There something about photography that always wondered me ... the way different people interprets an image. For a long time I was bothered when one of my photos I thought was great received little attention from viewers but another photo I didn't like at all received a lot of attention. But it's not a problem at all, none of your photos or the viewers, it's just the way things is. Images triggers memories and impressions on human mind and the photographer can't control the triggering process all the time. For a lot of people a photo of a cute smiling child is the representation of inocence and joy ... but for some other people it remembers a long gone brother or son and that images is the representation of sadness.
I think the most important is you (the photographer) enjoying your photos. If other people like it or fully understand it the way you want it's great ... but if not it's of minor importance.
Charles
Guy Glorieux <guy.glorieux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
Thanks, Darin.
Now I'm caught between your comment on the appropriateness of the city
background and Charles's comment that he found it distracting. So I went to
CS2 and replaced the urban background with a nature-like background. As to
be expected, the picture is dramatically different. Nothing close to what I
had intended to portray. It was intended to be a park-in-the-city picture
and it does not work otherwise.
What I did find interesting when shooting this picture was the combination
of colors (red, green, orange and yellow), the interaction between the
couple and the single man (it took me several pictures pefore people
materialized in an appropriate way), the interaction between the central
vertical of the tree and the several contour lines of the terrain all
interacting with the water in the foreground. I guess this all remains
true.
Thanks again,
Guy
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> "Colours of Fall" - Guy Glorieux
>
> Guy, this aptly named photo is remarkable on several different levels.
> First, and most obvious, is the splattering of color across the frame
> synonymous with the onward marching of autumn. A few pedestrians punctuate
> the image, which forces a relationship between themselves and the viewer,
> and the peek at urban life in the background gives a sense of harmony
> between Nature and Society. Eliminate the people, eliminate the city, and
> it
> is a very empty image. You have done well, sir!
>
