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I loaded this into a group called The Art of Meddling, and it was rejected. The picture is a very good example of what you get when you meddle. Looking through most of that group's photographs, it should really have been called a fine art group, I think. As it was, the moderator rejected this because they didn't like it, not because it didn't fit the genre.
If one is going to moderate a group, one has to ignore one's own feelings about a picture. If you don't like it, you don't like it, but that's no reason to reject it if it fits the criteria of the group, which it did according to its title. I have no time for such nonsense, so I just left the group, not in a huff, but because I have no idea what sort of photographs they want.
This photograph fits perfectly under meddling, and it was rejected. What exactly do they want? It had nothing to do with F-stoppers, the group, by the way.
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Fit's in this group, that's for sure.
Can you explain what I am seeing, that is deconstruct it into its component pieces?
It is one photograph of a domestic scene in my living room, and all I did was mess about with perspective. Sometimes I get something I want very quickly, and sometimes I have to play for quite some time before the magic appears. That's really all I do: mess about with sliders until something appears. In the phot I can see my husband, two of our dogs, storage boxes and blinds and more. I use Photolab 10 for most of my editing. I still have a sub to PS with LRC but even after having it for years I am still not good at using PS. LRC is a waste of time. I have 2-3 very good editing techniques in PS. It does a couple of things really well that Photolab still lags behind on, which is why I still have my Photoshop subscription. It is absolutely useless at sending photos to be printed, even that is bloody complicated, and it really annoys me. In Photolab, everything is really rather straightforward. For me, at any rate.
I have brain damage, which, of course, affects me, but mainly neurologically. I don't know how much it affects me mentally. I do know that my memory is pretty appalling and that sometimes I can be speaking and realize I've been talking nonsense. It didn't make sense, not even to me. I will just suddenly, for no apparent reason, check out and go silent, and you can tell that I've left the room even though my body's still here. People have seen it and said it's really quite spooky, but they've been really good friends and remained really good friends.
It might help to know that I never approach a photograph or editing with a plan in mind. I work very intuitively, which I think is the right word. I'm not certain. I'm going out to a wildlife park tomorrow. I know what animals will be there and have been there before, but I don't have any particular plan in mind apart from the gear I'm taking. When I get my shots, I'll come home, bin a lot of them, and then edit the rest. They might turn out to be a normal photograph, or they might turn out to be something really weird. I don't know yet.
Unfortunately there are many who are over-eager to place restrictions on the groups they moderate.
This group encourages freedom of expression and a place where others even if they don’t agree respect the viewpoints of others.
I find your piece very abstract and interesting, like Dean I am curious about details.