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The Art of Photography => Street Showcase => Topic started by: OmerV on March 25, 2019, 05:21:12 pm

Title: Children and mother
Post by: OmerV on March 25, 2019, 05:21:12 pm
At air show...
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7875/40500953543_04f32a6e45_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/24GVYst)Air show (https://flic.kr/p/24GVYst) by Omer Claiborne (https://www.flickr.com/photos/146601120@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Children and mother
Post by: Ivophoto on March 25, 2019, 05:32:16 pm
At air show...
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7875/40500953543_04f32a6e45_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/24GVYst)Air show (https://flic.kr/p/24GVYst) by Omer Claiborne (https://www.flickr.com/photos/146601120@N02/), on Flickr

There is always a difficult to date aspect on your work. I like it.
Title: Re: Children and mother
Post by: OmerV on March 25, 2019, 07:11:51 pm
Quote from: Ivophoto
There is always a difficult to date aspect on your work. I like it.

Ivo, do you mean past or present? Well, this photo was made yesterday. But it's interesting, I hadn't realized black & white might be a throw back (to the past.)

Thanks.
Title: Re: Children and mother
Post by: Ivophoto on March 26, 2019, 01:57:28 am
Ivo, do you mean past or present? Well, this photo was made yesterday. But it's interesting, I hadn't realized black & white might be a throw back (to the past.)

Thanks.

I started noticing this on Flickr.
It’s not really about the B&W. It’s how you compose your images, the settings, camera position, etc.
Also your color work have that feeling. Your color scheme reminds me to certain Agfa films of the seventies.
I got intrigued a while back and tried to understand why I have this feeling.
I think you use a particular framing that reminds me to the kind of shots made with the fix-focus cameras in the seventies. Combined with, for me as European citizen, unknown locations and situations, sometimes a high Bagdad Cafe mood, I guess that makes it.

I like it.

Cheers Ivo
Title: Re: Children and mother
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on March 26, 2019, 06:08:04 am
Ivo is onto something here.

There is something “something” about your photographs that makes it difficult to define, but easy to feel. I also noticed, and commented on one of your earlier photographs, the unusually pleasing, muted color palette.

This one is exceptionally good. I am just going to pile up my first impressions. There is something Monet-esque in that crowd. I guess the umbrella contributes to it. And then HCB-esque in the image geometry: the almost symmetrical leg stances of the two characters in the foreground, amplified by their well-defined shadows. And then there is something Elliot Erwit-esque (sorry for the overuse of the “-esque”) in the juxtaposition of the mother's almost blasé expression and the knocked-out kids.

P.S. Was this a Slobodan-esque critique?  ;)
Title: Re: Children and mother
Post by: Ivophoto on March 26, 2019, 08:10:35 am
Ivo is onto something here.

There is something “something” about your photographs that makes it difficult to define, but easy to feel. I also noticed, and commented on one of your earlier photographs, the unusually pleasing, muted color palette.

This one is exceptionally good. I am just going to pile up my first impressions. There is something Monet-esque in that crowd. I guess the umbrella contributes to it. And then HCB-esque in the image geometry: the almost symmetrical leg stances of the two characters in the foreground, amplified by their well-defined shadows. And then there is something Elliot Erwit-esque (sorry for the overuse of the “-esque”) in the juxtaposition of the mother's almost blasé expression and the knocked-out kids.

P.S. Was this a Slobodan-esque critique?  ;)

I fully agree with this Blagejovesque comment.
Title: Re: Children and mother
Post by: OmerV on March 26, 2019, 10:51:25 am
I fully agree with this Blagejovesque comment.


Thanks guys, much appreciated.

The best part of the ordeal (got sun burnt to a crisp) was watching a North American B-25 Mitchell flying fast at about 100m and hearing the sound of its two radial piston engines. Fantastic.