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Opinions Please?
- Thread starter Dan Siman
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Jerome Marot
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I prefer the first two, because the construction in "X" emphasizes the symmetry of the perspective.
Michael Nagel
Well-known member
For some strange reason #3 is my preferred photo.
Probably because of the surface texture of the water being in concurrence with the reflection.
Who wins? Not important for me.
Best regards,
Michael
Probably because of the surface texture of the water being in concurrence with the reflection.
Who wins? Not important for me.
Best regards,
Michael
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Dan,
This one puts attention on the surface of that water and has a sense or eeriness about it. In that, it's more unusual and so I'd pick this as it can stand on it's own.
Asher
Jerome Marot
Well-known member
The opinion asked was not necessarily about which image we prefer, and I feel that I should not have started by stating that.
As a series, the pictures are interesting. You obviously took care to take and process them in a similar manner so give a surrealistic impression, an eerie landscape. That works quite well.
As a series, the pictures are interesting. You obviously took care to take and process them in a similar manner so give a surrealistic impression, an eerie landscape. That works quite well.
Maris Rusis
Member
These pictures are evocative and have a quiet beauty and nothing to apologise for. I used to make photographs like this quite often. But no more!
I now see these scenes as stage-sets, beautiful but empty, and waiting for some punctum (action, motif, gizmo, gubbin, kicker, etc) to take full advantage of their promise; an elegant foreground detail, a rock on the intersection of thirds, floating leaves, anything to put a dot on the end of an incomplete exclamation mark. And I must confess to being so crass on occasion to throw a stone into the water and camera-catch the expanding rings of ripples to give the the viewer of the picture one more thing to think about.
I now see these scenes as stage-sets, beautiful but empty, and waiting for some punctum (action, motif, gizmo, gubbin, kicker, etc) to take full advantage of their promise; an elegant foreground detail, a rock on the intersection of thirds, floating leaves, anything to put a dot on the end of an incomplete exclamation mark. And I must confess to being so crass on occasion to throw a stone into the water and camera-catch the expanding rings of ripples to give the the viewer of the picture one more thing to think about.
Jerome Marot
Well-known member
Leaving the scene empty from punctum can allow the viewer's imagination to wander. May I suggest that you enquire about the collection of Seascapes by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto?
Bob Rogers
New member
I like the second one best as a stand alone image.
I think they'd all make great artwork for CD or magazine covers.
I think they'd all make great artwork for CD or magazine covers.
Maris Rusis
Member
Hiroshi Sugimoto I know about and I've had the privilege of seeing several of his original pictures up-close. The first (and only?) thing about them one notices is that they are huge. The thought that follows for me is that Sugimoto is exploring the irony of making a picture very large but at the same time virtually free of content. It could be a grand private joke (not unknown in the art-world) and Sugimoto could be laughing behind his hand at our rapture.
Sugimoto delivers aura, the aura of a internationally praised artist exhibiting important work but pound for pound Dan Siman's water pictures are much more lookable.
Jerome Marot
Well-known member
I have never seen Sugimoto's prints and I did not know they were huge. Yet they have a profound effect on me. I believe I am not the only one in that case.
For me, they have a hypnotic effect because the landscape is so empty. The "irony of making a picture very large but at the same time virtually free of content" was lost on me.
For me, they have a hypnotic effect because the landscape is so empty. The "irony of making a picture very large but at the same time virtually free of content" was lost on me.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Dan,
We've drifted. So I've moved the massive daughter topic that your soft pictures generated to it's own thread here
Asher
We've drifted. So I've moved the massive daughter topic that your soft pictures generated to it's own thread here
Asher