{"id":90,"date":"2010-05-26T19:48:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T23:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=90"},"modified":"2010-06-19T15:57:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T19:57:36","slug":"make-your-work-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2010\/05\/26\/make-your-work-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Make your work beautiful."},"content":{"rendered":"

“Make your work beautiful. Make it simple. Make it clear. Put it out there. Cast off the illusion that you can control the results.” — John McWade Before & After\/Design Talk<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I think that may be my new motto. Or at least the standard that I hope to reach with my photos (dare I say, art?).<\/p>\n

And that brings me to project 3 for week 1 of the digital layers class. I’ve had this photo since last year’s World Photo Walk Day. I really liked the way the trees were in a straight line and seemed evenly spaced — even though we were in the middle of the woods. I thought the diagonal direction would act like a converging line and draw the eye to the little foot bridge. It didn’t seem to work.
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So then I started really playing with it.<\/p>\n

Dozens of adjustment layers later, I still couldn’t get it close to what I was looking for. I thought it would be the perfect candidate for the 3rd project.
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My first inspiration was to make it darker and gloomier — but when I stood back the final work looked more like a train wreck. The textures didn’t see to have any rhyme or reason to them and I don’t think they really added anything to the photo.
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I turned off those layers and added new ones. Since darker didn’t work, I decided to try lighter and lo and behold: I think it worked!! At least I like the results of the final version much better.
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