AMERICAN GREY | l i g h t
Contemplation
Posted by AG (London, United Kingdom) on 19 July 2006 in People & Portrait.
"Every man is tasked to make his life worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour"
- Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
Additional Info
The guy on the beach may look 'pasted' but was really there. The pic was taken early morning before the sea mist had lifted and the original is one of a set I took with the little Fuji just to see what I could extract from the swirling fog on a zoom equivalent of around 250mm. The answer came back ‘not a lot’ because the contrast was so suppressed.
This shot was closer to being usable because I had a different angle on the mist or it shifted or something and I liked the ‘statement’ the guy made just standing there over-dressed even for the street. I did have to dig deep in Photoshop to extract something worth showing and, although I know that produces an unreality, the guy himself was a kinda oddity, too, so I went for it.
- AG, 07-21-2006
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