Alternative perceptions

[zafra52]

I took the picture of this week sometime last week. However, this week I have been thinking about how people see the same scene and colour it with their own perceptions and misconceptions ending up in an alternative reality, hence this picture. I hope you like it.

[gstark]

Interesting perceptions indeed.

You've certainly enjoyed playing with this in post, which is something that I heartily endorse.

[zafra52]

Thank you Gary. I did have some fun, but more so with some of the comments I got from the people that weekly receive the pictures. Some comments were " Oh my God! You must have ingested some funny mushrooms in a rich Rioja sauce", another "If I print it, how should I hang it on the wall, upside up or downside up" and "how did you managed that? Did you paint the lens with highlighters, took a picture and then turned the camera and took the second one?"

[ozimax]

Nice treatment Zaffs. I like it. A bit psychedelic. 1960s maybe?

[gstark]

"how did you managed that? Did you paint the lens with highlighters, took a picture and then turned the camera and took the second one?"

All done in post I expect.

On a semi-related note, I find it amusing to see people comment on things like this, which are all too easy to do in post, as being something new.

I find it quite amusing because I have yet to see anything done digitally that one cannot do in a wet darkroom. Yes, it's usually a lot more work and trouble to do it in a wet darkroom, but that also makes it a whole lot more fun as well.

And for me, much more satisfying.

<I need a wet darkroom>

[ozimax]

a wet darkroom

Is this an inside room with a leaky roof...

[gstark]

a wet darkroom

Is this an inside room with a leaky roof...

And no windows.

OSX is fine.

[zafra52]

That brought dark and wet memories at university when I took a photography subject. We have to work with b&W films (we didn't have a colour lab) to create a portfolio of pictures to be marked and exhibited at the end of course. At the end of the course my photographic and dark room skills were still very crude and elementary (still are), but did I have fun taking and developing trick photography!