DGMPhotography
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shot of some guys side / back? No interest for the viewer.... meaningless, no matter what title you give it!
I dunno... Great focus. Caught all the textures of everything very nicely, Shading is also lovely, but there is something about it that I am not loving and I can't figure it out. I think it is the square crop.
shot of some guys side / back? No interest for the viewer.... meaningless, no matter what title you give it!
DGMPhotography said:My friend, there is no way you can speak on behalf of every possible "viewer." Some people, like me, may find this very thought provoking. To me, Picasso's art holds no interest to me, but that certainly is just an opinion, like yours! And the title was not meant to be creative... it's literally what he was doing, and it was at a joust. Just describing the scene. But thanks for your input!
It looks like a frame from an old movie of the 30s. That is until you look at the crowd and see the modern garb. As others have said there is nothing to indicate what this is about other than what you have told us. His dress and facial hair is interesting and period to the 1800's so from that point of view its interesting. A frame from a movie. But this one frame doesnt tell the story. His body language looks like he could be giving a patriotic speech with his hand on his heart. Or that he is thirsty and his hand is on his throat.
I have just a tiny bit more experience than you do, son! Trust me.... no matter how hard you argue.. I would bin this one!
amolitor said:Charlie's just being a negative Nellie.
The biggest problem I have with this one is that the arms are ambiguous. The big blousy sleeve makes the near arm uncertain (I THINK he has his hand up near his throat?) and there's a weird building over his right right shoulder that makes it look, at first glance, as if he has his right arm up and right hand shading his eyes. Then you realize that it's not an arm, it's the building, and what you think is maybe a hand shading the eyes is some weird thing about his hat.
Tonally, the background is pretty well separated from him, but geometrically it's kind of ambiguous and busy back there. You could try getting better visual separation of the man from the background, but I think we're always going to be a bit confused about what his arms are doing. The posture is quite nice, the textures are great. There's a lot to like here.