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The Essential Dress #2
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Jim,
There's a certain bizarre symmetry about this picture with the zigzag arrows and opposite poses and movement of the mannequins reflected in the real people crossing to pass by. The attitudinal pose of the guy with those shades kills me!
Asher
Paul Abbott
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Hey James, spots everywhere and even the woman's camera lens presents us with a spot of reflected light. This is well seen...
I think it's a slight shame about the guy shadowing the woman, a fraction of a second later and they would have been better placed in my view...
I wonder what this might have looked like in colour?
I think it's a slight shame about the guy shadowing the woman, a fraction of a second later and they would have been better placed in my view...
I wonder what this might have looked like in colour?
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Amazing Paul that you picked up on the spots and I just fell for the opposing poses! I must humbly admit my blindness. The importance to the spots in making the picture work so escaped my appreciation until you opened my eyes!
Now it's so obvious! How much of what's around us that's significant do we suppress interest in, I wonder. It's perhaps the artist's job to show us what we'd otherwise miss!
It's really true, I missed out on identifying the dots as a dynamic phenomenon. Now I experience the picture as being even stronger than it was until now.
Thanks!
Asher
Now it's so obvious! How much of what's around us that's significant do we suppress interest in, I wonder. It's perhaps the artist's job to show us what we'd otherwise miss!
It's really true, I missed out on identifying the dots as a dynamic phenomenon. Now I experience the picture as being even stronger than it was until now.
Thanks!
Asher
James Lemon
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Thank you for your feedback gentlemen very much appreciated!
I have had this on the shelf for a while and I picked it for the reasons that Asher has so eloquently described. The spots do contribute a great deal to the image but the opposing poses are what makes this image happen IHMO. I think better timing may have helped as well. As for color, my feeling is that you need great light for color and things such as birds, flowers, cars, etc., need color - but for some other things, not so much.