Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Slobodan Blagojevic on August 21, 2013, 11:34:27 pm
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Late afternoon sun, dipping below the clouds before disappearing for the day and illuminating her for less than a minute. 6400 ISO, hand-held. Color, light and shadow. Modern times.
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Auto-voyeurism? :D
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Auto-voyeurism? :D
You find that in the cars thread, Eric.
Jeremy
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Nice atmosphere; sad reminder of the rapid passing of time. My own looked young one day and then the next time I noticed she was someone else. My observation is that either time accelerates as you age, or the young, of their own volition, stay young for ever shorter times. Why are they (or we) in a hurry?
Rob C
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Well done! She's even got "duckface" going on. A perfect summary a pretty large social phenomenon.
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Well done! She's even got "duckface" going on. A perfect summary a pretty large social phenomenon.
What's duckface?
Rob C
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What's duckface?
Rob C
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/duck-face (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/duck-face)
“Duck Face”, also known as “Myspace Face”, is a pejorative term for a facial expression made by pressing one’s lips together into the shape of a duck’s bill. It is often associated with self-gratuitous photos of teenage girls posted on social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook. (cont)
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http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/duck-face (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/duck-face)
Thank you sir; hoped to be learning something new, but it turns out to be nothing more than what we snappers/models used to call a moue back in the day - made us all feel we were working in Paris...
So what else is new in the world of digital youth? Other than that they have just invented sex, of course.
;-)
Rob C
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... So what else is new in the world of digital youth?...
Narcissism of historic proportions. Selfies are made, by the same person, dozens to hundred times a day, and shared instantly.
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Narcissism of historic proportions. Selfies are made, by the same person, dozens to hundred times a day, and shared instantly.
Good God; that really is serious. And expensive, unless you happen to have got one of those nice contracts that allow hundreds of minutes of supposedly free calls per month.
No shit...
Rob C
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So what else is new in the world of digital youth?
Botox lips
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I wasn't going to post this because it's not an overly flattering portrait (nor a very good image), but it was one of those 'perfect' moments where the angle of the phone was just right and the sun was in just the right place and I had my cell phone with me. I just trust that the subject sees it with humour!
Mike.
'Loving her Phone'
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I wasn't going to post this because it's not an overly flattering portrait (nor a very good image), but it was one of those 'perfect' moments where the angle of the phone was just right and the sun was in just the right place and I had my cell phone with me. I just trust that the subject sees it with humour!
Mike.
'Loving her Phone'
I think that this is a perfect street shot. Well seen, well captured. The best street scenes are universal and timeless, although this one would not be backward compatible.
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Thanks, Glen!
Mike.
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Actually, I think the shot sends a different reaction to me: more do I see it as a criticism of the plastic age where the china cup seems to have become extinct.
Along with holes in your car so that you can place yet another plastic cup into them when driving (you'd want to drink and drive?), this is a measure of the decline in living and behavioural mores of the past few years. It all seems to be going south in a race to instant convenience at the price of sensible and desirable ways of doing things... who in their right mind would want to sit at a table and drink from anything less than a real cup or glass? And pay for the privilege of the insult?
How it all gets lost.
Rob C
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Actually, I think the shot sends a different reaction to me: more do I see it as a criticism of the plastic age where the china cup seems to have become extinct.
Along with holes in your car so that you can place yet another plastic cup into them when driving (you'd want to drink and drive?), this is a measure of the decline in living and behavioural mores of the past few years. It all seems to be going south in a race to instant convenience at the price of sensible and desirable ways of doing things... who in their right mind would want to sit at a table and drink from anything less than a real cup or glass? And pay for the privilege of the insult?
How it all gets lost.
Rob C
First thought: Wow, what do you put in a chatting girl - but then I saw the Starbuck's cup. Yep, You're right.
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I think the point of the paper cup is that people can just walk away with it, something you wouldn't be able to (legally) do with a china cup.
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I think the point of the paper cup is that people can just walk away with it, something you wouldn't be able to (legally) do with a china cup.
You've nailed it perfectly. Actually a cup of coffee was a civilized rest. Now it has been degraded to a lapidary fill-up of hot stuff. Maybe I see it a little bit harsh but I belong to the guys who would suffer hunger instead using cutlery made of plastic.
Harald
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Rob, I am a frequent Starbucks visitor too, but I made a point to ask for a china cup every time I planned to sit down there. The problem is, you see, too many baristas respond to that with "No problem, Sir, all our paper cups are made in China." ;D
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You've nailed it perfectly. Actually a cup of coffee was a civilized rest. Now it has been degraded to a lapidary fill-up of hot stuff. Maybe I see it a little bit harsh but I belong to the guys who would suffer hunger instead using cutlery made of plastic.
Harald
My take on this is this is the world we live it. It evolves whether we like it or not. If I wanted to use stainless and not plastic, I'd carry a Swiss Army camp knife. I don't particularly like plastic fantastic silverware, but I am particularly fond of eating. Anyway, it is a rare moment I eat anywhere which would serve me on a paper plate and hand me plastic ware unless it was fast food where I would expect such.
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My take on this is this is the world we live it. It evolves whether we like it or not. ...
No Sir! In this particular case it isn't the world which evolves. We do evolve our world deliberately in a place of rush, junk and plastic.
Harald
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No Sir! In this particular case it isn't the world which evolves. We do evolve our world deliberately in a place of rush, junk and plastic.
Harald
You're absolutely right; it's all a sort of suicidal race to the end of our days.
I lost my wife five years ago come November; in the passing of the interim, one of the many huge losses that I notice, outwith emotional loss, is to be found in the quality of my daily standard of living.
Where once we would sit and enjoy thirty minutes with a G&T along with a canapé of some kind before the meal, that kind of moment doesn't now exist; where meals meant conversation and humour or even, rarely, an argument about something very trivial spread over at least a couple of hours and a bottle of plonk, there is now a restaurant and meaningless chat with the staff, all of whom are very nice but oh, so young and so enthusiastically vacant.
Food becomes fuel; a thirty-five-minute pit-stop.
At least you can still go into a cheap bar here and expect coffee and drinks in cups and glasses... unless it's a festival, in which case, in several places it's plastic because of the drunks. But maybe twice a year ain't too bad. They have Big Mac joints here, but I never go there - maybe they use polystyrene too.
Once, in Florida, the model insisted we all go to a Mac for a meal: no - you won't want to hear about that experience.
Such is the life we create, and many have come to expect.
Rob C
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Counter argument...evolution is a process whereas change is brought about by natural elements or adaptation to technology. Let's take cellphones: who leaves home without one now days? Really, honestly...a precious few who live in areas where there is no or limited cell service and yet 10 years ago, having a cell phone was considered a luxury of which only a few could afford. Today, like the iPod, Mac Book, jump drive, SanDisk, each are must haves, don't go without items... And, are all examples of evolution that evolve because we as humans embrace them. As to plastic ware, it too is one of those things we've embraced by not objecting strongly enough at the beginning. It easier and cheaper and a fight none of us thought we could win against Mickey D's and the like.
The world is we, until of course we blow it to hell by eating fast food, getting too fat, being pissed about being too fat then going postal with nukes...geeze, I'm starting to sound like a commercial.