Julia Parrish  


Love by Julia Parrish

December 2021 - Love

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I took a class in Fine Art Photography and one of our assignments was a photo to depict an emotion. I chose love as the emotion and took the image on a lightpad. I then lightened and slightly blurred the words in post processing to emphasize the flower while still clarifying the emotion.


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It would make a good design for a card, but I wonder if it would work better as either a square or landscape format rather than in its present portrait mode.   Posted: 12/04/2021 06:49:55



Bob Wills   Bob Wills
Hi Julia, no doubt about the image conveying love, unless English isn't the viewers primary language. I'm going to go out on a limb here and see if I can create a different image that shows emotion without words. I'll steal Brians idea for a square crop which I think works well. Your image is sharp, the processing is good, exposure/color right on and your story was told. Excellent work.   Posted: 12/04/2021 18:55:45
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Julia Parrish   Julia Parrish
I did try it several different ways, but the plain background was a little boring to me so I added the words. Fine art photography is a new phase of photography that I am still attempting to learn. I get too much tension when I look at the red against the blue - my eyes go crazy looking at it - and that defeats the purpose of the photo in my opinion.   Posted: 12/09/2021 12:46:12
 
I agree that the contrast between the deep blue and the red is a bit harsh, but I still think your original in a square format might be effective   Posted: 12/09/2021 14:28:56
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Marilyn Ross   Marilyn Ross
Maybe it's a women's perception, but I like the photo as is. Image is sharp and well processed as Bob stated and it does show emotion. Well done.   Posted: 12/05/2021 18:03:27
Julia Parrish   Julia Parrish
Thank you.   Posted: 12/09/2021 12:42:50
Bob Wills   Bob Wills
Julia, I forgot to mention that the light on the rose from the lightpad is wonderful, and the exposure is spot on. Red is so hard to photograph.

Not having taken your course, I wonder what the instructor taught about what constitutes fine art photography, and how to show emotion in a photograph. Who were the artists highlighted and which works? Google doesn't give me a great reference.   Posted: 12/09/2021 19:04:20
Julia Parrish   Julia Parrish
Part of the problem is that there really isn't a good definition of Fine Art Photography. Once you get familiar with it, you understand better. They use a lot of long exposure, camera tricks, post processing, tone, color, light - a lot of simplicity and negative space. There is a facebook group and the work posted there is beautiful. The instructor used Freeman Patterson's book "Photography and the Art of Seeing" and referenced Athena Carey, Anne Smith Duncan, Julia Anna Gospodarou among others. Our 1st assignment was to photograph an egg. I am attaching my egg photo done as fine art. If you are on Facebook, search for fine art photography in groups - it really helps to visually explain it. Good luck!   Posted: 12/10/2021 10:00:51
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Bob Wills   Bob Wills
Thanks, Julia for the references. Immensely helpful, and I'm not on Facebook, but Dorinda is. I find it interesting that when I did some research, B&W was not an element of fine art, yet when I look at what are considered to be FA images a preponderance is B&W. The light is well balanced on your egg, and it is well done in my limited experience. I looked at the two fine art group images and didn't see anything that was better than what our group produces.   Posted: 12/10/2021 10:27:40



Shirley Ward   Shirley Ward
I like the square format the best...great composition....   Posted: 12/28/2021 15:56:08