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11/08/2010 03:29:45 PM |
Thanks for the post-challenge mention of my comment, Richard. It was a pleasure to invest a few minutes with your photograph. And it's a double pleasure to see that you so soundly thrashed me in the epic battle over 278th place!
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11/08/2010 10:29:05 AM |
Congratulations on a beautiful image and thank you for Inspiring the great comments. I feel like I learn so much from Images like this and from the amazing artists on this site that take the time to teach us all with their comments.
Message edited by author 2010-11-08 10:29:49. |
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11/07/2010 09:57:25 PM |
| Very unique and interesting. Full of edges as implied and in the edgy processing. I'm sure you are getting spanked but I'll throw you some love! 10 |
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11/07/2010 07:26:16 PM |
I love the nostalgia that soaks this photo to the point of unreality.
Posthumous Art Gallery |
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11/07/2010 07:04:03 PM |
| Good use of time travel. Love this. |
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11/07/2010 06:19:28 PM |
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.
Positives: Quite an extreme image - like all of the affordances of digital photography have been discarded. I do like the vintage coloration, the grain and the vignette though.
Critical stuff: The overall level of sharpness looks a little off.
Overall: Bold stuff; but I think it has some correctable elements. |
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11/07/2010 09:19:00 AM |
| Mysterious memory. In my top picks of the challenge. 10. |
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11/07/2010 04:45:28 AM |
Iâve used up all my 7, 8 and 9 votes in this challenge, and all I have left is my sole 10. I saved it for you.
This is my top pick, though of course I do know that itâs going to finish at the bottom of the heap in voting. Presumably you knew that as well. But I donât make it my top choice just to be contrary: Iâm quite serious. Itâs not a âgoodâ photograph in any popularly accepted sense, but so what? Anyone can make those, and thatâs the problem â nearly everyone strives to be âgoodâ at the cost of original thought. If we go down that path far enough (and at DPC we almost compulsively do so), then every photograph becomes much the same as every other.
Paul Strand had this to say on the subject:
'Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other peopleâs ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will eventually have to free yourself of them.'
Your entry in the Free Study will be dismissed as a snapshot, and derided for its lack of any of the visible checklist of technical proficiency. And for most voters, that will be the end of the matter. No boxes ticked, thus itâs no good.
My view is that itâs a very good photograph. And I donât care if it was the product of an hourâs thought or a secondâs thought. I donât even care if you made this image to be deliberately âbadâ, although from your title I doubt that you did so. Your motivation is irrelevant, really.
It isnât good only because itâs different, though that gets you halfway there. If as a viewer/voter you put aside the conventional, superficial measures of good photography, and first empty your mind, this photograph has an exceptional capacity to fill it up again ⦠with questions, memories, dreams, sensations and emotions.
The lack of specificity is the strength of the image. Instead of dictating the reaction of the viewer, (âisnât this the most perfect picture of a thing?â), you are asking the viewer out to play, (âdo you remember this? what else do you remember? how did you feel then? how do you feel now?â) I admit that it is possible that one has to be of a certain age for this style of image to resonate in that way: I am of that certain age, so I suppose I have the advantage of many viewers there.
I also enjoyed that you had incorporated a subtle unity, a sly cohesiveness, into the physical and emotional elements of the image. Itâs aptly titled 'edges' â edge of the water, edge of the family, edge of isolation, edge of loneliness, edge of the world. And at the edges of the image itself a gentle vignette, used with purpose to help the viewer on his or her way inside (inside both image and self). Even the colour is marginalised. It's a picture of peripheries.
My congratulations for being bold enough, or mad enough, to drive a stake into the ground out at the very edge of good photography. Thank you. |
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11/05/2010 09:10:13 AM |
| The movement blur and the grain just don't work well together here. |
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11/01/2010 08:11:55 PM |
| Love the old 50's style processing. |
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11/01/2010 03:35:15 PM |
| really like this...makes me think of my childhood (and that was a LONG time ago) |
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