I would like to have those two guys and the boat as completely black silhouettes over the blue - I guess I should have made the exposure correction stronger.
This is Lake Zurich and there are always many ships and boats around, but the two guys impressed me so much because they were able to have their fun just as if they had the adventure of their life in some tropical sea. It was like saying, no problem not being able to travel that far - we turn this lake to whatever we like in our minds. So, for enhancing that, I thought that I should try to leave the other ships and boats outside the image. Any comments would be very welcome.
Well yes, it is a lie as it is depicted. For the sence of pure documentation it doesn't really show what was on on the lake.
I guess that it shows more the lake as it was perceived by those two guys. I assume that they didn't really noticed anything else - they just had their fun in the sense of "Only we and the lake". So it's perhaps closer to some kind of "reality" that they were perceiving.
I think that such a kind of lies does correspond to the sense of photography as capturing some atmosphere as being felt by somebody. In this sense it is a real advantage to be able to rip out some part of reality and put it into a frame, as it then enhances exactly what it should enhance, provided one can imagine that the spectator will only see that part?
I am also glad that you consider the two guys and the boat to be close enough to silhouettes. Still, do you think that a bit less exposure could turn them completely black *and* at the same time wouldn't take away so much details from the texture of the water surface?
Hi Nick, Here is a way that we get our photography to tell a little lie for us. The viewer has no way of knowing these guys were surrounded by other boats, unless you tell us. So the mood is created by you because of what you allow us to see. :) They are quite close to being in full silhouette. Maybe not 100%, but close enough. Andre
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