Jerry Snyder
July 2025 - Veil
About the Image(s)
My monochrome image titled Veil is attached. The image was made of a spring house window on a bright overcast day. Hand held Canon 6D. S= 1/125 s., f/20, ISO 100. Straightened and cropped, converted to monochrome even though there was very little color in the original because of the bright diffused light silhouette coming through the window.
4 comments posted
It has taken me quite a while to figure out what I'm seeing. I think it's a window with a metal grid over it (the larger squares) and a finer gauze over that. The gauze (the "veil") is torn in a couple of places. Is this right?
Posted: 07/08/2025 21:45:07
Posted: 07/08/2025 21:45:07
A little too abstract for me. Posted: 07/16/2025 22:22:46
I see the grid as a trellis for the foliage to climb with a torn gauze background but it is hard to say how much distance separates the two (not that it matters). The grid and the gauze are responsible for texture and patterns and I quite like the torn sections as they spark interest in an image that I was not fussed on at first but it is growing on me. It is unusual and unique subject matter and that always piques my interest. I would like to see more detail in the foliage and wonder whether some fill flash could be effective. Posted: 07/18/2025 03:49:23
The photo is a ground-level window shot from the inside of a spring house. On the outside of the window there is a metal grid to keep critters out, and a screen to keep insects out. Plants have grown up outside the window. The torn screen and the patterns the tears made were my main interest. The sky was completely overcast yet very bright causing almost everything in the image to be in silhouette, except for a bit of green at the bottom. Out of necessity I chose to keep everything in the frame silhouetted, because I did not have a flash with me. I admit that abstracts are not everyone's taste, but I like it.
Posted: 07/19/2025 21:38:11
Posted: 07/19/2025 21:38:11