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10/10/2005 04:01:49 PM · #1 |
OK - I've read a few forums about personification but I'm wondering about specific traits / puns / human qualities and whether they apply to this challenge. My example is NOT what my image is ... but it is the same type of thing:
The image:
A roadkill being swarmed and eaten by 22 vultures. The title is "Attractive".
Anyone???? Again ... this is not my photo but a similar idea.
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10/10/2005 04:07:50 PM · #2 |
| mmmm ... that just seems like animals acting like animals. What human characteristics were you thinking of? |
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10/10/2005 04:09:43 PM · #3 |
Maybe if the vultures had cameras?
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10/10/2005 04:10:16 PM · #4 |
That doesn't work at all for me. That's just vultures doing what vultures do, so THEY haven't been personified in any way, and anyway they are animate. Even IF you consider to roadkill "inanimate" (which is debatable) there's no personification taking place just because roadkill is attractive to vultures...
Robt.
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10/10/2005 04:11:10 PM · #5 |
The roadkill is "Attractive" ... Vultures are attracted to it ... The "roadkill" is obvious and IS the main subject. Since we use the word attractive so frequently for humans - in aslightly different way ...
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10/10/2005 04:11:26 PM · #6 |
| I don't think so. But title it "Lawyers" and... : p |
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10/10/2005 04:12:14 PM · #7 |
Personification occurs when inanimate objects are endowed with human qualities...
Vultures are animated and living, and the corpse... well aside from not being very appealing, it 'was' an animal... so again... its not really an 'object'.
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10/10/2005 04:13:43 PM · #8 |
If you were going for a humorous angle, title maybe better as "Pizza at the Frat House", giving the impression that the vultures were college students and thus becoming the personification of gluttony. That may be incorrect, but it is my opinion!
Jacque |
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10/10/2005 04:14:12 PM · #9 |
| Personification can occur with ANY non-human object. But the challenge declaired inanimate objects only. |
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10/10/2005 04:15:16 PM · #10 |
my mistake, forgot that for this challenge had to be inanimate object, vultures are very animated! regrets,
Jacque |
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10/10/2005 04:15:48 PM · #11 |
Allright let's pretend a bunch of nails are getting sucked into a magnet ... that would be the same idea ... Attractive??? ... NO? Swarmed by groupies???!!!!
Message edited by author 2005-10-10 16:18:26.
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10/10/2005 04:17:37 PM · #12 |
LOL, not to nitpick, but that would be attraction or attracted, not attractive.
Jacque |
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10/10/2005 04:19:25 PM · #13 |
the magnet is attractive.
let's call the nails groupies and say "swarmed by groupies" ... yes?
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10/10/2005 04:19:56 PM · #14 |
this ambiguity and interpretation-variation is one thing that drives me nuts and that's why i'm forum-ing.
Message edited by author 2005-10-10 16:24:06.
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10/10/2005 04:20:18 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by metatate:
Allright let's pretend a bunch of nails are getting sucked into a magnet ... that would be the same idea ... Attractive??? ... NO? |
Well....
Strictly speaking "personification" is the endow something non-human with human qualities. Since this is a photography site, one would rather expect the endowment to be done visually. So in that sense it really doesn't work for me. It's an intellectual concept that needs a title to make it work, rather than a visual pun, if you see what I mean?
I donno, it's a hard challenge for me to relate to, and I'm not entering it for that reason. I went with "pride"...
Robt.
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10/10/2005 04:23:22 PM · #16 |
my pride image will be controversial too. I can see it now ... "I don't see how that represents pride". :) ...
One more idea .... If 33 bugs are on a light ... could we say the light is being "swarmed by groupies"?
After that I give up.
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10/10/2005 04:23:41 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by olddj:
If you were going for a humorous angle, title maybe better as "Pizza at the Frat House", giving the impression that the vultures were college students and thus becoming the personification of gluttony. That may be incorrect, but it is my opinion!
Jacque |
When an animal dies it becomes inanimate because it can not move of its own free will.
Dictionary meaning
Dead:
Not having the capacity to live; inanimate or inert. |
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10/10/2005 04:25:05 PM · #18 |
| True, what has that to do with the vultures? |
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10/10/2005 04:26:00 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by RedOak:
Personification occurs when inanimate objects are endowed with human qualities...
Vultures are animated and living, and the corpse... well aside from not being very appealing, it 'was' an animal... so again... its not really an 'object'. |
should have being this quote sorry |
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10/10/2005 04:29:19 PM · #20 |
OK, picture this....
Girl in a white flowing dress walking down a lonely dirt road towards an old colonial house. Live oak trees line the road covered in spanish moss. Wide angle shot minimizing the girl and emphasizing the trees. Overall spooky/misty look to the shot. Title: Silent Guardians
Personification? I don't know. Personally I think its a great idea for a shot. I'm in the perfect part of the world to shoot it. I'm just lacking two things.
1.) Wide-angle lens
2.) Time to shoot it.
:-(
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10/10/2005 04:33:01 PM · #21 |
Good example Palmetto.
He personified the trees into human guardians. |
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10/10/2005 04:36:28 PM · #22 |
So without the "guardians" title ... one would be challenged to see the idea?
One more try: let's say a light has a bunch moths fluttering around it ... If I say:
"Swarmed by Groupies " .. that would be the same thing, right??? |
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10/10/2005 04:37:03 PM · #23 |
I think this works. |
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10/10/2005 04:46:19 PM · #24 |
The instructions for the challenge say:
Take a photo of something non-human-looking but yet still shows human characteristics or evokes a human feeling.
They do not say you can only take an image of an inanimate object.
P.S. Since a Barbie doll is human looking I expect everyone to give them the boot even if it is an inanimate objects. |
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10/10/2005 05:05:10 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by metatate:
So without the "guardians" title ... |
And that's exactly the problem I have with it. I agree it relies very heavily on the title. However, in a gallery where one actually spent a lot of time studying our imaginary photo (rather than speed voting), would the viewer not make the connection on their own? I think if you studied this image (at least in my minds eye), the trees would personify some type of guard or at the very least wall even without the title. This is the importance of shooting it correctly.
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