At a Craft Stand

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"At a Craft Stand"

A fun "people" shot that I thought was interesting. Taken at an artsy craft thing on a summer street corner here in Anchorage. Mimi was looking at all the decorative dangly things. I like how part of her face was captured within a loop.

Just a thought. I think individual threads work better than combining multiple images within one thread. It takes less time to load, and comments are more or less exclusive to one image at a time.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), June 02, 2000

Answers

Tony, this is a really interesting shot, although I am struggling with it as a "people" shot. Not that I want to get stuck in boundaries, but you have so abstracted Mimi's face that she doesn't seem real anymore, at least as a person. She has become a piece of jewelry.

It is a nice collection of textures and shapes, enhanced by the grain. There's a strange quality about the whole thing that is really nice.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), June 04, 2000.


What I do see is a sense of wonder or mystery in the subject, which the viewer/taker of this shot feels alienated/obscured from.

-- Tommy Zablan (lensman49@hotmail.com), June 05, 2000.

i, too, have struggled with this image, but in a different fashion. i am reluctant to post unfavorable observations in a forum such as this, primarily because i certainly can claim no right of judgment based upon the superiority of my own work. still, i must say that the whole thing just doesn't work for me. the image appears cluttered and technically inept. i can see the possibilities of the concept, but the end result is simply a weak photograph, in my view. sorry.

-- wayne harrison (wayno@netmcr.com), June 05, 2000.

Thank you for your responses. Wayne, please don't be sorry. The not-so-positive responses are just as important as the raves. Plus, in a way, the photograph is successful because it made at least two people, and possibly a third, me, "struggle" with it. I agree whole heartedly about it leaving the "people" genre and approaching the abstract. What I am most happy about is the fact that nobody has chimed in with their cropping advice!

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), June 05, 2000.

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