Pelican Connection 2
by Louise Lindsay
Title
Pelican Connection 2
Artist
Louise Lindsay
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
"Pelican Connection (2)" is part of a project with the theme, "Pelican "Connection". I practice mindful photography. One day, this pelican was settling in to roost and to sleep for the night, right around sunset. He heard me, opened his eyes, and looked right at me. Pelicans are notorious for looking right into your soul with their almost human-like eyes. We spent a bit of time together. I loved the curves and lines of his feathers, and the lines of his bill and head folded into his body. The background was rather dark and busy. I couldn't ask him to move in front of a better backdrop, and a shallow depth of field still could not create a pleasing non-distracting background. I waited until the light was just right on the pelican and created his portrait, using a long telephoto lens, as he looked right at me. Then in the digital darkroom, I played around with creating and adding different backgrounds until I created this golden one. Our eyes ignore distracting backgrounds and zero right in on a subject. But photographs with natural backgrounds don't work like our eyes and minds. I thought it was actually truer to my experience to create this backdrop than to allow the pelican to get lost in front of a busy dark background. That would not have worked as a photographic composition.
This pelican will look best printed on a premium paper with some texture, such as Cool Tone Picture Rag or Somerset Velvet, as the prints are much richer on better paper. This image would also look lovely printed on metal (glossy) or canvas.
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This artwork is owned solely by the artist and as such is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws, all rights reserved. This artwork may not be copied, reproduced, manipulated or used in any way without written permission.
IMPORTANT PRINTING INFORMATION: Our professional printing facility has a feature for customers who desire artwork prepared for them to be in standard sizes such as 8 x 10, 11 x 14, 16 x 20, 24 x 30, 36 x 24 and so on. By default, my images are available in standard and sometimes non-standard sizes, just as I composed them in camera. Any artistic image made by any artist, usually starts in a format where the width to the height is in a ratio of 2 to 3 or 3 to 4. For any artist’s print, this pre-determined proportion creates a requirement, at certain print sizes, for the use of custom mats and frames. If you are framing one of my prints yourself, this can sometimes add to the final costs. During your selection of my art, (on the size tab) note that you can select a NATURAL, VERTICAL, HORIZONTAL or SQUARE format. The NATURAL format is my original-sized and proportioned art as composed and processed during my creation of the image. For some printed pieces, this selection will require non-standard size mats and frames. The VERTICAL, HORIZONTAL or SQUARE formats will produce an image which will always work in standard-size mats and frames. Although some portions of my original composition may not be included in the final printed image if you chose this sizing, these selections may still produce beautiful works of art which could better suit your needs or style. So go ahead and see for yourself, by viewing your favorite images in these new formats, in the various sizes and wide selections of mats, frames, canvas, metal, wood or acrylic materials. Of course, if you select a mat and frame from my printer, they will custom make the mat and frame to fit your print, at whatever size you select. The prices are quite reasonable.
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February 2nd, 2018
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