Here's a Thought… #2720 with Brooks Jensen

Purposely Off

Awhile back, I made a landscape image in which I desaturated the naturally bright blue sky to an emotionally dark steel blue/gray. No sky ever looked that way in real life. I loved it in spite of the obvious fact that it wasn't true to human vision. Curiously enough, because it was so clearly an aesthetic choice, people seemed to be willing to accept it as an artistic expression. I guess the lesson is, if you are going to alter reality, do it enough so that it's evident you've done it on purpose. Viewers may not like it, but at least they won't think it is an incompetent mistake.

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