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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Roberto Frieri on February 19, 2012, 03:54:32 pm

Title: Picture on the wall
Post by: Roberto Frieri on February 19, 2012, 03:54:32 pm

M8 + C Sonnar 1.5/50
Capture One 6

1/60sec f1.5 ISO 640

Title: Re: Picture on the wall
Post by: Rob C on February 19, 2012, 06:31:40 pm

Si, e no.

The problem I have with it, Roberto, is that the framed picture is too strong to make the whole your own. Unless, of course, you also made the smaller image-within-image too!

Ciao -

Rob C

Title: Re: Picture on the wall
Post by: Roberto Frieri on February 20, 2012, 03:40:26 pm

Quote from: Rob C on February 19, 2012, 06:31:40 pm

Si, e no.
The problem I have with it, Roberto, is that the framed picture is too strong to make the whole your own. Unless, of course, you also made the smaller image-within-image too!

Thank you Rob C for your impression.

Title: Re: Picture on the wall
Post by: jalcocer on February 20, 2012, 09:04:48 pm

I really like it roberto, the reflections on the picture frame and the woman looking up appears like she is checking out the old wall.

Title: Re: Picture on the wall
Post by: Roberto Frieri on February 25, 2012, 02:43:30 pm

Quote from: jalcocer on February 20, 2012, 09:04:48 pm

...the woman looking up appears like she is checking out the old wall.

That's what I thought too.

Title: Re: Picture on the wall
Post by: jalcocer on February 25, 2012, 04:46:34 pm

That's the first that I noticed when I looked at it, really nice shot, but, still, I stay with the love me or not as my favorite, man, for me you really capture the essence of the moment, and my wife will blame you if I decide to go over and look for that girl. The image and her, really caught me. :)

Going back to this one, the old wall, the frame, and the painting really come all together to make a nice composition and also to tell a story.

Title: Re: Picture on the wall
Post by: larkvi on February 27, 2012, 10:44:14 am

I really like the composition, and wish there was a way to focus a bit more attention on the relationship between the frame and the cracking on the wall--can you lighten the frame and darken the cracks in order to increase their tonal similarity, and therefore make them more equal in visual weight, such that the eye can move more freely from one to the other?

Title: Re: Picture on the wall
Post by: Roberto Frieri on February 27, 2012, 02:32:40 pm

Quote from: larkvi on February 27, 2012, 10:44:14 am

...can you lighten the frame and darken the cracks in order to increase their tonal similarity, and therefore make them more equal in visual weight, such that the eye can move more freely from one to the other?

Title: Re: Picture on the wall
Post by: Bruce Cox on February 28, 2012, 10:02:13 am

I do see what you see in the photo and I like it too, but it is not the whole story.  Is it interesting that she is not looking at the wall? That is happening too.  Art works are generally closed systems.  That is what, I think, Rob referred to when he said the painting is "too strong".  The painting will kill your photo unless you kill it first.  There is some glare on its glass, but not enough.  Spray paint running from the wall across the painting and back to the wall again might do it.


Bruce

Title: Re: Picture on the wall
Post by: Roberto Frieri on February 29, 2012, 02:21:46 am

Thank you very much Bruce for your precious comment.

Title: Re: Picture on the wall
Post by: jhemp on March 12, 2012, 10:34:27 pm

I think you nailed the exposure but it loses me in the composition?