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I reckon this has all gone a bit microscopic for my own purposes...but am glad the thread has taken a life of its own.
Adrian; sharp stuff, spot on: I could go for getting lighting globally correct, yet I'd never finish the darned pic...and it only has to be a less-crummy one than everyone else's point+shoot, with dimensions of about 290(W)x430(H)
Yes, to the generic P-shoppiness: this is because I don't actually know yet how to customise the frame actions, nor can I be bothered to be honest. I quite liked the tackiness as part of the framing.
Also, to be honest, when I "mix styles", I'm not mixing anything, I'm merely using disparate pre-sets incongruously and in an unskilled manner...no need to be as polite as this, Ade!
I know I wanted to avoid the generic, pathological look of most "Christian" people-pics(and even make an aside comment on this tacky genre): whenever you get a picture of some grinning, money-led pastor, or Your Happy Perfect Christian Family, it's always put through the Grin-Like-A-Religion-Addicted-Idiot Filter..and thus makes no effort to draw alongside to people: rather, this approach effectively judges and abandons them, as anyone who needs Jesus often does not have much to grin inanely about, in my experience.
I suppose I wanted to convey a theme of "honesty", with "searching", whilst making a subtle comment on how people "package" or "frame" themselves; the image is an attempt to convey the idea of life being a journey in which one discards things that you could have sworn were finished, but were actually just works in progress.
And really, just to slide this subliminally into someone's awareness in the time it takes to briefly look at an image which is less than 300 pixels wide.
Jolly interesting.
The text style is naff though, yes.
Righto: it's sunny here for a change, so I'm off to photo some wild primulas, pyramid orchids and the odd cow-dropping....life in tooth and claw, eh....?!