Here's the starting point, a 'sketch' I did quite a while ago
I have no idea where I found the interior image, it was not mine,
so I had to find a substitution of some sort:
Here's my photoshop 'sketches'
with a subsitute negative that I did have:
As you can guess from the pencil drawings, I was thinking about
making this vertical, and adding something at the bottom.
Nah! Forget about that!
Just stay focused on what's going on already, that's quite enough.
Here's the neg of the desert space, taken in Joshua Tree.
It's pretty easy to see where I dodged out the black triangle,
running from top left to lower right.
And here's the neg of the skylight
taken on the 'Balclutha' ship at the Hyde St. Pier in SF.
(Yes, it's been flopped horizontally.)
It's the Maritime Historical Museum.
If you're ever in SF, it's worth the 5$ entry fee.)
(If you'd like to see a bit more of the Maritme Museum.
click on the image -
the page is loooong, for those of you on a slow connection.)
Here's the skies I drew on, to sandwich w/ the ship's skylite:
(I chose the top one.)
V1 looks like this:
V2 - the only difference being some burning at the top, for skylite detail.
Burning in at the top didn't help that much, it was pretty much 'bullet-proof'.
I liked that! I call that one a 'keeper'.
But I've still got one more sheet with these exposures on it,
can I push it to another level?
Good question!
Here's an answer -
I added a bit
of this neg, to the distant sky:
..and I burned in the skylite with the same clouds as used in the sandwich.
The clouds don't show much, but the latent exposure of the skylight finally does.
Not sure how successful this is, but ya know what?
Sometimes I make a print that doesn't initially seem so good...
and I scratch my head, thinking 'WTF was I doing?'
and then I look at it again weeks or months later,
and feel completely different about it.
"WTF was I doing?" is exactly the question I need(ed) to ask... and answer.
You gotta just keep on working, and doing something, anything...
Just keep working!
Sometimes doing something 'completely different'
is exactly the best way to open up new doors, new ways, new stuff.
You'll never find it, if you don't go out on a limb, waaaay out on a limb.
If you don't take risks? you'll never get anywhere new.
Separating the wheat from the chaff?...
That comes later, as it should be - at least you will have alot to sort out.
If 50% falls by the wayside?... that still leaves 50% that 'has wings'.
Be happy for that 50%!
Life could be much more cruel than that, for sure!
:-)
I like this image 'cause it's not like what I've done before,
it's 'out on a limb', it doen't make the same 'sense' I have made before.
Good place to go. We should both go there ( out on a limb),
more often.
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