glove photo for whipping

[kisi]

please hit me with c&c on this one!

https://kisi.smugmug.com/photos/195073737-L.jpg

[DaddyO]

I can see your really making a serious effort to pull off a good shot. Focus, exposure, dof, elements et... Thats all good stuff of course.

My first thought is this Vanity Fair material. High impact? For me no.
Not enough story. I feel left creating my own possible stories. You have elements but no in line story for the viewer to pull together anything fairly quickly and to making a point. All is very open endend in low impact shot tryin to go somewhere.

Respest what your trying to get as I am working the same. It is no easy task. Close in shot to tell a large story. Rules... (haha, what rules?) like keep it simple tell it large. Gads thats not so easy. :wink

[kisi]

hi daddyo, thanks for your comments! i can see where you're coming from... i think from my perspective it was so strongly imbued with the location of the shot (world trade center site) that it conveyed more to me than to an impartial viewer, so i can see how it could use more impact to tell a story to a wider audience. also, though, i think it is more of a shot to convey an overall mood rather than an impact shot, and it was with that intent that i posted it here. i love detail shots, so i guess the next step is to place them into context! difficult to know how to do that with these type of images, other than to just have a series of shots together to illustrate the story, i guess.

[timk519]

Part of the issue is the glove itself is just crumpled up, so it's hard to infer anything from it that would be different from a glove in my workshop. If there were some clues as to where that glove came from (a FDNY logo or something), or marks on it that could be identified with some kind of activity.

[kisi]

Part of the issue is the glove itself is just crumpled up, so it's hard to infer anything from it that would be different from a glove in my workshop. If there were some clues as to where that glove came from (a FDNY logo or something), or marks on it that could be identified with some kind of activity.

thanks for the input, timk! i see how that would definitely be more poignant.
my intent for the photo was to be more like something i would hang on my wall rather than in a magazine -- so more for the purely aesthetic. i like it... but i can see how people think it is boring :rofl

[Pixel Popper]

Personally, I wouldn't think of this shot as boring at all. It is something I would be pleased to hang on one of my walls. No, I didn't make a connection to the world trade center, so I didn't see it in the context that you did, but I am not one of the people who is bothered by a photograph not having an obvious narrative. I, for one, enjoy a piece of art that asks me to explore and fill in the blanks. It's OK to me that an image doesn't answer all the questions. In fact, in my very humble opinion, leaving out the obvious in the image is an open INVITATION to engage the imagination and relate to it through the context of personal experience. In that respect, it becomes a unique viewing for every set of eyes. I like it just the way it is!

[DaddyO]

leaving out the obvious in the image is an open INVITATION to engage the imagination and relate to it through the context of personal experience. In that respect, it becomes a unique viewing for every set of eyes.

Dang good point! I'll go with that in a quick minute! :thumb

[kisi]

thanks pixel popper & daddyo! i appreciate your comments and am glad to hear your take on it :D

[jcrane]

please hit me with c&c on this one!


You can do something with this! Actually, I like this kind of stuff--where you have two or three panels that work together. Individually they are simple abstract but together they convey an idea. First, add a second panel image with a heavy-duty thermos on the curb or a hand gripping a curb, like someone leaning on it, to create a scene of being on a coffee break. Then, if you need to, start cropping down to the essense of the images.

I like photographing 'nothing' and then let the image take me somewhere to complete the scene. Play with it some and see where it takes you. It caught your eye in the first place so you already have some ideas, eh? Good luck.

[kisi]

thanks for the input, jcrane! yep i love a good triptych too :)