Betty versus Veronica

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Monday, February 13, 2006

Why is red such a pretty colour?

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This is the 50mm lens.

I'd complained about the quality of the scans before. Now, though, after having not seen the transparencies with a lightbox in a while, this image isn't so bad. I was all set to sharpen, reduce noise, and all that crap in Photoshop. No, I said to my self, correct the levels, and walk away.

No, it could be a better image. I don't have the time to make it beautiful.

Do we really care what it's about, where it's from? It's pretty. The colours work with this site. I like this photo. Reason enough.

What are the hands doing in this photograph?

I'm going to have to rewrite this, when I work out what I want to say. Lin, you're right. It's about colour. Nothing more needs to be said. No drafts need to be rewritten.

2 Comments:

At 14 February, 2006 02:14, Blogger Lin said...

Martin!
The only way to repay you for posting up these gorgeous pictures are these comments.
Your site is growing...and I think it's these pictures that are adding so much meaning to it. The last photo, was so hypnotically beautiful. I spent a whole day at a temple in Penang taking photos and could not get a shot with quite as much substance as that one. Kudos.
I think you work well with red. Out of the last 5 photos posted, I liked 1,2 and 5 the most. Just realized that they all speak redness. Different languages and subtleties of redness, but redness as the key colour nonetheless....
I forgive u for not visiting bubblog. The layout is frustrating me. I think I might just go simple again. Unless I'm really bored one day...

 

At 14 February, 2006 19:27, Anonymous Anonymous said...

You could give me money.

 

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