Cedric MASSOULIER
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"Dots" - Cedric Massoulier
"Dots" - Cedric Massoulier
Hi Asher,
You're right : i didn't really get a clear subject, this picture remaines confused...
Your proposal is interesting, oriented on geometry. It was not my initial idea but i have now to find what was this idea
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Perhaps you could enlighten me/us as to YOUR "process"? Where did you start, what turns did you take along the way... thought process for me, the technical details seem fairly straightforward (desaturate, mess with contrast).
After reading your explanation, I come away thinking your process is disciplined. You talk of "disparate sizes", "eye-movement", "two main forms", "geometric shape", "dynamic forces in balance", "contemplative horizontal form" and using "the junction of thirds" to "anchor" the composition.
Ed,
I do not work like that photographing folk in the street or taking pictures of buildings, it just is gestalt: impulse, feelings and intuition. However, n staged shots, then logic comes to play a far bigger role.
I find myself thinking maybe I should take an art class or read a book on the basics of art and then I realize that I am partially de-motivated to do so because I fear how it might change or conform my work!
The most two valuable things are 1. shooting a lot and 2. A B&W print of your picture for you to mark up with a red grease pencil as we did with a strip of 35 mm film for printing. After selecting your best and looking carefully at what you've done, scribbling in notes, then a drawing class perhaps. Go to museums and experience the images that interest you. Pay for the curators recorded guide and just listen to his/her description of a few important pieces you like.
Lastly, don't be intimidated by anyone else. Your units of measure, ultimately have to be "EB units" that you craft from your own values. Then award yourself a bunch of points for each good picture you make that evokes what you intended!
Back to the picture itself, your emotional tag about feeling the wind and hearing the crickets really draws me into the scene. Now I see the light Cederic was chasing may have been severely fleeting. Perhaps there was a glimmer of social commentary at the time of the shot, but based on the title of "Dots" I imagine the moment as a bit more existential... I am curious to hear Cederic's thoughts once he has had a chance to sort through the image again.
So would I and so would Cedric, I think!
Asher
Lastly, don't be intimidated by anyone else.
Pay for the curators recorded guide
Chicago.
Finally I don't get the grease pen thing... I can't picture myself actually doing that - I'll keep that in my back pocket when I feel like I'm in a rut...?
Hum, i think i have to work harder...