Re: [SI] Shoot-In Point of View is Visible

Let's see what we got ...

Tully (http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/96458896):

I like the way that the viewer has a POV on the dog, but more so that the 
dog seems to have a POV of the photographer - Is he dangerous? Am I in 
trouble? Should I growl or run away? I don't know what's going through the

dog's mind, and that makes it an interesting image.

I would like to see this scene shot from a little lower (so the dog's head

isn't bang in the middle of the frame), and including her (?) forepaws so 
she's not chopped off at the ****ns.

Alienjones (http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/96458898):

She does have a couple of interesting points to view. (Sorry, couldn't 
resist!) I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to connect with the 
photographer's POV or the figurehead's POV. The flat light and clutter 
detracts for me. I'd like to see her from closer in and lower down to see 
what she looks like "in the net", but that would probably lose the context

and connection with the theme.

Bowser (http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/96458900):

Cool idea. Enough blur to know that you're in motion. I like the way the 
screen forms a frame within the frame, focussing my attention on the
rider's 
view down the road into the distance.

Tom Gabriel (http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/96458902):

I like the idea but I'm distracted by the branch and the bulk of the
window 
frame on the right. I wonder if it would work better for me cropped down
to 
focus on the people getting on the bus? I imagine that might have a more 
voyeristic feel to it - an idea that works for me as a
view-through-a-window 
thing.

Ken Nadvornick (http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/96458905):

I imagine a hillbilly sitting in the chair with a shotgun across his
knees, 
ranting xenophobically, and defending his property against varmints and 
forners.

Wilba (http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/96458907):

The Man With No Legs. Easy to work out how it was done. The idea was to
get 
a ****trait from an unusual POV. Nasty green tint on the arm - probably
could 
have done something about that.

Paul Furman (http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/96458909):

I needed to read the comments to get what the photo is about, and how it 
relates to POV.

Rich Pos (http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/96458911):

POV from a barstool? POV about martinis? I'm not sure what I'm supposed to

make of this in relation to the topic. I want to be able to see all of his

face, but that thought also makes me think I've missed the point somehow.

Doug Jewell (http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/96458913):

I like the unfolding ambiguity - is this about the shape of the skate ramp

.... tick tock tick tock ... or is it about the POV of the "artists"? What

would make you want to paint weird skulls all over the place?

Good technical work - deep blue sky with white clouds, vivid colours,
detail 
in the shadows, disciplined framing, etc.

Walter Banks (http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/96458915):

I'm not sure what to think of this - it doesn't say anything to me. Unless

that's a face carved into the rock ...? Is that a plane taking off?

Jim Kramer (http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/96458918):

To be engaged by this image, I have to mentally crop a sixth of the width 
from the left, so that the bright eye isn't in the centre of the frame. I 
take full responsibility for my aversion to "bullseye" compositions. :-)

Helen Silverberg (http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/96459156):

Nicely put together. The image tells a story by itself, and the text adds 
value. Makes me wonder what is her POV (opinion) of the granddaughter, and

vice versa.

She was your subject in http://www.pbase.com/shootin/loss?

Bret Douglas (http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/96459451):

Nicely ambigous. Could be a building, a vent, rack, sieve, grate ...? What

is it? :-)


It's hard for me to pick a winner this time. I like Bowser's idea - it
works 
well for me as a response to the challenge, but the one that connects the 
most for me is Tully's dog. Goodonya everyone.