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07/02/2006 11:31:20 PM |
Hi from the Critique Club!
Looking at your portfolio it seems you have a conceptual approach to photography. This image is almost an abstract, having a symbolic meaning. To be honest I have no idea what is in the glass; is it a paper flower, or tissue paper, or a real, dried up flower? Does it matter? My logical mind needs to know. My creative mind doesn\'t care.
Having just watched England being cheated out of a place in the semi-finals of the world cup, I fully appreciate the feelings that go with \'desolation\'. So ironically, I can look at your image through desolate eyes. And it does match my mood. My joi de vivre has been sucked from me, and like your glass and flower I have collapsed to the ground, in slow motion. It is not simply about a meaningless football game; the game serves to remind me of all the times in my life I have felt desolate, let down and deflated. Times when this image would have mirrored my mood perfectly.
As TheMegalomaniac commented, the way you have captured the motion blur at the top of the image rather than at the bottom, is wonderfully unexpected and makes the viewer stop and think. Symbolically, it captures that aspect of life, where the years and time seem to fly by at the speed of light, becoming a blur. People often report their lives flashing before their eyes when their lives are in grave danger, again your blur illustrates that perfectly. So the blur is life, and the still image at the bottom is indeed the last breath, as the glass has not yet hit the ground, but that is only milliseconds away.
The colours are well thought out. The drab brown of the background and foreground is perfect. To me it looks like soil; soil in a graveyard, waiting to accept the dried up shell of what once was full of life. The pastel reds and orange of the flower are a lovely contrast to the starkness of the soil. But they are only pale imitations of the vibrant colours the flower once had, when it was full of life. The dried up, paper texture of the flower is only a pale imitation of the smooth, velvety texture it once boasted.
A lovely, emotive, poetic image. |
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06/25/2006 11:10:50 AM |
| Excellent - it is a little off because most of the blur is happening at the top when it should be moving slowly - you expect to see it at the bottom. 8 |
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06/24/2006 01:51:09 PM |
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06/24/2006 10:47:01 AM |
| I love this image - with more editing. I took the image into photoshop and adjusted the curves after picking a black point. How amazing! The title is perfect - it all makes so much sense! If you ever do a re-edit of this, please let me know. |
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06/23/2006 10:59:11 PM |
| picture as poem... the falling of a breath... the fall of man... the fall of innocence. one even imagines that the blurred rose toward the top is still alive. of course we're only fooling ourselves, as we so often do in the face of death. 9. |
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06/23/2006 01:34:34 PM |
| I think a white background would have made this look more elegant and tragic. it looks like its on and in front of foam right now. it just deosnt do the concept justice. 5 |
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06/23/2006 11:48:44 AM |
| Very symbolic! And dramatic, like an opera. The dying flower's petals look like period costume, worn by a fair and feisty heroine. The movement and colours are just right, and the metaphor is lovely. Fantastic. :-) |
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06/23/2006 06:14:29 AM |
| Good idea and capture. A bit of contrast to bring it out. |
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06/22/2006 03:26:41 PM |
| Gorgeous, so creative. I love it. |
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06/20/2006 12:19:15 AM |
| cool shot and nice border. |
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06/19/2006 09:51:16 PM |
| Very nice I like this although I probably would of used a solid black background |
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06/19/2006 09:44:42 PM |
| this is the start of a lovely image. the motion capture is extremely well done, and works very well, as does the composition. however, the background is very distracting, with a texture that draws attention away from the subject. if it were darker and more regular, tht would help a lot. soting out the bits of fluff in teh foreground would make a difference too. a 6, but could have been much, much higher... |
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06/19/2006 06:54:22 PM |
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06/19/2006 01:44:22 PM |
| Very creative, great capture! |
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