Windmillby
marboComment by e301: From the Critique Club
Hi Mark, how's Shoreham?
The first thing I though of when i saw this (and I didn't vote - lack of time, lack of finding myself a pattern to vote to) wasof oils on a wet surface - that slight sense of bleeding into the surrrounding areas, yet keeping the definition of shapes to it. i'm not even sure I can really critique this - on what grounds, from what standpoint? Photography? But this challenge, in its results, and very largely in its entries, was almost entirely about tricks and photoshop, or even both, rather than about photography, in my view.
There is a definite sense of the photograph in this, however; in that it's clearly twisted into its present form from a photograph.
There's little to criticise in the composition here - a very solid dpc-type image, the kind of thing that usually does well here: a strong sense of subject, strong and pleasant colours, strong sense of mood. Perhaps you might have had to make the mill a definite silhouette, rather than the darker area with some sense of detail that I'm getting here - it seems rather a halfway house at the moment.
As to impressionism? I'm by no means convinced that
anyone made a really good stab at taking the idea into a photographic realm, really. I'm not sure, either, that it wasn't an impossible challenge. some folks have had a definite sense of what is and what isn't impressionistic, some folks tried to imitate the stle, some to develop they're own version, a version taking things forward. The retrograde step seems to have worked best, and the simplistic, most obviously derived versions to have done best of those. But we should all have known that, given that our ribbons should mean that we know our audience ...
Ed
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