Friday, October 28, 2011




I did some edits on the laundromat interior-- brought down brighter parts to the right, and brought up the mannequin, but to me it might look too photoshopped. I took the other three pictures while my girlfriend was shopping for Halloween costume stuff. The picture that I connect the most with is the image of the mattress underneath the flourescent lights. In the night there is something special about areas of localized light. It has the effect of "interiorizing" the space that is lit. That picture just wouldn't work for me in daylight. There would be no presence to the mattress or the scene. I wanted to omit the dark areas of night outside of this scene, to let the feeling of the scene fill that data in for you. I also really like the shrivelled and stained mattress lying before the upright one. It's kind of bizarre and fleshlike, like a dead whale or something. For some reason or another it really makes the picture for me.

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  1. The laundry image look much better, but I'll have to see a print to judge if it look PS'd or not. On my monitor, it looks just fine.

    The mattress is working just fine. If anything, select the mattress, and then invert the selection (CRTL-SHIFT "I") which will allow you to darken everything in the image except the mattress. I don't mean take it down much, but just enough to bring the mattress a bit more forward in the image. Good one.

    The other two are not doing much for me.

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