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PattiPatti Registered Users Posts: 1,576 Major grins
edited April 15, 2011 in Street and Documentary
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The use of a camera is similar to that of a knife. You can use it to peel potatoes, or carve a flute. ~ E. Kahlmeyer
... I'm still peeling potatoes.

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  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2011
    Patti wrote: »
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    Pleasingly weird. Was the person in the shot with you or posing for another?
  • PattiPatti Registered Users Posts: 1,576 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2011
    rainbow wrote: »
    Pleasingly weird. Was the person in the shot with you or posing for another?

    The young boy was with his mum and sib and was just wandering around among the legs of the sculpture.
    The use of a camera is similar to that of a knife. You can use it to peel potatoes, or carve a flute. ~ E. Kahlmeyer
    ... I'm still peeling potatoes.

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  • JocoJoco Registered Users Posts: 86 Big grins
    edited April 14, 2011
    That's nice. The rhythm of all those shapes broken by the boy.
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  • SyncopationSyncopation Registered Users Posts: 341 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2011
    I get the idea but for me the shapes are a bit too overwhelming and distracting. I've got to work too hard to see the figure!
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    The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. - Brook Atkinson- 1951
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited April 14, 2011
    Syncopation wrote: »
    I get the idea but for me the shapes are a bit too overwhelming and distracting. I've got to work too hard to see the figure!
    15524779-Ti.gif It would have been better with a larger human somewhere. Looks like a neat place to shoot, though. Perhaps you could go back and get a better shot. thumb.gif
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  • PattiPatti Registered Users Posts: 1,576 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2011
    Syncopation wrote: »
    I get the idea but for me the shapes are a bit too overwhelming and distracting. I've got to work too hard to see the figure!
    Richard wrote: »
    15524779-Ti.gif It would have been better with a larger human somewhere. Looks like a neat place to shoot, though. Perhaps you could go back and get a better shot. thumb.gif

    Interesting reaction. I had some of the mum within the sculpture and it looked pretty ho hum to me. I liked the overwhelming, lost feeling of this small boy among these enormous legs. The fact that I have to look a bit to spot the boy is what I like - a bit of a where's Waldo feeling. It sounds that I conveyed the feeling I was going for even if the feeling isn't pleasant for some. It's always so interesting to see how we all see things differently.
    The use of a camera is similar to that of a knife. You can use it to peel potatoes, or carve a flute. ~ E. Kahlmeyer
    ... I'm still peeling potatoes.

    patti hinton photography
  • SyncopationSyncopation Registered Users Posts: 341 Major grins
    edited April 15, 2011
    I liked the overwhelming, lost feeling of this small boy among these enormous legs.

    I'd agree if the figure looked lost e.g. a head poking round the corner. For me the pose looks a little too contrived for it to work as well as it could.
    Syncopation

    The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. - Brook Atkinson- 1951
  • PattiPatti Registered Users Posts: 1,576 Major grins
    edited April 15, 2011
    Syncopation wrote: »
    I'd agree if the figure looked lost e.g. a head poking round the corner. For me the pose looks a little too contrived for it to work as well as it could.

    Thanks for commenting. I have some others where he later caught sight of me but they didn't have the same impact to me.
    The use of a camera is similar to that of a knife. You can use it to peel potatoes, or carve a flute. ~ E. Kahlmeyer
    ... I'm still peeling potatoes.

    patti hinton photography
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