun, enlightening, challenging, time consuming, frustrating, nerve-racking and rewarding.
Finally, I'd like to say a special thx to my artist husband Robert for his constant support (he has many years of PS experience in graphic arts), patience (esp with my inability to grasp some of the harder concepts), critical eye and encouragement. I couldn't have done it w/o him by my side .. and still there is so much more to learn.