Kirsti Näntö-Salonen
About the Image(s)
The image is part of a story we staged with our camera group, inspired by the history of an island we visited this summer. In the past, it held a leper colony, and nobody who entered the island was ever allowed to leave again. There is a story about a young woman whose husband got the disease. After a long and laborious search she discovered a herb that could cure it but when she finally came to the island her husband had died. She stayed on, helping the other patients until the church considered her success rate highly suspicious, and it is said that she got burned as a witch for all her trouble. - One of my fellow photographers is posing as the young widow on the shore watching longingly a sail that disappears Into the horizon. We were after a hazy dream-like mood, and somebody suggested to try to shoot through a thin chiffon scarf that we tied on the lens hood with rubber bands. Fuji XT4, 63.8 mm, f/5, 1/2700 s, ISO 200. The B&W is finished with NIK Silver Efex preset ”Classic portrait cool tones" - I don’t know if the chiffon was a good idea at all. I feel that there might be some potential in the color version, but the B&W looks just fuzzy and bland (and this is supposed to be a monochrome project). What do you think? I am very grateful for all comments and improvements.
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See what you think.   Posted: 09/02/2023 15:02:27