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03/17/2005 11:00:03 AM · #1 |
This picture was again from my photography class. It was a human gesture asingmnet. This was the one photograph that the class and professor liked out of the others I did. I like it as well but I wanted some one elses take on it.
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03/17/2005 11:21:39 AM · #2 |
While I assume the shadows in the background are humans, I don't really see any gestures here. I see a pepper shaker, and some papers under the camera which is sitting on the table. Was this a planned shot, or did you just press the shutter when you saw some people over by the buffet?
I find the foreground elements distracting, especially if the assignment was to capture human gesture. The current composition lends itself more to a unplanned candid, then a study of human gesture.
The black and white treatment you've chosen is not bad. There is full tonal range, but the mid range tones seem muddy and give an overall soft appearance to the image. Perhaps by boosting the contrast some you could give the image more punch.
When taking a photo for an assignment, try to minimize your distractions in the shot, and keep it tight on what the main focus should be. You want to be able to clearly show what it is you're trying to capture, so that your prof/audience best understands the meaning behind your shot and how it relates to the assignment.
-danny |
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03/17/2005 09:00:28 PM · #3 |
| well I was hopeing to get more then one comment on this picture. not that I don't appricate the one that I did get from Crabappl3 |
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03/17/2005 09:22:02 PM · #4 |
Bubble bursting mode. (complete unabashed honesty)
I find nothing at all interesting in this photograph. The humans are too small to be an element, the pepper shaker seems to be the main subject and is muddied by the presence of the background which ultimately seems stark and even more distracting than anything else.
Apologies for the negativism. |
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03/18/2005 09:55:09 AM · #5 |
| If I had not wanted honest comments I would not have posted this picture. Thak you for you critiques of my picture. |
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03/18/2005 10:28:36 AM · #6 |
When I look at this photo, the first thing I see are the humans in the background because my eyes go right for the light and they are sillhouetted. The whole image is quite dark, yet the image retains an objective feel and doesn't feel brooding or oppressive. Between the humans and me are various sundry items: a salt/pepper shaker, some papers, a folded specials card(?). This clues in my mind to think that the things "in the way" are somehow significant or symbolic in some way, especially the isolated salt shaker.
So now I'm left to decipher what these objects could signify. If you did not intend for them to signify anything, even a feeling, then you may want to look at the shot again and retake it, being more clear with your intentions, for everything in the photo is a clue, and if I can't make sense of the clues, then the clarity in the image suffers. I'm thinking really hard, but I just can't figure out what these things mean. It may be because it's early, and it may be that you want to be intentionally ambiguous, but you want to rethink how your subject is approached.
My best attempt: the foreground objects are certainly of human origin, and they seem unrelated, even in a cafeteria setting as they appear to be. The salt shaker, especially, is puzzling, but I can view all of the objects as human artifacts, left behind by other humans. My mind, in trying to make a story out of this, seems to be telling me that the humans in the photo, who are gathering food, may soon be sitting at the table in the foreground. I don't find any subjective judgement on the events much at all, so this story is most significant meaning I can find.
I have to ask: do these foreground objects have any significance at all? If so, what are they? Again, every image in a photo is a clue to the photo's meaning. In my view, the role of an artist is to interpret the world around him/her. If this is art, I want to be able to interpret it myself; I just find that difficult here. Good luck!
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