The Eastman House, in the gardens. I did curves to lessen the exposure of the garden and increase the exposure under the porch. I also used selective color to brighten the darks.
Don, beautiful writing. i think i've gone down this path in my photography. overexposing images to a point i can hardly recognize what i've photographed. same with noise, blur, underexposure. always searching for that essence that speaks to me.
this essay is like a road map, i can only hope i'm not lost.
Your image has the feel of a grab shot emphasised by the use of the tilt and therefore meets this quite open challenge. I feel I want to like this image but I'm not finding it easy, probably due to the tilt.
It must have been a very difficult exposure with such contrasts between the two halves, your PP corrections have rescued it to a large extent. I do like the pastel type effect in the brighter left half and the person under the shaded right has an intriguing feel to it. It's obvious that you intended it to have this tilt, I like that it is so extreme as to not be confused for a technical error but for me it just doesn't work. I think perhaps it may help to have cropped excluding the portion of pillar on the left, and waited for the shadow to have gone?
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