Sunrise

[FootLoose]

As seen from my pillow through the slit of a sleepy eye...

[pnodrog]

Did you use a wfi path for brainwaves or just the basic usb connector at the back of your head?

Interesting and I enjoy it. What's it look like when you are wide awake?

[just me]

Greg....I like it, because it is different........

Griddi.......

[Rebel]

I would be interested to hear how you got to this image?

[Marie Hass]

Abstract. Do you sleep with your camera?

Great timing.

Marie

[IzzieK]

I would be interested to hear how you got to this image?

He has this camera beside his head that night thinking that if he has it there, it might give him an inspiration again to go down somewhere...it hit his face when he turned around to take a look at what startled his sleep so he grabbed it quickly and took a shot.

Honestly Greg...this is exactly what wakes me up in the morning each day -- that kind of light from 'tween my blind. Very irritating. So I lie down there and kept thinking that I will one day get a block-out curtain to cover the windows with but as soon as I got out of bed, I forgot all about it...

[FootLoose]

Paul: a USB connector in the back of my head - that would save a lot of time, wouldn't it. I don't think I have been wide awake since insomnia moved in 20 years ago, but this is what it looks like when I am vertical (simply converted to jpg):

[FootLoose]

Matt: I took this photo in mid-January and it took me a while to work how to get it to the arc-like shape. I eventually did that with the Polar Coordinates filter in Photoshop. That filter doesn't give you any options over the results, though, so I controlled the span of the arc using Curves adjustment layers.

Then it was a matter of playing with different Blur and Sharpening methods until I achieved the affect I wanted.

Though the finished version doesn't look much like the original, it is close to what I see when I peek at the window early in the morning.

[FootLoose]

Griddi: glad you like it. A different take on 'sunrise'.

[FootLoose]

Marie: I didn't think it was quite abstract enough for me to label it abstract but I'm glad you see it that way. I don't sleep with the camera but it only takes a few seconds to fetch from the next room. The hard part was having the presence of mind to use the camera at that time of day.

[FootLoose]

Izzie: yep. It's that first sharp ray that hits you in the eye and seems to penetrate your brain... aarrrghhh.

[NorthernFocus]

That looks familiar

[JBW]

Yes!

[bnnrcn]

Hi Greg. I like the image as an abstract and I love the golden colors I would crop some of the dark space on the left if the image was mine.

[FootLoose]

Dan and Brian, thanks for viewing and commenting. I'm pleased that this shot resonates with you.

Binnur: I'm glad you raised the issue of the crop. I gave a lot of thought to this. In an earlier version I had confined the subject to the lower right quadrant of the frame. I felt that conveyed more of the sense of peeping through a close eye. But over the course of several days, I decided that that version obscured some of the subtleties that I had aimed for (eg the contrast between the sharpness of the central ray and the smoother blur on the outer rays). So I cropped about a quarter off the darkness.

I tried taking more away but I wasn't happy with the results because then the blind became the subject, and that is not what I intended with this image. I realise a tighter crop would reveal more of the 'subtleties' - and they are still there for the reader who wants to view it in the larger size in lytebox - but I think the darkness is essential to what I am trying to convey here: a sudden burst of light seen from the corner of your eye. So, while you feel I should take away more of the darkness, I am still not sure that I haven't already taken away too much