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My sweet painted lady, the one with no name
Many have used her and many still do
There’s a place in the world for a woman like you… (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) |
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Here's an "old" photo that I managed to mangle. I mean it's not that old since I shot this about a year and a half ago. I was sauntering along the street of old town when I saw her through the window. I immediately took a shot before she could notice what I was doing... so I did not really check what I got until I got home and downloaded it into my computer. My initial urge was to try to fix it. Sometimes I wonder why I bother to try to fix a botched shot. The original looks like this... the lighting is fine but I can't stand that patch of green (lower right) behind the subject.
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I tried to crop it and it started to look really ridiculous... I would have kept the cropped version but it was too compressed. I felt like the poor dummy (no worry - she won't mind being called a dummy)was pressed in front of the lens. That would have been fine but that wasn't the effect I was looking for. So I finally settled for a dada-ish approach, which is basically to just rotate and distort the image until it starts to look totally absurd, and pretend that I knew what I was doing by calling it art. He-he.
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