I like it. Interesting shot.
Paul
On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Ken Waller wrote:
Wow! Such an image !
And I don't mean that simply because of the photog.
The use of the graphical elements (the fence, road,railing) to move
your eye thru the image is extremely well done.
Thanks for posting - a great example !
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob W" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: PESO: a view from above
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3458/3369203594_e16d39223d_b.jpg
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:13:22AM +0100, Luka Knezevic-Strika
wrote:
> perhaps it is just that. i tought it had a good balance and that
it
> was graphically compelling.
I liked the colors of the cars, and as far as I could tell on my
crappy monitor at work, technically it is spot on, the tonal range
looks good, everything looks sharp. Perhaps the details detract, I
look for meaning in the people crossing the street, the traffic, and
so forth.
If you like it as an abstract, it might work better if it were more
abstract. Can you throw the digital equivalent of a soft focus on
it?
Maybe one of those faux oil painting photoshop plug ins?
Why not just vomit on it instead?
It reminded me at first glance of this photo, which also looks like a
snapshot of some parked cars and people.
http://tinyurl.com/dbpxjm
http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=Mod_ViewBox.ViewBoxZoom_VPage&;
VBID
=
2K1HZOY09145W
&IT=ImageZoom01&PN=1&STM=T&DTTM=Image&SP=Search&IID=2S5RYD
IIGDSX&SAKL=T&SGBT=T&DT=Image
This word 'abstract' that people use about photographs is pure
bollocks. A
photograph cannot be abstract. A photograph has formal geometrical
properties which may dominate the subject, as they do in this
photograph,
but it's not abstract. People also use the term about close-ups and
pictures
where it's sometimes at first difficult to recognise what the
subject is.
But they are not abstract, they're just close-ups. It's a misuse of
the
word, drawn from painting where genuine abstraction is possible.
People see
they geometric or other non-figurative properties of a painting and
think
that that's what abstraction means, and consequently misapply it to
photographs.
Bob
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