Patterns

Repeating patters are sometimes the basis of art, other times they are simply the necessity brought by the designed purpose. In this case seats at an open air auditorium. Mor specifically the seating for the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois.

Shot a number of weeks ago on a photo walk with my brother-in-law. Actually there were four families there but the two of us went our own ways and hooked up with the rest for lunch later. We were just wondering and shooting what ever drew our fancy. This shot was with an EF 24-105 f/4 L IS lens mounted to a Canon 40D. Details being 1/50 at f/9 with an ISO of 100, center weighted metering in aperture priority at 67 mm. Just some basic RAW editing in the Develop module in Lightroom.

I could have left it at that but Nooooooo! Not me, I had to go further. I was looking at a multi-color seating, possibble a bayer pattern (check it out on Wiki here), or a rainbow of rows. Once I brought it into Photoshop and realized the amount of work it was going to be, I shifted gears to a minimalist approach. The of wedding trick of colored flowers on a black and white.

Only this time it would be seats in an auditorium. To which I have aptly named...

The Red Zone

You see, I could have colored them blue, or yellow, or green, or really any other color if I had wanted to. Red simply was a more striking color than the others. Besides it honors the existence of the current red seat in the auditorium. Kind of a zen connection if you will.

Ok... Yadi, Yadi, Yadi! Bla, Bla, Bla! I'll give it up. Red just looked right... So there!

Take care all... Doug