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Dave Knadler
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I got a laugh out of that one.
Thanks for the compliments! I'm doing a study on 'light as form' when I took those.
Yup, that's an orchid mantis - they look like orchids from afar - that had settled on a lamp. It was actually hanging upside down when I took the picture.
Tony Wakefield
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Here's another one... although not m4/3s
Mazin Sami
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Love the last one!!
Mazin
Mazin
tedolf
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Never really liked the "artsy" weirdo photographs. Seem like artistic masrubation to me. I like, and try to take photo's that tell a story (I like that best), evoke an emotion (second) or revive a memory (third). The artsy stuff never does that for me. I guess that is why I am bored to tears with the photos I find in photography magazines.
Mazin Sami
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Intellectualism what drives the world of fine arts photography, you could call it "Artsy Weirdo" but it's a "whole world" of a very unique taste and smart way to understand art, you just have to have an eye for it.
Cheers.
Cheers.
snap
Veteran Member
Nice series. I like the textures on the leaves and the dry ones. Also the contrast between the Jeans blue and wooden browns.
Rick
Rick
snap
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Vivid and colorful. Shante you stay - Sashay away. May the best Woman Win!
Rick
Rick
tedolf
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Wish I did, but I don't. No offense intended. Don't like much abstract art either.
Mazin Sami
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May I ask you why.
Mazin
Mazin
I though this was a discussion thread (with the OP saying "please speak out" and all) but with everyone else posting pictures i guess I'll follow along!
I really like to explore abandoned places with my camera, as well as capture darker moods with a lot of my photographs. Here are a few that capture the atmosphere I tend to go for. All are with my GF1 and an assortment of lenses (don't know why EXIF disappears when I upload here, works fine on flickr...).
I really like to explore abandoned places with my camera, as well as capture darker moods with a lot of my photographs. Here are a few that capture the atmosphere I tend to go for. All are with my GF1 and an assortment of lenses (don't know why EXIF disappears when I upload here, works fine on flickr...).
tedolf
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Of course. Because it looks like crap!
tedolf
Veteran Member
Sorry about that, coudn't resist. Look, here is the closest I get to "artsy" photographs:
I only picked these because my uploaded Gallery is very limited right now but I think each tells a story. The church picture juxtaposes the trancendental (the stained glass window with Christ teaching in the Temple as a child) with the earthly (the electric light). The story I suppose is that these two worlds live side by side all the time, even though most of the time we are not aware of that. Same with the night shot. It is supposed to tell us that sometimes while we are asleep and unaware, the night is temporarliy transformed into an odd analog of the day where strange things happen, and then it is gone. I know that technically they are not great (most forumers here could have done a better job) but I think they succeed in telling an interesting story. Others may disagree but that is what I was trying to achieve. The Renissance masters did this all the time, this story telling thing. That is why they were so great, not just for there technical brilliance.
Upthread there is a picture of a dormer window in a dilapidated home. It is technically excellent but it doesn't tell me anything. It just looks like crap and is depressing (my appologies to the forumer). What is the purpose? What is the story? It tells me nothing. Who wants to be depressed anyway?
Photojournalism is a little bit different (sometimes you want to make people depressed for a good cause) but even there, the idea is to convey a lot of information to the viewer in a single snapshot of time.
To me photography is a form of poetry, and to me the art of poetry is transmitting a lot of information with very few words. The great poets knew this. Most would be poets don't and that is why most peotry is just awful, painful actually. Same with photo's. The great ones tell a big or interesting story just with a glance. The bizzare, abstract stuff, like bad poetry generally fails at that essential purpose. Not always, but generally. I know the defense is that if the viewer doesn't "get it" it is because he is stupid. Actually it is the other way around. If the story teller can't communicate his story (sp? storey?) he is simply a bad story teller.
Hope that helps and I am sorry if I offended anybody, but you did ask.
I only picked these because my uploaded Gallery is very limited right now but I think each tells a story. The church picture juxtaposes the trancendental (the stained glass window with Christ teaching in the Temple as a child) with the earthly (the electric light). The story I suppose is that these two worlds live side by side all the time, even though most of the time we are not aware of that. Same with the night shot. It is supposed to tell us that sometimes while we are asleep and unaware, the night is temporarliy transformed into an odd analog of the day where strange things happen, and then it is gone. I know that technically they are not great (most forumers here could have done a better job) but I think they succeed in telling an interesting story. Others may disagree but that is what I was trying to achieve. The Renissance masters did this all the time, this story telling thing. That is why they were so great, not just for there technical brilliance.
Upthread there is a picture of a dormer window in a dilapidated home. It is technically excellent but it doesn't tell me anything. It just looks like crap and is depressing (my appologies to the forumer). What is the purpose? What is the story? It tells me nothing. Who wants to be depressed anyway?
Photojournalism is a little bit different (sometimes you want to make people depressed for a good cause) but even there, the idea is to convey a lot of information to the viewer in a single snapshot of time.
To me photography is a form of poetry, and to me the art of poetry is transmitting a lot of information with very few words. The great poets knew this. Most would be poets don't and that is why most peotry is just awful, painful actually. Same with photo's. The great ones tell a big or interesting story just with a glance. The bizzare, abstract stuff, like bad poetry generally fails at that essential purpose. Not always, but generally. I know the defense is that if the viewer doesn't "get it" it is because he is stupid. Actually it is the other way around. If the story teller can't communicate his story (sp? storey?) he is simply a bad story teller.
Hope that helps and I am sorry if I offended anybody, but you did ask.
Tony Wakefield
Well-known member
Thanks Rick. Here's another one from the same series and a much subtler and abstract subject where I did use my GH!
Cheers,
Tony
tedolf
Veteran Member
Love the first one, tells a great story. The second one, eh...too artsy.
tedolf
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?? What is this supposed to be?
tedolf
Veteran Member
I don't get it. Looks like a buch of miniature toys all mushed together.
tedolf
Veteran Member
Looks like a picture of an out of focus car and a cracked window.
What does it mean?
I do like the B & W though.
What does it mean?
I do like the B & W though.
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