ForestCap
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Inspired by on-going discussions, please discuss this photo as well:
"the rules are:
No critiques.
No gear talk.
Keep it civil."
"the rules are:
No critiques.
No gear talk.
Keep it civil."
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smiling gecko
pure dumb luck, my friend
wish i had seen and made this image.
i love the composition and the graphic play between light and dark.
with the bird, it works as well as a vertical composition.
thank you for sharing this gem and starting this thread.
i love the composition and the graphic play between light and dark.
with the bird, it works as well as a vertical composition.
thank you for sharing this gem and starting this thread.
seany65
Well-known
I'm not too sure what the point of discussing a photo is if no critque is a llowed given that most 'opinion' given can be seen as a 'critique' of sorts.
fuji645
Established
I love the simplicity of the image, just the bird in flight and the cityscape behind. I might want to increase contrast slightly, but otherwise a great image. Pleasant change from the usual over processed Photoshop image.
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
Example for what to write is above and bellow of you comment.
It has to be - I like this and this and this. Or - it reminds me...
So, if nothing to write like this, nothing to post. It is easy 🙂
dmr
Registered Abuser
I like it. Good catch of the bird.
chipgreenberg
Well-known
Great mood to this image. Nice.
ColSebastianMoran
( IRL Richard Karash )
Interesting to think about vertical vs. landscape. What would each tell you? I had this quandary on a recent bird-in-flight shot of my own.
Horizontal tells me bird might go one way or another. Vertical would be pointing the bird to a relatively specific target building.
FWIW, I see the crane as extraneous.
@nukecoke, I like the image. Thanks for posting.
Horizontal tells me bird might go one way or another. Vertical would be pointing the bird to a relatively specific target building.
FWIW, I see the crane as extraneous.
@nukecoke, I like the image. Thanks for posting.
Carriage
Established
I'm kind of in two minds whether I really like it or just like it. I like the moody feel and the simplicity was well as the way the tones are structured. I also like the existence of the bird in the image, however I feel like it's pulling my eye to an odd spot. Maybe because it's quite apart from the cityscape and there's nothing else of interest near it.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Darthfeeble
But you can call me Steve
I'm a big fan of silhouettes, thus I like this photo. You've placed the horizon at the proper level, I suppose you could tighten up the composition a little from the right but I think it's fine as is. I would be proud of it if it were mine.
cassel
Well-known
This is fun to see - several threads about looking at photos...
Here's what I suspect is the hang-up about the word 'critique'
synonyms for that word include:
analysis, evaluation, assessment, appraisal, appreciation, criticism, review, study, commentary, exposition, exegesis
"a critique of North American culture"
I think some hear the word and thing of negative criticism - NOT the only meaning of that word...
Fear not the "critique" 🙂
Here's what I suspect is the hang-up about the word 'critique'
synonyms for that word include:
analysis, evaluation, assessment, appraisal, appreciation, criticism, review, study, commentary, exposition, exegesis
"a critique of North American culture"
I think some hear the word and thing of negative criticism - NOT the only meaning of that word...
Fear not the "critique" 🙂
farlymac
PF McFarland
It's better than the other versions.
PF
PF
ForestCap
Well-known
Thank you all for your input.
I'd like to share some background information about this image, maybe it would change how you view the photo, maybe not. Anyway:
I named it Soulless Newtown, and it was submitted to an online photo contest last Dec. It's taken in my home city in China last Oct when I visited my parents. All the building on the photo were not there if it's taken 10 years ago. It was a piece of undeveloped wasteland with a few shacks and farming patches here and there. A new town of the city merges from the wasteland in the past 10 years, almost too fast. Many farmers got huge amount of compensation money from the gov but didn't spend them wisely, instead on gambling and drugs, in the newly built concrete jungle as you see in the horizon.
It was getting dark when I took the photo and the city lights was not on yet, a thin mist start to form over the river and it was indeed a magnificent moment for me with complex emotions. One good thing about the newer districts is that the gov pays much more attention to ecology when they plan it, and this place is a bird heaven (I carefully not to photo all of the birds but they were nearby).
I'd like to share some background information about this image, maybe it would change how you view the photo, maybe not. Anyway:
I named it Soulless Newtown, and it was submitted to an online photo contest last Dec. It's taken in my home city in China last Oct when I visited my parents. All the building on the photo were not there if it's taken 10 years ago. It was a piece of undeveloped wasteland with a few shacks and farming patches here and there. A new town of the city merges from the wasteland in the past 10 years, almost too fast. Many farmers got huge amount of compensation money from the gov but didn't spend them wisely, instead on gambling and drugs, in the newly built concrete jungle as you see in the horizon.
It was getting dark when I took the photo and the city lights was not on yet, a thin mist start to form over the river and it was indeed a magnificent moment for me with complex emotions. One good thing about the newer districts is that the gov pays much more attention to ecology when they plan it, and this place is a bird heaven (I carefully not to photo all of the birds but they were nearby).
seany65
Well-known
I understand that, Ko.Fe., what I don't understand is why someone wiould not be allowed to why they like it, or not.
farlymac
PF McFarland
The back story adds another level of meaning to this photo. Before, it was just a nice shot of a bird in the twilight, but now it may be interpreted as that bird is feeling melancholic for the loss of its habitat.
Newtown. Not very imaginative. Around here they name things like that after the places they destroy, like "Donaldson Farm", or "Jackson's Meadow".
PF
Newtown. Not very imaginative. Around here they name things like that after the places they destroy, like "Donaldson Farm", or "Jackson's Meadow".
PF
aizan
Veteran
the more scholarly definition of critique is an evaluation that follows a specific methodology, a certain way of studying things. yeah, there's a learning curve, but we're pretty much all familiar with the basics of every type.
there's an in-depth explanation of the most common art historical methodologies in the textbook art since 1900. there's formalism and structuralism (the one that most people are familiar with and commonly associate with art history), social history, psychoanalysis, and poststructuralism and deconstruction.
in the "critique this photo!" thread, people naturally gravitated toward a formalist methodology. however, they also flirt with a social history approach when talking about the "messiness" of the scene and why they would think about it that way.
ptpdprinter
Veteran
What's the point? Retitle the thread "Praise this photo".
cz23
Well-known
I hear "critique" and think judgment, as in an authoratative determination of quality. But maybe that's wrong.
Still, I think in forums generally it's best to behave as peers and avoid any assumption of authority. But I see no harm in expressing our opinions, if done constructively.
I have not commented on this thread's photo because I'm not sure what the OP means by no critique. The photo has a couple features that dominate my perception of it, and raising them might be considered a critique.
John
Still, I think in forums generally it's best to behave as peers and avoid any assumption of authority. But I see no harm in expressing our opinions, if done constructively.
I have not commented on this thread's photo because I'm not sure what the OP means by no critique. The photo has a couple features that dominate my perception of it, and raising them might be considered a critique.
John
DaveTaylor
Established
I think to respond the concept of this thread is to emotionally or evocatively express what the offered image represents to you. Does it have a definitive mood, what do you think of when looking at the image. Many technically perfect photos don't say anything on their own, some are very powerful. I guess if the picture doesn't say anything to you then you could say that or say nothing. In this case my immediate thought was of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the lonely life of a seagull. Not an especially intellectual response, but, maybe that reflects how the image impacts me.
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