Diner

EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
edited July 1, 2014 in Street and Documentary
Diner-XL.jpg
Eric ~ Smugmug

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  • lensmolelensmole Registered Users Posts: 1,548 Major grins
    edited June 12, 2014
    I appreciate the abstract nature, geometry and the partial escape from reality.
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited June 12, 2014
    I sure admire how you're willing to try just about anything, Eric. I doubt that there's any better way to grow as a photographer.

    I've tried, but I just can't come to peace with this image. Way too busy to my eye. It's simply a case of personal preference. I do think that, when compared to other postings of similar interest, your effort here can hold its own.

    I've noticed your proclivity for B&W work recently. I like your overall work in regards to the conversion techniques you employ. Keep it up.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • JuanoJuano Registered Users Posts: 4,890 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2014
    It is busy alright, but I kind of like it. It makes you look twice to try to figure out what is happening and the conversion is well done.
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited June 16, 2014
    Doesn't work for me, I'm afraid. There's a lot going on, true, but nothing that really grabs me. Dunno.
  • Jack'll doJack'll do Registered Users Posts: 2,977 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2014
    I have to agree with Tom and Richard in that while there's obviously a lot going on, it's difficult to identify just what is in fact going on. The whole upper right quadrant is just too vague for me. Just my personal taste as I much prefer realism to abstract imagery.

    jack

    Jack
    (My real name is John but Jack'll do)
  • r3t1awr3ydr3t1awr3yd Registered Users Posts: 1,000 Major grins
    edited June 17, 2014
    Shot from outside a window into a diner that's a floor below the sidewalk level. Shooter is wearing hiking shoes and his lady friend is wearing some girly walking shoes and a flowered top.

    A table full of food. A guy enjoying his milkshake a LOT in the bottom left hand corner and an impatient few people at the table behind them. I wonder if the table with food isn't in a rush. What kind of woman doesn't take her purse off to eat in a corner booth?

    It's definitely a complex and certainly for my mind, a distracting picture. I like my subjects to be a little more clear at times. :) Do a series of them at different diners with the same outside reflection and hang 'em in the bathroom to get people to wonder when they're washing their hands :)

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  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited June 17, 2014
    Thanks very much Gentlemen, for the C&C - I very much enjoyed reading, and thinking about, your respective observations and reactions.
    I anticipated this image would be one that was going to have a subjective and limited appeal, and your comments bear that out.
    I like it for the different pov and the visual gymnastics - very often, my personal taste runs to the strange/odd/unexpected.

    As I've said before, I'm fascinated with, and informed by, the process of image creation/sharing/critique - and, as Tom said, it's how we learn!
    We create and see these images with our own mind, so it's always beneficial to get unvarnished feedback from other photogs - Thanks again all!

    btw - Wally, the shoes are both styles of MBT footwear - very comfortable, and unconventional in design/construction.
    Eric ~ Smugmug
  • mayflymayfly Registered Users Posts: 232 Major grins
    edited June 25, 2014
    Eric I saw this a while ago and came back to it. I remembered it and like it for the interesting geometry angles that frame the diners.
  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited July 1, 2014
    mayfly wrote: »
    Eric I saw this a while ago and came back to it. I remembered it and like it for the interesting geometry angles that frame the diners.
    Thanks so much for commenting mayfly - it's great to get all the feedback, especially when reactions are so varied - it's very informative.

    I hope you and others will post more often... perhaps rouse this sleepy forum a bit. thumb.gif
    Eric ~ Smugmug
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