Portrait

[photom]

Critique and comments are welcome.

[Ian]

Re: Portrait

I find this kind of photography much more challenging to appreciate, but that's just a personal view. I'm very pleased, however, that you have posted this image and I hope have some more as it's a type of photography we don't see enough of on here. I'm willing to learn more about impressionist work if I can (not even sure this correctly called 'impressionist'.).

Ian

[Pol]

Re: Portrait

I confess I don't really understand the image sufficiently to offer any sort of meaningful critique but, like Ian, I'm interested to learn.

What I see at the moment is 'communication' .... ie a suggestion of someone using a telephone to contact and talk to the girl on the screen. The lighting of the cable continues into the dark area and 'behind and into' the monitor where the girl is apparently responding - which suggests to me the cable is the 'line/light/life' of communication.

Please forgive me if I'm way off the mark ..... but that's what I see and the best I can describe it.


Pol

[Ian]

Re: Portrait

I confess I don't really understand the image sufficiently to offer any sort of meaningful critique but, like Ian, I'm interested to learn.

What I see at the moment is 'communication' .... ie a suggestion of someone using a telephone to contact and talk to the girl on the screen. The lighting of the cable continues into the dark area and 'behind and into' the monitor where the girl is apparently responding - which suggests to me the cable is the 'line/light/life' of communication.

Please forgive me if I'm way off the mark ..... but that's what I see and the best I can describe it.


Pol

Pol, I think you undervalue your skills of artistic interpretation - you seem to have summed it up perfectly.

Ian

[Pol]

Re: Portrait

Pol, I think you undervalue your skills of artistic interpretation - you seem to have summed it up perfectly.

Ian

I dunno. I'm not sure why he entitled the thread "portrait".

I'm waiting to see what David says .......... then I'll know whether or not I made a complete and utter prat of myself.

Pol

[Stephen]

Re: Portrait

Whilst Iwould go along with Pols anaylsis of the image, I would have liked to see a larger version of it. In simplistic terms though it seems to me it is just a photo of an intercom system with a tv monitor to view the visitor. In this case though a slightly surreal looking one, maybe that's something to do with it using an IR camera, just guesing. Anyway it put me in mind of John Washingtons latest offering

[photom]

Re: Portrait

Yes Pol, communication, and technology, and problems with them: the girl's eyes looking down ... a sense of embarrassment when someone is watching you and you can't watch him...

I think a portrait can also tell a story, a concept...not only a description of someone.

[Stephen]

Re: Portrait

Yes Pol, communication, and technology, and problems with them: the girl's eyes looking down ... a sense of embarrassment when someone is watching you and you can't watch him...

I think a portrait can also tell a story, a concept...not only a description of someone.

I would very much agree with you.

[Pol]

Re: Portrait

Yes Pol, communication, and technology, and problems with them: the girl's eyes looking down ... a sense of embarrassment when someone is watching you and you can't watch him...

I think a portrait can also tell a story, a concept...not only a description of someone.

Absolutely! Portrayed = potrait .. a representation, not necessarily just a picture of a face.

I'm often fascinated watching people using mobile phones in public. It's interesting to watch how they walk up and down, often in a sort of 'agitated' way, maybe trying to look (or even feeling) business-like or important.

Another very interesting point is the way they never make eye contact with anyone or fix their gaze on anyone or anything. They mainly seem to look down towards the mouthpiece of the phone or their feet and their eyes wander all over the place apparently unable to settle on anything.

I like to grab shots of people using mobile phones.

So .......... who amongst us will be slightly more self-conscious when they use a mobile on the street today?


Pol

[Ian]

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I like to grab shots of people using mobile phones.

So .......... who amongst us will be slightly more self-conscious when they use a mobile on the street today?


Pol

One thing that really makes me mad is people driving while babbling to their mobile phone held to their ear. It's against the law here, but so many continue to do it. I was being followed by a lady in a people carrier the other day, with children in the front and back and there she was phone glued to hand and ear, steering and changing gear with one hand...

So I was thinking of camping myself on the side of the road and snapping drivers doing this and making some kind of photo montage with a message... very tempted!

Ian

[Pol]

Re: Portrait

So I was thinking of camping myself on the side of the road and snapping drivers doing this and making some kind of photo montage with a message... very tempted!

Ian

Just do it! It makes me furious too!!


Pol

[Danny Chau]

Re: Portrait

Hi Photom,

What a lovely image, congratulations, how big was the file/scan? I would love this image on my wall, if you're interested, I could make you a large A2/A1 print in exchange for a sign copy!!

DC

[photom]

Re: Portrait

One thing that really makes me mad is people driving while babbling to their mobile phone held to their ear. It's against the law here, but so many continue to do it.

Here in Italy it's the same!