A little more light on the subject would help with the grain. Boost the blacks with curves in PS. Composition is almost there. If you pulled out just a speck, you wouldn't cut off the cross at the bottom. If you like the cropped view - crop the top bead. Close.
1. Faith./ 2. Devotion/3. Confession/4. Nun/5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn/6. Hope/7. Silence/8. Prayer/9. Comfort/10. Haiti donations.....
This is a dark photo of a Catholic's prayer beads. The large beads appear to have a intricate pattern painted or carved into the surface giving the beads a personality of their own. This could be in order to aid the prayee (?) of which prayer is to be recited or to add beauty to an everyday item of a devotee of Christ. I find the gloom of the background illuminated by the beads akin to capturing the light of hope prayer provides in one' darker hours. It capture the comfort of prayer that one can obtain. I admire how the shadows take on hints of color from the beads' sway giving the illusion that the beads are spreading the small seed of hope throughout the darkness. I find the darkness kind of rich as if this is a piece of velvet with the silvery sheen worn out or the mahogany confines of a confessional. I have never visited one off screen so I have Hollywood magic to draw from.
I think the angle of the beads enhances this vertical format greatly. The angle gives the beads the feel of being photographed while in use or being pulled from a table. I don't know why but A Tree Grows in Brooklyn seems to come to mind for this photo. I think the scene when the main character agrees to marry her husband is in a dark corner or something. I am also reminded of the huge box of bright beads CRS was sent when the Haiti earthquake occurred. Acknowledging it was a Catholic charity, I pondered if the Haitians had a strong enough Catholic body to need the 10,000 beads. Ah well.
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ReplyDeleteA little more light on the subject would help with the grain. Boost the blacks with curves in PS.
ReplyDeleteComposition is almost there. If you pulled out just a speck, you wouldn't cut off the cross at the bottom. If you like the cropped view - crop the top bead. Close.
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ReplyDelete1. Faith./ 2. Devotion/3. Confession/4. Nun/5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn/6. Hope/7. Silence/8. Prayer/9. Comfort/10. Haiti donations.....
This is a dark photo of a Catholic's prayer beads. The large beads appear to have a intricate pattern painted or carved into the surface giving the beads a personality of their own. This could be in order to aid the prayee (?) of which prayer is to be recited or to add beauty to an everyday item of a devotee of Christ. I find the gloom of the background illuminated by the beads akin to capturing the light of hope prayer provides in one' darker hours. It capture the comfort of prayer that one can obtain. I admire how the shadows take on hints of color from the beads' sway giving the illusion that the beads are spreading the small seed of hope throughout the darkness. I find the darkness kind of rich as if this is a piece of velvet with the silvery sheen worn out or the mahogany confines of a confessional. I have never visited one off screen so I have Hollywood magic to draw from.
I think the angle of the beads enhances this vertical format greatly. The angle gives the beads the feel of being photographed while in use or being pulled from a table. I don't know why but A Tree Grows in Brooklyn seems to come to mind for this photo. I think the scene when the main character agrees to marry her husband is in a dark corner or something. I am also reminded of the huge box of bright beads CRS was sent when the Haiti earthquake occurred. Acknowledging it was a Catholic charity, I pondered if the Haitians had a strong enough Catholic body to need the 10,000 beads. Ah well.