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I have divergent feelings on this image.

 

As an image I do not like this photo for a number of reasons already stated. I think several of her other photos are far better in composition and quality.

 

However, what I really like about the photo is the thoughts its provoked from everyone here. Art/Photography promotes and provokes thoughts. In the past month that I've read comments here, I've read some of the most thoughtful remarks from both sides over this image. This photo along with others comments have taught me a lot. The discussion makes this photo valuable to me.

Fantastic photo in my opinion.

as a photo-montage/photo-collage i find this work worth looking, but a photograph this is not. a danger of misleading one into seeing it as photograph, a rare moment captured in time, a rare instance of a rare occurrence, a perfectly focused synchronization of elements in frame will in the end create a grim result - blindness.

 

 

it is a wonderful work as long as labeled correctly.

k

Sorry i must say this image is a loser.
Not only is it obviously faked,it's very badly faked and doesn't look very interesting anyway

I still think its the result that counts and not the way you get there. It does not matter, if you spend endless time and efforts in an image or if you achieved the same in a blink... the viewer has no knowdledge of that and should not need any of it... the visualisation has to work/or fail for itself, without further explanations. Everything else is in the best case satisfaction for the people who are interested in the "behind the scenes".

If I see all the thoughts and feelings this image has evoked.. in either direction... then we dont even have to "judge" it anymore... its a winner, a standout.. however you like to name it. Its not even from interest anymore if somone gives it a 7, a 10 or a 1.

We should all be happy that images like this leed to such a spectrum on reactions on this site. We should be happy that images like this leed to emotional reactions diametral across the scale.

nice image, but it never happened. Too bad.

I must say that I stopeed reading after a while because the comments are much less interesting than the picture...
I do not agree with Vassili though. IMHO it is ok for the sea to be blurred and not the clouds as the crashing waves are moving much faster than the clouds. When I saw the image a couple of months ago I liked it due to it's strangeness - it reminded me of Magritte's paintings - surreal.
It is an excellent image and while we will never all agree on that (some like Picasso, others Dali), the fact that it has evoked this many comments (besides the fact that most of us like to "hear ourselves talk") is respectable. Well done! Oh, also that is a rather interesting skirt :)

I've admired this from the first time I saw it because it's delightful and spirited. That's all,

really, because I've always felt that the emotion/communiction of the piece is always SENIOR

to the technical aspects.

ah, yes, speaking of Magritte, all I can say is

 

nice images, but they never happened. Too bad.

The imagery is very nice. Beautiful and surreal. I think it would have been more intriguing if the subject had a purpose.

 

But it is definitely not a photograph. I think the only mistake the graphics artist made was showing how he made his work. A magician never divulges his work, no one would pay to see him perform.

 

Especially if the art is as simple as 5-10 minute photoshop copy and paste.

shame agnes is too busy to bother to contribute to the conversation, or even express any gratitude for the very kind comments above... another stunning photo.net community production.

Maybe she does not know yet, Duncan. Would you sit by your computer and wait for an e-mail telling you that one of your shots had been named Photo of the Week?

Excellent work, a well deserved POW.

I like it very much. Good job.

 

-mazza

http://www.donnadieustudio.com/digital3.shtml

 

This page, from Agnes' website, shows the various components that were digitally combined.

 

Although I'm a Henri Cartier-Bresson fan (no cropping, and 50 mm lens), I still can't help being arrested by strong images.

Roger S. Thanks for posting that link. She sure captures the human form very nicely. Personally I liked the stand alone, orginal, picture of the girl better than the PS'd one. That does capture a very unique moment in time.

Is it just me, or has a lot of this discussion been about semantics? If you define a photograph as some people have - a record of a moment in time - then this doesn't qualify. Personally, I think the art form of photography is big enough, flexible enough, and open enough to incorporate many different treatments of photographic work, but I wouldn't assume that everyone would agree.

 

I like this image. It has an interesting and surrealistic feeling that I find appealing. I often don't like overly-manipulated work, but this isn't really pretending to be something it isn't: some of its success comes directly from the elements that are the most "fantastic". Onward.

I just wanted to say that I'M IN LOVE WITH THIS PIC :)!!!!!!!

Agnes, you did a WONDERFUL JOB!!!!...this is art!

Look at this, the atmosphere is great, wow!!!

Trully beautiful, you have all my admiration for this picture, don't stop your good job Agnes!

 

Karine

No doubt a masterpiece in photographty and Photoshop.

But after a while I realized something is weird: a fully clothed woman with a fancy dress and a dog (still completely dry, by the way) are running into rather big breaking waves? Naah!That's not real life, but still it's a very nice picture.

Takes you to place where good memories wander......excellent. Thank you for sharing!

I totally love this shot. It is out of focus but that doesn't detract from the image overall. Philip's Audrey Hepburn comment is apt.

 

Your other beach shot may be better in one or two elements (the position of the woman's legs, the higher shutter speed) but on the whole this is the better one.

Simply put, lovely picture with a touch of elegance. Thank you for sharing

Excellent. Reminds me of Eliott Erwitt's work, and it wouldn't look misplaced amongst his pictures.

Regards, Heiko

I can see why it was chosen. Great and extraordinarily eye-catching. I find it makes me smile.

i love the lightning!