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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
I do agree that you could play with light here. For example, not have the grater so close to the backrop.
I like the reflection of the cheese in the grater. This adds a bit of dimensionality to the image. |
Jan 22nd |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
Jamie, I'd love to see what you end up with if you lighten the picture a little. |
Jan 22nd |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
I like having the left door in the image. It gives the figure something to "walk towards." Without them, he is framed by matching windows, which would make the picture more static, IMHO. |
Jan 22nd |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
For me the signs were part of what told the story. I would not take them out. I liked the original picture. I also felt the parking block and that useless pole were important in the picture. First of all the yellow is nearly directly across the blue on the color wheel, so it adds a dimensionality to the picture. Second, the signs of "real humans" also added to the "story," for me. (I just learned about story pictures by reading some photography blog, I'm excited about the concept, can you tell?
If you were there to photograph someone's art work, then I would return when there was no car parked, get the whole mural, then take out the signs and other signs of humanity.
But that removes your "voice," the whimsicality that was added by your choices. |
Jan 22nd |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
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Jan 22nd |
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| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
I'm not submitting for comment, just to add to the discussion on this one. |
Jan 22nd |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
Hi Prakhar
I did take pattern pictures too. That is mostly what the group was there to do, which is why they all brought telephoto lenses.
Since I got confused on that issue and brought my wide-angle lense, I tried to do other things.
But I did take a few pattern pictures that turned out fairly well. |
Jan 22nd |
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| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Reply |
Hi Henry, Thanks for the warm welcome!
By "little stucco house" I mean the smaller building on the left. Miami was once all houses of that size, houses that had awnings over the windows because they didn't have air conditioning. A contrast to the hi-rise condos (with businesses and parking lots in their lower levels).
I was thinking some kind of manipulation would work better, for example making all the modern stuff look like it's drawn and leave the little house realistic. But I have to work on my photoshop skills to make it happen.
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Jan 16th |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
Oh, wow, Dorinda, thank you so much! I was going to play with it but I don't know how to selectively hilite things. Was waiting for a moment to scour the internet and figure it out....
I don't get to Miami (an hour's drive) too often, since I have school-aged kids at home, but I'll try to return and get the picture at a better angle. It might be possible to get a picture with a similar theme closer to where I live, too, as there are some "original Florida" houses near here. What I'm not sure of is what I can get into the background with it. It's a good theme, though, something everyone good try where they live.
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Jan 16th |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
That's incredible. To me it looks like a collage effect, as if the cheese was added in processing.
I love pimento-stuffed olives, nom nom.
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Jan 11th |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
I also use a Canon 5D Mark III so I'm really happy to meet someone in the group who uses the same camera!
I did not know what stacking was so I had to read about it. I see why it can be useful, but it is a lot of work. It requires mastery of the photography process and the post-photography process, as well as perfect lighting conditions. To me the whole process seemed overwhelming, so I compliment you on embarking on it at all. With the foreground part of the image the stacking is successful-the flower petal conveys a feel like human skin.
For me the stacking effect on the right side of the picture is not successful. Also, the way the flower is cropped gives me an uncomfortable feeling. I keep wishing I could reach for the flower pot and angle it just a little more towards me. |
Jan 11th |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
My eye immediately gravitated to this photo. To a westerner like me, the architecture, the Sanskrit over the doorway, and the swastikas all stand out and demand my attention. I know that in Hindu culture the swastikas mean something different than they do to someone who studied WWII and the Holocaust a lot in school, but when I first saw them I had a feeling of shock. This was my entree into the photograph: the familiar symbol with its different meaning reminded me that I needed to open my mind and look at everything again.
My next feeling was one of envy, that the figure in the picture can walk so casually past such a beautiful doorway/bulding front and seemingly take it so much for granted. Sometimes I feel that architecture where I live deliberately pursues blandness. This image reminded me that that is not the case in other places.
I'm used to photos of India being in vivid color, so the black and white also made me re-think assumptions. Still, I wish we could have had a side image of what it looked like in color.(I'm assuming the monochrome was the result of manipulation?) |
Jan 11th |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
I love the whimsy here, and the tongue-in-cheek description.The eyes and shape on the grate remind me of Gumby figures I played with as a child.I wasted some time as a child watching the stop-motion of Gumby as well as playing with my Gumby doll.
I couldn't help wondering if the picture would have more of an impact if real olives had been attached to a real hunk of cheese, the mouth painted on with real sauce, if the impact would be "grater." |
Jan 11th |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
The first thing that struck me about this photograph was its beauty. The effect on me, overall, was the impression of a beautiful abstraction. I studied the image for some time before I understood what it was.
If the blue were cropped out I doubt I would ever figured it out. Cropping would also lead to a loss of color contrast, which would be a pity. |
Jan 11th |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
This bird is definitely a character, and the photograph has captured something about its personality: clearly a bird of prey, but captured at a relaxed and vulnerable moment.
I live in South Florida and a lot of people in my club take pictures of birds. I went on an osprey shoot last spring, and it was fascinating to compare the pictures we all took at the same place at the same time. My club values being able to see the bird's eye. Not just see it, but it should have a "glint." Most of my pictures, like this one, don't have the glint. I think the bird's body language conveys more than it could if the bird was making direct eye contact with the viewer, which it would have to be in order to get that glint.
I like the bokeh effect on the background. I do wonder what it would look like if the picture was "wider," that is, if we could see the bird in some context, apart from the fence it's perched on. |
Jan 11th |
| 40 |
Jan 19 |
Comment |
This image conveys a sense of the whimsical to me. The running figure on the mural reminds me that there is more to the world than humans. The parking block and the metal pole that looks like it once held a meter give me a sense of scale. Also they remind me of who is missing: people.
The yellow in the parking block is a nice contrast to the blue wall.
As I studied the image longer I realized that the signs tell a story. "Danger High Voltage" and the rather mysterious sign on the door indicate that something dangerous lurks within. For me, the image as cropped works better than an image of the full (or fuller) mural would have. At first I thought having one figure chasing each other would tell more of a story, but then, IMHO, a human element would have to be added.
As it is the story conveys to me a sense of whimsy which travels along the storyline to a sense of dread when we read the signs and a sense of anxiety when we understand that the a human presence is indicated but, like the missing parking meter, not present. What happened to them?
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Jan 11th |
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