Thanks, Bob - I don't feel much like a master of anything but your
remark inspires me to keep getting out and doing more. Much appreciated!
Mark
On 10/14/2014 10:34 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Darren,
After a while, you'll come to realize Mark is a master artist.
His photos inspire me and humble me.
It looks effortless, but is deceptively so.
Now I've got to get out and practice...
Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Just a couple other thoughts about this remarkable composition...
I think that Mark is being quite modest in calling this "As Found"
(and of course, attempting to derail any thoughts that he might have
arranged anything). Frankly, I wouldn't care if he had: Photography is
often in seeing the possibilities and presenting things (like people
at a wedding, for example) at their best. <derail>Anyone who has
photographed people professionally knows that if you do it passively -
photojournalist style - you aren't going to get the best results.
Small things like the amount and direction a head is tilted, or
providing something better to do with the clasped hands (fig leafs)
that people often automatically assume when a camera is pointed at
them, these things are "directorial" with the goal of presenting a
better (and, counter-intuitively, often a more natural-looking
photograph). Most still life images painted the masters was probably
not "as found" and I doubt that we care or give them bonus points for
never touching or adjusting anything within the composition.
Secondly, a composition on the ground, like this one, still did not
automatically create a good image. The photographer still had choices
to make. Even if one chooses to say that the "directly overhead" point
of view was a "no-brainer" there were choices that the photographer
had to make on how much of the scene to include or crop out. He also
has the choice of making it a horizontal or vertical composition (or
square, even). And he has the freedom to orient the camera in any one
of 360 degrees while pointing down. It would be an interesting
experiment to take a group of photographers and (without them seeing
the others had done) assign them to photograph this same patch of
ground. I doubt that any two of them are going to come away with the
exact same image of the scene.
Thirdly, after Tim Bray's comments I went back and looked at the image
again. I can see that the saturation might have been bumped a little
but I don't see this as a problem. It does not look unnatural to me,
although I realize that this is subjective and different photographers
may draw the line in different places. I normally look at the "white"
areas in an image to judge if the color cast is off in any direction
and the whites do not appear to have any sort of greenish cast to my
eyes.
In short, I really, really like everything about this image and I'm
quite glad that Mark's eyes were open to the possibility when it
presented itself.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
fortunately it wasnt -exactly- under your feet :-)
That's one of those little scenes that no one is going to believe
you didn't create by moving the leaf into just the right place..
"... not that there's anything wrong with that.."
ann
On 10/13/2014 19:20, Mark C wrote:
http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/as-found
You never know what is going to be right under your feet.
Mark
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