A Moment of Gloaming
Posted by Jay
May 14, 2008 2:06 pm
A light was burning in my workshop this last evening and there was something so Cotswoldish about the whole affair that I grabbed my camera in a race with the dwindling light.
I set the dial on aperture priority to avoid a flash exposure and the result was a little smeared. I can’t make up my mind about it. On the one hand it creates a sense of remove, but on the other, it appears simply blurry. Maybe a foggy quality would be better. What do you think?
Jay,
Terrific blue and yellow.
Were you inspired by a painting that I love:
‘The High Note at Dusk’
http://juneunderwood.com/gallery-recent.php
Birgit:
Actually no. But I can see from whence you’re coming. June was likely inspired by the same kind of effect. That amazing blue was not so evident at the moment of exposure.
That is an amazing blue. And I really like the spot of red to go beyond the yellow-blue contrast. As for the blur, to me it seems to be in that range where it’s not enough to be a clearly intended, meaningful effect, but it’s enough to be noticeable, with the net result that it’s a minor annoyance.
Jay-
You should paint this. Or carve it and foam it and paint it. I’m with Steve — the color is wonderful and the composition nice and I want to adjust my screen to make it come into focus. That starts to become the center of my attention until I can’t see it any more.
Maybe you could collage, keep the blue and foam/paint the center…..
I also like the colors very much, and also like the sculpture of boards on the right which looks as if it is a figure that has flattened itself to the wall and is peering surrepticiously into the window (or let’s hope it’s not a blue rifle).
On the other hand, the blurriness is the type that gives me a headache(especially in the yellow area, not so bad in the blue area), so I would get a tripod and do over.
June:
It would be a challenge to come anywhere near that blue. Maybe a light blue-green covered by a straight blue glaze.
Martha:
The sculpture of boards is sick of sitting out there and wants in where a light is burning. And, yes, a tripod, or something like it.
Steve:
Then the blur cannot be sold as an artistic necessity.