55 MPH in a Ferrari

One of the dangers of composing new images with the software program Adobe Photoshop for the new “PS-series” is, that easily it is overdone.
Like driving alone in a Hummer to a supermarket to buy a beer.

An image can be so manipulated that the result is looking most at what Photoshop is able to do.
It becomes all so far away of our own world of perception that we feel lost in some weird and cheap SF paperback.
The objective therefore is to create images where nobody even thinks for a split second of Photoshop and computers and digital manipulation.
This is not a simple thing to do.
How to drive at 55 miles per hour in a Ferrari?

Recently things went very berserk.
Often the morning is spent simply playing with the images in Photoshop.
Without a specific plan.
Without really rationally thinking.
Simply letting things go and have it their way.
Changing from being the captain of the ship into the water surrounding it letting the boat go where it wants.
During that process there are moments of critically looking checking if it is going anywhere.
And even if the assessment is not positive the boat in the water is allowed to flow nevertheless.
Better not disturb the river nor the boat.
One never knows at what beautiful place it will end up anyway.

This gamble sometimes results in images that excite.
Powering to continue and make more.
But sometimes the results are so bad, the protagonist looses instantly every ounce of self-confidence and concludes his days as a famous artist are over.
It is that dramatic.

Awful and bad results are needed to sometimes produce the opposite.
Hence, nothing wrong with falling down sometimes as one can easily stand up again and continue the adventures on the exciting track.
Like a player of ice hockey.
If he had a problem with falling down, his career would not be very long.

Bad results are no problem.
But what is typical is that the audience never gets to see them.
The artist dumps the unacceptable and awful result in the garbage can and nobody ever will know about it.
The audience only sees the spectacular and convincing results.
In this way the artist creates the false impression he or she is only good.

Today an exceptional event will take place on this blog.
An image will be published that is an example how an artist can stumble and fall down sometimes.
To show how things can go wrong.
Excessively Photoshopped.
And bombastically moralistic.










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