umbrella and snow...

Salih, the big question remains: Why are there footprints going TO the umbrella, but none coming FROM it? What happened to the man who made them?

 

(Carl, you are obsessed with processes rather than results: in this photo, unlike last week's POW, I don't sit wondering exactly what was done, in fact the wonder is part of the attraction, possibly the major part. The mystery is the point).

i have erased the footprints both because i was disturbed by the vulgarness/roughness those prints (the region marked in red in the photo i am uploading now) added to the photo and also i wanted to make the viewers more curious and wonder where those prints go ?

and...

to me in a photograph the result is important as long as it does not betray the original. and plus this photo is not manipulated the way it was exaggerated. according to me to create your own story instead of looking into petty details should be the way of the viewer.

I cant see the 'give away' image above posted by salih, it's a broken link for some reason, but to my eye there's an obvious area of cloning one third in from the bottom left of the image - it is a duplicate of an area just less than one third in from the bottom right. This small indiscretion aside, I like the composition and idea a lot.

What strikes me as odd is the sense of proportion. It's either a very small, even a child's

umbrella or a man with huge feet. The bird tracks also look big compared to the umbrella.

From a 6th floor, the size of the umbrella seems about right but not the footprints. What's up

with that?

Ah the linked image is working now, I see I was right - somebody give me a cigar.

The footprints don't look that large to me, prints are always larger looking in snow though.

Looking at the photographer's portfolio, there are two snowscapes that feature the exact

same image of a man leaving the same set of footprints in two different locations. By his

other work I have to assume something similar hapened here: either the umbrella or the

prints have been photoshopped in. That said, using the technique is valid and the

photographer's prerogative. The proportions should have been more accurate to pull it off,

IMO.

Just curious: this the same place where the POW was taken ?

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3780333

 

I like this other picture very much too, by the way...

http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/devilisinthe.html

Throughout this discussion, I never had any doubt where the person went when their footprints stopped - like the bird, they simply flew away.

 

The gentle white tones make this one for me; I do think a bit more attention to the minor details (clone scars, the heavy footprints at the end) could have improved it, but still a nice shot.

this is the other side of the building.

Ignoring the footsteps, bird tracks and texture, this looks like a flag of a new country. It could have been even more so, if the umbrella had not been tilted.

 

IMHO, the bird tracks do not add much to the overall composition, if anything they are distracting. I like the footsteps very much though.

I like to suggestion of disappearance (or passage) -to Alice wonderland, or to Narnia-.

 

I am curious what folks would have thought if the footsteps were not as uniform leading up to the umbrella? Perhaps slightly zoom-out version of the image, suggesting some indecision by the lone soul who embarked in a perilous journey.

 

Well done Salih, and congratulations for your POW selection!

The idea of a manipulation for humour just doesn't work for me, a cheap joke.

 

The tonal range is not good enough to make me like this as a print. To keep it simple, the

overall highlight areas are too grey. No pop in the contrast.

Am I the only one who can't see the "Secret Area" image?

I like the fact that we can see Salih's patience in this picture. Especially now we know he

lives on the 6th floor. He went down, placed the umbrella and footprints, went back

upstairs hoping no-one else would come along and leave more prints (or steal the

umbrella!) then waited whilst it snowed. When it stopped snowing he took the picture.

 

My favorite in this series is this one -

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4307595

 

Rx

I wonder if the link does not work?

Nope . . Niether ones works for me.

 

It will appear in line if you make it smaller. Try 500 pixels on the wide and remember to fill in the caption otherwise it will appear as a link.

I recently watched the movie NARNIA again..and there's shot in that movie that look very similar almost identical to this photo...When TUMNUS(half man half goat) is guiding LUCY to his cave(home) and they walk on snow with a white umbrella covered in snow.

 

Regards

 

OG.

Saleh, I'd go and up the contrasts a bit, give the whites a bit more punch. They seem too grey and flat. Perhaps repost a larger version as well, I have an itch against thumbnail size pictures posted on photo forums.

 

Peace

 

Z.

Excelent colors, beutiful image great composition, can you share with us how you created this photo.

That is made in miniature or?

sorry for that answer didnt read how you created it

when it started snowing I thought of a composition like this. I put my wife's umbrella in front of the apartment building and took the photo the next morning.

thanks for the interest.

First look, I was in a fantasy world and with seconds I questioned it. I looked at the photo I thought the same as Cynthia, the foot prints look too large, but then I thought maybe shallow snow does that?...the size of one wedge in the umbrella is the show size? Dont get me wrong, love the look and concept of the image, but the proportion as Cynthia has noticed gave me the impression of a moment captured not in snow, but in PS. Not that there is anything wrong with that, since I do love artwork such as this, but misrepresentation (not that it is the case here), is an easy self hang. Good work!