Week 4: Composition Week
Day 27: 'Curved'
As I did with the prompt 'Black and White', I decided to go literal with this assignment.
This is where I started...'curvy' eggs in a 'curvy' bowl.
'Eggs in a Bowl'
Curves are calming. The photograph above has a calm feel.
The color white, however, can be stark. I learned this lesson years ago when shopping for my wedding dress. After helping me into a white wedding gown, the woman assisting me stepped back, paused for a moment, a forefinger tapping thoughtfully on her lips, and then said in a lovely English accent something along the lines of, "Darling, white is not your color." I am blonde, blue-eyed and have a very fair complexion. Pasty, actually, with hints of blue. A professor in college would ask me routinely if I was sick. NO!
But I digress... The Englishwoman (I really should know her name. Seems rather tacky not to remember the name of the woman who sold me the dress I was married in...) trotted me back out the racks where I was instructed to limit my choices to ivory.
The 'take-home' message: white can be harsh.
Wanting to enhance the sense of calm, I added an antique filter to the photograph.
'Eggs in a Bowl 2.0'
Definitely a softer image.
I then started thinking about what I could do so the objects in the photograph (eggs and bowl) would become secondary to their curved lines. Does that make sense?
A 'faded paper' filter resulted in the photograph being less about the eggs and the bowl and more about their curves. I also like the ethereal, dreamy quality the photograph now has.
I give you 'Curved'
No comments:
Post a Comment