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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Artwork - Painting or Photography

I was talking to a friend of mine whom I reconnected after a very long time (thanks to Orkut & Linked In), who himself is an artist & he was commenting about my photos in this blog. While I got more than a couple of constructive feedback on how can I improvise the composition and the lighting, he asked me this question out of nowhere...

Have somebody told you that a beautiful piece of work in photography has to be on precision focus on a certain object? Why not try to explore the canvas like a painter? Why not make use of the longer exposure and lightng to your advantage to make a beautiful piece of work?

I tried this on a rainy February evening, in the twilght, with a longer exposure & a smaller F-stop, & purposely made a brush motion during the exposure. I think it came out beautiful, though it does not fit into the 4 walls of photography rules...

Exposure: 1/2 Sec
Aperture: f/25


2 comments:

Dhanya February 20, 2008 at 6:34 AM  

There is no rule that subject in focus should be sharp. I also have many snaps with long exposures.. Only prob with such shots is we should really know what we want..

Santosh February 20, 2008 at 1:38 PM  

Thank you for stopping by... yeah, I agree. If we really do not know what we want, it becomes another attempt to do the so called -'modern art'. By the way, did this come out well as a rainy day painting?

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