Art and Locomotion.

[John 2]

A bit fanciful to call it art I suppose but it's an interpretation, the result of playing around with PP on a rainy day (and we are having a few of those at the moment). At my wife's request, I'm really trying to find something not too straight forward to frame an hang. Cruel comments will be winced at. Others, very welcome.

[Donald]

I think that's excellent.

It's perfectly legitimate thing to be doing (thinking of those who would criticise it for not being photography). One thing that taking part in the BA Hons course in Photography that I am part of, is that the capture of a photograph is indeed just the very first and sometimes very minor part, of making an image.

And my use of excellent comes from, in my opinion, the fact that if you are going to create something like this, then this is a very, very good example of that. You could equally attempt something like this and make a bit of a mess of it. Well done. And, yes, it is art. It is a product of your imagination and creative processes.

[John 2]

Thank you for such generous comment Donald. I'm of the school that believes that cameras (whether film or digital sensor) computers etc. are all only tools of the trade and it's the image as an end product that is important and that I believe, applies whether it is a SOOC record or something more. Others I'm sure will have a different view.

[Shadowman]

Nicely done.

[Wavelength]

Beautiful.... there is much to take care about photographing an image/photograph/any two dimensional thing..... this has come out very nice

[Tony M]

I also like it very much. My personal preference would be to use a simple frame, but take that with a grain of salt because we all have our personal preferences.

Photography has evolved and diversified greatly, and this type of "post-processing" is perfectly valid - to the extent that the term "post-processing" does not do justice to the art of manipulating captured light. My wife and daughter like to paint, and they sometimes do such post-processing to get inspiration from photos that we have taken on family outings.

So keep it up.

Tony

[bnnrcn]

Very nice interpretation

[FootLoose]

This kind of work takes skill and effort and imagination. Well done, John.

[DanK]

a nice image. It would be fun to show a minimally processed version alongside it, to see the effects of the processing.

I don't have much relevant experience, because most of my work is detailed and realistic, but I have been playing a bit with things that aren't, and I did print and hang the one below (which I posted here last summer) a few weeks ago. Based on that one experience I think yours might look best on a plain, very white matte paper, similar to the surface one would see in most watercolors.

[Urbanflyer]

You have done a great job using your photo as a base for an artful image.
Well done!

[John 2]

Thanks all for the comments. I might try a (rare) print of this to see what it looks like.

Dan, while I was at it, I also produced a more graphic version which I will post in the near future along with the original exposure. BTW I like your image. I think it would look good printed large on canvas.

[IzzieK]

Playing around on a rainy day have good result in this image. Even your words saying 'rainy day" bleeds into the shot and became watercoloured, pardon my pun...I do not like the frame very much though, it is bulky. That and the thought that the train model itself is bulky doesn't seem to mix (in my mind, that is...) Maybe a less bulky frame will suit this work of art? Just a thought.

[John 2]

Thank you Izzie. If I print and frame it, I think most of the frame will disappear.

[Mike Buckley]

This is wonderful, John!

You're probably aware of the genre called photo art. The concept is that people post-process photos for the purpose of changing them to look like they had been originally produced as a different art form, such as pen and ink, illustration, oil painting, acrylic or whatever. Yours has the look of a water color to me, so I think Dan's suggestion of printing it on paper that looks like watercolor paper would be just terrific.

One distinct advantage of photo art is that, unlike yours that surely started out as a high-quality photo, a really bad photo can be converted to a really nice piece of photo art just as effectively as when beginning with a high-quality photo.

My only suggestion is that you eliminate the dark, curved thingy at the left side of the frame. I think I know what it is and I think it probably made a lot of sense in the original. However, in this version it pulls my eye away mostly because it doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe that's just me.

[John 2]

Thank you Mike. Photo Art isn't something I dabble with that seriously except in trying to produce something that my other half will also live with on the wall. She is a potter and leans towards the artistic. (not that I don't consider photography an art form but you know what I mean.) You're right about the curved thingy. Its the underside of a bridge that has lost detail as a result of the PP. Does look a bit odd now that I see it.