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Doghouse Blues
02/22/2012 05:45:04 AM
Doghouse Blues
by MonkeyShrike

Comment:
Congratulations on the finish and thanks for the details, in both image and description :)
So it's hdr? Very well done, not too obvious at all.
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Celtic Guitar Concert
02/20/2012 10:10:51 PM
Celtic Guitar Concert
by hahn23

Comment:
Or just totally focussed on the love of his life, a music which is amazingly difficult to play.
Well captured.
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Seasonal Impromptu for strings & percussions
02/20/2012 09:44:38 PM
Seasonal Impromptu for strings & percussions
by jjbeguin

Comment:
One of my three top favourites in the challenge, outstanding.
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Faith Knows The Final Score
02/20/2012 09:42:36 PM
Faith Knows The Final Score
by jagar

Comment:
This is one of my three favourites, pushing boundaries and giving us something really good.
I am really in love with this.
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Improvisation
02/20/2012 09:36:19 PM
Improvisation
by insteps

Comment:
When I saw this one I thought of the typical improvisational devices of jazz music. Repetition with variations, entering and leaving phrases not from the start but from the end and backwards, or somewhere in the middle, shortening and dilating the same phrase. Which is big part of the concept of exploration in so many genres. Django Reinhardt used to play the same note in sequences for whole measures, each note different as for dynamic and timbre, a one note melody.
With this image, I feel, you have illustrated the main points of a improvisation theory text book, in one frame and 1/60 of second.
Postprocessing is really good indeed, I was hoping that would help score-wise, but perhaps it doesn't matter.

Thanks for that, these are hard to come by, here and elsewhere.
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Running with scissors
02/20/2012 09:22:35 PM
Running with scissors
by sinistral_leo

Comment:
This really scored this low?
Whatever, your bi folding thingy is just smashing. The basic editing eluder.
I think you should start retailing it :)
I, for one, want one :)
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I start in the middle of a sentence & move both directions at once  (John Coltrane)
02/20/2012 07:17:57 AM
I start in the middle of a sentence & move both directions at once (John Coltrane)
by mcaldo

Comment:
Thanks everybody for the nice comments!
That's what I was after, that's what I have got, V happy :)

Challenges provide a very specific context and opportunities.
It's interesting how some find that this is best met by images that obviously evoke in most viewers the idea of 'music', 'love', 'strangeness', 'giant marshmallows', whatever the challenge is about. That is, images that could work well without a title and challenge context, by evoking a concept the viewer is very familiar with and can readily recognize, and fill with their own meaning.
You need a pretty generic description to evoke in most people the illusion of a complexity which only exist in their specific experience. Family and love are very simple concepts, they become complex when you think of your own family, and of your own loved ones.

Make an image that very precisely depicts your love feelings, or your family relations, and show that to people.
You are more likely to challenge their personal idea of love and family than t evoke it.

Others see the challenge context as a springboard to illustrating even fairly complex concepts related to the theme, remarking how different people will feel differently about the same concept, even trying to introduce the viewer to something very specific.
This normally involves presenting viewers with something they are at least partially unfamiliar with. It's the prize of adding to the viewers knowledge, rather than evoking what the viewer already knows.
A musician might be able to encapsulate what he does in a single phrase, but it takes years and years for an excellent musician to understand fully what their style should be and get there, about that time most will also want to change it :)

I guess most people have a preference in one sense or the other, but have tried their hand at both approaches.
Most people like and admire images which can works without a title and a context. They are a great achievement, but in which type of challenges they really fit the bill?
Normal challenges or Free Studies? Opinions might differ..

I'd love to be a better photographer, so to convey more fully what I wish to convey. But often what I'd like to convey is not a one liner or an assist for the viewer to slam dunk their own way, not completely.
Perhaps I'll manage to put the two things together, and make photos which can at the same time evoke a simple concept and illustrate a very specific one for those who like to dig. Otherwise, I guess most people will still look at my images and find nothing.

Either ways I shall enjoy the trip :D

High Notes
02/20/2012 04:56:59 AM
High Notes
by Melethia

Comment:
A cliff?
I should have guessed, I love cliffs and capes, the music of the wind, the rhythm of the waves breaking far away below.
Wait! Rhythm? Music? Nonsense, it's just water and air meeting rock, I forgot and did it again..
So did you :)

On a different note ( pun intended), I always found cliffs and promontories interesting, in that large birds love them because of air streams, and big fish because of water currents. Lots of activity on the bottom and the top.
A bit like certain images ;)
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For the Love of Basketball
02/19/2012 07:56:38 PM
For the Love of Basketball
by KristinaG

Comment:
I like this. Ordinarily I would give it a 7, but I gave it an 8 because it's a rare shot of real people, while it seems that the last option in the challenge description has been seen by most simply as the only option, rather than the last resort. Good one.
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Smile...
02/18/2012 05:32:18 PM
Smile...
by nickyb

Comment:
The differently coloured eyes are indeed a great touch. Good job, idea and great PP.
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