On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:05:54 +1000, Alienjones <Alienjones@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: Helen wrote:
: | On Apr 29, 8:24 pm, Alienjones <Alienjo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: | 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...
Gibberish is the crutch of the intellectually lazy.
Bob
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