Thank you, Lydia (I think!) Lonnit, thanks for taking the time to comment on this. I agree that it could use some burning in around the edges and I would have done it but I had the 1st camera club meeting of the season tonight and ran out of time. Actually I like both of them for different reasons. This is the image I originally wanted and it did come out very much like I had in mind. But when I accidently got my hand in one shot I loved how it made the face look totally disembodied, as if the hand is hefting a sheet of tissue with a face imbedded in it. It also makes me wonder what is going on, how and why! It strikes me as a wonderful bit of nonsense. This image seems a bit more serious to me, maybe even a little sad. I don't know, Lonnit, I just shoot them. It's up to the viewer to decide what they mean! I do appreciate your enthusiasm and hope you are never done! ~Sharon
Aw, no, babe, this is it!! Now all you have to do is burn in the edges to keep our eyeballs from wandering off the image, and add a li'l drama. Ansel Adams said he burned the corners on everything... if it was good enough for Ansel, it's good enough for me! LOL! Seriously though, I do it on every image, except for the extremely rare occasion when I have a darker subject and a brighter background, then I feather off to white at the edges, as witnessed in my library image. I'll shut up now. :) I like this so much better. You don't? Really? This is the meat of the image. Who cares about what's holding up the paper? If it was a clamp, would you have included that? No. It's nonsense and irrelevant. Now all you've got is the subject, and all the wondering of what's going on, how, and why. Now, that's just my perspective on things. Now I'm curious about yours; what do you feel the hand adds to the image? Can you truly justify it? Maybe I missed something. Didn't I say I was going to shut up? Yeesh, I do that you know. Oh, but geez, look at this now! All my thoughts are about what this image is supposed to mean! It's a thought provoker. How much more interesting that which is now rattling 'round my brain, as opposed to my former thoughts of "oh, it's a hand holding up tissue paper." Remember the part where I'm shutting up? That would be nice about now, huh? Put a fork in me, baby, I'm done! ~ Lonnit
