Lance Lewin
July 2024 - Reflections of Nature Study
About the Image(s)
Image Composed near Alifia Lake, Central Florida 2024.
Digitally Registered w/5D Mark II
Additional Processing w/ PSCC and Color Efex Pro-4 (polarizing Filter)
B&W conversion via Silver Efex Pro-3: Careful Dodge & Burn after passing through a Digital Green Filter.
(Note best viewed on large bright monitors or V-large TV screens). Thank you.
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10 comments posted
Lance, you've presented another image that invites contemplation. I admire how you are able to make photographs that are not about things, but rather are about feelings. For me the presentation borders on the abstract and I had to study it a bit to make sense of it. It is an image that lets me meander lazily through it as I appreciate the reflections, textures and shapes. ...and then, suddenly, a thought comes to mind: Were there mosquitos? Posted: 07/08/2024 23:08:44
LOL!!! No, we were free of Mosquitos!
Appreciate your positive comments, Michael. Thank you. Posted: 07/09/2024 15:28:51
Appreciate your positive comments, Michael. Thank you. Posted: 07/09/2024 15:28:51
Lance, your pictures ALWAYS invite me to think about what I'm looking at; no pop-art work here... I must admit that I struggle figuring out the story you are trying to tell. Initially, I wondered whether this picture was shot in infra-red or merely on a sunny day until I read your caption. Also, this picture works much better in monochrome since the water was likely quite disgusting in color. Finally, since it was shot in Florida, I zoomed in hoping to see some kind of alligator lurking around ;-) Posted: 07/09/2024 17:34:51
Viable Question you ask ... 'I struggle figuring out the story you are trying to tell...'
Not every photograph (or photographic composition) needs to actually tell a story: that is, sometimes the intentions of the artist photographer (or painter) are not more than offering the viewer or reader some scene/object they feel will be interpreted as something "interesting", be it an object of beauty, intrigue, great sadness or perhaps a composition that inflicts a sense of pain or unease.
In these instances, the artist hopes the viewer defines what the work means to them. As such, the work may have as many narratives as there are viewers looking at it.
My intentions are similar ... I am offering the viewer what I feel is a lovely "place" along this small meandering river in Central Florida: my visualization and "Compositional Structure" was designed to elicit some kind of positive connection between the viewer and the photographic image ... regardless what that might entail.
(See another composition that, again, offers the viewer options for interpretations: DD87) Posted: 07/11/2024 01:47:58
Not every photograph (or photographic composition) needs to actually tell a story: that is, sometimes the intentions of the artist photographer (or painter) are not more than offering the viewer or reader some scene/object they feel will be interpreted as something "interesting", be it an object of beauty, intrigue, great sadness or perhaps a composition that inflicts a sense of pain or unease.
In these instances, the artist hopes the viewer defines what the work means to them. As such, the work may have as many narratives as there are viewers looking at it.
My intentions are similar ... I am offering the viewer what I feel is a lovely "place" along this small meandering river in Central Florida: my visualization and "Compositional Structure" was designed to elicit some kind of positive connection between the viewer and the photographic image ... regardless what that might entail.
(See another composition that, again, offers the viewer options for interpretations: DD87) Posted: 07/11/2024 01:47:58
Elsie Allen
Lance,
This is a beautiful image!
The moss? and lily pads lead me right down into the water. Posted: 07/10/2024 03:25:03
This is a beautiful image!
The moss? and lily pads lead me right down into the water. Posted: 07/10/2024 03:25:03
Thank you. Posted: 07/11/2024 01:35:49
Hi Lance, as others mentioned, your image always makes me to think and study. I did not have it viewed in full monitor at first, when I scroll it down I saw abstract, when I scroll it up I saw fine art. LOL I know, I am not supposed to view an image like that. It is a gorgeous image, I like it very much. Posted: 07/10/2024 14:55:35
I appreciate your very positive feedback, Don! Thank you. Posted: 07/11/2024 01:35:36
A very well presentation of "relaxed" atmosphere. I can feel the rhyme of the place. very nicely done. You chose a fairly narrow range of tones right in the middle of the histogram. Is there a particular reason ?
Posted: 07/11/2024 14:01:07
Posted: 07/11/2024 14:01:07
Thank you, Adi.
Yes, the use of this tonal gamut best illustrates, or offers the viewer the mood I experienced at the time I was hiking past this amazing location. Posted: 07/11/2024 20:27:00
Yes, the use of this tonal gamut best illustrates, or offers the viewer the mood I experienced at the time I was hiking past this amazing location. Posted: 07/11/2024 20:27:00