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"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." __ JOHN LENNON

  

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Via:  community  •  7 years ago  •  12 comments

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." __ JOHN LENNON

I often push the realities I photograph … and when I really think about it… photos, paintings, all graphic art … are simultaneously "pictures that represent reality, but are themselves, a separate reality."

I think it was the author E.H. Gombrich who wrote …

"If you take a bite out of a painting of a bowl of fruit … it will taste more like any other painting than … a bowl of fruit."

Any way … here is where I pushed reality to earlier today.

swallowtailbutterflyagurmankin.jpg

© A. Mac/A.G.

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A. Macarthur
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link   seeder  A. Macarthur    7 years ago

Push back if you feel like it.

 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
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link   Hal A. Lujah    7 years ago

Awesome, on every level.

 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy    7 years ago

Very nice! I am afraid I am still a ways from this.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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link   seeder  A. Macarthur  replied to  Randy   7 years ago

Very nice! I am afraid I am still a ways from this.

Not nearly as far away as you think.

 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy  replied to  A. Macarthur   7 years ago

I'm still going to work on my composition awhile more. I want to be happier with it. Also my Photoshop Elements a bit. For instance the Hummingbird was brown in reality and through my lens (I used the 70mm to 210mm lens on all of them), but when lightened the picture up (it was in a shadow) it came up more grey. I have to play with that some more.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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link   seeder  A. Macarthur  replied to  Randy   7 years ago

Set the while balance on the camera to the lighting condition you shoot in; or set to AUTO make corrections in Adjust Color>Hue>Saturation.

 

 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy  replied to  A. Macarthur   7 years ago

I assume you meant white balance. I have it set to auto. That's where I usually leave it by default.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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link   seeder  A. Macarthur  replied to  Randy   7 years ago

White balance ... Right.

 
 
 
Kavika
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link   Kavika     7 years ago

That is a masterpiece Mac.

 

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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link   seeder  A. Macarthur  replied to  Kavika   7 years ago

I am flattered; thank you.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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link   Buzz of the Orient    7 years ago

As I see it, your editing experimentation stretches your, and other's, view of reality. Doing that increases our sensibility.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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link   seeder  A. Macarthur    7 years ago

Good night; more tomorrow.

 
 

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