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05/09/2012 01:19:10 PM · #1 |
Created just for you: "Influenced by  jmritz"
John has been a long-standing, uniquely creative, contributor to DPC. He is particularly adept at making images that polarize the vote, and is an inspiring artist hung routinely in the PH thread.
Make time to study his portfolio and past entries. Your challenge is to make a photograph that speaks to the artist [you] first, and creates indecision and uncertainty in the viewer. Your entry need not look like a jmritz, but it must dance like a jmritz.
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Message edited by author 2012-05-09 16:14:51. |
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05/09/2012 01:27:58 PM · #2 |
Definitely. Perhaps my favourite photographer on DPC.
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05/09/2012 01:38:29 PM · #3 |
This would be a tough one but a passionate one, we could learn a ton by trying to see how he see's, so let's do it.
Message edited by author 2012-05-09 13:49:58. |
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05/09/2012 01:39:39 PM · #4 |
| not to take anything away for jmritz, but i am tired of "in the style of" challenges. i just have no urge to shoot in someone else style. |
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05/09/2012 01:39:51 PM · #5 |
| who can say the unsayable with apparently no effort? |
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05/09/2012 01:49:15 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by mike_311:
not to take anything away for jmritz, but i am tired of "in the style of" challenges. i just have no urge to shoot in someone else style. |
I feel quite the opposite - I think gives much more room for creativity than some of the specific challenges. I also think that the quality of images we see in these challenges is very high indeed and thus a pleasure to vote on. |
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05/09/2012 01:54:07 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by paulbtlw:
Originally posted by mike_311:
not to take anything away for jmritz, but i am tired of "in the style of" challenges. i just have no urge to shoot in someone else style. |
I feel quite the opposite - I think gives much more room for creativity than some of the specific challenges. I also think that the quality of images we see in these challenges is very high indeed and thus a pleasure to vote on. |
+1
The day I can't learn from somebody else is the day I stop progressing. Not only are these challenges fun to vote on but they are incredibly fun to shoot, walking about trying to see things from a different perspective is truly a wonderful thing. |
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05/09/2012 02:02:43 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by mike_311:
not to take anything away for jmritz, but i am tired of "in the style of" challenges. i just have no urge to shoot in someone else style. |
Mike, keep in mind the challenge description: Your challenge is to make a photograph that speaks to the artist [you] first, and creates indecision and uncertainty in the viewer. Your entry need not look like a jmritz, but it must dance like a jmritz
You can do this in your own style. In fact, that may be more difficult than throwing up a look alike devoid of content. |
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05/09/2012 02:22:56 PM · #9 |
| One is likely to find while exploring Ritz's style, that it's really not about Ritz at all. |
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05/09/2012 02:37:49 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by tnun:
who can say the unsayable with apparently no effort? |
who's the greatest mudskipper of them all?
I love "in the style of" challenges. They're very educational, whether you succeed or fail, whatever strategy you take. Influence is an essential part of art.
jmritz is an astronaut without a spaceship. In my opinion, he has the right stuff. |
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05/09/2012 02:41:47 PM · #11 |
| Perhaps not my style, but I always like to try something different. So +1 for the suggestion. |
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05/09/2012 02:57:07 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by bspurgeon:
Originally posted by mike_311:
not to take anything away for jmritz, but i am tired of "in the style of" challenges. i just have no urge to shoot in someone else style. |
Mike, keep in mind the challenge description: Your challenge is to make a photograph that speaks to the artist [you] first, and creates indecision and uncertainty in the viewer. Your entry need not look like a jmritz, but it must dance like a jmritz
You can do this in your own style. In fact, that may be more difficult than throwing up a look alike devoid of content. |
I'm always amazed at how much I learn from the "In the style of" challenges. Even if my entry flops, there is something I always take away from it. |
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05/09/2012 03:03:30 PM · #13 |
| I spent some time just yesterday viewing jmritzimages. I was absorbed into his work for about 30 minutes until my cell phone rang and pulled me back. +1 for the challenge suggestion and very odd this suggestion came up today. |
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05/09/2012 03:06:37 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by bspurgeon:
You can do this in your own style. In fact, that may be more difficult than throwing up a look alike devoid of content. |
I did that in your own "style of" challenge Ben, and got creamed for it. I'm sure the entry would have done decently in some other topic, however.
