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06/03/2008 07:09:03 PM · #301 |
| For each challenge I generally vote the first few, and then I can build up some sort of Benchmark i.e. Is that photograph better or worse than the one before it, which means I can go back to the first few and adjust accordingly. |
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06/03/2008 07:28:58 PM · #302 |
Originally posted by HawkeyeLonewolf:
Again, whoever did that -- VERY NICE... |
The same guy who said of this photo "Those are the two in this thread that I said mean the most to me."
I would like to know why this has such meaning to him.....I'd find it interesting I think. |
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06/03/2008 08:23:41 PM · #303 |
Originally posted by David Ey:
The same guy who said of this photo "Those are the two in this thread that I said mean the most to me."
I would like to know why this has such meaning to him.....I'd find it interesting I think. |
It is probably a whole lot of internal reasons that nobody else would get, which is maybe part of it. Partly, because I think it really captures well the experience of being in that Abbey and what the light was. Partly because I slowed down enough to spend maybe 30 minutes to make the image and think about it. Partly because I've had such a negative reaction to it from many photographers. Partly because it is something I like for myself, rather than feeling I should like it because it falls into the standards other people have for what a photo is - it came from me, more than me trying to match up to some external ideal of how it should look. Maybe because I was on a great holiday in Tuscany and it conjures up all those memories. Perhaps because it represents unfinished business, a marker and a sign post towards a different kind of image making that I've been playing around with - this all out of focus yet still understandable dreamlike scene. Maybe it represents a future direction I haven't come back to. Was also one part of a series and trying to shoot in projects has become more of a part of my interest in photography, with less of an interest in the one off. Another case where connecting to the process of taking pictures was maybe more interesting and more important than the end results themselves - similarly with my experiences at Tybee Island. It was also one of the first where I was trying to consciously play with archetypes in the images I was making, the 'moving into the light' feel of it fits well probably with the church location it was shot in. It also represents an attempt at a more subtle colour palette, which I'm not so comfortable with, a more muted, simpler set of hues, rather than the vivid primaries I'm still addicted to working with.
Mainly though because I find a lot more to think about when I look at that picture than I do when I consider the paintbrush. In that case I see an end. Something finished - successful, popular, but finished with and not something that interests me or excites me any more. With the other, I see potential and that's a whole lot more interesting.
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06/03/2008 08:32:22 PM · #304 |
| Hey, McGregor, why do I get this picture when I click on the thumbnail in your last post? |
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06/03/2008 08:35:36 PM · #305 |
| Well, I'll be. That may be why I have so many dvd's full of very simular stuff. Interesting. |
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06/03/2008 09:29:18 PM · #306 |
Well since this got bumped to the front again and is way too long for me to read I'll just say the following:
As for why I personally would submit an image I thought was going to do poorly but that I personally liked.
I would rather speak truthfully and be heard by only one person, than to speak sweetly and be heard by most.
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06/04/2008 08:40:17 AM · #307 |
Originally posted by Louis:
Hey, McGregor, why do I get this picture when I click on the thumbnail in your last post? |
I think David mixed up the links when he edited from an earlier post that had these two:
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06/04/2008 07:05:06 PM · #308 |
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