The Girl in the White Corner

[THELONGMAN]

We were at a gallery and she was sitting reading up on her exhibit notes,

[Guest]

A very interesting minimalist picture.

[THELONGMAN]

Thanks Bill,

 

Geoff

[Phil]

Not the usual sort of image we get to see on the forum.

 

I do like it a lot, but I'm torn as to whether there is too much white or not 

[PaulT]

Great stuff, love the stance with the head in book look. All the space above the subject adds something for me.

[Ryewolf]

I do like the minimalism of this.

[Clicker]

I really like this .....reminds me of the time I worked in advertising many moons ago when the l learned the power of negative space .

I really think the negative white space in this study brings real clarity to the atmosphere and the  image would be much less effective  if it was absent ... but that is just my opinion. As I said ....I really like this !

[FUJI]

Love this! Love this! Love this!

Just as it is.......but do what I did with my recent flying umbrella shot and totally whiten out the BG.......it will then look like something out of this world.

FUJI

[Heather]

unusual but the more i go back the more i like it 

[Ryewolf]

I did wonder what this picture would look like with no points of reference to the room? (ie the corner) - would be interesting to see.

[Craftysnapper]

Love this just has it is Geoff, don't change a thing.

[THELONGMAN]

Thanks Phil, It was a conscious move to eliminate the few distractions and the slight corner shadow and just leave the suggestion on the floor, what was a decision I had to make was weather to use the mono version or leave the colours in? which I did.

 

Geoff

[THELONGMAN]

Thanks very much Paul, The gallery is very spacious and when I walked in to this room she was all I could see, despite there being very large canvases on the walls, luckily she was far enough away that I only had to remove a small part of one. I produced the picture like this  as  she  seemed to  be surrounded  by nothing except her  thoughts and  that's what  I  wanted to  get  across.

Geoff

[THELONGMAN]

Thanks Ryrwolf, It was space I was after, and with reference to your second point It may work, I will see,

 

Geoff

[THELONGMAN]

Thanks Judy, I feel it is the high white that is a prominent part of the picture, In the original the wall to her right had a greyish tinted light which seemed to cut it in half, so I decided that apart from the floor line the corner angle had to be left to the imagination and so removed the tint.

 

Geoff

[THELONGMAN]

Thanks clicker, I feel you see this as I did, in that the whole picture is about reclusiveness and being unaware of what's going on around her,

 

Geoff

[THELONGMAN]

Thanks a lot Fuji, I liked your umbrella picture, and the white out idea was also suggested by Ryewolf,  but I wanted just the two lines that would suggest a corner, --but  I will give it a try, Thanks,

 

Geoff

[THELONGMAN]

Thanks Heather, Its one of those that does draw you back, --I have it printed on my office wall and it sort of haunts me each time I look ate it, its weird.

 

Geoff

[THELONGMAN]

Thank you Paul, It will stay as is, but that's not to say I won't try a few other things, but for me this is what I felt in the first place when I walked into the room,

 

Geoff

[THELONGMAN]

Exactly, she might still  there for all in know???

 

Geoff