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Jeremy Roussak

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Re: Choir practice
« Reply #20 on: June 30, 2014, 04:56:21 pm »

The B&W is subtle and beautiful, but you haven't any idea what's going on unless you read the title.

I think you're failing to demonstrate your usual perceptiveness, Russ. There's a boy, another boy, a line of music notebooks, what could easily be seen as a choir stall - it's a choir. You won't know it's a rehearsal, I concede. As an image, though, it stands alone and without a title; and for mood, I wholly disagree with Brant: it's superb.

Perhaps the problem with this User Critique section is that in truth many of us do not actually want critique - we just want to share our pictures!  Personally I did want to see what you all thought about the picture - to see if the atmosphere was able to overpower any other shortcomings.

Definitely yes.

I am going to work on a panel of pictures of this choir so perhaps I could share a few more in due course.  They will be like the first picture though, not the second.

I'll look forward very much to that - and the caveat boosts my anticipation.

Jeremy
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Re: Choir practice
« Reply #21 on: June 30, 2014, 05:05:45 pm »

Hi Jeremy, I don't think you read my third post to this thread. If you read it, you'll see that I agree with you. But I'd still say that only the title can tell you what's going on. I see a kid looking at sheet music. His mouth is partially open, but there's no way to know he's singing. In fact, he looks as if he's seeing something that makes him happy, because he's smiling. For all I know from the picture, he's simply reviewing the music, perhaps getting ready to lift his violin and play it. On the other hand, I love the picture. The light is wonderful. There's enough ambiguity that it could be street.
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Re: Choir practice
« Reply #22 on: July 01, 2014, 11:00:28 am »

Yes, it's a fine example of "indoor street."  ;)
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Re: Choir practice
« Reply #23 on: July 01, 2014, 02:11:20 pm »

Hi Jeremy, I don't think you read my third post to this thread. If you read it, you'll see that I agree with you. But I'd still say that only the title can tell you what's going on. I see a kid looking at sheet music. His mouth is partially open, but there's no way to know he's singing. In fact, he looks as if he's seeing something that makes him happy, because he's smiling. For all I know from the picture, he's simply reviewing the music, perhaps getting ready to lift his violin and play it. On the other hand, I love the picture. The light is wonderful. There's enough ambiguity that it could be street.

No, I realise you liked it, Russ. I just think there's more to be interpreted than your comment about the title implied. It hadn't occurred to me that he was singing: his posture is wholly wrong and his mouth not open enough. I think he is just looking at the music. But there's enough there to show that he's a chorister.

Anyway, we both like it and we're talking about it, so it's accomplishing something.

Jeremy
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Re: Choir practice
« Reply #24 on: July 02, 2014, 01:58:59 am »

Once again - thank you all.  I will put up some more choir pictures soon so that you can let me have your thoughts.

Jim
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