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Taking photos of eyeballs....
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- Mike Bailey
- I started taking pics in 2004. I use a Canon PowerShot A640. I live in Rome, GA. I'm married and have three children. Feel free to post a comment on my pics or commentary.
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7 comments:
i like it much better this way. the lighting is beautiful.
i agree. This is much, much warmer and more inviting. There was no reason to make this picture so clinical and antiseptic by converting it to blue. it gained nothing artistically and was simply jarring.
The blue version of this picture seemed to me the kind of church the White Witch from Narnia would have created.
I like this picture better.
i think you're right. the other picture was depressing and awful. sometimes photos are like essays. you write an essay, think it's marvelous, only to realize with a little time it was dreadful.
goodness. don't break out the cat o' nine tails yet. we obviously enjoy your photographic perspective very much. i wonder if it isn't just hard to tinker with people's fundamental perceptions of THE CHURCH and come out a winner.
when i take pictures, i'm surely following (and departing from) certain rules of photography, but i don't know what these rules are. (not really anyway). fundamentally i follow my intuition. friends have encouraged me to take a class in photography, and i really ought to do so. as it is, i just look around, look some more, and continue to look until my desire to visually "rove" comes to resolution. then i take the picture.
the same thing holds true for when i'm doctoring photos. i have a sense of what i want to d-- usually to highlight something that is implicit in the photo--and then i play until i capture that something. and sometimes an image captures me by surprise. (man, this is pretty arrogant-- talking about this hobby as though it's fine art.)
so...sometimes i take a picture or doctor it in a way that i just know SHOULD be right. and even though it doesn't feel right at that moment, i trust that in time it will grow on me. every once in a while that expectation is merely wishful thinking. sometimes the image becomes more distasteful over time.
that's what happened to that photo. i'd open the blog and find that blue photo simply jarring. (unlike the blue eye, which i find just about perfect in its eyeballness.) true, part of that “jarringness” may come from our connotations of associated with the church. the symbols and feelings that we conjure up when we think of church surely play a role in our expectations for what a church picture should look like. so there is clearly a subjective element to our judgment. but there may also be something more objective going on as well, and that’s why i don’t feel as though i’m being unduly harsh on myself. it just might be that some compositions and subjects of photography are better suited to some kinds of lighting and colors than others. in effect, what i did in the first picture is erase the depth and weight from the picture. the composition of the picture wasn't interesting enough to "hold" a different color scheme. what makes the picture pleasant is the rich dark colors layered onto the simple symmetry. but the picture is too static for an antiseptic look.
or maybe i don't know what i'm talking about.
again.
actually it’s kinda liberating not knowing what one is talking about.
so I feel pretty liberated most of the time.
it's true, ignorance certainly can be blissful as well as liberating, though it sounds like you're not operating totally in the dark here. i think being willing to experiment in a public forum takes a certain amount of admirable chutzpah. thanks for sharing and allowing the rest of us our armchair criticisms.
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