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Helen wrote:
| On Apr 29, 8:24 pm, Alienjones <Alienjo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| I've long been fascinated with the set construction skills and the
| backdrop paintings of the people who created the scenes for films like
| "Gone with the wind" and other famous productions.
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| I just don't feel that special emotion here. The bride looks like
| she's about to laugh right in the groom's face. I don't feel the
| passion, the love, the emotion. The facial expression should tell it
| all, and her face lacks the emotion of kissing the man she is deeply
| in love with. It looks too staged on the bride's part.
| Helen
Maybe that's the case?
Maybe she doesn't feel the same emotion the groom has for kissing? Some
people don't "feel" anything in a kiss. Who can say? And that is the
point of the photo. To hold a viewer's interest, to ask a question...
Create an illusion. The fact you see in the picture what no one else has
(yet) is an im****tant part of the art in my photography.
Another aspect of your opinion is that this is a "masculine" photo. I
have some taken on the same day which are feminine and many which are
gender neutral. You may well respond entirely differently to a feminine
version of the scene.
My intent with this picture was to raise the expectation of romance in a
steamy hot scene in as close to a theme of "Gone with the wind" as I
could make it. The twist is what you picked... Not the groom who
"frankly doesn't give a damn" but maybe the bride?
Those who see only a photograph with less than 1% not technically to
their liking are the real losers. If they are photographers themselves,
then they are destined never to discover how the medium can be used for
art as well as recording events and static scenes. I blame digital
cameras for that.
When you think about it, photography is not a very realistic method of
recording events. A writer can create an illusion with a story, why not
a photographer take the illusion of a photograph and ask a question or
tell a story with it?
Embrace that concept and you can also handle that monochrome photos are
even less realistic so why not forget all about faithful recording and
take the approach that art should harness the image and take over the
photograph?
It's all too easy to take technically perfect photos of mundane objects.
What has always eluded many, many people who take up a camera and set
about taking photos of birds and ducks and golfers is the art of the
medium. If I didn't have a camera I would still sketch or paint my
pictures...
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