Hi Frank .... Made the exposure to eliminate the background as much as possible. In the original there are some highlights showing that are reflecting from the leaves of the big plant behind the chair. I brought those down, and reduced the background brightness a scosh, just as I would have done in the darkroom. It's pretty much a "straight print" with no fancy manipulation .... oh, yeah, did some spotting, as well.
Speaking of the street and homeless people, I was thinking about a series in which I take a chair to various locations, photographing it in unexpected spots, like at the beach, in the middle of a street, at a shopping center, in a parking lot - photographing it out of its normal context - maybe getting some people to sit in it as well, or just catching the reactions of people as I photograph it, and so on. Might be fun. Anyway, as always, your comments and thoughts are most interesting. I should take you around to galleries with me and have you explain the meaning of my snapshots <LOL> You often find more in them than I do .... BTW, I was going to make a B&W version as well, and have actually started on the conversion. Of course then it would become art, and need a more artsy title. Of course it could be called Green Chair or Purple Chair, and who would know (and who would care <LOL>) Shel Belinkoff "People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life." > From: frank theriault > > http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/redchair.html > Hey, Shel, did you have to photoshop it at all to get > the jet-black background, or was it "naturally" like > that? Either way, very effective. > > I love the bit of floor in the corner, to sort of > "anchor" the chair to something, give it a point of > reference so it's not like it's floating. > > And, I ~really~ like the shirt/jacket/whatever > carelessly slung over the chair. It makes it > ~someone's~ chair, not just ~a~ chair. It's waiting > for its owner, like a dog. It's waiting to fulfill > its desitiny (sorry if that sounds overblown, but it's > what comes to mind right now). > > And, of course, the red. The red makes it, doesn't > it? I have to say, though, while I was waiting for > the page to load, I was thinking it would have been > funny if you called it The Red Chair, and it turned > out to be a b&w photo, but that was just me being > perverse! <LOL>. This could be nothing other than > colour, to be sure. > > Great one, Shel. And, not taken on a street, with no > homeless people in sight! <vbg>
