Critique reguest

[Santtu Määttänen]

I would love to hear comments on this project, it's the portrait of a human lifeform. Trying to find out what makes us who we are. This picture is a part of a larger series which I'm working into exhibition and possibly into an art book (with some poetry).

EDIT: Added link above, maybe that works if the picture doesn't show up

 

[paulfish4570]

no link ...

 

[Santtu Määttänen]

Does this work? http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16559972

I wonder why the picture wouldn't like correctly above? It shows here..

 

[mfogiel]

I would say, that conceptual photography and rangefinders normally do not have much in common. However, if this is what makes you tick, then why not.
For me, this mode of doing photography is just something marginal, and frankly speaking it does not excite my aesthetic sense. A colleague has been doing something similar for a time, and I find it a bit more entertaining:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zamario/6275756985/in/set-72157626385993282

 

[Jack Conrad]

Nice dreads going on there.

I love conceptual abstracts and those are nicely balanced abstract forms. And the concept about human form that you describe is promising. The aesthetic here seems familiar. But why are all the images focused intensely on lawn grass while the human form is flat, washed out, blurry and overexposed? It seems antithetical to your expressed intention.
Do you suspect freshly mowed lawn grass has something to do with what makes us human?

For some reason photographed lawn grass irritates me. Perhaps because I equate it with banality, since I spent so much time mowing it. It's just so ordinary and mundane.

Maybe after the price of fuel becomes so high that no one can afford it anymore, lawn grass will have a new day in the sun of my appreciation. 🙂

 

[Damaso]

I think I'd need to see the larger series to really make a comment but based on what you have here I'd say you need to flesh out the idea a lot more. The images seem to me as very early first steps. I think you need to probably narrow your idea down since at present it is very, very broad....