Along the Shore | Hazy shade So faintly perceptible Vague revelation |
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ictorialism in photography invests more significance to the picture than the subject. In the venerable tradition of the pictorialists, this image emphasizes an impressionistic treatment depicting mood and atmosphere by featuring a granular aesthetic. In times past, I achieved this effect laboriously by using an old dichromate gum arabic printing process with carbon as the pigment. But in this case, I used a Photoshop plug-in that allows you to build your own filters. The application is called Filter Forge, and has the unusual feature of a web-based library of thousands of user-submitted filters that can be previewed with a built-in browser and downloaded for use.
“Impressionism has induced the study of what we see and shown us that we all see differently; it has done good to photography by showing that we should represent what we see and not what the lens sees. - Henry Peach Robinson
