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In the spirit of “how great things start” keep in mind that the picture you now own started as nothing. It was blurry, underexposed and noisy. By adding some passion, vision and creativity it became something to the world that it wouldn’t have otherwise. This is how all dreams begin and this how all dreams, one day, become reality.
Your Friend,
Jonathan
Lec,
Attached is a photograph from the night we all went to Agatha’s for the dinner theater; this version is rendered with some specific lighting and brush stroke filters. The original was almost unusable due to the shutter speed I used at the time and was filled with tons of “image noise” and blur making it also pretty much unprintable and un-presentable. Even with digital photography nothing is perfect.
But instead of throwing it away or trying to fix an unfixable thing, I made it into something else. By color saturating the canvas and blurring the lines the viewer’s attention can be brought back to the original serenity that was intended to be captured in the first place. Many of my best creative works have come about in this manner –a realization I continue to find quite inspiring when something broken and commonly to be discarded can become something else entirely.
Enjoy the picture.
V/R
J. Keys
This is one of my first “painted images”. The original photo was of me folding a blanket in my dorm room at Auburn (in Noble Hall). It’s not possible to, of course, see any of that original photo now but it calls to light where such a amazing creation can begin. There are two faces in the image here, a small voodoo doll like in the middle and a larger face on the outside with a mouth toward the bottom. Photo credit ( 47images.com )
“To me, taking a simple photograph, or “normal” photograph, and making into something else is no different than a painter who starts with a brush and a blank canvas. Some say that I’m only making more on top of what’s already there but I disagree. I see it as removing the veneer to reveal what is beyond what the eyes see and exposing what the mind can perceive.
There is also a great challenge in this and, most often, with photographs that aren’t classic or considered proper by standard. These things are discarded or labeled as waste and what I’ve been able to generate is something that has moved one person or another when, in it’s original form, it would have not done so. This is the fruition of taking a broken thing and giving it purpose which I find not only semblance in, for myself, but immense spiritual satisfaction.” – J. Keys
This is another reflection creation that was originally taken by shooting from the rear quarter panel of a Toyota Celica, looking to a sunset. The folds and adjustments came out to be a very harsh looking, almost alien like face (I think it remarks similar to a Decepticon, e.g. Megatron). Very dramatic and peculiar. Photo credit ( 47images.com )
This was a shot from the top of the hill that I live on. There was a gorgeous sunset and the vantage point from where I live is great for shots of the setting sun. As I was backing up to get higher on the hill, a magnolia tree started to obscure my view and this almost alien/samurai like creature was staring at me. This image is relatively untouched in post-process.
Photo credit: ( 47images.com )
The commission of this image was prompted by the creation of a custom CD made for a friend. The original is comprised of two layers, both negative, with a third layer applied using a Japanese kanji character which is of an old dialect that roughly translates to the English word, “Impression”. Photo credit ( 47images.com )
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