Empty shoes

you've had a good series. this is good presentation. Not sure about the butterfly yet but it definately adds to it.

 

Dave,

This is a once in a lifetime image you have here.

Great job....

 

That's a very touching shot...sort of melancholic. I got to wondering how it would look if you converted it to B&W w/a bit tighter crop and then brush back in the color from the butterfly....(just a little artsy idea i had)....it's lovely as is though. You have a very good eye.

 

Fascinating shot - certainly ahs a sense of foreboding about it. Have you thought of putting it in the Lost + Found in the local paper? Someone might claim the butterfly.

Just an idea, but perhaps if you had lain on your stomach the relationship of the butterfly to the boots might have been more forceful? Title "Too small for his boots?"

 

Leigh was telling me about this picture. It definitely has an ominous feeling to it. Seeing as how the shoes are neatly laid out with no one around. Kind of sad actually.

To add to the emotion of the shot Leigh asked what it would look like with just the butterfly in color so I looked at it. Hope you don't mind.

Photo by Dave Watts "Empty Shoes"

 

Nice job, and Leigh that was a good visualization.

 

Dave, do you use photoshop?
IT is very easy to do this.
Open your image.
Add a Channel Mixer Layer
Ath the bottom click "Monochrome" in the channel mixer dialogue. Then play with the RGB sliders- the sum total for all three values should be 100% (any higher and the image will get lighter, lower it is darker), and I usually like some combination of all three channels. Then clikc ok and your picture will be B&W.

Then simply edit the mask on the layer and brush in black over the places you want to show. Very simple and fast, though I am sure there are better ways.