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05/09/2012 03:08:11 PM · #15 |
Yes let's do this.
Not only is Jmritz a great photographer he is also one of my favorites to get a comment from. I consider any shot that gets a comment from him to be a win. |
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05/09/2012 03:23:28 PM · #16 |
Not my style. Doesn't interest me. I wouldn't enter. So, I say absolutely NO to this challenge ever taking place.
Let's have a Sarcasm challenge instead.
eta: in case it went unnoticed, I am +1'ing this because I am not -1'ing this.
Message edited by author 2012-05-09 15:45:23. |
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05/09/2012 03:35:02 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by bspurgeon:
Originally posted by mike_311:
not to take anything away for jmritz, but i am tired of "in the style of" challenges. i just have no urge to shoot in someone else style. |
Mike, keep in mind the challenge description: Your challenge is to make a photograph that speaks to the artist [you] first, and creates indecision and uncertainty in the viewer. Your entry need not look like a jmritz, but it must dance like a jmritz
You can do this in your own style. In fact, that may be more difficult than throwing up a look alike devoid of content. |
While it has a ring to it I've never liked the phrase "in the style of". It confuses people and as a result people are more likely to employ a low fidelity look as a means to mimic his way of seeing when the focus should really be the other way around. We should be trying to see through his eyes. Where that leads who knows? But I do know one thing. The work that comes from it SHOULD be different. As Don put it earlier influence is a key component and that's very different than awarding the best jmritz look-alike.
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05/09/2012 04:13:24 PM · #18 |
| Richard, the "style of", as you correctly pointed out, is a misnomer. "Influenced by: xxx" better represents my intent. |
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05/09/2012 04:33:52 PM · #19 |
| I think this is a great idea. At the same time it is the kind of challenge that scares the heck out of me. If announced, I will have no earthly idea where to start. But, the scary challenges can be among the most fun and rewarding. I might not come up with anything worthy of a jmritz challenge entry, but it won't be from lack of trying. |
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05/09/2012 04:35:18 PM · #20 |
| Inspired by, in the spirit of... |
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05/09/2012 04:54:46 PM · #21 |
+ however many my + makes it be + :-) I want to grow up to be jmritz.
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05/09/2012 07:29:18 PM · #22 |
Bring it on. JMRitz has been an inspiration to me for awhile now and I look forward to a challenge of this caliber. 15 PH Blue Ribbons. Take a look through his portfolio and I hope you will agree that his art is something to reckon with. It will be a thinking challenge, to be sure, but fun.
edited to add - some of my recent favorites:
  
Message edited by author 2012-05-09 21:33:19. |
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05/09/2012 09:15:57 PM · #23 |
I admire they way he (and a number of others) enters what he likes, knowing full well that it probably won't garner popular appeal. He does have his share of fans.
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05/09/2012 09:29:47 PM · #24 |
This is interesting because it is not about the look or feel of a photography but because it is about the way he thinks and how he enters the challenges, the feelings he evokes, how that is accomplished.
This is a very important challenge, most importantly for those who don't think we need to have it.
Oh yeah, and it is these "in the style of"challenges that make this Dpc community special, at least it does for me.
Message edited by author 2012-05-09 21:37:18. |
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05/09/2012 10:12:47 PM · #25 |
| He's an artist. How do we know an artist? I dunno for sure but I think it means to me that he shows and promotes a consistency of vision that leaves the rest of us enticed into taking the time to understand and by that effort maybe to see something new. We can imitate the style, or the subjects (generally determined by the dpc) or spend some real time and even have a discovery. I'm all for a tribute in the form of a challenge to show our appreciation in whatever way we see fit. Thsnks Ben. |
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