Cape Cod

Lovely warm colours - nice setting for children on a beach. The polaroid impressionistic effect works well. The picture seems unposed and spontaneous and is so much a piece of life that one doesn't need to bother so much about sharpness, highlight details etc for this image to work - capturing the mood/impression is more important IMHO. I like the way the boys are looking at each other and the girl trying to read off one of their expressions. They are all quite absorbed in their world. The yellow car and the dog are all very good and harmonious elements.

Carl and Robert, well said. If their was a prize for "Comment of the Week" I would give it to you two. Thank you.

I would just say that Carl Root (and God knows we dont always agree) and Robert X(ylophone) both made comments that fitted exactly my feeling looking at this pic, in a better english than I could offer here...

This type of image/technique/media was a bit forgotten here at POW. So I'm happy that elves went to vote for this one for once. And above technique/media and style, this one is very refreshing (agree with Alejandro,Bruno, Phineas, SP, Jim, earlier Dennis and others here) and each time I looked at it I felt good, warm and enjoying life. A powerful picture that could be use for ads I imagine...

Congrat Brian for your POW ; your entire portfolio deserves it.

Hoping next POW or so will reward shot from disposable camera (I've some left in one of my folder... :o)) )!!

Sometimes it is the imperfections that make a thing perfect. I love Polaroid for all it's faults, all it's difficulties. And I've really enjoyed this image, and indeed Brian's entire Polaroid folder. I'm glad this image made POW....

I love this photo.

Sometimes peple say that this kind of photos are not so interesting like birds, animals, or landscape ones... I think this are more important shot than the others, because in this kind of shots I can see LIFE, I can see a scene that may be different in 30 years... (or no)

In your photograph, I can feel the nostalgy, I can remember when I was a kid and went to the beach with my sisters, the shot is warm and full of feelings... Congratulations and apologyze for my bad english :)

I like the choice that the Elves have made this week quite a lot...

I like the imperfections, I like the moment caught, I like the people, the dog, the date, the gear used fot taking this one. I especially appreciate choosing a somewhat "album" snapshot and recognizing its power to strike chords in people's hearts. Thanks for the choice, thanks for sharing this picture. Maciej

A perfect moment - perfectly done (despite the bit of undefined area in the foreground, the part of the cars front rising out of the girls head and a tiny little something in the window right hand side). The correlation of persons, did I say persons? - living beings is superb.

This photograph, more than many others I've seen of late (not necessarily on photo.net) tells a story. It tells the story very well and it uses the medium to enhance the mood of the story.

 

Emotional impact, above all else, trumps technical perfection. Always. This POW is a fantastic example of emotional depth within an image.

I was so impressed by Brian's Photo of the Week that I decided to browse his portfolio and I must say Brian is one of the best (if not THE best) natural photographers I have seen at Photo.net

 

Many photographers at photo.net seem preoccupied with making a "graphic" design picture - photo postcards for quick consumption. Brian's photos are memorable and has "staying power". Brian Carter's excellent sense for colour and graphic composition is secondary to his purpose in trying to tell a story of something that he has witnessed. He has a keen sense of capturing the right moment reminiscent of great photographers such as Dorothy Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

 

I believe Brian is a "photographer" in the truest sense whereas most of us are really graphic photo designers.

It's great. Young, full of sun, fun and a dog to boot. Wonderful.

All that talk about Polaroids, which were used I'm sure, but the colors remind me of early era Kodachrome, say from the 50's.

 

And then it looks like a typical snap of kids, from that era. Fair amount of techical fault, but not enough to be strictly an 'art' shot, and too many problems, (leaning right, vignetting, missing emulsion on left edge, etc.), to be considered great on its own. Not sure why it's special! Whoosh, right over my head?

 

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ten - i think you need a spirit level and a dictionary so you can look up what vignetting

means....

From Concise Oxford English Dictionary:

2. (verb transitive) shade off (a photograph or portrait).

 

The pic appears a little shaded off; granted it's not an even effect.

As for the level, everyone is leaning to the right. Wassa-matta-U?

 

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1. It is a good picture. 2. Why does anybody have to defend either the picture or their liking of it?

This photo can and does stand on it's own merit. It is a classic piece of story telling. There

is room for polished well crafted studio work and room for street cameras. Some would

benefit from viewing this photograph and really ask themselves why so many feel it. There

are a vast number of pros who could not craft a story from the gut as well as this 'snap'.

There is a movement (perspective) and composition that i recognize from having owned a

spectra. A large format studio camera has a signature look as does the lighting control

afforded by shooting in a controlled space. I believe this was a good camera for this shot.

Just as most digital cameras have a look. Capturing a real moment spontaneously and well

is always a challenge indifferent of equipment and controls. Luck...?

It is good to remember why you wanted to photograph when you started. If it was just for

the money, this type of spontaneous visceral photograph may not appeal to you. I looked

at your other polaroids and think this one stands out. This was an excellent photo of the

week, thank you.

I would like to know if this is an actual Polariod as it was shot, or a scanned edited renditon of one. I love about Polariods is that the final is the film out the camera.

cool look!