OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy). I'll be picking one of these images for my Mu (most underrated) award:
Positives: Well, it's made me stop and think - I'm trying to glean your intent here and your motivation for offering this in a free study, what do you see that I don't...? The coloration is interesting and it does serve to communicate the texture of the cloth surface - how this surface relates to the background is one of the most intriguing elements of the image, it leaves me guessing. The teacups themselves are well placed enough and I do like the shininess of the glaze inside the top cup, it contrasts well with the matte surfaces.
Critical stuff: Although the image has some curiosity to be explored, in certainly isn't very beautiful and the lighting is too flat to communicate any form of drama.
Overall: I was about to sum up quite critically but I am beginning to warm to the image - I am surprised by that! The more I look at it in the context of making this long comment, I'm left to examine my own preconceptions of what I expect in an image and I find that you have offered almost the opposite - could this be an intentional 'anti-image'? Deliberately drab, deliberately every day, deliberately conventionally composed, deliberately plain.....
In that context it works as art - it makes us think of what we value and will no doubt offer a contrast to the next image I view and there is its merit. It doesn't matter what image comes next - it will be in stark contrast to this anti-image. |
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