Rejects

Bolder boldly asked to see the orignal photo that I converted to b&w for yesterday's post. Here they are, side by side. To me, it didn't feel like the rose had the same impact in color. The rose itself seemed to be fighting the green of the stems, etc. And it also felt a little blown out & raggedy. But converting to a black rose isolated it and made it pop out a little. It also gave it the texture I could see but didn't translate to film. And it masked the flaws and made it more the ideal I was looking for.



Maybe if I come back to it later, I'll see something different in the color photo. Speaking of which...I had a fun night last night. I went thru some of the boxes that had my old slide rejects in them. Even though I didn't like them at the time, I couldn't bear to get rid of them. Weird, eh? Maybe because a litte of me is in them. Some I could clearly see why I'd rejected. Others, I had to take a second look at and then still rejected them.

But there were a few that I really liked and spent some time wondering why I had dismissed them in the first place. Maybe they werent perfect flowers. Maybe they weren't what I was looking for at the time. I don't know. But I'm happy I found them again. Here are four of the "rejects".