This is one of my favorite photos of Logan, and it's not even a very good quality photo. This was taken back in 2004 in the middle of the English garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden down in Shaw Park. I love the composition and feeling of spring when I look at it, but it was taken with our first digital camera, and the overall quality of the photo itself is not that great. So, I used it as a guinea pig to explore some photo manipulation techniques. Added a vignette, and oversaturated the colors and contrast. I'm attempting to recreate a bit of a lomography effect, but given the source material (the photo is loaded with greens and blues, hardly any reds) the end result isn't quite what I'd like. But it's not too bad.
Interestingly, that day at the Botanical Garden really stands out in my memory. It was a perfect spring day, about 70 and ridiculously sunny. Logan was only about two and running around acres of garden for a couple of hours was still a source of wonder. I'm not sure he'd get the same enjoyment out of it now.
2 comments:
I have no idea what "lomography" is, but I love the picture!
That's one of my favorite pictures too.
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