Early this week I decided this week’s new-fifty-two entry would be a photograph. I’m not a photographer by any stretch of the imagination and the best camera I own is my iPhone.(1) The only way I know how to manipulate pictures is digitally. Nevertheless, I thought I’d be able to come up with something pretty good.
I set a couple of rules for myself, though:
- The image had to come from real life. No staging. No artificiality. Just something I saw that caught my imagination and my desire to preserve it.
- Digital adjustments were okay.
- But no filters.
- And I limited myself to only using my iPhone for any adjustments.
I took a lot of pictures of a lot of things, but it was something I saw whilst baking yesterday that really caught my eye. After spending some time trying to bring out a certain something in the picture through manipulation, I finally decided to make this week’s entry more of a study in adaptation.(2) I simply cannot decide which picture I like best, and they each say something different to me.
So here they are:
The original image.
An adaptation:
Another adaptation:
Like I said, I can’t decide, so I give you all three.
As I’ve mentioned previously, if you’d like to be part of this new-fifty-two thing, feel free. If you’d like to share your creations with others, let me know and I’ll post links if you like.
- Which is actually the best camera I’ve ever owned and the previous statement shouldn’t be taken in any way pejoratively against the iPhone. Or Apple. Which everyone knows by now I heart pretty hardcore.
- Even though the class I took on Adaptation Theory ended back in December I still think about it all the time. Like all the time all the time.
