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[Dazzajl]

Quality wise, there is just about every nasty and horrible looking thing going on in that frame. And yet it's a completely fabulous and compelling image, packed with life, intrigue and gorgeous light. A great lesson to be learned there.

[erl]

10 hours ago, Dazzajl said:

Quality wise, there is just about every nasty and horrible looking thing going on in that frame. And yet it's a completely fabulous and compelling image, packed with life, intrigue and gorgeous light. A great lesson to be learned there.

Thank you for your assessment, which is spot on. The image is underexposed and I was undecided on how much detail to recover. I was firstly attracted by the light and then by the curtain movement. Unfortunately I missed the 'escaping figure'. 😂

[Kl@usW.]

Chapeau, Erl. I can only second Dazzajl, this is a fabulous picture and a fine example of  f**ck the rules if your gut feeling tells you to go for the picture. I think the spirit of Vermeer was nudging you. 

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1 hour ago, Kl@usW. said:

Chapeau, Erl. I can only second Dazzajl, this is a fabulous picture and a fine example of  f**ck the rules if your gut feeling tells you to go for the picture. I think the spirit of Vermeer was nudging you. 

Kl@usW. I am greatly chuffed by your praise. In fact you cause me to look at the image again to see if I missed something. It is so easy to 'pass off' ones own work as just that, until someone notices it and comments. Frequently I have to return to my work weeks or more later, just to get a fresh appreciation of what it really is. Getting to close for too long can 'deaden' the appeal.

[S Maclean]

I actually don't see any of the technical flaws in the image....or rather, I don't regard them as such.  These days people go out of the way to edit "flaws" top give character to images.  Add Vignette, add scratches, de saturate, soften...filter....filter ...filter  make it polaroid etc.  OR, conversely, they spend tremendous time aligning the crop, balancing and sterilizing the image to make it visually appealing.

But, capturing the moment, capturing what you see, when you see it, and conveying the feeling you had when seeing it....that, you can't fake.

 

So it's a perfect picture to me, becasue it makes me feel the room...hell, I can almost smell it.  It's sensual, simple and gives me a sense of time and place well beyond technical qualities.

I could goto that same room and take a perfect picture...but could I captiure that feeling the way you have?

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6 hours ago, S Maclean said:

I actually don't see any of the technical flaws in the image....or rather, I don't regard them as such.  These days people go out of the way to edit "flaws" top give character to images.  Add Vignette, add scratches, de saturate, soften...filter....filter ...filter  make it polaroid etc.  OR, conversely, they spend tremendous time aligning the crop, balancing and sterilizing the image to make it visually appealing.

But, capturing the moment, capturing what you see, when you see it, and conveying the feeling you had when seeing it....that, you can't fake.

 

So it's a perfect picture to me, becasue it makes me feel the room...hell, I can almost smell it.  It's sensual, simple and gives me a sense of time and place well beyond technical qualities.

I could goto that same room and take a perfect picture...but could I captiure that feeling the way you have?

Thank you S McLean, You have described exactly what I saw and felt at the time. Walking past the room, I was stopped and compelled by the 'vibe' it emanated. I immediately grabbed a camera, I didn't even check which one, and quickly exposed an image without careful thought to 'correct exposure'. I have since tried to recreate that atmosphere, but failed to equal it. Thank you for kind and detailed commentary.

[S Maclean]

15 minutes ago, erl said:

Thank you S McLean, You have described exactly what I saw and felt at the time. Walking past the room, I was stopped and compelled by the 'vibe' it emanated. I immediately grabbed a camera, I didn't even check which one, and quickly exposed an image without careful thought to 'correct exposure'. I have since tried to recreate that atmosphere, but failed to equal it. Thank you for kind and detailed commentary.

you may bot be able to recreate that image, but if you've got sensibility to catch that moment, then you can catch other moments equally as impactful.  To me, the goal, is to get the technique and theory down to a spontaneus level, and then deliver from an instictual place. That's true of every art for me, with some, like Dance and Opera, needing that technique to be very very polished before anything good comes out spontaneously, and other arts where the spontaneus can, indeed, at least for some time, overcome the lack of technical skill.

 

But greatness to me is to study, work, analyze adn improve technicaly so much that I don't have to think about it and just get the capture.  That is what you have done here. It's a talent.

Me?  I don't quite get it all the time either.  I used to act and sing, and it was the same thing; my head got on the way...but I do recognize it in others, and I know when I tap into it.