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First Street Post, Be Gentle…. Or Not!
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Totally agree with your last comment. It’s nice to see something different and as I said, maybe time for a new boat and think differently about what I myself present. It’s refreshing to see this kind of different around these parts. It gets the mind running.
Alan
Keep it on topic. Its about Sineads image and not AK’s comments.
Thanks
Ok…not trying to get myself in trouble here..
BUT what if AK was just trying to say that this site DOES and always has put weighted emphasis on precision and technicality over creativity?
The comment was so simple…like Sinead said…it was funny and I’ll add…endearing.
There has been a recent shift (thank the stars) to engaging and appreciating the more opaque..but it wasn’t that way here for a long time.
Sorry Mark :oops: :oops:
Fabulous work Sinead…you better stop now..you have no way to go except down :lol:
Shar
Well, nice to see a bit of debate.
I did appreciate AK’s comment (I did think it was very funny also, to quote Sharon, “endearing”) It was honest if nothing else.
I had no idea how this picture was going to turn out, but I noticed the light and the reason I shot from the hip was because I was too scared to hold the camera to my eye… I did know (roughly) how much movement I would get from 1/10 though. I like movement, but appreciate it’s not for everyone. And I would pick emotion and feeling over precision and technicality any day. At least it gets more comments than “nice sharp image”
S.
AK Carlow wrote:
When I take a picture like that I try to delete it before anyone sees it.
AK
hehehe cheeky comment young man! but without insulting anyone Im curious as to how the blown out highlights etc in this photo works for the image? where as in other pics even if there is even a small amount of (sometimes intentional) blown out detail then its ripped to shreds?
Blown details can often work in an image… it all boils down to the content of an image and how you want to interpret it.
In this case the mother and child are walking around a corner, into the unknown, the blown detail here acts like a portal of extremely bright light, like a gateway to somewhere else. The composition and the positioning of the blown detail just happen to work really well here IMO and in a Street context they also offers a certain form of rawness to this particular image which blends well with the motion blur and minimal detail.
Here’s another with totally blown highlights https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?t=17326. In this example I like to interpret them as a portal upwards… to heaven.
In a traditional landscape scenario many perceive blown highlights as a negative. Sometimes you can have an image where blown details don’t serve to enhance or offer an alternative vision, or just don’t fit into the composition… they might just distract the eye… and in this case could be frowned upon.
Different interpretations/application for different people/scenarios/visions.
The only problem in this case is that the blown highlights may not translate so well to print.
nfl-fan wrote:
Blown details can often work in an image… it all boils down to the content of an image and how you want to interpret it.
In this case the mother and child are walking around a corner, into the unknown, the blown detail here acts like a portal of extremely bright light, like a gateway to somewhere else. The composition and the positioning of the blown detail just happen to work really well here IMO and in a Street context they also offers a certain form of rawness to this particular image which blends well with the motion blur and minimal detail.
Here’s another with totally blown highlights https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?t=17326. In this example I like to interpret them as a portal upwards… to heaven.
In a traditional landscape scenario many perceive blown highlights as a negative. Sometimes you can have an image where blown details don’t serve to enhance or offer an alternative vision, or just don’t fit into the composition… they might just distract the eye… and in this case could be frowned upon.
Different interpretations/application for different people/scenarios/visions.
The only problem in this case is that the blown highlights may not translate so well to print.
ah right…nicely explained…I get what you mean about the blown details of course like but Im sorry for my lack of clarity on the initial question( i meant more what makes this image really work)……Its early monday and Ive not had my cofffee yet :( Ok…I ve seen pics like this where they are pretty much dismissed…I guess its down to subject and composition as you have said…
Sorry Sinead, afraid this one doesn’t do it for me. Perhaps if the boy and the woman were clear and focused, leaving everything else as is, it may have been better.
Leo.
I like this. It reminds me of two images that, from a technical point of view, are absolutely crap, but I really like them.
https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?p=105825&highlight=#105825
drunken_spartan wrote:
hehehe cheeky comment young man!
Young? I was young when I took my first photograph in 1960.
AK
AK Carlow wrote:
drunken_spartan wrote:
hehehe cheeky comment young man!
Young? I was young when I took my first photograph in 1960.
AK
ah youngness is a state of mind.I only tired taking my first “photograph” under a year ago.
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