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04/30/2008 01:58:51 AM |
| this is pretty awesome! The grit makes me feel like I am in that memory. |
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04/30/2008 01:29:09 AM |
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02/24/2007 01:04:56 PM |
| I just ran across this photo and I had to tell you how much I really like it! I can't believe you didn't score higher! |
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09/14/2006 01:52:40 PM |
Critique Club Review:
Timeless photo. This could have been taken this morning or 100 years ago. How impressive! I like just about everything about this picture.
I like the focus, the lighting, the composition, the grain, the pose, the camera angle.... There really isn't anything here not to like.
So the question becomes, why didn't this photo score higher?
I tend to think that voters here gravitate towards brighter pictures. There are a lot of shadows here, including one across his face that would have already blocked out the sun. I think some probably didn't understand the grain, and took it for an accident rather than a purposeful application. The only distraction I see is the object hanging on the wall to the left of his head, is a very minor distraction for me.
I just don't know.... I would have expected top 10, or certainly top 20. Would have bet cash money that it would have made top half of the class. Evidently this picture really spoke to some of us, and the rest just weren't listening. |
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09/08/2006 11:10:36 AM |
| I didn't comment on this one during the challenge but it is indeed one that stayed with me. I looked at it more than once and for quite some time each viewing. I'm not as eloquent as posthumous or dahkota or e301 (there's a comment to treasure!) so I can't put into words what it is that draws me to this - just that it does. Congratulations on a wonderful photograph! |
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09/08/2006 10:10:14 AM |
| Someone explain WHY this is not in the top 20? I hate to find my 10s so far down in the pack. |
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09/08/2006 04:59:00 AM |
| I looked over the top scoring images of the challenge. I looked where my image placed. I looked where my top scores (including this) placed. And I just have to wonder why I'm here. No, I know I'm here for images such as this. But I also know, with the results of this challenge, that I must understand that voters really annoy me. This should have placed near the top way above my image, which in retrospect seems so trite. But I will stay for moments such as this. Thank you. |
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09/07/2006 10:38:55 PM |
| Love the grain and contrast. |
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09/07/2006 10:29:21 PM |
| I feel like I am caught in the middle of a faint. I have no idea where I am, but it's somewhere very important. It is somewhere between feeling and meaning. The lines of perspective are a hand opening up to take me to an interior place I've never been, and I see myself as a child, trying not to see, and I see this frightful hand upon my own face, touching its pinky against my own hand. I am in pajamas that are falling open, utterly vulnerable, slipping into what I hope is the familiar world of sleep... but this passageway is utterly unfamiliar. I wonder if that is my whole life being drawn in the multitude of shadows, charcoal sketches of the images and incidents of my life. I am trapped in the moment before you pull your hand away and everything is obliterated by the sun into a monolithic world of white. 10 |
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09/07/2006 08:51:56 PM |
| Intriguing idea! I doubt it will do well because the average voter won't notice the hand-shadow, but it sure deserves to do well. |
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09/06/2006 11:14:13 PM |
| wonderful noise in this shot! 10 |
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09/06/2006 09:00:21 PM |
| the shadow and his arm make for a bad title I think. If one or the other was there it would be much better. Other than that, the tones and texture I think works nice. |
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09/04/2006 03:15:03 PM |
| Picture quality could be improved. |
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09/04/2006 12:00:28 PM |
| Hmm - There are parts of this that are just wonderful! The grain, of course. The 50s feel, the boy, the hand shadow, the house, the sun, his shirt with the piping. THE LINES, straight and receding on the house, diagonal shadows, angles pose of the boy. Here's what I don't like: I have a "what is it? mind. Things I can't identify are distractions for me. What has he got in his other hand? I'd be happier if you cropped it. What are the odd things hanging on the house? |
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09/03/2006 02:47:25 PM |
| Wonderful!! At first when the image began to load, I saw only the grain at the top of the house. I thought it was going to be a normal boring grainy snapshot. What a surprise I was in for. This is an image that I could spend a lot of time with. The title is perfect. Love all the stripes and other forms that the shadows make. My first 10 after 403 votes. |
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09/03/2006 01:56:58 PM |
| Very good. It looks like an old film photo. I like the placement of the child in the photo arrangement. |
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09/03/2006 08:25:23 AM |
| I LOVE this image! I love the quirkiness and the shadows...I am not sure how the voters will treat this or if they will see it for what it is, but I love this 9 |
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09/03/2006 06:46:48 AM |
| Xainart? Lekker sfeertje! I like the grainieness very much! |
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09/02/2006 07:56:52 PM |
| I love the grain in this shot |
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09/02/2006 04:48:49 PM |
| Yes, but why? I have a hard time with this photo. Perhaps it could have worked as a part of a series or a project. A a standalone picture I just don't see it. |
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09/02/2006 11:43:21 AM |
| 1930s feel to this. Love the grain. I just keep thinking deep south and Dorothea Lange. Capturing a defining moment as it is. I like this, I like what it says, I like how it says it (to me anyway). Hmmm. More contemplation. Thoughts of wishing I had taken this. Thoughts of hanging on my wall. Crap - jealousy popping up. I really need to get away from DPC and get back to seeing images such as this. 10 and a favorite. |
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09/02/2006 09:57:08 AM |
| interesting grain. a very cool old photo feel. |
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09/02/2006 08:08:55 AM |
Composition: 7 - Its breaking out of the rules, and in this case I like it. I still think it could lose a tiny bit off the top, but it works!
Technical: 6 - I'd give this a lower score for technical if I didn't think you meant it to look like this. As above, it doesnt follow the rules, but for this photo I feel it works well.
Creativity: 6 - A unique photo which offers an insight and poses some interesting questions about the situation.
Appeal: 5 - While not the most appealing thing to look at, it's interestingness keeps me hooked for quite a while.
Overall Calculated Average Score: 6 |
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09/02/2006 06:32:33 AM |
| I like th grain in this one. I think there is too much negative space. Maybe a tighter crop or crop out some of the top. I still could see your story that you are telling but not have to scan down so far to get to it. |
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09/01/2006 07:25:50 PM |
| This image is interesting, but I think you could have had a more mysterious or dramatic title and that would have given it some extra oomph. Yes, this deserves something poetic. I like the grain. |
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09/01/2006 04:41:11 PM |
| lol. cute how there are essentially two hands blocking the sun yours and his. cool processign too. |
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09/01/2006 04:04:24 PM |
| I rather like this: that hand, of course, but more perhaps the sheer graininess of it. There are sophisticated parallels of lines - the boarding, the boy's fingers, the shadow fingers. There's something more than a simple snapshot - or perhaps I mean that there's something about certain snapshots that sometimes works on more levels - that escapes the derogatory meaning of 'snapshot'. Lovely work - and I hope I'm not the only one to notice. |
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09/01/2006 01:13:47 PM |
Brilliant!
I have already checked this a few times today. Don't think I will ever get bored of this image. |
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09/01/2006 01:02:18 AM |
| I find this shot oddly captivating...lovely |
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09/01/2006 12:29:13 AM |
| cleaver B&W study imagenot sure if the grain was intentional.. |
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