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A goodly part of it is the processing. Of course I’ve only spend 2 weeks in Hollands in my entire life so I can’t really vouch for it, but it seems to me she took the beautiful light she found,and she enhanced it to exaggerate it for effect. It’s clear she is not pursuing a course of realistic photography but some hybrid between art and photography. In the article where I first read of her, she explained that she is a traditional artist/painter and that she used software to paint her photographic images into the creations we see in her collection.Matt Quinn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:24 amThat Dutch light is enchanting. Is it really that way? Or are the photos processed to look that way? Matt
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That helps and encourages. Thanks Minnie. Never been to Holland. Mattminniev wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:39 amA goodly part of it is the processing. Of course I’ve only spend 2 weeks in Hollands in my entire life so I can’t really vouch for it, but it seems to me she took the beautiful light she found,and she enhanced it to exaggerate it for effect. It’s clear she is not pursuing a course of realistic photography but some hybrid between art and photography. In the article where I first read of her, she explained that she is a traditional artist/painter and that she used software to paint her photographic images into the creations we see in her collection.Matt Quinn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:24 amThat Dutch light is enchanting. Is it really that way? Or are the photos processed to look that way? Matt
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I think I read that her background is as an artist and got into digital art way back (probably 95 or so when the predecessor to Corel Painter was Fractal Painter). And I read something about her liking the old master's style. My money is that it is skillful post processing (though I am sure she uses good light when she has it).Matt Quinn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:24 amThat Dutch light is enchanting. Is it really that way? Or are the photos processed to look that way? Matt
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It was Mourig’s images that made me want to go. My husband is a timid foreign traveler so I had to compromise my desire for free rambling and we did one of those river cruises. I did get out into the countryside though, to find windmills and dikes and those gnarly trees. And light. And came back to keep puzzling on a process to attempt my own blend of photos and art.Matt Quinn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:46 am
That helps and encourages. Thanks Minnie. Never been to Holland. Matt
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What it was does not matter. What it is matters.minniev wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:35 amThanks Chuck for a very interesting critique. I love how you describe it, which is a zen-ish prose! I was happy about the sharp beady eye which is a rarity for me taking photos of birds in flight. In the original, he’s pretty sharp except for the fluttery wings. But it is a dingy and colorless original in front of a very scruffy lake bank.

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You are starting to sound like Jim Hill.Charles Haacker wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 1:49 pmWhat it was does not matter. What it is matters.minniev wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:35 amThanks Chuck for a very interesting critique. I love how you describe it, which is a zen-ish prose! I was happy about the sharp beady eye which is a rarity for me taking photos of birds in flight. In the original, he’s pretty sharp except for the fluttery wings. But it is a dingy and colorless original in front of a very scruffy lake bank.![]()
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