Last week, we ran across a blah Venetian door whilst we walked through the quiet Dorsoduro district of Venice. Today, I fulfill my promise to transform it before your very eyes! So, let’s get started…
Here is the snapshot that we captured on our walk. I don’t like it. I’m going to do something about that.
As always in my Italy transformations, I want to give you an Italy of centuries ago, before electrical conduits and water pipes and doorbell buzzers and such were placed on the buildings. So, I’ll remove the distracting elements.
Distracting elements removed, but I don’t like the way the iron-embellished window throws off the balance of the photo. And the iron pipe to the right needs to go.
Window removed? Check. Iron pipe removed? Check.
It’s ancient-patina time, so I give the photo a rich mellow color.
Now to remove the house number and brighten up the colors of the door. But, I’m not liking the distracting stonework along the right edge of the photograph.
For my final version, I crop in a good bit to remove the distracting stone work along the right edge. Then, I’m not exactly liking the composition, as the window area on the left seems to compositionally weigh the photo down on that side. I’m going to add the iron water pipe back in to the upper right, where it belongs, as well as remove a bit of the plaster that surrounded the original. And, since I tightened the crop, I need to move the stonework at the top of the photo down a bit, so I’ll take care of that now.
So, here is the final image. A far sight better sight than the original snapshot captured while we were on our walk last week, don’t you think?
That’s it for today’s transformation from blah to ahhh. Hope you enjoyed the results, and the walk last week. Until next time, I say…
Ciao for now,
Steve
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