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06/11/2013 12:58:26 PM · #1 |
now this is surely not a popular subject
but as we know confronted by many
so how about some reality?
i see it as the ultimate challenge
lets ponder about it a bit
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06/11/2013 01:05:05 PM · #2 |
| here's a challenge topic in the style we don't often see: deep, emotional, rather than technical. |
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06/11/2013 02:05:21 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by frisca:
here's a challenge topic in the style we don't often see: deep, emotional, rather than technical. |
thats what i thought
but then and again,this is what separates an artist from a mere picture maker
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06/11/2013 02:10:31 PM · #4 |
...there is a photograph I've been wanting to do for a while now...if I can get the person to work with me, this would be the perfect challenge for that.
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06/11/2013 02:19:43 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by frisca:
here's a challenge topic in the style we don't often see: deep, emotional, rather than technical. |
Just because it doesn't have a "cancer" in the title, doesn't mean we dont have deep or emotional challenges. We just had "Desolation", "Paranoid"...
not many people here are able to capture such emotion in their images. |
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06/11/2013 02:21:32 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Mike:
Originally posted by frisca:
here's a challenge topic in the style we don't often see: deep, emotional, rather than technical. |
Just because it doesn't have a "cancer" in the title, doesn't mean we dont have deep or emotional challenges. We just had "Desolation", "Paranoid"...
not many people here are able to capture such emotion in their images. |
You are right about that -- I didn't think about desolation in an emotional way. |
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06/11/2013 03:22:27 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Mike:
Originally posted by frisca:
here's a challenge topic in the style we don't often see: deep, emotional, rather than technical. |
Just because it doesn't have a "cancer" in the title, doesn't mean we dont have deep or emotional challenges. We just had "Desolation", "Paranoid"...
not many people here are able to capture such emotion in their images. |
...that's not an excuse...plus, I disagree. Discomfort and real emotion can be a good thing. It makes you grow as a photographer and as a person.
( Bold is mine.)
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06/11/2013 03:40:42 PM · #8 |
my point was to Frisca that just because we as a collective are unable to create resonating photographs, doesn't mean we don't have the opportunity to create them with other topics.
I'm neither for or against this challenge topic. to doesn't interest me, but others may like it.
certain topics lend themselves to creating a more powerful emotive images but you still need to exercise the ability. its not easy. the images wont be powerful because the topic alludes to it, they will be powerful if someone can "sell the shot" effectively.
Message edited by author 2013-06-11 16:49:33. |
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06/11/2013 03:53:27 PM · #9 |
| To impose your will, or creative genius, on your subject is more difficult than it seems. Most of us, most of the time, settle for capturing what we see. Not what we feel. |
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06/11/2013 05:20:27 PM · #10 |
I think that the emotion part is going to ultimately depend on the viewer of the image. I suppose it depends on how true/genuine the image is?
I don't imagine this image moves many people. It just a lady with a scrappy looking noggin. My mom was undergoing chemo when I took this photo. She never wore a wig. People stared at her when we went out. She didn't care. Wigs were itchy and she was annoyed by many other things happening to her at the moment, so why add one more thing, right? I get emotional when I look at this.
Another image of my mom. Maybe there is a bit more emotion here for the general viewing public. I made her a bunch pf funky hats to wear. It was winter when she was getting chemoed, so a warm soft hat was a great comfort to her. During this time my dad had a stroke. This is a candid moment of her when she was sitting in his hospital room. Again, this is probably much more emotional for me because I know all the history.
It's a tough subject matter, generally speaking. Personally, I'd like to see what the DPC community could do with it.
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06/11/2013 05:35:25 PM · #11 |
| lovely respectful shots, rkt. gravitas. maybe we don't think of this as emotion, but truly it is. sometimes I think we have lost our ability to read anything unless it is written in hype. |
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06/11/2013 08:53:24 PM · #12 |
 
I have a few shots in this folder from a Cancer benefit I took pictures at for my aunt. I did it two years in a row. It was very emotional. I lost my grandfather to lung cancer.
Message edited by author 2013-06-11 20:55:20. |
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06/11/2013 09:23:12 PM · #13 |
| Hey everyone! It's been a LOOONG time since I've posted, but that doesn't mean I haven't been lurking (a lot, as it helps relieve the itch that is sometimes to hard to scratch right now). It's an interesting subject, but one that can be quite invisible. The reason I have been absent from posting is because I have been in this battle for a while now. However, if you were to look at me, you'd never know it. I never lost my hair, and really only have one significant visible scar down my neck. I know I'm one of the lucky ones, though I don't always feel that way. I just ask that if you do this challenge, know that the effects of cancer, and its treatment are not always visible. That a simple, emotional portrait of someone still may accurately cover the topic. I have, after quite a long time, finally had the energy to begin shooting a bit recently,too. If this is accepted as a challenge, make it an open challenge, so I can get in on the action, as I can't afford a membership right now (maybe I should enter a picture of medical bills!) :) |
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06/12/2013 12:56:53 AM · #14 |
I must concur, cancer is all negative; my body is scarred beyond the point of acceptability, the pain is something you can never ignore, but the emotional aspect is the worst. My fight is 80% an emotional one.
Living with cancer is the hardest thing one can ever be requested to do. And to maintain that positive mind, living with it, takes more than Superman. Because this unforgiving disease is relentless in its aim to the total destruction of my earthly body.
I will participate, emotion, scars, pain. And pain. For me it is NOT fear, anxiety or related issues. |
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06/12/2013 01:04:37 AM · #15 |
I"m currently providing free portrait sessions at the cancer support center where I want after my dance with the demon. My subjects are amazing, fully of life, and with a profound sense of gratitude. I think "living" with cancer might be a bit limiting as, fortunately, not everyone has it. Perhaps the challenge should be "touched" by cancer. That way it will include people with it, who've had it, or are close to someone with it, and might find a greater audience.
ETA: Adam, your DPC family is behind you all the way. Glad you're dealing with it and contemplating getting back behind the camera.
Message edited by author 2013-06-12 01:05:28. |
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06/12/2013 06:02:50 AM · #16 |
| Adam, prayers for you too. Hang in there buddy. |
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