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03/21/2005 08:41:12 PM · #26 |
| No problem, I totally understand. I think the majority here has taken a truly meaningful and complex photo, only to have it score lower than hoped, and vice versa. Yet some of the more simple photos score higher and leaves you thinking "what the hell?" It's all in individual tastes, and that's one aspect that is so amazing in photography. No matter how good or bad a photo is, there are always people that love it or hate it. |
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03/22/2005 12:57:02 AM · #27 |
There's nothing "simple" about that image. It may have been "simple to shoot" and "simple to process" (I don't know) but it's staggeringly complex, and it's very sophisticated from a pure "light" point of view, even if you were just fortunate enough to discover that sophistication, rather than create it.
Robt.
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03/22/2005 01:38:04 AM · #28 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
There's nothing "simple" about that image. It may have been "simple to shoot" and "simple to process" (I don't know) but it's staggeringly complex, and it's very sophisticated from a pure "light" point of view, even if you were just fortunate enough to discover that sophistication, rather than create it.
Robt. |
Thank you so much Robert. I tried many different things when doing this photo. Many different compositions while shooting: vertical, centered, horizontal etc. but liked this left-weighted style to give more emphasis to the right side, and the lines flowed more smoothly. In Photoshop I tried some shadows/highlights in PS to give it a more balanced and thorough brightness, but decided that having the darker shadows in there gave a little more depth to an otherwise flat image. |
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03/22/2005 01:53:41 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
The image in question:
Why it's "special":
Telehubbie takes us more deeply into "leaf" than most of us are used to going. This is more than leaf, it's a total visual metaphor. The image shrieks "photosynthesis" in its merging of light and green veins, it talks to us at a visceral level of the roots of life on earth.
Less metaphorically, the sense of "scale" is remarkable; it's obviously tiny, and yet it's huge. It's a world in a leaf.
Technically it's flawless. The sharpness, the exposure, the rendering of the image are essentially perfect.
Compositionally it's exquiste; the flow of the curved lines, the way Telehubbie resisted placing the vertical on the 1/3 line, the way the dominant curve ends in the upper right corner, the way the values slowly shift across the leaf, the purity of exit in the bright, green corner.
So, what's NOT to like? This is a flawless image IMO.
Robt. |
Something being technically superior doesn't make it sing for me. I rather something b flawed, that brings out emotion.
Michelangelo's "David" is flawed, by his own hand and on purpose, and it's one of the most revered pieces in the history of art.
Stephanie
Message edited by author 2005-03-22 01:57:18.
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03/22/2005 04:13:49 PM · #30 |
I just want to step in here and say thanks for one of my favorite conversations ever on dpchallenge. Everyone who's contributed to this thread has helped me think much more about how I look at art in general. It's all too easy to get caught up in the technicalities of our art.
Frumoaznicul, I'm so impressed that you had the courage to post your question so articulately - and English isn't your native language. You're doing a damn good job with the language in under 995 words! :-) You've started and helped carry on an interesting and difficult discussion in an admirably warm and kind way.
Telehubbie, your explaination of what you saw and thought when creating your blue ribbon shot helps me appreciate its beauty much more than when I first saw the image. Thank you so much for that.
This is a nice place here, no doubt about it! |
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03/22/2005 04:49:08 PM · #31 |
| but you did recongnize the complexity and the light befor you shot it and you did recongnize it to be a very appealing photo after you shot it and I think that is good..........and like all have said art is in the eye of the beholder...and plenty of eyes agree with you....Good Job....I do love simple and get lost in the world of more sometimes this brings me back to simple can be best. Just my thought.. |
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03/22/2005 05:14:29 PM · #32 |
Thank you everybody for your kind and compassionate words, and of course a big thanks to those who really liked my photo and voted accordingly. Frumoaznicul, no hard feelings. I'm open to all opinions, that's what helps us get better. Robert, your knowledge is highly regarded, and well appreciated! Thank you.
Now, can we all have a group hug? (((((((hug)))))))) lol |
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