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06/02/2007 10:53:04 AM |
| Absolutely fabulous. I'm catching up on some missed shots during the 30 days of BW. This is absolutely wonderful. I love what posthumous said. I couldn't agree more. |
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05/24/2007 12:52:47 PM |
| Just love this. Takes me back to looking through old photos in an album. Wonderful colour treatment. |
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05/22/2007 08:29:52 AM |
I love the humility of photography. It's a lesson for all the other art forms. In general, we tend to feel like we're *finding* beauty rather than creating it. I think that's a healthy attitude. This photo is a good example. The photographer is not the only one shaping this image, and a tension is created between the models' intentions, the photographer's intentions and the end result. This keeps the photo from being contrived even though it's "posed." An important distinction here is that you didn't pose them. They posed themselves, but their knowledge of the photograph is limited. They don't know how you are framing it. They don't know what the other models are doing. They don't even completely know what they themselves look like. This is hardly unusual, of course. It happens whenever somebody points a camera and says "Say Cheese!" But within this framework, you have some added complications that I enjoy. The windshield, for instance, and its reflections, complicating their forms. Your processing takes advantage of the odd effects of this windshield by creating an old down-home-country-style look to the whole shot. I can't help but think of West Virginia. Another "complication" is the triangular shape that the children create together. It is a forceful visual element that the models are completely unaware of. It becomes a strong visual symbol of people having a part to play in something bigger than themselves. In this case, perhaps a family dynamic. Notice that one child, in the bottom corner of the triangle, looks away from you toward the floor. Another child must strain to look above him. The child on top grabs the spotlight, but seems a little awkward there. Perhaps she is insecure about it or does it only because no one else will. Her waving arm unconsciously points to the other girl, who is also in a bottom corner but stares assertively into the camera. She seems to be in a world of her own, or at least a photograph of her own. The windshield reflections seem to be gravitating to her. She becomes the unexpected focal point of the photo.
The car serves as a chaotic, mechanical, almost claustrophobic frame, enhances the effect that this was one random, chaotic moment plucked from the stream of time.
The overall effect is a photo that seems artless but has great energy and beauty. |
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05/21/2007 08:32:45 PM |
| Surperb shoot. Love the whole thing, context and processing!@ |
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05/21/2007 06:48:46 PM |
| This is so funny! Great job, love the kiddos expressions! |
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05/21/2007 06:38:49 PM |
Yes they do look happy! And you -- as always -- did a wonderful job capturing just the right moment -- and processing it to perfection to make an ordinary scene look like a gallery piece. You are such a gifted people-photographer!
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05/21/2007 03:00:01 PM |
really nice, great shot of these kids, very clear and great engagement
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05/21/2007 01:35:45 PM |
| this is excellent meliha! my fav of the recent ones you uploaded. love their expressions, they looks so natural evethough they are posing for you. |
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