Antonio Correia
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A simple photograph of three women talking in a garden during the afternoon...
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Talk in the garden
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Asher Kelman
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Antonio Correia
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Sometimes I do not feel motivated to take photographs. The scene is always the same: the same streets, the same people, the same everything...
New areas/scenarios excite me, routined ones, don't.
This is the reason I thing this is a simple photo, common, usual. Anybody can do it ! It is easy. Just hold the camera, compose at the minimum and shoot.
Today, the same happened. We went by the sea and I made the photo I post bellow: common, usual, trivial. Rubbish !
New areas/scenarios excite me, routined ones, don't.
This is the reason I thing this is a simple photo, common, usual. Anybody can do it ! It is easy. Just hold the camera, compose at the minimum and shoot.
Today, the same happened. We went by the sea and I made the photo I post bellow: common, usual, trivial. Rubbish !
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Antonio,
This is not a Chateau that anyone can find. Everyone knows that the Chateau is important otherwise, the tour bus would wouldn’t stop to deliver all the folk with cameras!
Here, however, the tire, anchoring equally 4 massive chains, is noticed by you. Why, others didn’t line up and try to get the best vantage point to steal a shot. You realized it was unusual, showed some adaptive human behavior that has some balance to it. Chains are both rectilinear, yet have somewhat “circular” form like the tire, which itself has a pattern of angles straight lines.
This composition immediately attracts attention as it’s bold, but we don’t know exactly its function, except it’s able to withstand massive forces, something to do with “safely mooring a vessel”. So that enigma will never be totally solved and it will always be entertaining.
No it’s not mundane to us, as now it’s a photograph shared by a colleague, who travels, has a wife who is extraordinarily well versed in literature, gracious and a good cook and herself a photographer.
You see, Antonio, this then is no ordinary snapshot from “anyone”!
Art appreciation required consciousness. That is made up of every parameter we can associate with every aspect of each shape, texture, color in the image and everything about you that we know and similar pictures from all our memories.
Asher
This is not a Chateau that anyone can find. Everyone knows that the Chateau is important otherwise, the tour bus would wouldn’t stop to deliver all the folk with cameras!
This composition immediately attracts attention as it’s bold, but we don’t know exactly its function, except it’s able to withstand massive forces, something to do with “safely mooring a vessel”. So that enigma will never be totally solved and it will always be entertaining.
No it’s not mundane to us, as now it’s a photograph shared by a colleague, who travels, has a wife who is extraordinarily well versed in literature, gracious and a good cook and herself a photographer.
You see, Antonio, this then is no ordinary snapshot from “anyone”!
Art appreciation required consciousness. That is made up of every parameter we can associate with every aspect of each shape, texture, color in the image and everything about you that we know and similar pictures from all our memories.
Asher
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Once again, Antonio,
Now why on earth would I think your “simple” garden picture is extraordinary in some memorable way?
You are such an experienced photographer, that you now choose unusually structured scenes and do so, almost reflexly. So it “seems” simple!
What you may not realize is this actually is quite unique and taught me something new.
It has about 18 diagonals going up from left to right throughout the composition and a only few balancing forms. One might be distracted by the vertical hiding part of a woman’s head as that sort of thing disturbs some folks.
Still, the rise of the parallel lines from
Left to right, at least in the Western writing idiom, indicates going forward and passage in time. The steep steps going way up the hillside, connect with the master metaphor of “life expressed as a journey.
So here we have a transient test in the long toil of life’s journey where, just for a an interval in time, their paths come together.
This is what I learned as I have never ever seen the motif of the rising tangential used so much in one picture of people.
Asher
Now why on earth would I think your “simple” garden picture is extraordinary in some memorable way?
You are such an experienced photographer, that you now choose unusually structured scenes and do so, almost reflexly. So it “seems” simple!
What you may not realize is this actually is quite unique and taught me something new.
It has about 18 diagonals going up from left to right throughout the composition and a only few balancing forms. One might be distracted by the vertical hiding part of a woman’s head as that sort of thing disturbs some folks.
Still, the rise of the parallel lines from
Left to right, at least in the Western writing idiom, indicates going forward and passage in time. The steep steps going way up the hillside, connect with the master metaphor of “life expressed as a journey.
So here we have a transient test in the long toil of life’s journey where, just for a an interval in time, their paths come together.
This is what I learned as I have never ever seen the motif of the rising tangential used so much in one picture of people.
Asher
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
If this was filmed, cautiously and slowly in an art movie, folk would talk about it like the scene with baby carriage rolling down, bumping step by step, the massive stone Odessa stairway in the “Battleship Potemkin”, (Eisenstein’s most celebrated and famous movie of the mutiny on this Csarist warship)!
Battleship Potemkin
Battleship Potemkin
Antonio Correia
Well-known member
Thank you so much for your kind words, as usual ! 
The video was indeed, a great find ! Thanks !
I will try to make more simple photographs.
The video was indeed, a great find ! Thanks !
I will try to make more simple photographs.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I would love you to send me the step picture and it’s siblings in RAW for nevto try to make a video.
Is it near you?
Asher
Is it near you?
Asher
Antonio Correia
Well-known member
Sure Asher. We have been near. We ate at the top.
RAW files in a couple of hours. Just 3. Bracketed.
Susan Smitha
New member
When woman talk about something then that is not a normal thing it must be serious . BTW very well shot.
. BTW very well shot.