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08/29/2007 04:03:37 PM · #76
Originally posted by timfythetoo:

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What I like about this image are the colors of the subject and the patterns created with the camera. Cool almost fluid movement from left to right swirling around the bottom and fading off. The abstractness of it makes me not strain to see what the subject actually was. The motion blurred contrasty shapes just work for me. It has a good feel.


Agreed.

Originally posted by timfy:

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This one doesnt work so much for me. The vibrant color is nice, but its not enough to carry the image. Where in the first the shapes and patterns are a great compliment to the colors, this one just seems to be a bit flat. Almost like a big splatter on a wall with no real purpose or interest grabbing element to make it more than what it is up front.


I enjoy how this enters into pure abstraction. There is no attempt at all by the viewer to "focus" on something that was blurred. It looks to me like (perfectly focused) lava bursting over a building. (ah, so I guess it is not "purely abstract." but somewhere around here I've discussed how I don't believe that any art is "purely abstract.")
08/29/2007 04:09:26 PM · #77


Blur can be sharp. It can sharply carve shapes into darkness (or light). It can be sharper than even reality, by removing details that soften an object with extraneous information, information about individuality that does not concern us. This is not a particular bird, this is a creature of flight, an aerodynamic shape, a phenomenon, a particle of physics.
08/29/2007 04:19:03 PM · #78


Blur transcends. I was born into a world of fierce, abundant detail, choking me with a thousand tiny stimulations (did someone mention an acid trip?). I became an eye of a million facets, an insect eye, seeing only threads.

I escaped this world when the road I was on stopped being a road, when the sky became the mushroom cloud of an exploding freedom. Blur liberated me from the Facet Dictator. I put a flower in his barrel.
08/29/2007 05:11:45 PM · #79
Originally posted by posthumous:



Blur transcends. I was born into a world of fierce, abundant detail, choking me with a thousand tiny stimulations (did someone mention an acid trip?). I became an eye of a million facets, an insect eye, seeing only threads.

I escaped this world when the road I was on stopped being a road, when the sky became the mushroom cloud of an exploding freedom. Blur liberated me from the Facet Dictator. I put a flower in his barrel.


DAMN!

I wanna party with you Cowboy...

Your words reminded me of Lao Tsu.

Beautiful work. Both poet and photographer. Cheers!

Message edited by author 2007-08-29 17:14:33.
08/29/2007 09:05:02 PM · #80
Originally posted by pawdrix:

I wanna party with you Cowboy...


You have partied with me, Injun. And I wanna see the pictures.

(ok I stop hijacking thread now)

Message edited by author 2007-08-29 21:05:13.
08/29/2007 09:22:40 PM · #81
Originally posted by posthumous:

... This is not a particular bird, this is a creature of flight, an aerodynamic shape, a phenomenon, a particle of physics.

For a long time I've considered that just getting one comment like this was reason enough to post/enter a photo -- thanks! :-)

BTW -- when printed in the current version it's too dark -- I need to lighten it up a bit to match the monitor version. :-(
08/30/2007 10:38:06 AM · #82
Blur can be the vibration between two meanings...



I'm a rocket man... (the vibration between rocket and man)

Blur can change something by changing its edges. Look how this shadow turns into a hole. (the vibration between shadow and hole)

I'd say what makes this photo truly compelling is that it simultaneously suggests an almost frantic level of fun *and* debilitating disfigurement at the same time. (the vibration between joy and pain)
08/30/2007 10:52:20 AM · #83
Originally posted by posthumous:



sometimes we want to remember.




This is exactly what a memory looks like. Have you noticed there are half a dozen different kinds of blur in this one photo? One of the things that an art teacher will tell you about drawing is to vary your line. You do this by changing the angle and pressure on your pen. The next time you look at a Hirshfeld caricature, notice the line width. That varying width is as crucial to the drawing as the lines themselves.

A line that changes implies a human hand and thereby imparts a humanity to the image. When an effect like blur can vary within one image, a similar sense is felt. The trick here is that the variations occur within reasonable expectations of how light behaves in a camera: in other words, it doesn't feel like it was added later in Photoshop. But at the same time, we are stunned at these variations. They have never occurred to us before: how the lamp posts are ghosts, while the facades are glowing, while the sign is bleeding, while the building on the left is sleeping, while the church is being crushed by its own piercing, like a splinter of ice.
08/30/2007 11:03:59 AM · #84
Originally posted by posthumous:

Originally posted by posthumous:



sometimes we want to remember.




This is exactly what a memory looks like. Have you noticed there are half a dozen different kinds of blur in this one photo? One of the things that an art teacher will tell you about drawing is to vary your line. You do this by changing the angle and pressure on your pen. The next time you look at a Hirshfeld caricature, notice the line width. That varying width is as crucial to the drawing as the lines themselves.

A line that changes implies a human hand and thereby imparts a humanity to the image. When an effect like blur can vary within one image, a similar sense is felt. The trick here is that the variations occur within reasonable expectations of how light behaves in a camera: in other words, it doesn't feel like it was added later in Photoshop. But at the same time, we are stunned at these variations. They have never occurred to us before: how the lamp posts are ghosts, while the facades are glowing, while the sign is bleeding, while the building on the left is sleeping, while the church is being crushed by its own piercing, like a splinter of ice.


"A line that changes implies a human hand and thereby imparts a humanity to the image..."

Beautiful analysis. Thank you for your efforts, truly.
08/30/2007 11:13:58 AM · #85


Blur is visual impairment. This is something it holds in common with emotion, which also inhibits a person's ability to see clearly.

