IMG_5410-Rock House
by Cory

Comment by Bear_Music:
Now THAT works well....

IMG_5410-Rock House
by Cory

Comment by GinaRothfels:
Great job. I love this photo.

IMG_5410-Rock House
by Cory

Comment by sfalice:
Da-um - did you just change cameras?
Seriously, that's an amazing transformation.
(um) that bit of strange background yellow makes me want to look at it instead of the stone structure.

IMG_5410-Rock House
by Cory

Comment by P-A-U-L:
Rather excellent transformation - was this ReStyle only or was there more involved?

En Blanc
by Cory

Comment by tnun:
self portraiture is a many genred thing. apparently.

IMG_5410-Rock House
by Cory

Comment by ciaeagle:
Another beautiful creation. I love all the colors in the stones against that sky. The clouds also seem like they are pulling away and taking the house with it. I almost expect to see stones flying through the air...

La Llorona
by Cory

Comment by Cory:

Originally posted by posthumous: I'm pretty sure I see more than mylar in this photo. It looks like la llorona to me. But if your mylar is a soul-eating spirit from the other side, I'm sure SC will validate you.

Well of course you do. And I thought that was the point of this indistinct sort of photography? To make the mind play games with the senses.

What you really see is a set of colored blotches that arrange themselves into a face. Would you feel any differently if I had projected the image onto a reflective surface? Cause I don't have any technological deficiencies that would prevent me from creating this same image any one of three or four ways.

And yes, my mylar eats souls!! ;)

La Llorona
by Cory

Comment by posthumous:
I'm pretty sure I see more than mylar in this photo. It looks like la llorona to me. But if your mylar is a soul-eating spirit from the other side, I'm sure SC will validate you.

En Blanc
by Cory

Comment by skewsme:
i know this sounds weird but lookout there's a big white umbrella heading your way!!!

La Llorona
by Cory

Comment by Cory:

Originally posted by posthumous: so, you are taking photos of your monitor and it's getting validated?

Just a thought for you Don. I think it's pretty darn likely that I worked a lot harder on this than you do on almost anything you submit.

Tell me, how long does it take you to set up and shoot an entry? Including editing?

Took me about three hours for this. Photographing my monitor indeed. Not sure why you would feel a need to put it like that - but, when we spoke at length about it last time, you were pretty clear, if I feel like I'm doing something beyond photographing my monitor, and if I'm really modifying the image, adding myself into it, then I'm creating something new and valid. Or so I though I understood you to have said. In the end, I'm focused on the surface of a piece of plastic, taped to a box, an inch or two away from my monitor, with plastic wrap in between, and I experimented and adjusted the relative angles carefully to play with focus/detail, all this with my camera attached to my desk on a magic arm, with a remote, so I can get the shot without the camera moving and destroying the fine grain and scratches on the mylar. I mean, come on man - how many entries of yours did you work that hard for? Really? Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me the often many of your shots are honestly just serendipitous shots that managed to capture something that strikes your fancy. Maybe I'm wrong- but do you envision then shoot, or shoot, then fantasize? Perhaps that's why you do not appreciate the effort put into a 'monitor shot' like this one.

Really man... I think I earned it, and I feel a little betrayed by you on this. I even had your advice about it in mind as I was shooting, and tried hard to add extra dimension to it. An example is the deliberate placement of the splotches, the extra plastic wrap, etc. And now, you hit me with this "picture of your monitor" crap. I didn't really expect that from you to be honest.

Message edited by author 2013-09-03 15:26:26.