Emotionally Torn...

shatch

This one has made me think a little harder. I am typically a very upbeat and positive guy but my first thought was the darker side of emotion. After telling my wife what my thought was, I dropped my original idea but these mundane ones don't seem to have what it takes to be "challenge worthy".

Which would you work on as an entry?



Passive




Or
Jealous


Or...would you go back to the drawing board?

Thanks for you comments.

Rhuarc

Is that a Sheltie in the second picture?

DanielB

go with passive... its a brilliant photo

ginger_55

Yes, go with the first photo, but it does not look "passive" to me. More like Very Disappointed, etc.......................I would change the title. She looks like a very sad child. At that moment, maybe she was told "no candy", etc. That is how I see that picture.

Don't go with another dog, they never get picked and Labs will enter one, and I might.

The first photo is a wonderful shot!!!!

ginger

shatch

Rhuarc wrote:

Is that a Sheltie in the second picture?

She's an australian shephard. Good dog.

cariad

The first picture is wonderful, I like how her face has been lit - I agree with Ginger, she looks like she's just been told No - more disappointed that passive.

shatch

Thanks Daniel, Ginger, Cariad for your compliments and comments. I like the first picture (sweetie of a girl) and it does capture some emotion, but I fear that the photo comes short since the challenge title is "Strong" Emotion. Passive, pensive, or disappointed to me represent some of the more mild emotions. My interpretation of the "Strong" emotions are: Dispair, Rage, Anger, Lonliness, Pride, Love, and such... My favorite and the most powerful emotion is "Love" but it is also the most difficult to portray or capture in a photo since the feeling stems from the heart and is felt there too. It may be manifest through a smile, a gleam in the eye, a gentle touch...but the capture of that moment photographically may only appear to be "happy". Hummmm...I think I have talked myself into going back to the drawing board to try to capture "love" unless you can convince me otherwise.

Thanks again for looking and for your comments. They are much appreciated.

Dee

My thoughts too

shatch wrote:

My interpretation of the "Strong" emotions are: Dispair, Rage, Anger, Lonliness, Pride, Love, and such... My favorite and the most powerful emotion is "Love" but it is also the most difficult to portray or capture in a photo since the feeling stems from the heart and is felt there too.

I was thinking of ways to portray "strong" emotion and ran thru the same gamut of thoughts.

Hmmm... I wonder if hunger is a strong emotion? I cut "lonliness" from the line-up because I don't think of it as a strong emotion.

It all comes down to I guess I equate "strong" with "action."

A fight scene would make a great photo, wouldn't it?

ginger_55

you all have never been lonely enough, it can lead to suicide which can lead to death, smile!

I do agree kind of re the "strong" emotion, and I thought the subject of the photograph would be the one feeling it, not the one viewing the photograph.

Past that, we all might have different interpretations of what constitutes a strong emotion.

I have seen kids look like that who certainly think they have been very cruely deprived. What if she is listening to her parents fight and is all torn up inside? What if she is terribly afraid.........

Or maybe she is just being manipulative, but she convinces me!

On the "fight" thing, I thought of wrestling, but ours only happens live here once a month, I mean the fake visual kind!

ginger

Thusie

I really like the little girl, pensive and thoughtful.