Friday, 21 February 2014
Welcome
So you have made it this far, here is the space where you will upload images, ideas, links and anything photographic of interest to you that you would like to share with your class colleagues and collaborators. Please think of this as a table in a coffee shop that you share with like minded people with whom you share your enthusiasm for photography. Bring links to exceptional photographers, exhibitions you would like to see, tutorials you have found inspiring and ideas for projects. The more you put into your photography the more you will get out and so become better photographers, better at making images that you love. What do you think of these. Comment, tell us which you prefer and why
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ReplyDeleteI love the action ones (topless man, falling man, magenta paint) because they look impossible - how could the camera be there at that precise moment/did that really happen? The petalled man reminds me of something Andy Goldsworthy might have done on a tree. http://aestheticsofjoy.com/2012/10/giveaway-winner-andy-goldsworthys-leaves/
ReplyDeleteI like the colour/light in the areal shot of the room and the walls with the paint hand prints.
I appreciate the subtle colour in the boy with leopard, helps make the whole surreal thing look peaceful and more normal than it was.
I really like Andy Goldsworthy too and several of his books at the studio you might like to look at when you come on Monday
DeleteI love the second to last photo for Holi, where your eye is is initally attracted by the intensepurple forgetting what is going on arround, then slowly you start to see the details and faces as you look closer. The last photo I initally thaught was dull, but it slowly grew on me, turining simple day to day objects into contrasting colours and forms.
ReplyDeleteAlexandros, you might like more from the same series of the last images. They are images from a friend of mine, here is a link to her work http://janebuekett.wordpress.com/all-the-summer-through/
DeleteSeveral of these photographs are very contrived, more about creating a picture than capturing a moment that tells a story.
ReplyDeleteThe aerial view of a room tells a story but to me there is nothing aesthetically exceptional about the light or the composition.
But the plastic box of water, although rather a prosaic subject, does show the pressure of the water on the box, there is a contrast between the sunlight and the cool blue of the water and there seems to have been a leakage of water on to the path.
The little boy running away is a photograph full of interest. The light on the walls is intriguing - the child has only a faint shadow. But why is he running and where is he going? His hands are too small to have made to hand marks on the wall. The motion of the child contrasts with those solid walls. I enjoy looking at this photograph.
The man falling down stairs bothers me - it feels most uncomfortable but somehow it just doesn't ring true.
The child with the leopard? I want to know whether that is a real situation. If it is, it is a stunning photograph for a number of reasons, not least the expressions on both faces and the linear effect which contrasts with the curve of whatever they are sitting on.
I find the second to last picture with festival of colours the most interesting as it seems to give me the most emotional reaction due to the feeling of joy that comes from the person of the right, I also like the framing and how the person on the left is the main focus (sharpness wise) it all gives you the sense it was a moment captured.
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned before a lot of these pictures do feel to be setup / planned images, but two of them intrigue me “the room picture” because something just does not seem right about it, when I am looking at it I am thinking is it a real place? or a photo of a model / studio, it just does not feel like a real place.
The other picture that intrigues me is the boy running away because I feel stuck between two views, one it’s a nice seen where the and hand prints and colours are from a festival or a celebration or two is the image more sinister and maybe in favela (South American ghetto) and the hand prints are in blood as some kind of warning / danger and an area that the boy should not be in.