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Wave splash - impressions

Andy brown

Well-known member
I thought I'd take a slightly new approach to a theme I've been playing with (waves).

I'm kind of liking them but also thinking they look a bit too unnatural or worked (they're actually almost straight OOC).

Anyway, I'd value any opinions, good or bad.



DSC_9744%20p%20screen%20size_zpsztr07rw6.jpg



DSC_9777%20p%20screen%20size_zpsna9lgn7v.jpg
 

Antonio Correia

Well-known member
Indeed it is an unusual approach to wave splashes.

Both images are quite pleasant though I like best the first one.

It looks to me that in both you have used flash ?!
 

Andy brown

Well-known member
How about this one?

Sorry folks, I know there are no grungy streets, no faces, no birds, flowers, kids or even a cloud, rock or a fish for god's sake.
But whaddya reckon?


DSC_9939%20copy%20p%20screen%20size_zpsgk6wnqbi.jpg
 

James Lemon

Well-known member
Thanks for your brutal honesty, I was leading with my chin and got what was coming.
It's actually what I was looking for.
Consider the poor pixels laid to rest.

Andy

I meant that they are just fine the way they are no more processing needed.

James
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
How about this one?

Sorry folks, I know there are no grungy streets, no faces, no birds, flowers, kids or even a cloud, rock or a fish for god's sake.
But whaddya reckon?


DSC_9939%20copy%20p%20screen%20size_zpsgk6wnqbi.jpg

Andy,

Agreed.

But we can alter all that. We can add a title (and for that, a new thread). Hope you don't mind!

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I thought I'd take a slightly new approach to a theme I've been playing with (waves).

I'm kind of liking them but also thinking they look a bit too unnatural or worked (they're actually almost straight OOC).

Anyway, I'd value any opinions, good or bad.



DSC_9744%20p%20screen%20size_zpsztr07rw6.jpg



DSC_9777%20p%20screen%20size_zpsna9lgn7v.jpg

I do not find anything additionally interesting at this way of viewing the two pictures. Perhaps printed huge and isolated in an important gallery's white walls, they would spark conversations and significance. Sunsets are hard to be anything but merely sentimental. With a splash in front and no other guidance, where does one get hooks for meaning?

But here, you ask for "opinions, good or bad". That sets the context for our experience.

By contrast, imagine them in a respected national gallery, the Broad Museum, for example in Los Angeles! The fact that they are on display, with security personal at each entrance to the hall, already gives all the needed rank and importance. We recognize the authority and knowledge of the Broad's curators. This reality immediately gives your photographs gravitas and significance. So all the folk coming by are forced to stop and search for meaning and catch up with the nature of the art experience examples here.

Here, with your almost "self doubt", we can't so easilly get the phenomenon of "art experience" off the ground.

Asher
 

Andy brown

Well-known member
Hi,

very, very interesting and pleasing for my gusto ...
Do you think about any postproduction work?

Thanks Wolfgang, I do think about it and even nudge a little here and there.
I'm not much of a chef in the image cooking department. Shame, cos in the real kitchen, I'm a bit of a whizz.
 

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Andy,

I thought I'd take a slightly new approach to a theme I've been playing with (waves).

I'm kind of liking them but also thinking they look a bit too unnatural or worked (they're actually almost straight OOC).

Anyway, I'd value any opinions, good or bad.



DSC_9744%20p%20screen%20size_zpsztr07rw6.jpg



DSC_9777%20p%20screen%20size_zpsna9lgn7v.jpg

Very nice work.

No, I don't think the concept of "too much worked" applies to this kind of art.

In any case, of the two, I prefer DSC_9777 (the second one).

Thanks.

Best regards,

Doug
 
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