A (narrow) window of opportunity

[aprilS]

Also a larger view (modified frame): http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3115/2645551423_1c90a569bf_b.jpg

[habakuk]

Is it a dream or is it true - the sunlight outside the window? It gives me a feeling of something ghostly, out of this world. Like someone projects a dream of light and warm feelings on a wall of cold blue color. Very ambiguous feelings...

It's one of the few shots where I feel the black matte is too heavy in relation to the main subject. Other than that, I like the effect the shot has on me.

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[aprilS]

Thank you for your comments, Roland. This image also strikes me as ambiguous, and its true title has yet to reveal itself. But it was one I felt drawn to process.

the black matte is too heavy in relation to the main subject

Ah, that's what was bugging me. Other colors I tried earlier didn't seem to work, but I've revised with a much narrower frame and think that helps.

[eob]

I agree with Roland's comment. The wide matte almost became a part of the image. Very distracting and confusing. Second version is better, but personally, I don't see any need for a matte (that's my general bias towards mattes in images that are supposed to be viewed on a computer screen).

Comparison to the slide-show-like projection of the image on the room's wall is also very convincing - because of a luminous glare surrounding windows. That glare could bring to mind  many interpretations, one of which could be a dream.

[aprilS]

Comparison to the slide-show-like projection of the image on the room's wall is also very convincing - because of a luminous glare surrounding windows. That glare could bring to mind  many interpretations, one of which could be a dream.

I like that idea, a lot. So I've tentatively titled the image "Projection". That's not quite right, but close enough to remind me and simmer for awhile. Thank you.

[Theo]

I am really captivated with this image. The warm cool colors of the out doors (orange and green) with the very cool color of the room. The simplicity really speaks volumes. There was something though i just couldn't put my finger on until i noticed that the window were not totally strait like an image on a moving fabric or trees outside, giving motion that the eye sees but the mind just knows something is happening but not what it is.
I also like the way you included the wall on the left side though it was smaller it help to balance the window pains.

I agree about the large mat but think the narrower mat goes too far maybe something in the middle. The mat did help me contain the space though.

I like the piece another good job.

yours

[Ted Byrne]

Was it Socrates with his caves who argued that we are imprisoned staring at a wall which reflects reality... and so eventually confuse those reflections with the substantial? Imagine a projection of a dinner in front of a starving man. A projected lost child to a frantic mother. Or an image of escape through a window projected to Socrate's prisoners.

I wouldn't change anything from the original April... "Projection" is an explosive title to this metaphor within a parable. It's a distillation of pure longing for the eyes of the melancholy. Simple peace... neutral peace... projected to the war torn. It's astonishingly dramatic in its original form suggesting darkness all around the empty, teasing, projection. And the captive in the cave never thinks to turn around and question ths source... merely the reflection.

Actually I find this a mate to Roland's recently posted "Turbulent Encounter"....... Yesssssssss!

[aprilS]

There was something though i just couldn't put my finger on until i noticed that the window were not totally strait like an image on a moving fabric or trees outside, giving motion that the eye sees but the mind just knows something is happening but not what it is.

Ah. Thank you for pointing that out. I keep being drawn to movement and line, but hadn't consciously recognized that's one thing which appeals to me about this image.

I also like the way you included the wall on the left side though it was smaller it help to balance the window pains.

Too, I think that helps strengthen the suggestion of being in the room and the "reality" that is being reinterpreted by the shadows.

I agree about the large mat but think the narrower mat goes too far maybe something in the middle. The mat did help me contain the space though.

I will give that a try, also keeping in mind Ted's subsequent post...

[aprilS]

Was it Socrates with his caves who argued that we are imprisoned staring at a wall which reflects reality... and so eventually confuse those reflections with the substantial? ... Imagine an image of escape through a window projected to Socrate's prisoners.

I wouldn't change anything from the original April... "Projection" is an explosive title to this metaphor within a parable ...dramatic in its original form suggesting darkness all around the empty, teasing, projection. And the captive in the cave never thinks to turn around and question the source... merely the reflection.

Whew. Fascinating interpretations. They push me to re-consider why I took this shot, which will determine the presentation. Thank you.

Hmmm. You also have me thinking about a series...

[Athena]

For me the cool blue light inside makes me nervous.  I feel a need to escape but the appearance of smoke and fire outside the window holds me in.  In the anxiety.  Contained.  Given my dark feelings about the image I prefer the larger frame - it adds intensity to an already intense mood.

[aprilS]

Thank you very much for your comments, Athena.