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09/15/2003 06:29:07 PM · #1 |
I was checking the Emotive
Gallery today and not many photos are categorized that way!
I love this one by Glimpses .didn't get many points because was in Right Angles challenge. |
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09/15/2003 06:59:25 PM · #2 |
Your thread strikes me twice Pitsaman and, talking of Emotive's subjects, I could not say what angle strikes me stronger.
The first, it is a great honor that you chose my pic for your thread.
The second, maybe even stronger, is that you changed your mind about this kind of thread in less than 24 hours. And that it is more than a sign of greatness.. that is the beauty of life.
Well.. I could not leave this thread, so special to me, with my suggestion.
It has been in my favourites since quite a while now and I feel it as a very very Emotive shot.
It will not surprise the public here that is a jmsetzler's pic, but I am sure that its content did (and will) surprise more than somebody here.
IMPORTANT NOTE: whoever views the pic should definitely read the "Photographer's comment" just under the photo, especially if it does not catch its many messages immediately.
The picture did communicate me a lot and I would have probably not needed the comment, but I loved to read it too.
To be completely honest, I would have preferred a different title and the one that I find really matches its Art is: "The risk of being myself".
I can understand why it rated far below jmsetzler's standards but I am sure the nobody better than him knows how much unimportant that was.
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09/15/2003 07:03:26 PM · #3 |
| The main difference here is that I do not declare,I ask for everyones opinion and tastes! |
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09/15/2003 07:12:04 PM · #4 |
By the title of your thread I wasn't sure if you are asking for our favorite emotive picture that someone else has taken or the best that we have taken, anyway this is one of mine, It is a collage in memory of my Brother-in-law Brian who was killed in a car accident a couple of years ago, the cross in the picture in the cross that sits at the site of the accident, and the rest speaks for itself.
In Memory Of Brian |
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09/15/2003 07:58:34 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by pitsaman:
I was checking the Emotive
Gallery today and not many photos are categorized that way!
I love this one by Glimpses .didn't get many points because was in Right Angles challenge. |
Since this thread has Glimpses' eye, I'd like to get some input: I still don't get the right angle connection. Having read your comments, I understand the "angle" you were going for - right vs. wrong, not 90 degrees. But still - what's the "right" angle being communicated by your shot? It is definitely a very emotive shot, I'm just interested in understanding what it was that it meant to you.
(FWIW, I didn't get to vote on that challenge, but probably would have pretty much followed the pack and given you a 3 based on not seeing the challenge connection. I didn't even consider the "correct" interpretation until someone pointed it out to me after the challenge.) |
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09/15/2003 08:43:41 PM · #6 |
I know some of you may not appreciate me pointing out the works of a photographer not associated with DPC. But through another site I have came to know the works of Kim Kyungsang. Many of Kim's photos show the joy and love shared between the Sisters and the children at the orphanage but Kim's photos move me to look at every day life and photograph moments that some may not appreciate while others will cherish. I couldn't even chose just one photo of Kim's so instead the link will take you to a complete portfolio of images to explore.
//www.usefilm.com/photographer/17805.html |
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09/15/2003 08:48:28 PM · #7 |
I don't have any pics that are emotive to very many besides me.
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09/15/2003 09:38:56 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by ScottK:
Originally posted by pitsaman:
I was checking the Emotive
Gallery today and not many photos are categorized that way!
I love this one by Glimpses .didn't get many points because was in Right Angles challenge. |
Since this thread has Glimpses' eye, I'd like to get some input: I still don't get the right angle connection. Having read your comments, I understand the "angle" you were going for - right vs. wrong, not 90 degrees. But still - what's the "right" angle being communicated by your shot? It is definitely a very emotive shot, I'm just interested in understanding what it was that it meant to you.
(FWIW, I didn't get to vote on that challenge, but probably would have pretty much followed the pack and given you a 3 based on not seeing the challenge connection. I didn't even consider the "correct" interpretation until someone pointed it out to me after the challenge.) |
Hi Scott,
firstly I appreciate very much your honesty about the vote you would have given. To me, low votes (even 1s) are by far more welcome when they are not anonymous.
Yes, my primary idea of right angle was as anti-thesis to wrong angle.
However as I mentioned, but not explained, in the pic's comments there where a few right angles in the pic: [1] the position of the lenses has to be exactly perpendicular with the plane where the doll lies in order to take the shot that way [2] The right arm of the doll (and this was pretty hidden in the pic but, also because of that, would have striken more who noticed it) is placed perpendicularly as well, actually pointing at the viewer as if the doll was indicating him/her.
I did not explain this before because I feel explanations may well sound ridicolous but, remember, that the challenge stated: "Create a photograph where right angles produce the strength of the image." and the two (geometrically) right angles that I mentioned certainly contribute in producing the strength of the image even if at a subliminal level.
Now (2:29 BST), I am going to sleep after having watched "Insomnia".
I cannot believe they did not sell anti-light mask to sleep well in that place.. who saw the movie know what I mean! =))
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09/15/2003 09:54:34 PM · #9 |
Actually I just realized that Scott's question was also about what the pic meant to me.
As I mentioned commenting the photo, I choose "Sweet Dreams" from the title of a song by Annie Lennox who immediately came to my mind looking at this doll, abandoned and not in very good condition.
The song's lyrics are:
Everybody's looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused
In this case, I imagined from what I saw, the doll had been used (and "abused") by a child.
And the photo came just as a way of capturing the concept expressed by the song in a context which we may consider as sad only if we assume that dolls can suffer. In fact, it was the forlorn look of the doll to suggest that tought.
Eventually, I also used the doll by shooting it and I actually regret not having "saved" it from the pool where it probably ended recycled.
Edited in the desperate attempt to correct my hopeless English.
Message edited by author 2003-09-15 22:00:33.
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09/15/2003 10:26:48 PM · #10 |
This is a shot of mine from the bridges challenge, that I thought would have done better. I believe it to be emotive, but I think it was interpreted otherwise by the voters. The emotion I was going for here was fear.
I also realize that at the time my contrast and brightness levels on my monitor were off, and this could have also contributed to a low score.
Please comment if you will. Mephisto's Crossing
Mephisto, btw, is the devil and I photographed the shot in sepia and later processed it to make the water look like blood. I know this was a stretch to think DPCers would get it, but I liked the shot so submitted it. |
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