I like them both for different reasons. They would hang together nicely on a wall, one barely emerging, the other in sharp focus. The second image has intriguing depth- implying the creative chaos at its origin.
And I would add a technical point. The one with the unfocused front shows what happens when you try to span two separated focus distances: the one in front forms a fog wider than the in-focus stuff that is in front. One can clean it up to some extent manually, but in a complex image like this, some of the fog must remain.
You know me- fog and blurry is part of what I love in images. People are Like that also. Sometimes their personality is crisp and understandable and out there and other times there is a hidden edge in a good way.
Thanks. I like both of them, for different reasons and in different ways. Behind the obvious: the full-depth one was a monster to prepare for display. The software that merges those hundreds of images sometimes get confused, and it sometimes but the background in the foreground. I had to clean all that up by finding the relevant image, and then cloning little bits of it to correct the problems. Took a few hours. So maybe I have a little resentment around the full-depth one that prevents me from seeing it in the right way.
I like them both for different reasons. They would hang together nicely on a wall, one barely emerging, the other in sharp focus. The second image has intriguing depth- implying the creative chaos at its origin.
And I would add a technical point. The one with the unfocused front shows what happens when you try to span two separated focus distances: the one in front forms a fog wider than the in-focus stuff that is in front. One can clean it up to some extent manually, but in a complex image like this, some of the fog must remain.
You know me- fog and blurry is part of what I love in images. People are Like that also. Sometimes their personality is crisp and understandable and out there and other times there is a hidden edge in a good way.
Thanks. I like both of them, for different reasons and in different ways. Behind the obvious: the full-depth one was a monster to prepare for display. The software that merges those hundreds of images sometimes get confused, and it sometimes but the background in the foreground. I had to clean all that up by finding the relevant image, and then cloning little bits of it to correct the problems. Took a few hours. So maybe I have a little resentment around the full-depth one that prevents me from seeing it in the right way.