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Eye Candy Friday

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The original photo, not “enhanced,” taken on my sister’s porch in evening lighting against a grey wall.

The iPhoto enhanced version. Beautiful, in its way, but kind of unsettling, eh? It has a Japanese feel to me, though I can’t put my finger on why, exactly.

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Maybe it’s that the flowers now look like impossibly accurate fakes, like those fake foods they have in Japan.

Here’s a YouTube video of a Japanese fake food competition, ala Iron Chef.

Comments 8

  1. margene wrote:

    I agree about the Japanese feel to the picture! Very pretty. Maybe it’s the colors…shapes?

    Posted 17 Aug 2007 at 8:56 am
  2. Alarming Female wrote:

    I think the colors have a lot to do with it–the sky blue background against the orange, especially.

    Posted 17 Aug 2007 at 10:12 am
  3. Nicole wrote:

    The original picture is beautiful. The second is slightly disturbing, probably because it does look kinda fake. It does have somewhat jarring colors. That said, I love playing with iPhoto and seeing just what I can do to my pictures, fake looking or not.

    Posted 17 Aug 2007 at 12:44 pm
  4. Cheryl S. wrote:

    I think the clean, simple lines of the flowers help give it that Japanese feel. In the enhanced version, the lines are crisp and sharp – much better defined.

    Posted 17 Aug 2007 at 12:51 pm
  5. Daphne wrote:

    Both are beautiful — the blue makes it look a bit like a calendar that I’d almost, but not quite, buy. The gray is much more mysterious.

    Posted 17 Aug 2007 at 4:18 pm
  6. Alarming Female wrote:

    Interesting how the second photo is compelling, yet repulsive to some. Unsettling, disturbing, yes, but some people like it. When my son saw it, he said “that’s cheating!” because he thought it looked so much better than the original.

    Posted 17 Aug 2007 at 6:29 pm
  7. Chris wrote:

    That’s exactly what I would say. It looks like an impossibly good fake. Very plastic feeling, but you know it’s not.
    Just what is the answer to no Paint on Macs? How do we get the Paint feel?

    Posted 17 Aug 2007 at 8:00 pm
  8. Alarming Female wrote:

    I wish I knew. I used to make buttons all the time for everyone in Paint, but I can’t exactly do it with a Mac. I have Paint on my work computer, so I can do it there, but still.

    I can almost work around it some with .pdf files and drop and drag, but not quite as well.

    Posted 17 Aug 2007 at 9:35 pm