April 2019 THIS week's PICTURE

Snow Day Revisited : photo by Malcolm Aslett

This automatic reworking of Snow Day surprised me as it has an overall logic that works even as you turn the image at ninety degrees to rotate. Obviously there are small changes. As I've said before these automatic programs are not good with human figures so I redid the figure on the couch and removed some unsightly growths. It also came up with a solution for a middle sofa section that I discarded in the original for reasons I can't remember but were probably to do with practical choices of getting things to fit or balancing areas of interest.

I tried it a couple of ways and while the one above was done mostly in one go the one below has three sections so I could direct the orientation more where I wanted it, to have the elements favour a particular side. It does remind me though that I could create images that need to be rotated - the disadvantages for the spectator are why I shy away from it but I guess you can do it if there is a facility for the digital image to be rotated at will.

At the bottom is the original and you can quickly see the difference in the management of the parts. The middle photo has characteristics of both but with an effort to avoid the three sixty view which results in an expanse of floor that is a bit overpowering.

But images that can be turned so that they have a logic at all four points of the compass - that is something to check out.

With the proliferation of google type devices to create all round images there is a sense of glibness to a God-like hovering viewpoint and that is a serious weakness in my opinion. If the image appears too slick then whey should we spend any time giving it our full attention?

 

 

 

 

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