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Bateau Ivre


Bateau Ivre
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Copyright: nuxa gil (nuxa) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 75 W: 32 N: 127] (1035)
Genre: Places
Medium: Black & White
Date Taken: 2007-04-14
Categories: Artwork, Decisive Moment, Experimental, Mood, HPP [Heavily Post-Processed]
Camera: Sony DSLR Alpha-100, Sony 75-300
Exposure: f/9.0, 1/1250 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-04-24 19:46
Viewed: 654
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Another one taken in the port of Sesimbra area. This boat was standing in the middle of a small beach on the way to the dry dock. No other boat around. I liked the way he looked, alone, isolated, turning his back on the sea. I thought about this high-contrast photo, and took the pictures accordingly, that is, overexposing them, creating a lot of hard shadows. Then, when i began working with the result, this poem by Rimbad came to my mind, and this is what came out of it.
There's a lot of Photshop work done here, some of it too extensive to describe. But basically, applied a gradient map mask (black, grey and white, very close together for the high-contrast), stamped out a few seaguls that just wouldn't go away, and finally created a new fill layer white and erased through where the boat and the sand were.

"Mais, vrai, j'ai trop pleuré ! Les Aubes sont navrantes.
Toute lune est atroce et tout soleil amer :
L'âcre amour m'a gonflé de torpeurs enivrantes.
Ô que ma quille éclate ! Ô que j'aille à la mer !"

Le Bateau Ivre, by Rimbaud
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kind of abstract art!! new PP work.. and good informative note
thanks for sharing
love
mugush

Les poètes maquillent les mots.
Nous, oui maquillons les photos.
Alors je laisse les mots à Rimbaud.
Par contre je lui somme le vin.
SI pour le renard il y eu le fromage,
cette critique vaut bien rouge coupe.
Et comme je ne rime même pas en finale,
la photo par contre, rime avec simplicité, beauté, originalité et naïveté...
Du dernier attribut nous profitons
pour se laisser dévoiler à tout vent
là ou bon notre rêve voudra nous porter.
Comme cemme bateau à la mer
c'est écrit noir sur blanc.


Hope your french is good...
I adapt my words to the subject :)

hi Nuxa,
nice portrait with B&W colours.
contras and sharpness are good.
but the detail was loos.
tfs
Haldian

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  • bazsa Gold Star Critiquer [C: 90 W: 0 N: 3] (2926)
  • [2007-09-25 16:10]

Hi,
Nice artwork, original and very impressive.
Excellent composition and PP. Congratulations.
TFS
Regards. -bazsa

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