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Amy and Carlos, thank you very much both for the critique.

 

The presence of the figure (yes, dad!) in the background, and showing it only neck down, was a deliberate decision on my part. It is up to viewers to interpret, but in general the picture is about not being fully grown up yet, and about looking at the world from a different perspective than we adults do.

 

Thank you both again.

 

Adam

Great work. Everything -- from the scene itself, to the overlapping of frames, to the painting-like colors -- contribute to the dreaminess of it. I could have easily seen this in my dream. It would have been an idyllic one if not for the tar-like blacks in the middle which hint of a dark side to that dream.

 

I love the multitude of possible interpreations here.

 

Adam

Critique welcome. Thank you!

John, thank you for your comment and your work on the image.

The colors and look of the photograph are not the result of Polaroid material fading. I used this material (it is new, made by Impossible Project) with precisely this look in mind, including the greenish tint, unsharpness and all. In other words the look was my deliberate decision and I am happy to have achieved what I had in mind.

While I appreciate your version's colors may be closer to natural ones, I think I still prefer the original.

Thank you again for visiting and contributing!

Adam

Thank you both for the critique.

Fred, very good to hear from you again. Your comments on some of my decisions regarding this picture are spot on.

Very good. The man reveals only a part of his face to us. The rest -- the shadow -- builds the mystery behind this photograph. Well planned, and it works very well.

Critique welcome.

Critiques welcome. Thanks.

Thank you Pierre :)

Critique and ratings welcome. Thank you.

Love it :). Hope you continue your painting-like work, it is obvious that you know what you are doing. The geometry and colors of the boys make me come back and look again, and again...

Critiques and ratings welcome. Thank you.

Pablo, thanks. Yes, that was Oslo :)

 

Fred, thank you very much for commenting. I am glad to see you are still here, and offering critique as profound as I remembered it. You may have not noticed, but at certain point about 2 years ago I deleted everything from my photo.net gallery in an attempt to disappear from photo commenting sites. That was a mistake (it cost me the valuable comments which went down the drain together with photos), but to make a long story short one of the strong arguments for coming back was the recollection of your very thoughtful insights on individual photographs, and photography as a whole. Thank you for being here.

Comments and ratings welcome.

I like it very much, especially your very carefully planned idea of placing two contrasting areas – the strong reflection of sun on the wall, and the crawling shadow on the left – in compositionally very strong areas of the image.

 

Also, your work on grays and lights is so careful here, especially the sky and the stone are so well toned... up to the point of having soothing effect on the eye.

This is a winner in all categories I can think of, maybe except nature and aerial photography ;).

 

No, seriously, I love everything about this picture. E V E R Y T H I N G. One of the best I have ever seen in my life.

 

Niech sie schowaja ostre jak zyleta portrety w studiach, niech sie schowa smieszne "street photo" czyli cykanie byle czego i byle gdzie. To jest, panie Jurku, mistrzostwo, i nie mam nic więcej do powiedzenia. Chce robic takie zdjecia.

 

Pozdrawiam cieplo!

Luca,
This is an extraordinary image, and one that makes me smile too. The two characters do not only have their computers connected to the wall, they are also brilliantly connected by you -- by how you found symmetry between the two and captured it so skillfully. People-observation photography at its best!

One "but" only from my side: but why didn't you crop it to a square? That would nail the composition even stronger.

Still, my congratulations for this fabulous work.

Unfortunately, I cannot share the enthusiastic opinions of others here. This image does not appeal at all to my sense of aesthetics, and is not even a display of more than very average photoshop skills. 2/2.

Absolutely perfect. Difficult to say anything more than that Svetlana. There is pure (or now very impure!) form here, but there is also humor, and and a mix of other light and not-so-light thoughts too... You make excellent compositions of things that most people don't even notice. I am so happy you translate all this into photographs!

I love it. The lit tip of the cigarette got my attention only after I first examined the composition, the smoke, the mystery number 4, the man's silhouette... then the light of the cigarette struck me. It's very surprising, I would even say invading. Or intriguing, but in an aggressive way, because I feel it's pointed at me.

 

And just as the lit cigarette is pointed at me, so must be the eyes.

 

Very good, intriguing picture, with many possible interpretations, but always involving "me", the onlooker, as a part of interpretation... and I like it.

A most successful minimalist concept. I love it, it's like a well-crafted signature on a blank page.

 

Congratulations.

This is a very, very good picture.

That's a very brave crop, and very well justified. Shadow-hand trying to grasp the other dry trees. And that burning yellowness to that, with just a margin of, strangely not surprising, brown sky. Gives me the feeling of some kind of final and indisputable selection process which is beyond our control.

Excellent, one of the most original concepts I've seen recently.

 

 

The idea of "play within a play" has spanned ages in drama and art, and was exercised by so many, Shakespeare and Agatha Christie to mention but a few, but the use of this device in photography has been, in my opinion, undervalued.

 

 

You did it perfectly, projecting the casual walk of a film star in an American city to an anonymous country road, and the nonchalant posture and face of James Dean to the main subject of your photograph -- Pat whose face may express anything but nonchalance.

 

Again, so many possible interpretations, and anyone looking at this photograph may find their own...

Very, very good observation. Definitely worth a photo, and the photo has been well executed to that.

 

It needs a special skill and state of mind to notice metaphor and abstract notions in what others consider a heap of trash.

 

As far as I can see, there are 2 discarded Christ figures here, so maybe I would have called it "Christs and Dinosaurs". But that's just my opinion, maybe influenced by my general view of religion... The image is ambiguous enough to allow many interpretations, and thus it is a very good work.