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Behold

Behold
Soundtrack by SinQ (Sander van Oirschot): soundcloud.com/sinq/from-small

The Sunday Challenge was to photograph garbage, and make art out of it. I first tried to approach the topic using my 'garbage season' theme, but then I started to think, it does not "glorify" the garbage enough. I went for a long walk this morning, catch cold and some pictures, and at home I recalled another idea of mine.

Not sure how much post processing was allowed for this challenge, but I still chose to combine two layers of the same image, rotate the other 90 degrees, and then use "darken" layer method. I of course increased the contrasts to add some drama, and finally added frames on PicMonkey.

What I like about this method, especially when used on images of garbage, is the touch of chaos and disorganised abstractness. What looks random and mess in the first place, suddenly starts to look like intentionally composed piece of art, and eyes starts to find there patterns, symmetry and beauty, I think... =)

Best example from my garbage season collections:
Cold coffee...

And an old example of the idea I end up to use here:
Unnatural

Gisela Plewe, Bruno Suignard, Rafael, Steve Bucknell and 24 other people have particularly liked this photo


30 comments - The latest ones
 Amelia
Amelia club
I absolutely love this, Sami, and would have been delighted had I been able to enhance my photo of garbage in this way. I'm listening to the soundtrack now, and the sound is building up to a crescendo of joy.

I'd hang this photo on my wall.
8 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to Amelia club
Thank you very much Amelia =)

I claim this is rather easy post processing technique. And almost as "cheap circus trick" =D

Although, it of course requires one is familiar with editors like PhotoShop or GIMP, and knows how to work with layer modes.
8 years ago.
 Marie-claire Gallet
Marie-claire Gallet
Excellent work, Sami, you could also have posted it for Happy Frence Friday !!! Have a great Sunday !!!!!!!
8 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to Marie-claire Gallet
Thank you Marie-claire =)

Yes, there is a fence as well. Although, I have recently minimized my membership on groups to less than 30, including fence Friday groups. This is because I don't feel it fair to contribute on groups when I simply don't have time to follow what others are posting there on groups.
8 years ago.
 christel.k
christel.k club
hervorragendes Kunstwerk von Sperrmüll, Sami, super bearbeitet!!
8 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to christel.k club
Danke schön, Christel =)
8 years ago.
 H C
H C
I really like the abstract look to this collection of waste. Great processing too.
8 years ago.
 Dida From Augsburg
Dida From Augsburg club
Cool work and I still like the cold coffee even if it hasn't helped! ;-D
8 years ago.
 autofantasia
autofantasia club
The master processor strikes again! ;)
8 years ago.
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
Wow, that's really artistic- love it!
8 years ago.
 Esther
Esther club
It does look like a museum quality abstract painting.
8 years ago.
 Clickity Click
Clickity Click
You have indeed captured some beauty from the trash/garbage Sami ... nicely done. :)
8 years ago.
 Bruce Dean (Puchinpappy)
Bruce Dean (Puchinpa… club
We are surrounded by construction and construction waste these days. I don't know whether the fence is to keep it from us or us from it.
8 years ago.
 Jan
Jan
Beautiful composition
8 years ago.
 Coco
Coco
Does look haphazard but geometrical. Nice colors.
8 years ago.
 Gillian Everett
Gillian Everett club
Very artistic treatment, well done Sami
8 years ago.
 Chrissy
Chrissy club
Super! Die Methode muss ich unbedingt mal ausprobieren.
8 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to Chrissy club
I recommend trying different layer modes ;-) It much depends on image, which one works best.
8 years ago.
 aNNa schramm
aNNa schramm club
I want the ice coffe ;-)))))
8 years ago.
 aNNa schramm
aNNa schramm club
Sami* ... a very artistic work your TSC
8 years ago.
 Annemarie
Annemarie club
!
Happy new week:)
8 years ago.
 ╰☆☆June☆☆╮
╰☆☆June☆☆╮ club
Beautiful capture, well done.
Have a great new week
8 years ago.
 Amazingstoker
Amazingstoker
nicely done, and interesting result order and chaos combined
8 years ago.
 Heidiho
Heidiho club
Fine idea and result here.
Now your garbage looks very artistic.
8 years ago.
 Valfal
Valfal
This looks like some kind of modern art, Sami!
8 years ago.
 Steve Bucknell
Steve Bucknell club
It feels a bit anaemic and over-processed, to me. A good bricolage needs to have a quality of "thereness" I think. I like Amelia's creation, where the glass and pottery and breakage are clear and present. "These fragments I have shored against my ruins" Eliot opines in The Waste Land." The examination of the crap we leave is the examination of the soul of modern man, man in the Anthropocene. I know, I know, I could be spouting pretentious drivel. It has been known.
8 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to Steve Bucknell club
Thank you very much for detailed feedback, Steve. Much appreciated =)
8 years ago.
 Stephane B91
Stephane B91
J'aime beaucoup , superbe mélange de matière +++
8 years ago.
 Shuttering Yukon
Shuttering Yukon
I love the processing Sami
8 years ago.
 Gisela Plewe
Gisela Plewe club
For me that is wonderful art. I would like to place this picture on my wall!
6 years ago.

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