I updated the slide show from the previous post.
The only difference is that grading or stylized colour has been added.
Colour Grading is something I find fascinating to watch but elusive to create. When you see before & after shots of something before & after it was graded the difference can be huge. It obviously looks different, but it also feels different & that is usually the thing that's more important. The colour enhances the mood & emotion of the story. Even if you never see a before & after ideally you will still get the feeling they're going for.
Grading is hard. it's even hard to do a half baked job of it. It's really hard to do well and the people who do it well are wizards. I can't afford to send my little videos to a wizard to work on, which is why I'm trying to work towards doing a half baked job of it.
The idea with this one was to have it feel like dreaming of a happy memory then waking up & being a little disappointed that the dream is over, but happy you had it.
Original (no) Colour
Colour Graded
I'm not sure if the colouring really makes that much difference here, but you have to start somewhere.
Old School Sun Dying. Cloth, plants for colour and a liquid medium, combined with some late after noon light.
My mom is always working on some cool project, usually more than one. She usually making something, by hand, from scratch or using an interesting technique. This time I was in the right place and time to capture some cool pics of this process.
Spring Flowers around Niagara Falls. It seems like there's so much more to photograph when the seasons change. It's probably more likely that there are different things, not more things to photograph. Either way a new season usually inspires me to get out of a rut & change subjects.
A nice cluster of spring flowers beside a house. Many houses in the older part of town have small , mostly forgotten clusters of flowers that return each spring & are then forgotten until next year.
It's Wall paper Wednesday again. Today's wallpaper is a cool design made in the sand by melting snow, with a little interest added by the colour effect.
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