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Thanks Kent for the suggestion
Appreciate your keypoints on composition and every fine detail that i have missed to notice myself. Thank you for spending the time in reviewing the image. Very helpful
Thanks for the valuable comments. I did bounce the light back using a white greeting card cover. But it did not reduce the shadows noticeably
Thanks Tobie and Frogdaily for sharing your valuable feedback and pointing out the issues. I do see the busy composition and contrasting colors kill the image in an instant (which is not my intent). My intent is to extract the very basics of the subject that makes an abstract interpretation of the scene. My intent and the techniques I followed are contradictory and that is visible in the uneasy visual experience
When I saw the final image, it did not work for me either. I could not find the reason though at that point. The reason I still posted this image here, is in the hope of having somebody point me out on the issue. Thank you for helping me out in the process
Thank you Tobie for your valuable opinion.
I am not sure, if you have analyzed the image by keeping it in its own genre. This is not an image that follows the traditional photographic rules. I am trying to do a montage with multiple exposure of the same/related subject in different angles and then merging it digitally (this technique in film days was achieved by exposing the same slide for multiple exposures or by sandwiching multiple slides and then doing a scan). The outcome of the whole process can be visualized to a degree while shooting, but the final product will not be completely predictable and that’s something I like as there is some element of subjectivity involved
I would appreciate if you can comment on whether you did not like the image because of (1). idea/concept of multiple exposure montage itself or (2). the way this image was composed and combined or (3). doing this digitally makes it look contrived versus the film scanning/capturing in film
Thank you for sharing the link @mistyisle. Very helpful. Downloaded the ebook. Material on this genre is sparse. Thanks again for the link
Thanks 3pco for the valuable comments and appreciate your time
One comment on the hidden subject/content,
I intended it to be abstract and hence, I would be happy if it does not resolve to any immediate subject (as it was intentional). Any immediate subject would move the image towards the objective representation, which I did not want to. I kept it abstract for the viewer to interpret the content in their own wayHi 3pco,
Multiple interpretations and definitions apply here. Impressionism is a term used in painting and Monet was one popular impressionist painter
Photography, by the way it works is to capture a snapshot of a moment in time as a representation of the single time frame. It lacks the freedom that artists and painters had. Photography captures the objective reality as seen through the camera lens and captured in the camera sensor. Photography is limited in this regard when compared to painting, where the artist can represent the visual he has thought in his mind’s eye. Painting is a non-representational medium, that expresses the subjective view of the world as seen by the artist
Coming back to the image I have posted, I am trying to portray the movement in nature. This movement depicts the changing nature/quality of light
Please help me by sharing your subjective experience of the image
Thanks Kent for the detailed response and the time you took to analyze the variables.
I will change the easiest parameter (different developer like kodak d-76) first and see the difference. Once I get a grip on 35mm, I would try out a couple of rolls of 120 film to get a feel of it. Variables that would be tougher for me to switch would be darkroom enlarger and pro-grade negative scanner at the moment
Thank you for helping me out in the process
Thanks Kent for your feedback. I don’t have a darkroom and I develop in a home setup. Kindly help me understand the cause of harsh grain structure. I am thinking it to be one of the following reasons, but can’t figure out which exactly is the factor here
– 35mm has harsher grain than medium format
– scanning negative produces harsher structure in the digital version (underlying negative itself is not affected, in this case)
– possible issues introduced in the development process (like wrong agitation, developer timing). I know the temperature was perfect and followed the timing as accurate to my knowledge as possible. But I could be wrongHere is the black&white version
The intention I had behind no point of focus was to keep multiple lines of thought that remain separate, yet interweave at meeting points. Paralleling Bach’s fugue
This is my first attempt to do this type of an abstract photo based on cubism. THANK YOU for sharing valuable feedbacks
Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, too bright elements in the shot tilts the balance. Here is the modified image
Thanks for your feedback. My idea was to leave the viewer fill the missing segments in the shot. I kept the sugarcane and the old man (yes, the old man.. again here i expected the wrinkles on his hand speak) with shopping bags in the frame, and kept the face of the man hidden from the frame. Thanks for your feedback, that I now know the image did not work as intended
Yeah. Even I am not a fan of 1:1 aspect ratio. Here is the horizontally cropped version
Thanks for the suggestion. Based on the suggestions, I have made two versions of the image after correcting for distortion in perspective (to an extent). Please let me know, how it looks
to me, elevated contrast and clarity works well with this image, giving a HDR look. This and the distorted look supports the subject
i like the subject and texture. broad white line in the right is distracting and my eye goes very often to that spot (grabbing the attention away from subject). The subject here is nice and the overall surreal look is nice too
Thanks for answering, Kent
yes. instant feedback after seeing the image, needs more contrast and blacks need to be blacker
i would have loved to reveal some food that the person on the left is picking up, than the food shown in out of focus on the front of the frame. May be with this composition, it would have been better if the depth of field was larger to show all elements in focus
And for me, the person sitting on the right does not contribute much to the story and acts as a disturbance. I would have sticked just with the lady on the left and showcased some background elements that contribute to the story.
Can you try a crop by removing the person on right and increasing the contrast
