C. 35: Envy

ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
edited March 28, 2005 in The Dgrin Challenges
This might not be the greatest shot, but I think it's very recognizable as envy:

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How much do you have to know about cars to get it? How about this one?

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I know for a fact that the subject in the first two has envy in this case, envy in the full St. Thomas Aquinas sense. He wants the cars. If he can't have them, wishes the actual owner didn't own them. And I think it shows, but maybe my personal knowledge helped me out.

What about this one?

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I think it's a better image. You don't have to know as much about cars to know what they are looking at. And I think the envy is apparent, though maybe we don't know for sure that this guy would rather have the car destroyed than be owned by another. But maybe this is actually angles on a pinhead. What do you think? Envy here?
If not now, when?

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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2005
    I thought the envy shows best in the first shot. And believe me, I do know car envy.

    g (I agree completely with that guy, if I can't have it, no one else should either. And if it were a sibling having it..........it is enough to kill some people) Or an ex husband, an ex anything should never have anything! Unless I have more (I don't)

    I envy you that you found such naked desire. Maybe you should call it lust.
    Or remember Pride is the root of all sins.
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2005
    Perhaps there is hope for the first image. I did a more careful post treatment of it. Opinions, please.

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    If not now, when?
  • MitchellMitchell Registered Users Posts: 3,503 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2005
    Looks like lust to me. I like your redone first shot.

    mitch
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2005
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    A closer crop, a little more contrast on his face, I don't think I can do any better with this shot. It's envy all right, but it was pretty dark in there...
    If not now, when?
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2005
    Rutt, if you send me the car..........any car, maybe I could work on it.

    ginger (Maybe that sentence makes no sense, but to me it does) rain soaked in south carolina.

    i never knew that anyone else wanted a car so badly.
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2005
    I hate to throw a monkey wrench in the works. Since I been stinking at these challanges headscratch.gifcry, Buuuuuuuttttttttt

    That looks more like longing then envy. Kinda the way I look when viewing these beauties umph.gif):rolleyes1.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2005
    bfjr wrote:
    I hate to throw a monkey wrench in the works. Since I been stinking at these challanges headscratch.gifcry, Buuuuuuuttttttttt

    That looks more like longing then envy. Kinda the way I look when viewing these beauties umph.gif):rolleyes1.gif
    That is true. Mine looks like nothing. I don't have any answers. So far we have two entries. I love the tomato, but I think that is lust.

    I have been afraid to try a cucumber. Other than that...........

    And I am not going to fret about it.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • thegreeneggthegreenegg Registered Users Posts: 551 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2005
    I like this picture. I just wish it was more focused on the man's face than on the car. It's all about him, wanting it really.
    Good job though, I do like the colors and the emotion is clear to me.
    Ashley
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2005
    thegreenegg wrote:
    I like this picture. I just wish it was more focused on the man's face than on the car. It's all about him, wanting it really.
    Good job though, I do like the colors and the emotion is clear to me.
    Ashley
    Yeah, I worked on it quite a bit, but the real problem (I think) is that the light was low and shutter speed was long and people move and cars don't. The grain is also more a problem on the face than on the car.

    I like the picture, too. But it isn't winning any contests. I do think it shows what can be done in terms of shooting candids for this contest, though.
    If not now, when?
  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited March 28, 2005
    rutt wrote:

    A closer crop, a little more contrast on his face, I don't think I can do any better with this shot. It's envy all right, but it was pretty dark in there...
    I don't like the crop, only because I hate to ruin perfectly good circles (the wheel) when I have them in the frame.

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    the emotion is there though. I'll let you and the others figure that on out. Seems like too many of them are coming down to "lust"... hmmm
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  • spocklingspockling Registered Users Posts: 369 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2005
    My Thoughts
    My .02 worth here, I could buy it being envy had there been someone sitting in the car. With him just looking at it, it appears to me that it is more "want/desire" than envy.
    Steve
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2005
    spockling wrote:
    My .02 worth here, I could buy it being envy had there been someone sitting in the car. With him just looking at it, it appears to me that it is more "want/desire" than envy.
    Yeah, the subject (my brother-in-law) later described how bad it would have been if Ralph had been there with a beautiful woman.
    If not now, when?
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2005
    I agree with whoever said it showed "longing" or desire more than envy.


    g
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
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