#35 - Posting One for Feedback
Flyinggina
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Challenge worthy?
Also, any suggestions for a title. I keep wanting to call it "feeling blue" but that would be using the theme name in the caption.
Virginia
Challenge worthy?
Also, any suggestions for a title. I keep wanting to call it "feeling blue" but that would be using the theme name in the caption.
Virginia
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While using the theme in the title is discouraged, it isn't forbidden. Somewhere there is a whole discussion on the subject. Maybe someone can point you to it. I don't recall where it was.
I think the point was that the photo should "speak" for itself insofar as the theme in concerned without reliance on the title.
Virginia
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Can you fix the display above the elevator? You caught it mid-scan it appears. Especially if it said 'down' in French....
Like the combination of both meanings for 'blue'.
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I like it! His body language really speaks blue.
Andrew, it says "DEPART" above the elevator. The sign may have been going off because the doors were about to close, but I think it was either my angle or the fact that the sign is defective that resulted in only the top part of the word showing. The elevator goes up from the platform.
Virginia
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En francais: Not leaving.
There is something alluring about it, his expression and stance are what bring it together and give it the life and interest.
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is the title that seems to resonate in my head for some odd reason.
Really strong in theme? Not sure, it depends on the judge.
I really like the sense of indifference.
The different title suggestions make me think. They also give a clue to how each person responds to the mood of the man in the photo. Really neat!!
I could go with "Huis Clos (No Exit) if I wanted to be very existential.
Or how about Waiting for Godot?
Sean, I appreciate you comment about the photo not being strong on the theme. I am working for a small laptop with a screen that cannot be calibrated and which runs to being cool (cyan). I see plenty of blue in the picture, but that could be my machine. Of course, just having blue in the picture doesn't mean it fits the theme.
All food for thought.
Virginia
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Virginia, I agree the frame does have a blue and cool feel to it and it most certainly contains a very blue sign and a blue wall. Plus a blue feeling/looking person all together it feels blue but will it feel or say blue to everyone is what I was thinking. The most interesting thing about these challenges is learning how each person can interpret an image so much differently than another.
Thanks Tom, for the overall comment on the photograph.
Virginia
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How about calling it Departed? Kind of a double meaning and a bit open ended. I'm not bothered by the half illuminated sign. It engaged me because I was trying to figure out what it said. By leaving it that way, it doesn't spell everything out for the viewer, so to speak. And if you called it Departed it turns the half lit sign from a mistake to a happy accident that I think adds another layer of thought. Or you could go the complete opposited direction and add a word that is totally ambiguous. There's my two cents. Anyway, I enjoyed this image.
Virginia
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Hey, another good idea!
Thanks Mrs. McCue!
Virginia
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He even has a blue shirt on.
Seems you have got some great title ideas.
good luck
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Huis Clos cute, but perhaps not actually true enough - he doesn't look trapped (especially since the elevator is RIGHT THERE... and the doors are open
What about "En Passant"? Or just "Blue Mondays" maybe? The mood has a certain mundane-ness to it (which is what I like about it)
Diva, you are so funny. I wouldn't have used Huis Clos in any event!! But your point is well taken. Obviously the elevator is right there (and not so obviously, there are stairs around the corner behind him). Of course, since the "depart" sign is not all there, perhaps the elevator is doomed to remain open forever.
Still thinking about whether to leave the "depart" as is or not. It doesn't bother me at all - it's the way it looked. But given the graphic feel to the photo, I should probably try to fix it. Hard to do on my little laptop and without my wacom but I could give it a try.
As for Blue Monday, I like it, but I'm trying to stay away from using "blue" in the title.
Of course, if I don't quite futsying around, I won't ever get the picture entered. Gotta make up my mind soon.
Virginia
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