BY A NOSE

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This is a photograph that says "creation" to me.

 

You often claim that you shoot what you see and I'm sure you did that here as well. But this goes beyond looking and seeing and is about making.

 

And the subject is "the made" as well, so it is self-referential as well.

 

The foreground statue, hard and sharp, backed by what appears to be a person but could also be a painting, I suppose. In any case, the layers you've established, the echo from foreground to background, even the simplicity of the negative space, the bands of light creating almost the feeling that I'm in a planeterium with the universe as backdrop, are intriguing and captivating.

 

A case, I think, (as with your red and white mattress shot), where color is essential.

 

This is rich. Great to look at and very ponderous.

Thanks. Looks like you are going to be the Lone Ranger on this. The raters hate it, and nobody has had an inclination to say anything. BTW, it is a real person in the background.

Creativity and unique images are not rewarded by PN ratings.

 

You want ratings, post boobs and birds.

Well Fred was already here.... ;-)) I will read your conversation later.

 

I was attracted to the unusual head, very different from your usual subjects David. You have titled it a nose... but what is very beautiful is the lips a bit open ( the nose is hardly seen...)I like the way the face of the statue is partly hidden, and the very unusual colors of face and hair. Also unusual is the blue upper line of light projectoring the eyebrow... have you cropped it from a bigger frame? it is grainy,but it does not disturb me.

 

Bizarre on one hand david, and attracting attention on the other.

 

LATER, reading your conversation, I was wondering where is the person behind? I see the light but not a person....

I knew that going in, and I knew this would not be popular.

Yes, this is a bit different from my usual fare. The pink is the nose of a friend, and the white is his beard. The statue is of Hans Christian Andersen.

Creative and witty, Dave.

Hans Christian Anderson has inspired you to shoot this classic image,David. You are ahead of the other phtographers by that 'nose':-)

Thanks to both of you. This was kind of a spur of the moment experiment, that I'm still judging.

Thanks for your explanation, I did not observe the lights and nose, as a figure behind the head of statue....;-))

I'll second Fred on this one, David. Boobs, birds and BUNBETS...oups, sorry, I mean...SunSets.

 

A very creative shot. I like the colors, very unusual. As though you'd leapt back in time and brought us a picture from the Roman empire era.

I like the idea its is both whimsical and clever. I am less enamoured to all the fancy post processing. I keep wondering what this would look like as a more straight up shot.

Thanks for the look and comment.

Your wish is my command. Here is the original without modification except conversion to JPEG and downsizing.

Thanks for that. I like this version much more than the treated version. The juxtaposition of statue and real man is much more evident and this strengthens the effect for me.

That is quite interesting. I felt the nose on the real man in the original looked too pink and I really did not wish to have discernible background. I will certainly concede that I do not like the brightness on the statue left, as it looks too much like flash. Thanks for your thoughts.

David, I agree with Gordon here, I would have even cloned the pink nose, as it does not look a part that belongs to the statue imo.The head is interesting enough. the other possibility I see is to bring a bit forward( in a new image...)your friend and it will be two kind of faces,one fg and bg... just an idea.

David, you get the "good guy" award "by a nose" for sure, thanks for the gift membership, now be prepared for an onslaught of postings in B&W! Friends like you are hard to find "somewhere in the middle of Montana". Hummm, which version do I like, the posted one seems more "arty" to me and holds my interest longer, the title wouldn't work as well without that shiney pink nose poking out from behind the statue. It's a little hard discerning what the background image is but it comes clearer with scrunity.

I'm not sure we are on the same channel on this one. I deliberately placed the nose and beard of my friend into the image in such a way that everything but his nose and beard would be obscured by the statue. A kind of a juxtaposition of the living and dead, flesh and blood vs. cold steel sort of concept. Perhaps it just doesn't come off well. Don't know. Thanks for your comments.

That's fine. I just didn't see any reason that you should not be posting as many images and you could stuff down that damn dial up line. So I tried to fix it.

 

Now I don't have to buy you a birthday present.

It's truly a gift that "keeps on giving" the whole year through. I'd send you a KISS but Peggy would slap the s--- out of me, just kidding.

it took a while for I to get it. It's a very good creative idea (V8 juice involved, no doubt). I wonder if having the background dude's head more to the right, so one could see more of his head and having the resulting contrast outline the foreground head more would help. I think so. Cheers, Micheal

Thanks. I'm not in favor of moving the real person background guy out, as my intention was to show only nose and beard. Having said that, I should probably have cloned out the bit of his forehead that shows. The real person is meant to only be hinted at, not overtly shown. I'm not sure of the second part of the suggestion you made about the foreground head. Can you explain that a bit?

 

Thanks again for your comments. I always enjoy what you have to say, and sometimes even agree.

unique and nice shot..congrats