Taken in my living room after two hours of painstakingly taping newspaper clippings to the wall and stapling bedsheets over the windows to block out light. Lighting is a small table lamp (minus the lampshade). Model is my ever-patient roommate Britt. :)
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For a newspaper challenge your title sets a confusing stage. I associate clippings on a wall exactly like this with obsessive behavior found in many movies....... a police detective related title or soemthing about catching a criminal wold have fit this picture like a glove. And it is a great picture - especially how the darkness on the right is countered by the brightness on the left. Very nice picture.
Nice pic I would think you put a lot of effort into it but missed the cord of the lamp hanging down oops! I like it but not sure if it would be newspaper stuff though!
Bet this took a lot of time to set up. I took the challenge more to mean actual News events or something that would be posted in the newspaper, not newspaper itself. It is a great photograph and for that I gave it a 7.
I think you misunderstood the challenge: the target was not to take a picture with newspapers in it, but a picture that could appear in a newspaper. Your title doesn't make this appropriate for a newspaper article. Still a 7 because I like the image very much.
An interesting photo but hardly a journalistic one. A journalistic photo depicts an immediate event or socially relevent issue. Your headline is not a headline, it is a quotation. While a quotation from a politician or other public figure might be newsworthy enough for a headline, a quotation from a long dead spiritual leader is not. This photo somewhat supports the quote, which in turn lends creedance to the impact of journalism on society. However, it does so in a rather abstract way and not in a journalistic way. Journalism deals in facts, events, and issues. Abstractions can be used to discuss these events but they shouldn't be used in place of the facts when attempting to inform a wide public. I guess what it boils down to is, this photo does not really inform the public of anything. It is a very subjective interpretation of the Budda's words.
Without the title I would be more inclined to think it was a portrait of a serial killer or stalker than a reflection of the Buddah's words. A lone figure standing in a dark room using the light of flashlight (?) to read a single page of many doesn't say anything about the world-shaping quality of our thoughts. It just looks kind of pseudo-artsy without giving the viewer much to hold on to. Kind of like listening to someone else's dream.
although i like the photo a lot ... i'm not so sure how this meets the challenge ... sure i see a lot of newspapers but .... still a powerful photo though ..... 6
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