Monday, May 20, 2019

Inspired by Rembrandt

May 19: We walked and took the Underground from our hotel to the British Museum, which had an interesting small exhibit entitled "Rembrandt: Thinking on Paper". It showed, by comparison of different stages of engraving a given image, how Rembrandt altered the impacts of a given scene. It struck me as very similar to what a black-and-white photographer does by burning and dodging a print.

I tried a very crude version of this by reducing the exposure of successive photos of the gallery in which the exhibit was mounted, by one stop at a time, from 0 to -4. Nothing artistic here, but perhaps of mild interest (at least to me).












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