Glasses: Two Views

Here are two 'Views' of women wearing glasses - the 'idealized --

advertising' version and the 'real' version. In this photo

advertising comes to real life in an Eastern European country. Your

ratings and critiques are invited and most welcome. If you rate

harshly or very critically, please submit a helpful and constructive

comment, please share your superior photographic knowledge to help

improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! John

I am a beginner. The subject you have selected is really good and informative. Pic is nice, however, slight move towards right by the real version (old lady) would have better to expose the other eye glass of the add.

Regards

Anand

Copyright Notice: Copyright 2008, John Crosley, All Rights Reserved.

 

Sometimes it is best to have everything neat, clear and clean.

 

Other times it is best to 'imply' something. Here the second lens of the young woman's glasses is implied. You may 'infer' it is there, because she is wearing a glasses frame and it infers a second lens.

 

That requires a little more thought than a simple photo of two women wearing glasses and causes the eye to linger a little more over the photo, figuring it out, and so long as it is not burdensome, also helps make it just a little more complicated (and thus a little more 'interesting' -- at least I hope).

 

That is the trick -- to make a 'simple' enough photo but to make it also 'complex' enough so the eye lingers along and about it enough that it engages the eye and causes the eye to wander around it for awhile and for it to engage the eye (so to speak, since the subject here IS eyes).

 

Here, I might have 'wished' for the older woman to move right, or repositioned myself, but the bus (that is a bus in the background with a poster on the side, and the woman's photo even on the windows), was moving and I had but a fraction of a second to shoot, but it soon stopped and I could have repositioned, but I judged it unnecessary -- I like the expression on the older woman, and a new, good one was not forthcoming. Sometimes the expression is everything.

 

And, obscuring the poster/bus woman's left (her left) eye, did not hurt -- I think it helped by engaging the viewer. Do you understand the point, and do you agree, or disagree?

 

Thanks for a helpful comment.

 

John (Crosley)

I agree with you now. I din't think in that way, yes it is better to give room for imagination and so on....

Thanks

Anand

Sometimes people just have different points of view, and all it requires is sharing them.

 

Sometimes only having one way to take a photo forces the photographer into taking a better photo, too.

 

;~)

 

John (Crosley)

Perhaps more people need glasses to appreciate this fantastic shot. Past and present, youth vs age. Interesting also that the young woman is depicted on a passing bus thus enhancing her fleeting and temporary nature, just like a memory of youth.

That the young woman is caught on a passing bus -- fleeting and temporary nature.

 

That alone was worth the time of making this and other critiques.

 

I thank you specially for that point alone - it is special to me.

 

Thank you thank you thank you thank you (etc.)

 

John (Crosley)

Excellent picture!

THANK YOU!

 

John (Crosley)

the juxtaposition is really striking.

How's it going with your friend M Kamen?

 

Best,

 

Luca

I am not 'in love' with this one.

 

Look under 'presentations' of mine and look under 'brochure' -- there are three sets of them.

 

Each with the title 'brochure' and set for 'slideshow' -- then, if you would, see if therea are any you think are unsuitable -- not being worth exposition for general 'Crosley' work.

 

I'd be interested as this is my final cut (from Photo.net only).

 

I am just not in love with this one, though it certainly is popular.

 

And I respect your opinion.

 

John (Crosley)

 

(greatly respect your opinion.)

 

jc

to assess your choices. Will think about it.

 

To me there is one issue: being in love with one's pictures. What I always desperately try is to gain emotional distance from my photos.

That's why they have to be judged by someone else.

And en&ex is also a matter of context. "Being in love" is not a criterion, alas!

 

What do you think of this one:

 

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6831045

 

I'm in love with it, but it is wrong in many aspects! If you read the explanation you will know why.

 

Best

 

Luca

I left you some remarks there. I hope you take them to heart.

 

John (Crosley)