Guest Guest Posted January 31, 2005 Images of war always bring out the Viet Nam in me. The white shroud (body bag) gives the images what I call heavenly relief to the dismal war stricken suroundings. What can be more appropiate than old textured wood crosses, fog, mud and like a weeping guardian angel (photographer) viewing the remains of another lost soul to senselessness. Tour de force! Link to comment
pazellisphoto 0 Posted January 31, 2005 For several days now, since this Avril photograph was posted as the photo of the week, I have been haunted by its grey, its angles, and its message. I had not even wanted to read the critiques, so had been ignoring the opening page and skipping to the forums. My heart beats faster when I see it, and the only possible thing I could offer as criticism is.... well, nothing. Except this, cropping is a fantastic tool, to enhance what is worthy and discard what is not. In this case, however, your ORIGINAL photo was enough to impact my safe, happy little world in Oklahoma, and cropping it would not change that. But, I too am a fan of the original photo... what your eyes saw and what your heart was compelled to capture on film. Link to comment
mgvaughan.com 0 Posted January 31, 2005 It certainly depicts an unfamiliar side of life. The foreground cross overlapping helps the sense of finality. Link to comment
chubbs 0 Posted February 1, 2005 I dont rember if I comented on this picture before or already,. It is a good picture to remind us that life is a tease and death awaits all of us. sew your oats while you have life! Link to comment
maria_di_liegro 0 Posted February 1, 2005 Dear Jean-Baptiste, Thank you for this photo that communicates, without any doubts or reservations, the utter despair of this situation, and inevitably, of other situations like it from the past. Bravo for shooting it EXACTLY the way you intended! Others will either like it or they won't, simple as that. What I find important is that the communication (message) of the shot is always senior to the technical aspects of it. So while others may quibble over INSIGNIFICANT points, you've got a GREAT SHOT here and no one can take that away from you. Sincerely, Maria Di Liegro Link to comment
vuk_vuksanovic 0 Posted February 1, 2005 jean-baptiste. if you worried a bit less about silly/uninformative/cheerleader ratings* and considered the sort of constructive criticism i have offered, you could possibly end up with better technique and/or a properly tuned monitor. *please note that virtually all of the ratings i made here were from several years ago and photonet has since changed the scales twice (as far as i know), rendering my "averages" rather meaningless. i can forgive your ignorance of this fact/history, but it still doesn't excuse your childish reply to my posting. vuk. Link to comment
jb-avril 0 Posted February 1, 2005 G'morning Vuk I can understand comments without ant problems :) but after your critics I went on your website and found no point from you telling me what you could perfectly adapt to yourself :( This is what makes for me the difference between an interesting comment and an average critic. If things were different I would definitly think about increasing my abilities :) Link to comment
matthew leong 0 Posted February 3, 2005 wow, this is such a powerful image. From far to near the crosses helped to pull this shot together. Personally, maybe I'll place the white covered body in the clear not obstructed by the cross. Still a very good image, congrats ! Link to comment
jb-avril 0 Posted February 3, 2005 This issue about the bit of cross over the body was often raised in this column. I believed then, and now, that leaving the body entirely plain and white would have been too linear and too far away physically from the surrounding. Then the choice was to integrate a small bit of a cross, any cross, to create a sort of liaison. Link to comment
josemanchado 0 Posted February 22, 2008 really impressive, it's a cold earth a cold heart Link to comment
afshinazizi 0 Posted June 24, 2008 Great War photograph. One of the best shots that I have seen Amazing mood and use of B&w. I think that it is one of the most famous shots in the world and I have seen it for times and tmes in several webloga and webpages. Well done Ive selected it as faviorate. All the best Link to comment
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