Godfrey
somewhat colored
Leica M-P + Color Skopar 35mm f/2.5
ISO 200 @ f/4.5 @ 1/500
enjoy,
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gdi
Veteran
Brilliant!
I dropped a cheeto the other day, didn't think to photograph it...
I dropped a cheeto the other day, didn't think to photograph it...
Jan Pedersen
Well-known
Excellent, worth a nice large print on the wall.
daveleo
what?
Very cool creation !
kermaier
Well-known
Great idea!
Mild criticisms:
I wish you'd brushed away the stray bits of debris at 7, 10 and 12 o'clock, before shooting, as they pull the picture too strongly out of the abstract and into the real world.
And I feel a subconscious tug, which I've identified as something inside me wanting the avocado to be more off-center in the frame.
Mild criticisms:
I wish you'd brushed away the stray bits of debris at 7, 10 and 12 o'clock, before shooting, as they pull the picture too strongly out of the abstract and into the real world.
And I feel a subconscious tug, which I've identified as something inside me wanting the avocado to be more off-center in the frame.
Huss
Veteran
pepeguitarra
Well-known
Wow, how did you come up with that one?
Wow, how did you come up with that one?
Are you sure that is an avocado? It looks like an squash to me, maybe a zucchini. In any case, congratulations for your original photo.
Wow, how did you come up with that one?
Are you sure that is an avocado? It looks like an squash to me, maybe a zucchini. In any case, congratulations for your original photo.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
Thank you all for your comments.
- Yes, it is definitely an avocado ... It was under an avocado tree, and if I posted the full-size image, that it is an avocado is instantly recognizable.
- I agree, this one needs a big-ish print to work well, 11x17 inch works better than my usual 9x12.
- The existence of the debris in the picture is a personal choice. Brushing it away would further pull the photograph into a more abstractive space but detracts somewhat, to me, from it being "found art." To me, found art does not allow for preparing the subject that way; the interaction of what is visually abstract with visually documentarian and representational is one of the tensions in this genre of photographs that I enjoy. Whether I got the balance right for you, of course, is always up to you to decide. (I'm sure I've gotten it wrong for me in 13 out of 17 attempts...!
Likewise how centered or decentered the avocado might be. I like in this photo how the avocado is rotated with respect to the tile that it is on, which itself is vaguely reminiscent of an avocado in shape, and which is included in a set with four other tiles that altogether also appear to be reminiscent of an avocado shape at yet another slight rotation.
What's interesting to me is that I certainly didn't see all these geometries when I first took the photo. I saw something in it, and began seeing the layers of it afterwards when I breezed back and forth over the photos made on that walk in editing and curating the set. When I look back on the original set again today, I see yet different things.
Fun stuff.
G
- Yes, it is definitely an avocado ... It was under an avocado tree, and if I posted the full-size image, that it is an avocado is instantly recognizable.
- I agree, this one needs a big-ish print to work well, 11x17 inch works better than my usual 9x12.
- The existence of the debris in the picture is a personal choice. Brushing it away would further pull the photograph into a more abstractive space but detracts somewhat, to me, from it being "found art." To me, found art does not allow for preparing the subject that way; the interaction of what is visually abstract with visually documentarian and representational is one of the tensions in this genre of photographs that I enjoy. Whether I got the balance right for you, of course, is always up to you to decide. (I'm sure I've gotten it wrong for me in 13 out of 17 attempts...!
Likewise how centered or decentered the avocado might be. I like in this photo how the avocado is rotated with respect to the tile that it is on, which itself is vaguely reminiscent of an avocado in shape, and which is included in a set with four other tiles that altogether also appear to be reminiscent of an avocado shape at yet another slight rotation.
What's interesting to me is that I certainly didn't see all these geometries when I first took the photo. I saw something in it, and began seeing the layers of it afterwards when I breezed back and forth over the photos made on that walk in editing and curating the set. When I look back on the original set again today, I see yet different things.
Fun stuff.
G