Art Photography — Two Men and a Dog by the River
A good photo should have qualities of art in it. What do I mean?
5 min readJul 23, 2022
If you take photos and want others to enjoy your work, your own unique way of looking should be somewhere in the photo. That’s what I mean.
It’s been a while since I thought seriously about colour photography. Today, I took a photo down by the river.
When I finally got home, and took a gander at all the photos I’d taken, I found this little gem. I worked at it in Photoshop; dodged and burned, very gently. Balanced the light and shadows, and then converted it into black and white to see how much further I could take it.
Black and white seemed nice, colour seemed better.
The lovely reflections along the dog’s coat, and the orange-red leash that takes the eye through to the neck of the dog, answers to the front man’s red sleeve above the basic composition. A triangle of colours, minimal, and tasteful.
