"Painting" a Dance...

Improvisation in an art( painting) studio. Thanks for viewing.

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Pnina, the parts of this image are intriguing. I love the dancer. For me, though, the image is disjointed and I can't pull it all together. The center curtain blocks the flow of the eye through the image. Just mho. Blessings.

I like how the picture is empaneled three times. Person, place, and time. I love the orange curtain. breaking through like a light beam. I like the woman subtly shrouded, waiting to be woken up from her frozen stance. I like the chair waiting, a place for us to think and time travel.

Beautiful mood and atmosphere!!

WOW!!! I love it, original.

 

Alberto

The massive pillar doesnt divide the picture. It points out the two major objects in a most distinguished way. And the huge course from the organic onto the painted work. The relief and the bald wall as well as the congruous lighting are uniquely underlining the particular character. Of course I would erase the veils rest at the left hand side ...

Beautiful.

i kind of do not like that the foot is cut off. Why would "erase" something that is part of the photo?

Pnina, playing with composition and colours,light and shade, are your key assets. You are always a winner. I am spellbound by the beauty of this image.

Jeoff, thanks for your comment ,the center wall is the part that connect the play of light and shadow of both sides and forms of art ,in a painting studio. The wall is in the FG and dancer and painting pedestal behind ( inside, second plan). Please read Jeff's interpretation that I hope will help you to understand it better.

 

Jeff, you have well understood the composition, thanks for your commentary.As I explained ,it was the main panel that separated /connected the other two, the light and shadows the nets, and the place ( painting studio) .

 

Andrea and Alberto, thanks both of you for your feedback.

 

Daily, you have well understood and well worded your commentary, thanks for that, I did not delet the net on the L side as it is like an "answer" to the red net on the central wall....( and suited for me composition wise).

 

Bob, thanks as well

 

Meir, I don't think it disturbs the composition it connects as well the second inner plan.

 

Amal, Thanks for your kind word, I'm glad you enjoyed this one that I think is what I wanted to express.

 

For all of you I upload another part of the same dance "sentence"

 

 

Now - I see!

Pnina, it is good you cropped the second dancer out. I like the original image. It has rhythm and luminous colours without any distraction.

I like Jeff's comments. To me , the pillar a necessary part of the picture & not intrusive at all. The shrouded dancer, the chair waiting...

Excellent idea! Very interesting picture, nice tones and composition. Very good! Regards.

I can relate to the explanations of the way the pillar works in the composition itself so that I am aware of sparsity and potential on the right compared to the action, fulfillment, and warmth on the left. I see it more as a division than a connection, but regardless of how it strikes each of us, it is an effective device. I take the object on the right to be an easel, not a chair? At least the photo works better for me if it is an easel.

 

Having discussed how the pillar works within the composition, it would be interesting to hear thoughts on how it works in terms of the photographer and the viewer. One thing that comes to mind is that it seems to emphasize the dancer as object of art, in terms of my relationship to her. How does Pnina, as photographer, see the pole as a visual mechanism used between her and the rest of the scene? Is it an obstacle keeping you at bay or a means to invite you in?

 

The foot seems naturally to fall behind the pillar and heightens its obstructive sense.

 

Though I wouldn't here, because the bit of veil on the left works for me as it does for Pnina (though I wouldn't mind just a little more of it showing), I'd say to Meir that the reason one might erase what's part of the photo is very similar to the reason one might reposition themselves to include all of the foot or why one might crop differently. Because they liked it better that way. It is one way to make the photograph look the way one wants.

Thanks Daily, for your follow up.

 

Amal, I liked the version I have uploaded as first, the second is just another part of the dance " sentence", it gives one more aspect of the initial upload, it is a bigger series that I still work on.

 

Cherlyn, thanks and again it is a painting easel on the R side.

 

Gunnar,thanks for your visit and comment, I appreciate it.

 

Fred, yes it is an easel, I forgot to write it to Jeff ( I called it a pedestal but I think easel is the right word, thanks!)....I will explain my feelings and trigger for that composition. In one hand I see the pillar as a division of two kinds of art creation, but on the other ,creation is creation , only the means are different, so this pillar is the mental and physical connection.. Another thought was ,as you saw it Fred, the dancer is fulfilling her art , the easel is the art potential, both are part of the same world, the world of people that has the will (need) for expression. It is for sure an invitation, and not only an invitation ,but my part as the photographer of the scene, like the third side ( rib....) of a triangle.... Composing as my art ,what I wanted to compose from the elements all around the studio.

 

The partly hidden foot, I see as a continuous step behind the pillar, both are "connected" on the second plan ( and the dancer went out to the front room from that R side....it was an evening with invited audience) . As I have photographed more aspects of that evening , not only the dance, I intend to upload one or two of them soon.

Pnina, a beautiful composition full of warmth and mystery - not a common combination. I like the division into almost equal halves of human and inanimate, both in a soft and mysterious focus. I think I would like the central division to be smaller and less dominant, but that is helped by the soft orange color and patterns. Very nice!!

Where did I say "it" disturbs? I said "foot". Mr.Daily Photograph said erase, not I :-)

 

 

 

 

Outstanding, as usual . . . This shot is extraordinarily moody - very mysterious. The center wall is bright, while the areas on either side are darker. On the right side is a dark wooden chair with no visible detail. On the left side is a person covered with a veil and on a pedestal, whose movement is uncertain. These contrasting elements are very interesting and quite effective.

 

My compliments! Shabbat Shalom.

 

michael

With grace and beauty - wonderful 6/6 anon

Boy, I seem to be late to the party (and usually I'm so punctual). The composition with its central post breaks up the composition into segments and so the dancer appears as an artifact, perhaps an intriguing item found in a particularly fascinating shop of artistic curiousities. She seems frozen in position within her enveloping veil.

Roger, thanks for writing your impression,there were 3 walls that divided the space, I liked this one because of the BG of the dancer and the painting easel.

 

 

Meir, Daily did not mean the foot , he talked about the red part of the net on the L side...;-))

 

Michael, thanks again, but on the R side it is a painting easel not a chair , it is dark so some has thought it is a chair ( no harm done....)

 

Tony thanks for your feedback

 

Jack, you are never late and always welcome with your imaginative comments..;-)) I like to read your thoughts. Thanks.

Pnina...A great piece of work...One side of the photo represents beauty,

grace,and light...the other side represents old, common,mundane...I like this image very much...Marjorie

Pnina, thanks for the explanation. And thanks everyone for the good discussion. This is what I would love to experience more in this fine community.