When "In the Beginning" was announced, I made up my mind I wanted to photograph pond scum and try to in some way call up an image of "promordial soup", the seething mass of early life in the seas from which higher forms evolved. I had a very particular idea of what I wanted to achieve, and was waiting for the correct conditions (tide and light) to do the picture. Unfortunately, the weather was unrelentingly rainy/misty through the challenge period, so in the event I went up on the correct tide and shot in appalling light, with a clear conception/previsualization of what I wanted to do with photoshop to create my image.
The submitted image, all in all, is pretty much what I had in mind from the beginning, right down to the granular artefacts which I was hoping to see and which I had hoped would suggest cellular-level life. here's the entry, which not surprisingly did very poorly:
Now, just for the hell of it, and bearing in mind that this was a basic editing challenge and every editing step on this image was 100% legal by that ruleset, HERE's the original from which I worked:
It's funny, really, just how MUCH you can do within the basic editing ruleset. I'm well aware. of course, that many people consider this sort of thing ridiculous, but I actually LIKE the image, like it a lot better at full resolution though. I have a 12x17 print of it that's just spectacular...
Have at it folks; here's ammo for the anti-editing crew LOL. Or perhaps not... I donno.
Robt.
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