Cem_Usakligil
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I guess they've got nothing to confess, lol.....
But where are the rest of you!...
As to everyone else, is this picture not interesting to you enough to visit and write your reactions or am I inhibiting you all because of my own long winded writings!!
...or do we only comment on flowers, wonderful portraits, pretty things?
I first opened this image yesterday and had an immediate reaction. It's so dark and foreboding!
My first reaction to the title was "I didn't do it!" but my sins stay with me, some get rationalised, some fester then fade over time and some will never go.
Of one thing I'm sure, none get absolved by prayer. The buck stops with me.
Hi, Asher,
Sorry, I was taking a nap.
I'll try and do better in future.
Best regards,
Doug.
I rather suspect it has been a rather long time since your last confession!
I do suspect you of a lot of sins, for example, of ignoring non linear transfer functions or limiting transpositions of color to merely 3 coordinates! Confess!
As to everyone else, is this picture not interesting to you enough to visit and write your reactions or am I inhibiting you all because of my own long winded writings!!
...or do we only comment on flowers, wonderful portraits, pretty things?
Asher
The tonality is stunning Cem.
BTW - I only went back and read the long winded commentary following your initial posted image - after I replied with my simple photographic observation based on what I see. Nothing said swayed my mind. Just a really cool and visually appealing image to me.
Robert,
I looked above for your "simple photographic observation you referred to above. Was it deleted by accident?
But anyway, you think this picture is visually appealing - why? And why is that sufficient without the impact of the title? Surely without the title is just a decorated piece of wood in the shadows. With its social meaning, it'd nice but not that much important!
Asher
It's right there Asher.
"The tonality is stunning Cem"
That's my simple photographic observation. Lol
What makes it "stunning"? It's painted wood in the shadows and how can you ignore Cem's chosen word, "confess"?
That is the engine behind the picture. It says much more than "confessional", an object!
One cannot ignore this riveting title, LOL!
Without its social implication, this is just another dark picture competently done with respect to colors and tonalities.
Asher
Well written!
I understand.....
Never remember you using "stunning" before, so it woke me up!
Much of Cem's work is technically well planned and expertly delivered. I don't count that in enjoying his pictures. His work usually had another dimension and social or pholosophical idea beyond esthetics!
Even your work which someone might think is just a travelers diary of beautiful things is actually a social essay!
That's because you and you dear wife work from the basis of values and conscience.
Anyway that's my opinion! I just think that!
Asher