South Ponto Beach, Carlsbad, Southern California, September 2017.
Getting the camera to see the colours I see is mightily hard, given that it doesn’t quite seem to have the range of colour vision that my eyes have. In fact, not even close. It often frustrates me that a lovely sunset through the camera will look absolutely nothing like it does to my naked eye, and as I fiddle about with the settings, I invariably give up settling for something close enough but not quite.
Luckily, much can be done with some post editing, and even more so when turning a photo into a painting. Extra dimensions are achieved, and something very close to how I saw the original scene emerges, at least in terms of colour palette. Sunsets for me are mostly blue/green with a splash of orange, and other lovely warm pastel tones, rather like the one above. Something to do with having a lot more blue cones in my irises than other folk.
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Lovely work, baby. I understand what you mean. Sunsets are much more orange to my eyes than to the camera. I see warm tones more than cool ones, or the camera does, I suspect. Things look very blue — weirdly so — through the electronic viewfinder, to me, but less so when the final jpeg comes out.
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Thanks, honey.
That’s interesting that the image looks blue to you through the viewfinder. To me it looks mostly red. Same make of camera too.
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I suppose it’s natural that we all see differently (I’ve often wondered if Picasso had a driving licence). Your treatments serve your subjects well—especially the one above which otherwise would be just another nice snap. I truly hope you are going places with this work, I imagine that writ large on canvas … boom boom~!
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Thank you kindly, Argie! I’m working on it.
Your remark about Picasso certainly made me chuckle. You wouldn’t trust him with much, would you..?!
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I read that he wouldn’t sign his own cheques, ‘cos the signature alone was worth more than most of his cheques … I’d be worried that he drew/painted what he saw. Brrrr …
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Haha! Indeed…
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Wouldn’t it be the greatest gift to see through another’s eyes, truly see through them for an hour. I would say it would be an antidote to assuming we can see at all …. the picture is lovely 🙂
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Thank you, Osyth. Yes, that would be fascinating. Although I hasten a guess that the experience would be more eye opening than expected! 😊
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