Bored at the weekend, thought I would just do the usual tinkering
This was quite heavily altered post-photographing, was interesting if I could take a pure white subject, on a pure white background, and see what I can do. I increased the shadows to the max and ramped up the contrast. Personally I quite like it, but does look a little empty on the left, but who said you had to fill the whole frame!
Tried doing it a little different next time, I don’t feel the white statue is as impressive as the previous picture. The other statue behind I don’t feel adds much, in fact the previous picture I thought was considerably more interesting.
This was the last shot with this subject, I decided to get in closer to the white statue, but this time had slightly brighter Chinese statues in the background. I like to think it gives it more energy and more life. The added colour adds more warmth, the two characters in the back [seemingly] interacting creates a story, but the focus is on the primary Buddha at the front.
And finally…
Because I was tinkering thought I would use a couple of my other Kung Fu statues. The focus was on the rear statue with a narrow aperture to create the blurred effect of the front one.
I reduced the colour saturation of the RAW file, and got quite a nice effect from it when combined with the white background.
Anyway I shall leave it there….