QED, blur is emotional. It is a visual representation of emotion. This photo instantly makes me think, "Love Is Blind." Here we can see, right in front of us, how our love for someone makes it almost impossible for us to see him. He is so surrounded by our love that his own existence almost blinks out.

But notice how he is walking out of frame. Some day he must leave the nest of love to make something of himself. It requires courage. Not everyone succeeds at this. Some of us remain forever lost in other people's expectations and feelings about us.

But, for all its danger, look how beautiful it is, to see the caress of an abiding love revealing itself in everything about him, his shifting colors, his eroding outline, his Mona Lisa smile.
08/30/2007 11:18:58 AM · #86
Originally posted by krnodil:

Beautiful analysis. Thank you for your efforts, truly.


Thanks. As I do this more and more, I allow my analysis to become more personal. I have more or less abandoned efforts to isolate objective qualities of the image that each person interprets differently. Instead, I am highlighting these qualities with the torch of my own interpretation. In other words, I am willing to give an opinion of the image that not everyone will agree with, but am hoping that my explanation of that opinion will be helpful in some way.
08/30/2007 11:23:58 AM · #87


Blur is intimate.

I think I've said that before, maybe pre-blurgeois, but a blurry or distorted close-up of a face can remind us of someone we love. The people we are closest to are people we are literally closest to, often so close that we cannot see them clearly. A photo like this conveys that sort of loving but distorted glimpse of the person we are caring for. It holds a truth about that person that a more studied, careful view would lose to distance.
08/30/2007 11:45:36 AM · #88


Blur softens the blow.

Blur makes it easier to take: the vulnerability, the loneliness, the sacrifice, the statement. The punch is pulled at the last moment, though it still makes contact.

This is not to say that blur is censorship (though of course it is often used that way). Here we have an image that if sharp would risk being confrontational, with its sexual and religious undertones. By not confronting us, we are allowed to sit with the image and ponder, not just those undertones, but the humanity of the photo, the intimacy. Some will feel empathy, others will feel even more frightened than they would have with a confrontation.

I find myself repeating these words on blur photos: human, intimate.
09/06/2007 02:46:03 PM · #89


Blur is a verb. This is not a photo of birds. This is a photo of what the birds are doing. "Flying" is too simple. There is an entire orchestral arrangement of action here. Photos have a dangerous tendency to be about Things, they have a dangerous tendency to just sit there, the way a Thing does.

So Blur helps you take a picture of a Do instead of a Thing. And it can be argued that a Thing Is what it Does. This picture of birds tells us some things about birds than a sharp static image never could.

Do Be Do Be Do.
09/06/2007 02:52:59 PM · #90
Thank you kindly, Don. I think you point out something I quite enjoy about blur - the action, the more than sedentary, the life that blur can give a still image.
09/06/2007 03:33:38 PM · #91
Here is my Blur gallery.
Take a look if you have the time

Message edited by author 2007-09-06 15:33:53.
09/06/2007 08:32:13 PM · #92
WANTED:

Blurgeois pedagogue seeks more blurgeois pedagogues for comments on blurred photos, which seem to have blurred into September.
09/06/2007 09:50:36 PM · #93
Can't quite reach your heights, Don, but I'll give it a shot.

Blur is...atmospheric. Weather is sometimes messy, often visible, and always palpable. Blur helps you *feel* weather, it can document the climate of the scene, whether that climate be literal or figurative.

"Weather abroad..."

Looking out at this bleached scene, through the heat haze, can you feel the sweat trickle down your neck?

and "weather in the heart..."

She seems enthralled by memories of past events, the blur is her reverie made manifest.
09/06/2007 11:57:24 PM · #94
beautiful. thank you.
09/07/2007 12:31:12 AM · #95
Originally posted by posthumous:

WANTED:

Blurgeois pedagogue seeks more blurgeois pedagogues for comments on blurred photos, which seem to have blurred into September.

Your request is too clear ... ;-)

What happened to that list of other people who were supposed to join you?
09/07/2007 12:42:35 AM · #96
Originally posted by posthumous:

WANTED:

Blurgeois pedagogue seeks more blurgeois pedagogues for comments on blurred photos, which seem to have blurred into September.


I'd be interested

----

My resume:

Ursula I Abresch --- DPC World

Objective:
Casual (part-time) work commenting on blurred photos

Experience:
- 4881 comments made to date, 4110 marked helpful (84.2%)
- awarded one "yappie"
- many blurry pictures, both planned and by happy accident
- strong personal association with shallow DOF

Skills:
I can type and I know how to use the spellchecker.

----

What say you?

Message edited by author 2007-09-07 00:48:19.
09/07/2007 01:16:17 AM · #97
Not only yes, but PLEASE! Ursula, you need no invitation, nor approval - your work speaks volumes. Please pedagogue away!
09/07/2007 01:18:39 AM · #98
Originally posted by Melethia:

Not only yes, but PLEASE! Ursula, you need no invitation, nor approval - your work speaks volumes. Please pedagogue away!


Merci!
09/07/2007 01:23:17 AM · #99
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by posthumous:

WANTED:

Blurgeois pedagogue seeks more blurgeois pedagogues for comments on blurred photos, which seem to have blurred into September.

Your request is too clear ... ;-)

What happened to that list of other people who were supposed to join you?


They are here but their posts are blurred.
09/07/2007 01:28:55 AM · #100
Originally posted by ursula:

My resume:

Ursula I Abresch --- DPC World

Objective:
Casual (part-time) work commenting on blurred photos

What say you?

Howzabout you check out this old one ... Flowers Never Bend ...?

I'll put the thumbail in the other thread.
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