Submerged wooden skiff in winter - edits with Luminar
This blog explores the abandoned wooden skiff to express a somber mood, not just of a winter season, but of this very special corona-lockdown winter season.
The subdued colors with limited color range (almost monochrome with milky waters) as well as lack of clarity are the metaphors for my life and probably for many other people right now. I feel like I'm surrounded by murky nothingness, stuck on shore without any perspective of when I'll be able to move freely on open waters. Taking on more and more water (gaining weight ...) due to inertia.
So yes indeed, photos #1 and #2 are highly edited but it's intentional. I'd appreciate it if you could let me know if the edits were effective to achieve my intention or what the photos might "say" to you. I'm grateful for the valuable feedback I got for Mystic Boat and I've been practicing.
In this series (except for the final photo) it is the same rowboat taken from different angles and edited using different software and/or techniques. In contrast to my Flooding blog, this is not a documentary but an attempt to express a mood.
Submerged wooden skiff in winter - edits with photoshop
Photos #3 had only basic edits like cropping to 8x10 format and exposure which I performed with Photoshop Elements.
Submerged wooded skiff in winter - basic edits
Photo #4 is without any edits.
Submerged wooden skiff in winter - no edits
The final photo #5 is a glimpse into the future of this abandoned boat. This is a different skiff which only became visible recently once the vegetation no longer hid it. This photo was taken one week later.
What a tangled mess of regulations we have to live with in these Corona times!
Abandoned wooden skiff II - winter no edits
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This is lovely Lee. I can rationalise that this is sombre, but it doesn't instil that emotion in me because it's too elegant. If anything, the mood is ambiguous (which is great).
I much prefer number one because the lines of the boat take your eye out to the horizon. I would have played with cropping a fair bit at the bottom to create a more minimalist image, but I appreciate this works against the sense of inertia you are striving for.
I really thought this was along exposure when I saw it, the water looks beautiful.
Thank you so much Paul especially for the detailed explanation of why you liked it and your thoughts to composition that is so helpful to me!