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thoththoth Registered Users Posts: 1,085 Major grins
edited May 18, 2012 in Street and Documentary
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Travis

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  • JavierJavier Registered Users Posts: 152 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    What a cool shot. If I could fav it I would !
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  • thoththoth Registered Users Posts: 1,085 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    Javier wrote: »
    What a cool shot. If I could fav it I would !
    Thanks, Javier. thumb.gif
    Travis
  • michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    Hey Travis, I like the feel of the shot but it feels a bit to "meta" for me. There's a sense of it being about the photographer more so than the woman, and her role in the image is ill defined.
  • RSLRSL Registered Users Posts: 839 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    Now that's WTF writ large.
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  • michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    RSL wrote: »
    Now that's WTF writ large.

    Where's the WTF? It's interesting, but not a banger.
  • RSLRSL Registered Users Posts: 839 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    Come on, Jennifer. We have a hazy, tattooed arm holding a fuzzy point-and-shoot camera, pointing more or less in the direction of the viewer, next to an overdressed and over-ringed woman whose body language makes you wonder if she's just been slapped. It's pretty effective surrealism.
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  • michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    Nope it isn't. And as you noted about the photog, I think it's a reversed image. Finger on the shutter and all that. I haven't yet run across a left-hand actuation camera with the rangefinder viewfinder on the right. I'd like one though. Still no WTF factor for me. No interaction or theme or setting or substance that would lead to ambiguity or WTF. Tat's don't add or change the setting in this case. It's a square image, so I'll make another assumption. Maybe the crop is too tight?
  • michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    On reflection, this might be a reflection. A mirror shot of Travis, himself. If so, cool!
  • RSLRSL Registered Users Posts: 839 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    Yep, no doubt image is reversed. And?. . . And yes, since it obviously wasn't shot with a Rollei, it was cropped. So where does all that lead? To me it leads right back where we were in the beginning. Last time I checked, a reversed, cropped image could be just as surrealistic as a straight, un-cropped imaged.
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  • michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    Technically, I'd agree. Reversed and cropped images can still be good. I might pull that one up in LL at some point. Still, in this case, I think it's a fun and introspective SP but not surrealistic or WTF.

    In terms of our opinions on this shot, agree to disagree?
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    thoth wrote: »
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    Works for me. "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?"

    Stop over analyzing, folks. mwink.gif


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  • michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    Not over analysing, just refuting. And I don't do it often. Still, I like the slight rework you did. It remains interesting. Just, though.
  • RSLRSL Registered Users Posts: 839 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    michswiss wrote: »
    Technically, I'd agree. Reversed and cropped images can still be good. I might pull that one up in LL at some point. Still, in this case, I think it's a fun and introspective SP but not surrealistic or WTF.

    In terms of our opinions on this shot, agree to disagree?

    Yep. Let's. I like your work too much to get into an extended argument on this one.
    Russ Lewis
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  • thoththoth Registered Users Posts: 1,085 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    Wow, great debate. I've been slammed with work all day and hadn't had a chance to check in on the feedback. I figure if I can start an exchange then I have a keeper. thumb.gif

    B.D., I do like your rework and will try to do the same myself over the week.

    For what it's worth, that is me (:yikes) and my lovely fiance (iloveyou.gif) in the mirror.
    Travis
  • richardmanrichardman Registered Users Posts: 376 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    ... and clearly that's a leica, or x100, or some rangefinder'ish camera :-)

    The quality of the recent images are very high. Congratulations folks! Keep clicking that shutter.
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2012
    michswiss wrote: »
    Where's the WTF? It's interesting, but not a banger.

    Gotta go along with this.
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