I visited the Decordava Art and Sculpture Park on Sunday and took my Canon 5 Mark 11 with the 50mm lens–not the really expensive one, the L glass 1.2 (I don’t own that one!), but the 50mm 1.4.
I am learning that using photo textures takes a very good photo to begin with. You can’t ” texture” a photo into something unless it was “something” to begin with is the easiest way for me to say it.
So, I was looking for the dreamy background through a budding bush. Spring, after all, is why I was finally able to make the long drive to the museum.
Their outside sculpture park featured an amazing rope wall by Orly Genger that was red, yellow, blue and seemed to roll right through the entire park like a river. For my purposes, it had a budding bush adjacent to it and made perfect use of the 50mm’s dreamy bokah. Then, I went looking for a texture that would complement it and given that the building itself has the older wing right next to the more contemporary wing, I was in luck.
This image is not complete as I still want to even out the textures. This is a painstaking business but every wrong turn I make helps me understand this medium better and when I should choose it, I have learned that textures are not bandaids for bad photos. I’d call that Rule #1 for using photo textures.
I ended up using both images that I took at the museum and added a third non-site texture to anchor it. It is still unfinished but here are the two images from the Decordova that I used.
