Paul Abbott
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Postcard from Palma...
A Claimed Landscape - Palma, Spain '16 - Paul Abbott
A Claimed Landscape - Palma, Spain '16 - Paul Abbott
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A Claimed Landscape - Palma, Spain '16
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Michael Nagel
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Interesting composition - it works.
Is there a larger view? The restriction works well, but I think that the larger view could be interesting as well.
Best regards,
Michael
Is there a larger view? The restriction works well, but I think that the larger view could be interesting as well.
Best regards,
Michael
Paul Abbott
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Thanks for looking in and commenting, Michael. Do you mean a wider shot image or a bigger re-sized version?
Maggie Terlecki
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Postcard from Palma...
A Claimed Landscape - Palma, Spain '16 - Paul Abbott
I like the composition, Paul, but and forgive me if I'm wrong, but this is photoshopped right? I mean the cut-up poster to me has blatant errors.
Paul Abbott
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No worries, Maggie...
As sure as eggs are eggs, this has not been photo-shopped. I don't and can't do anything like that, I don't have the required processing suites anyway. Also, I am a purist and disdainful of doing things like that. This is the wall, as seen and shot.
As sure as eggs are eggs, this has not been photo-shopped. I don't and can't do anything like that, I don't have the required processing suites anyway. Also, I am a purist and disdainful of doing things like that. This is the wall, as seen and shot.
Michael Nagel
Well-known member
Hi Paul,
I was thinking of a wider shot to see more of its surroundings for context.
Best regards,
Michael
Maggie Terlecki
Moderator
I didn't think you would Paul. It is the upper right hand of the poster with the two children that really pulled me out of this scene and the bit of haloing at the top of the poster. That feels so wrong with the light and shadows of the cracks on the wall... like it's doesn't feel right or at least to my brain.. lol... but I guess sometimes even real things can trick the eye. Glad you were not offended, as it was not my intention!
Maggie
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
This reminds me of the American election candidates. If it were just a "documentary" the critics would say it was all made up "as real folk just wouldn't do those stupid things"!
But truth is indeed stranger than fiction! So Maggie, I am used to Paul, and I believe what I see, no matter how it hits my brain!
Asher
But truth is indeed stranger than fiction! So Maggie, I am used to Paul, and I believe what I see, no matter how it hits my brain!
Asher
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Paul,Postcard from Palma...
A Claimed Landscape - Palma, Spain '16 - Paul Abbott
It is to me quite amazing that the stunning prints should even be there. It's a composition I wish I could have dreamed of and constructed from other found pictures on my hard drives. But I never thought of this and would be stunned to see it and want to find out the circumstances that led to these posters being made and affixed here in some outdoor exhibition of some unknown but accomplished artist!
Thanks for sharing!
Asher
Paul Abbott
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Michael, this was taken in a narrow alley and I remember it not really offering much more of an ideal really...Just a lesson in perspective I guess. Thanks...
Hey Maggie, I think weird things like this occur from time to time. I think it follows along the same lines as an optical illusion maybe? I don't know...but what Asher stated in 'truth being stranger than fiction', I certainly agree on.
In the past I had taken a photograph of a scene with a tree in Brick Lane, London back in '09 and the tree looked like it had cast no shadow of it's lower trunk, only of it's upper half, it was weird. I just couldn't explain it, it looked like I had cloned it out.
Asher, it is interesting in how certain artists choose to utilise the urban landscape for the display of their murals and artwork.
Hey Maggie, I think weird things like this occur from time to time. I think it follows along the same lines as an optical illusion maybe? I don't know...but what Asher stated in 'truth being stranger than fiction', I certainly agree on.
In the past I had taken a photograph of a scene with a tree in Brick Lane, London back in '09 and the tree looked like it had cast no shadow of it's lower trunk, only of it's upper half, it was weird. I just couldn't explain it, it looked like I had cloned it out.
Asher, it is interesting in how certain artists choose to utilise the urban landscape for the display of their murals and artwork.