Yoram: A great pic, fun in the middle of chaos! however the kid on the center-left was cut at the ankle....
Art: 911.... hell yeah!
John, great story behind an apparently mundane object
Bob: Great catch! maybe some d&b and cropping
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Randy Little <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ah again that falls back to something I said earlier. Sometimes the art isn't it what is presented its in using what you present to illicit the art I am looking for. Social engineering. I don't critique mostly because when I think of what I would say I think if its really me not likely a style of work vs the work itself. Then I look at it design and visual hierarchy. Does it fail there or work there? Ok. Well all those things are working. What business is it of mine then to other like it or dislike it for purely personal reasons that benefit the artist none. And some people here honestly believe their poop don't stink even though they probably have never been outside the craft art world. people who think technical achievement means quality art. You know what they call architects that have masted the technical and not the artistic, draftsmen. Being good at the craft doesn't make you a good artist it makes you an artisan.Lea: when I look at that I only see one thing I would change if it was me. I could have shot tighter as I am distracted and pulled away from his face by his camera left shoulder and his wrist being cut off at the joint.Tina: Your work works best with the rest of the contest in that I feel like I am only getting a very narrorw view of the story of this person.Yoram: nothing really to say other then I would like it more if the boy didn't get cutoff at a joint.Jan: its so hard to represent these in a still in 2d. I think they lose a lot but how else do you represent them in a 2d medium?Andrew: technically fine. Lacks any since of Visual hierarchy. Nothing is the center of visual interest.Bob: I think if you just dodge and burned the image to help draw the viewer to the subject that this would more interesting photo then just an interesting subject.John. Just visually doing nothing for me even with the story is doesn't explain why this is her marker. Dirty paper dirty for a reason? Accident? To many lights on the subject. to many shadows and no since of form or shape to the object. Its to much personal story that isn't being translated to the viewer.Emily. Composition is bulls eyed. strange disembodied hand in top left that doesn't seem to related to the the subject. Subject of image is hard to recognize or relate to. Zero context to help the viewer understand or even context.On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:09 PM, <PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx> wrote:Well at least people are critiquing other people's stuff.In a message dated 7/17/2013 1:34:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx writes:I think its more a limited view of art. Some of the comments are tantamount to saying I don't think you used enough paint. Or saying I would never want to meet a sepia sailor. Its a rediculous comment to be part of a critique. The irony being that these obvious passive agressive style of comments come from the same people who criticize others because of there direct comments.
