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08/30/2007 06:52:46 AM |
from blurgeois pedagogues:
This is exactly what a memory looks like. Have you noticed there are half a dozen different kinds of blur in this one photo? One of the things that an art teacher will tell you about drawing is to vary your line. You do this by changing the angle and pressure on your pen. The next time you look at a Hirshfeld caricature, notice the line width. That varying width is as crucial to the drawing as the lines themselves.
A line that changes implies a human hand and thereby imparts a humanity to the image. When an effect like blur can vary within one image, a similar sense is felt. The trick here is that the variations occur within reasonable expectations of how light behaves in a camera: in other words, it doesn't feel like it was added later in Photoshop. But at the same time, we are stunned at these variations. They have never occurred to us before: how the lamp posts are ghosts, while the facades are glowing, while the sign is bleeding, while the building on the left is sleeping, while the church is being crushed by its own piercing, like a splinter of ice. |
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08/05/2007 05:56:09 PM |
Getting surreal again Undie!!??
Tone and soft focus give one the feel of a hot late summer afternoon.
Great image!! |
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08/05/2007 05:05:07 AM |
| This made me lean in -- what more is there to see that I am missing, what's that just above the cars? 50 what? Suddenly my nose is pressed against my laptop screen and my inlaws again think I am nuts (and maybe they're right). |
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08/03/2007 08:24:56 AM |
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08/02/2007 05:19:53 PM |
| wow. the glow is really cool here. |
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08/02/2007 05:08:36 PM |
| Very dreamy - what a fantastic capture of light. |
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08/02/2007 12:16:42 PM |
| Very nice and extremely pretty. |
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08/02/2007 06:19:29 AM |
This is a good use of OOF, the lights lead up to the Church Bldg.
The unlit street light could be eliminated, although it contrasts from the "Natually" lit facades.
I would like to see similar lights on the Church. Yeah, twilight glimmer moods, do not need focus. |
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08/02/2007 03:51:18 AM |
| Oh that late afternoon light is lovely, beautifully done. |
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08/01/2007 08:04:03 PM |
| i like this, the blur works so well to enhance the effect of light on the buildings. very nice. |
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08/01/2007 06:26:22 PM |
| It's like a memory floating about in my head from my time growing up in the Midwest, going to my Grandmother's house in Wisconsin...always warm, always pleasing. |
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08/01/2007 05:43:57 PM |
I LOVE the light, and the steeple; they make this for me
wish you could clone out the big 50 sign there...it pulls away from the dreamy effect you've otherwise achieved here
~Anni |
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08/01/2007 05:40:48 PM |
| Yes, the lighting is beautiful and the steeple really speaks to me. The glimmering/shimmering light is very comforting to me. |
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08/01/2007 03:59:16 PM |
| I think for me the coolest part of this image is the steeple, very dreamy, ethereal look. Great shot! |
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08/01/2007 03:52:56 PM |
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08/01/2007 02:16:13 PM |
| Has a very beautiful, artistic feel to it. The colors are amazing. |
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08/01/2007 01:10:16 PM |
| Really interesting. Almost like ghostly apparitions. |
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08/01/2007 10:57:49 AM |
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08/01/2007 10:37:27 AM |
| this is stunning ... the lighting is awesome and the softness just perfect ... you have managed to make an 'ordinary' street look extraordinary and very beautiful ... :) |
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08/01/2007 10:22:57 AM |
| whoa! that looks pretty crazy!!! great result!! |
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08/01/2007 10:22:36 AM |
| Captured some lovely light. Calm quite summer evening, I can almost smell the warm air. |
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