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Rain on a leaf! So exciting. Not really.
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12 comments:
super shot!
sorry to disagree with you, josy... but i'm really liking this image...
the blacks (in the background in the the raindrops) are rich/velvety... and i like the overall darkness of the image...
i also like the softer focus... i suspect that wasn't your intention... but it works... it makes this less literal... and, instead, it becomes more figurative/imaginative... it really has a definitive mood...
oh... and i really like the composition... a few dynamic elements on one side balanced by rich, flat color... and the back left (with the lines that move across the grain of the main leaf) really, really works...
nice work...
Thanks, Mandy. :)
The main things that annoy me about this photo are the soft focus, the amount of post-processing-editing-stuff, and the resolution. Overall, I think I like how it came out (probably for the reasons you've mentioned), but I'll never love it (for the reasons I've mentioned).
hhhmmm... so, for you, the photo is made in exposure?... and post work is 'cheating' a bit?...
I guess.
I shouldn't be too annoyed. I was just trying to get it to the color I saw when I was standing there.
Honestly, just photography as an art form kind of feels like cheating, especially the no-regard-to-aperture way I do it.
I like it for the gradations & lines of green with the drops catching the light.
Nice shot.
Josy, I'm not sure if you're saying that photography is (perhaps) illegitimate(ish) as an art form because the camera does so much of the "work" (or the chemicals or computer or whatever in the case of post-processing); or that your photography is somehow not really art (or not full-fledged art, or something) due to your methods or techniques (or lack of "true" artistic methods/techniques).
Well, OK, so you're not a professional. You're still interpreting and expressing. You're still exercising creativity. You're still doing art. I believe someone who isn't an expert in a particular medium can still create art with that medium. And someone with a good eye but an imperfect grasp of a medium could still produce art at least as compelling as someone who knows the tools inside out but doesn't have any artistic sense.
woah there jo-hosiness! that's great!
Thanks, Nikon. Would you still like it if I told you a good deal of the gradations were added afterwards? ;)
John, I agree with what you're saying, but... I don't know. If I take an object sitting in front of me, and I sketch a composition, and I take the time (somewhere between 3-15 hours, depending on the size of the paper and the amount of detail) to replicate that object sitting in front of me... it's a little difficult to see a photograph I whipped up in 5 minutes (up to an hour, max) as equivalent art. For a true photographer who DOES take those extra hours to perfect his image, okay, fine, I can accept THAT as art. But what I'm doing is basically a bunch of photographic sketches.
Woah there Pod-oddiness! You're great!
i tried commenting on your wordpress blog, but apparently it wasn't meant to be. my comment disappeared after i hit submit. so i'll hang here for a while if you don't mind. i really like this one. i'd say it's give-yourself-a-pat-on-the-back good. kinda makes me think of some futuristic water bead race. my money is one that fat blob in fourth. i think he'll consume the rest for the win. but seriously, love the black, and the focus and the whole thing is just texturific! nicely done!
Josy, I understand that artists tend to be on the masochistic side, and so prolonging the toil and suffering is generally regarded as somehow noble or validating. ;)
But I don't think it's valid to compare mediums head-to-head for artistic value, and I don't think the legitimacy of art can or should be measured by the amount of time spent on it.
Maybe one photo doesn't carry as much "artistic weight" as one drawing, though I would argue that a really great photographer with a really great camera spending about 30 seconds per shot and doing no post-processing can reliably take pictures containing "a lot more art" (whatever that might mean) than drawings I produce by hand at 30 hours apiece. (Meanwhile, someone with Leonardo's talent and skill could spend 30 seconds with a broken #2 pencil and produce a sketch which contains immeasurably more art than a photo I take an hour to set up and 3 more hours to GIMP into shape.)
But even discounting that, if you want to think of each photograph as "less art" than each drawing, fine. Maybe you feel 20 or 30 Twp-quality pictures amounts to one doodle or deviation. OK. Then produce 20 or 30 Twp-quality pictures. Or one doodle. It won't be cheating either way. It'll still be art.
And I'll still be a fan. :)
RD- I'm sorry- your Wordpress comment must've gone right to spam, and it hasn't shown up in the queue yet. When I see it in a week or two, I'll tell Wordpress in no uncertain terms that RAINDOG IS NOT SPAM!
But man oh man, what a compliment. Thank you!
John- There's not really much for me to say, except
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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