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05/05/2007 11:52:42 AM |
| Cencentration portrayed in it's essence. All we can see in the set face and the hands, both connected by the light. Intensity and focus has stopped time and obliterated the surrounding. |
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05/04/2007 06:32:24 AM |
| Initial reaction - focus is not crisp enough to force the boy's silhouette into my attention. Instead, my attention is taken by the geometric white shapes in the background. |
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05/03/2007 05:20:50 PM |
Visually, a pretty image. I love back lighting and the ridge-lit silhouette of the boy's face is very well positioned against the dark background.
However, other than this visual candy, this shot doesn't do anything for me. It does not tell an interesting story (I don't even understand what the boy is doing), does not evoke emotion or cause personal associations. The girl's presence in this image is completely unclear to me: it seems that she got in just by accident or photographer's oversight. |
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05/03/2007 02:48:32 PM |
whenever you can make the contrast this extreme and still have all the elements be clearly understandable, you know you're off to a good start. The way the backlighting gives each dark form an outline is terrific. It's amazing to me how much I can tell about the background figure. For example, I can tell that she's out of focus, but I still see her necklace and her bobbed haircut and imagine a pink sweater. Speaking of pink, I love how colors are suggested rather than shown. Is he wearing a tie? and a less formal green jacket? He's dressed up for Easter, perhaps. And that splash of green outside suggests a whole rural or suburban outdoors.
Having these forms so clear and yet so close to disappearing makes them far more compelling than a simple "well-lit" "well-focused" shot. I almost saw the boy's right eye only because I was desperate to see it. My mind wants to complete the picture for my eyes. The fact that he seems to be piecing something together reminds me of how my own brain is working as I look at the photo. For me, it's a photo about thinking, about the shadowland of conceptual understanding with which we blanket the over-stimulating world around us.
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05/03/2007 02:30:08 PM |
there is something intimidating about this shot...such harsh contrast and lines, and a face completely void...and then I look at the hands and the lips are set, and realize what I am seeing is a picture not from the perspective of the photographer, but rather from the child...that all is light for a child is a lie, a moment can be so completely focussed that all else disappears, leaving only the pieces of a puzzle to be put together...
well done... |
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03/20/2007 11:22:37 PM |
| I like it! I love how it's highlighted the outline of the silhouette! Cool! |
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