Playing With Water

By Hyunju Blemel

Chiricahua, AZ

October 27, 2019

Playing With Water

Sometimes an image as it is doesn’t seem like it belongs in that final form. Let’s take this unedited image for example:

Editing it to pop the colors and highlights in the water changes the look and makes it more presentable: 

However, there is a nice range of light tones, mid tones, and dark tones, which could possibly translate well into a black and white image:

After looking at it a bit more and being curious about the reflection, flipping the image may provide more focus on the reflected face rather than the actual face:

In a similar thought, cropping the image in may again provide more attention on the face:

Curious again about negative and positive space, I cropped the face to cover most of the frame, following the rule of thirds in vertical columns with a symmetrical horizontal center:

With the eye in American culture typically starting at the top left of the image, I wanted to see how the image looked if the eyes started on the top left instead of the top right:

After a series of edits, crops, and readjusting the image, my favorite rendition is the black and white flipped (uncropped) image: