Blog 5A

I was originally drawn to this particular Ben Goossens photograph because of the VISUAL INTENSITY . The feeling photo delivers is much calmer and relaxing than his other photos. This photo holds a little less mystery and TENSION. Its easy to look at for a while without getting bored. I also liked how the colors CONTRASTED each other. The owl is sitting on a brownish red chair and the farthest wall is various shades of blue.
   
I chose to frame the photo the way I did because there are only two main focuses in this image, the owl and the window. After completely cropping out the owl and the rest of the room, there is only a single window with a quarter moon in the left window pane. The LINE AND SHAPE of the window is in 3 sections of roughly the same sized rectangles. The moon is curved, which really puts the focus on the moon because it has absolutely no AFFINITY to the window. Also, the window pane, the wall, and the exterior of the window are all different shades of blue. There are no uses of DEPTH CUES in this frame and actually, there is no depth at all because all of the colors are different values of blue. This creates a very flat picture frame.
  
I think Ben Goossens framed the picture the way he did to create a much more flavorful image as well  as SPACE. The Owl and the wall look very far away from each other due to color choices Goossens made. If red is in front of a blue, there will be a sense of depth. I also like how he  made the moon and the owls head very close to each other on the image. In reality, you know the moon is much larger compared to an owl, but in this image, he makes the owl seem much larger and the moon much smaller with the use of color. There also seems to be a virtual line connecting the moon and the owl. Ben Goossens photograph is a very ACTIVE piece of work because you need to figure out what it means for yourself.