Thursday, August 23, 2012

Colour vs Black and White

I've finally become well enough to be able to sit up straight for more than ten minutes at a time (I'm up to half an hour! Whoop whoop!), so I've decided to dive into the old photo-folders from earlier this summer and see what I can make of them.. and since I have, until recently, been unable to calibrate my screen properly, I've been going for a lot of black and white experimentation. And it's been really neat. I like the extreme variations you can get from simply going monochrome vs colour. 



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But sometimes I can't really decide which I like better.. and that's where these photos come into it all.. I like them both, for different reasons. The colour version makes me think of elven forests and summer and all that good jazz.. magical mysteries. But the black and white one brings out chaotic forms, a gloomy look and more of a "twisted and turned in the moment of death" type of vibe.. and I like them both. And I think I also like the base-photo even better because the same image can show two entirely different worlds.. just with some minor editing. 


Saturday, August 18, 2012

Imagination and Forests.

Sometimes you find things that immediately sends your mind on a journey through fairytale-like stories and worlds much more magical than this one. Roots can become monsters climbing out of the forest floor, with long and deformed hands, and a tentacled mouth reaching out to eat you! ;) 



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