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This is the sort of image you’ll find hanging in the waiting areas of dentists offices and commercial buildings that make you wonder just who in the hell chooses their art. I brought the image into Photoshop and started experimenting and I think I came up with a sort of Art Deco abstract idea. Could I make it commercially viable? Not really as is, who wants a picture of an oil spot? But I’d challenged myself and couldn’t give up. Add a sharp focus to enhance detail and this might be the most interesting oil spot you’ve seen all month.īut then I took it a step further. I also incorporated as much “tonal variation” as possible using the available light.

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A foreground (darker shadow areas with small spots), a mid-ground (oil spots with shiny and colorful reflection), and a background (well exposed bare patch of concrete), all of which were distinctive enough from each other to qualify. I set out taking this composition using the same compositional elements I would with any landscape photograph.

that would be an achievement all by itself. Also, I figured if I could make a subject as brain numbing as an oil spot interesting. Why? Have you noticed that oil spots are an endangered species? Cars built in the last few decades seem to have very few if any oil or other fluid leaks. Looking around at all the interesting things a car wash has to offer a keen photographer I finally settled on an oil spot. My game for the day was to come up with a Feature Photograph using my compact point and shoot, before my car was finished. What does a child do in such circumstances? Yep, they think of a game to help pass the time.

Challenge yourself! I was waiting for my car to be washed and like a child had already rummaged through the magazines, flipped through the three available television channels, and touched everything that looked interesting and was still bored.

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