Drinking from the bottle
by Truegsht

Comment by JC_Homola:
Greetings from the Critique Club.

Well, it is amusing. But I'm not sure there are many people that really want to look up another persons nose!

It's a good idea, and one that is hard to execute. There is little here that is in focus and the slightly overall washed out colours are not real engaging.

I'm afraid I don't have a lot of suggestions on how to improve this image. Possibly some cross lighting to highlight the bottle more. Maybe creating a DOF that shows more of your face.

Sorry. remember just my opinion

JC

Drinking from the bottle
by Truegsht

Comment by Konador:
lol nice. I think a little less of the out-of-focus area would have made it slightly better tho, but you do need quite a lot still, for the comical element

Drinking from the bottle
by Truegsht

Comment by HBunch:
It is an interesting point of view, however, I'm not sure that the photo triggers anything for me. There is a lot more fuzzy area than actual subject, and the subject is so tiny, that it doesn't seem like a point of interest to me. I think that I wish the opening were larger and that there were less of the inside of the bottle showing. Otherwise, interesting idea for the challenge. ~Heather~

Drinking from the bottle
by Truegsht

Comment by Coley:
I tried to do this from a pop can...could not make it interesting enough

Drinking from the bottle
by Truegsht

Comment by nitro102:
WOW! 5

Drinking from the bottle
by Truegsht

Comment by Nowhere_Man:
Is that from under the bottle? pretty cool.

Drinking from the bottle
by Truegsht

Comment by admart01:
Yep, that's unique. Nice dof (not sure what the texas-shaped object is but it's drawing my attention away a bit).

Drinking from the bottle
by Truegsht

Comment by legalsteven:
Interesting idea.

Grief has no boundaries....
by Truegsht

Comment by Harz_Joerg:

Originally posted by Truegsht: Sorry, that is my little rant on this. Why must there always be a focal point, a border?

Maybe I can give you an answer to your question:
By the nature of photography, i.e. it's limited space on a paper or screen, it has boarders. So your submission has of course borders on all four sides. And because of that, especially when you want to show "no boundaries", you have to choose them very well, otherwise your intention does not get to the viewer.
The way you cropped/non-cropped the picture gave it a strong border: the cemetary ends for the viewer at the bush and trees at the very top.
Cropping it away would give them the feeling the cemetary goes on for ever.
Simillar issues are for the focal-point: if one views an image, the eye always walks arround to find something special. Nobody can avoid that. If there is nothing of interest the viewer looses interest.
In your image there are several foreground objects that are rather uninteresting or even disturbing (the blue flower at the very bottom).
So there would be two option to avoid this: have a focal point which is crisp and well defined and the surrounding gets less important.
Or, and that probably fits better here, have no focal point, but repating structures, which give symmetry and texture. The middle section of your image has this feature and its often seen on great images of military cemetaries.
Hope I could answer your question a little,

Jörg

Message edited by author 2003-12-31 21:01:42.

Grief has no boundaries....
by Truegsht

Comment by Truegsht:
There are no guiding lines or resting places...due to the challenge! It is supposed to be about boundaries...if there are no set boundaries, then this photo is all about that. I know I may be a newbie to photography, but I interpreted this to show that there are really no boudaries. Alot of people here think this didn't fit because it did not have a "SET" line or boundary, or saying it isn't cropped with a pretty line. That is in of itself placing a boundary on the interpretation of this photo. Sorry, that is my little rant on this. Why must there always be a focal point, a border?