LOL !!!! Have to imagine it then... oh gosh, terrible idea for a challenge: take a picture in which you have to guess what the main subject is... because it is out of the frame !
No, it is a great idea! =)
And you could have also replied to me: "Use your imagination!" ;-)
And that is what makes this image great. It works as on the article I found on what makes a photograph good when the story continues outside:
"Beautiful pictures annoy me. The photos I’m most interested in are not even the ones I would like to think of “Who knows how he did it”. The technique is interesting but usually I got bored more sooner than later. I’m only interested in photos able to capture my attention for at least 10 seconds. 10 seconds is a lot. Watching a photo for such a long time is a big thing, it’s more than the time we spend looking at a painting in an art gallery."
For me a photo is about a feeling. Having good gear can help expressing the feeling, but if you don't feel no gear will help you. I try to show my feelings through my pictures, I am glad when someone feels that and tells me about it.
"Paraphrasing Cartier-Bresson who said that the sharpness is a bourgeois concept, it can be said that the color itself is a bourgeois concept. To be able to communicate, a photo must also be striking at times, it must be shouting, so to say. Otherwise it is just sugar. Enjoyable. Sickening other times.
Not very interesting in the end."
It is how I feel about this sharpness obsession: pictures loose their magical side... That is why I use mostly large pertures and low contrast.
"Orwell said that the repetition of metaphors, especially in journalism, was the death of language. Repeating without re-inventing means to give up the sense of the metaphor that is to “bring out”. In other words, to explain a concept using highly evocative and more comprehensible images. Repetition undermines this evocative power, as the repetition of stereotypes undermines photography, which is more direct than a metaphor being a metaphor in existence, already a finished image in itself.
There is a particular emotional alignment that arises when an image represents a certain moment, which is also a mood got by the photographer. It is an intimate mechanism that is only activated when seen for the first time because it evokes a particular emotion, a memory. When it remembers a memory that is the recall of an image already seen it only generates a recognition and a weak re-affliction of an emotion."
This is how I feel when visiting places everyone has to go to, all taking the same views... I don't, I look first and only if a detail strikes me I take the picture, I am not looking for pictures to be taken, they eventually come to me -or not.
When I go somewhere with other photographers I always am entitled to the same boring comment : "You dont take a picture here ? Why? Why do you take so few pictures?"
My answer not to hurt people is... that I am still acting as if I had a film on my camera , not an SD card...
"In every already seen image there is a double betrayal: that of the original image and that of the creative idea. The first image — the one copied and declined in a thousand variants that are always recognizable and tedious until exhaustion — remains a memory; the creative idea no longer emerges, because there is no creation. There is a cautious trust in the already seen. It worked once, then it will work again.
No.
Commercially, yes. But it’s no longer photography. It is an image, it is a functional object or an expression of stereotypes. It does not like the anarchist variations of art: it’s just a monument to the security of the already seen."
Agree 100%
"Technically it is a photograph. But the technique describes a support and not the art that is supposed to be in it."
As I said above, technic is a support, not a feeling... my feeling is poetry and tenderness towards nature, animals, people... and decay, with the utmost respect.
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And you could have also replied to me: "Use your imagination!" ;-)
And that is what makes this image great. It works as on the article I found on what makes a photograph good when the story continues outside:
martinopietropoli.medium.com/the-difference-between-good-photos-and-beautiful-photos-2e66e5066c0b
It is of course a subjective point of view, but there is a point in there, I think.
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Xata replied to Sami Serola (inactiv…:
"Beautiful pictures annoy me. The photos I’m most interested in are not even the ones I would like to think of “Who knows how he did it”. The technique is interesting but usually I got bored more sooner than later. I’m only interested in photos able to capture my attention for at least 10 seconds. 10 seconds is a lot. Watching a photo for such a long time is a big thing, it’s more than the time we spend looking at a painting in an art gallery."
For me a photo is about a feeling. Having good gear can help expressing the feeling, but if you don't feel no gear will help you. I try to show my feelings through my pictures, I am glad when someone feels that and tells me about it.
"Paraphrasing Cartier-Bresson who said that the sharpness is a bourgeois concept, it can be said that the color itself is a bourgeois concept. To be able to communicate, a photo must also be striking at times, it must be shouting, so to say. Otherwise it is just sugar. Enjoyable. Sickening other times.
Not very interesting in the end."
It is how I feel about this sharpness obsession: pictures loose their magical side... That is why I use mostly large pertures and low contrast.
"Orwell said that the repetition of metaphors, especially in journalism, was the death of language. Repeating without re-inventing means to give up the sense of the metaphor that is to “bring out”. In other words, to explain a concept using highly evocative and more comprehensible images. Repetition undermines this evocative power, as the repetition of stereotypes undermines photography, which is more direct than a metaphor being a metaphor in existence, already a finished image in itself.
There is a particular emotional alignment that arises when an image represents a certain moment, which is also a mood got by the photographer. It is an intimate mechanism that is only activated when seen for the first time because it evokes a particular emotion, a memory. When it remembers a memory that is the recall of an image already seen it only generates a recognition and a weak re-affliction of an emotion."
This is how I feel when visiting places everyone has to go to, all taking the same views... I don't, I look first and only if a detail strikes me I take the picture, I am not looking for pictures to be taken, they eventually come to me -or not.
When I go somewhere with other photographers I always am entitled to the same boring comment : "You dont take a picture here ? Why? Why do you take so few pictures?"
My answer not to hurt people is... that I am still acting as if I had a film on my camera , not an SD card...
"In every already seen image there is a double betrayal: that of the original image and that of the creative idea. The first image — the one copied and declined in a thousand variants that are always recognizable and tedious until exhaustion — remains a memory; the creative idea no longer emerges, because there is no creation. There is a cautious trust in the already seen. It worked once, then it will work again.
No.
Commercially, yes. But it’s no longer photography. It is an image, it is a functional object or an expression of stereotypes. It does not like the anarchist variations of art: it’s just a monument to the security of the already seen."
Agree 100%
"Technically it is a photograph. But the technique describes a support and not the art that is supposed to be in it."
As I said above, technic is a support, not a feeling... my feeling is poetry and tenderness towards nature, animals, people... and decay, with the utmost respect.
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