Godfrey
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Panasonic L1 + Summilux-D 25mm f/1.4 ASPH
context: http://godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com/130-fence-yard-and-fog
I love the fog.
Comments always appreciated, thanks for looking!
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Thank you for the comment. However, I honestly don't understand what you mean ... can you articulate further what distinction you're making the allusion the title forces the frame to be a box....instead of a window ?Ya know you asked for comments soooo,
I really like the image...but I hate the title.....
The title forces the frame to be a box....instead of a window..
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Godfrey,Thank you for the comment. However, I honestly don't understand what you mean ... can you articulate further what distinction you're making the allusion the title forces the frame to be a box....instead of a window ?
BTW: Did you read the blog post or just look at the photo?
thx!
Tom,Thank you, Godfrey. I had always thought fog was a losing proposition...lots of gray nothing. I am wrong. On vacation a week ago we had dreary weather, so I made lemonade, so to speak. Here's one of my fog pics:
Early morning
E-P1, exif data is missing. All I know is that it was shot with the 14-42 kit lens.
Thanks Don, that is illuminating. I'm a great fan of David Hockney, and his message is that the painting always represents a story that the viewer can figure out in his own way. I'm too lazy to give my pictures names but now I see that this might be a distraction to the strength of the image.Godfrey,
I will try to explain....
Let's start by seeing the rectangle as a frame...thus the saying, framing an image, used during capture....
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it's in a box......
Without the title...the viewer's imagination is forced to work and try to reach it's own conclusions about the image.....this is allowing the viewer to be a part of the image and because of this interaction, the frame becomes a window.....
Don
I think you mean the thing on the rock near the left margin. I hadn't even noticed before, but I know the location very well. What you see is an iron pipe or bar imbedded next to the rock. It does look like something alive.Tom,
Interesting image......
I am captivated by the creature crawling out of the water........
Don
No, no, I can see it clearly, too..I think you mean the thing on the rock near the left margin....
Uff da, I'm never going in that lake again!Per....
exactly but Tom has the other critter on the left....
Sure wouldn't wanna swim in there......
I hadn't thought of it this way. Hmm, could be interesting.Oh I understand that, yes indeed. The imposition of a title does change the perception of an image.
I quite agree.As the author of a piece, one can either leave it untitled or title it. The problem is one of communication, in my opinion. If you leave a piece untitled, it still has a name ... "Untitled" ... which can either say to a viewer "I didn't know what to make of this, maybe you do" (kind of a weak message imo) or it can say, "The piece speaks for itself, you should be able to figure it out; if you can't, tough" which seems pretentious to me.
I often find myself giving the image I'm shooting a title there and then, even going so far as to not bothering to fire the shutter when what I thought would be initially an interesting subject to photograph and put a title to turns out not to be so in the viewfinder.I feel I have to title my work somehow, as a practical matter, for the simple purpose of having some handle for a person to refer to it by. I dislike the pretension implied in a title like "Untitled #2044a". I spend a lot of time thinking about the titles I apply so as not, in my opinion, to box in the viewer's perceptions too much while giving some suggestion of my intent in the authoring of a piece.