Activity for User 679 - Charles Ginsburgh - cginsburgh@gmail.com

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65 Feb 19 Comment I am really enjoying your entry this month. In this you have used aspects of macro photography to bring us a minimalist tableau with an effective blend of object and empty space. The result is an emotional and artistic presentation for our consideration. I especially like how you have used macro photography as a tool to achieve an end rather than using it as an end in-of-itself. It that you have brought this technique to another level. Well done ! Feb 11th
65 Feb 19 Comment This was an interesting choice of subject, and you have done a great job is presenting this portrait to us. I especially like the shiny brass wear patterns visible on all of the raised surfaces. That being said this subject could easily be a large brass plaque as being a small macro subject. As such I think that it loses some of its impact as a macro image. As the photographer you know of it's context and how small it originally was, but to my eye that context is not carried through in the image. I wonder if taking that image at more of tan angle rather than flat on might help out this point some. I am not sure though …. Feb 10th
65 Feb 19 Comment One of the pitfalls that we fall prey to in macro photography is that if we enlarge a subject too much that you lose sight of what the actual subject is. This loss of context then makes the image more abstract than real and it becomes harder to relate to and enjoy the image. To my eye I think that is the case here. Your title sets the expectation as to what it is we are looking at, but even so I am having difficulty in identifying what it is I am looking at. The Abalone insert in the key is clear, but it appears to float in the middle of a lot of shiny color and blurred something. Even knowing that that the key sits in the middle of the Sax mechanism doesn't help me much in appreciating the image. Perhaps if there was a bit more clarity in the Sax mechanism that might aid the image in giving us a bit more context.

As I said this is especially (and perhaps uniquely) an issue with macro photography. I once generated an macro image showing the micro-complexity of a butterfly wing with lots of texture, color and detail, but in the end it looked more like a bit of cloth than anything else, and the impact of the entire image was lost. Sigh …
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65 Feb 19 Comment I applaud you choice of subject there. Not only are the colors interesting but there is a considerable amount a texture associated with the feather which adds a lot of interest. I especially am enjoying the small micro feathers attached to the stems. One of the issues that it's easy to fall prey to in macro photography is that if we enlarge a subject too much that you lose sight of what the actual subject is (loss of context). In picking such an identifiable item here, we still know what the magnified subject is and it's context is retained. Had this been a butterfly wing that may not be the case mistaking the complex wing structure for a bit of cloth (I been there, and done that). Since we know that this item is, I feel that you might have been better served to include a bit more of the feather eyelet. The fact that a bit of the feather is cut off on the left side and left top adds a bit of unwarranted tension which distracts for the image as a whole. Feb 10th
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