a question about photography
By your opinion or perception experience - what detail makes some photo interesting ?
A contrasts, leading lines, shallow depth of field, big amount of parallel lines or huge empty (negative) space, an epic feeling or everyday emotions, good frozen objects or motion blur ? Night photography, high HDR effect or specific color isolation ?
Maybe something else ?
Let me know with a samples in the comments please !
In my humble opinion, these days there are 2 types of photography. Especially on the online.
First one is the one of composition and here I guess we all agree that the “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. Can be all of the above (what you wrote) and even more situations.
The second type I’m thinking about is the “companion photography”. The one that goes together with text in order to depict even more the ideas supported. This in my oppinion goes on quite a different pathway as it aims to project the story in the article/story.
I prefer the first kind, that standalone picture that can tell stories based on the viewer perception and experience. Unfortunatelly I’m not in front of my Lightroom to search for two examples though I don’t think I would be the best example, still learning :)
@catalincernat has some incredible stills on his blog that I think can make a good example on the first type I was talking about.
Sorry for the long post mate. All the best and thanks for the great photography you share!
thank you very much for this long comment - it's really what we need sometimes - some kind of discussion about something - in my interests is always photography :-)
I understand your point of view. These days i love more the second sample - in my personal photography web site most of my posts are about the series of photographs but not just a unconnected random images, but continuation of storytelling just with a series of images.
once i loved to find the single frame, the epic one, the one that saying the whole story - but seriously - how many epic photos can one shoot ever? ?
@catalincernat also in my following list, but somehow steem do hide from me the works of this artist. i just saw now that i never voted on the works. very strange
I guess steemit is about discovering and then rediscovering people and blogs :) great to have this share of opinions with you. Cheers!
same here ! thank you !
Thats a tough question! I think it really depends on the subject of the image and what kind of story you are trying to tell, every shot is different. Sorry, I know that is a bit of a non-answer.. but it really does depend on the circumstances, all the elements you mentioned though do contribute to the interest of the image, just perhaps not all at once! :)
but i want to believe that every single Artist has his/her specific touch and point of view on different subjects, so his/her different works still have some virtual, sometimes invisible but perceptible connection and similarity in some touch - it can be "darkness", nostalgy, feeling of demolition, constant happiness and other genuine "concepts" which an artist adds to his/her works without thinking about it.
Like a depression in Thom Yorke songs or a big sadness of Neil Young.
And this continuation makes them Artists.
Ah I see what you mean, the unique individual artistic style that comes through differently for each artist. I understand what you mean now. I think I find that hard to answer for myself because I feel like I haven't found my own individual artistic style yet. Although I often look for lines, and symmetry in my images..
not sure if it's right to feel by yourself that you have a style, but maybe if you (me, anyone) don't jump from manner, style, way of self-expression because of desire to be different every time, but lead the same way of doing that coming from the inner side - this IS !
this IS the style, when you photograph different genres of works but there is something that say - it's your work ! that's good enough :-)
I think depends on the viewer perception at that moment as says @vonaurolacu. The combination of elements in a photo, like contrast, colors, etc. could be so diverse, as diverse is the people.
agree with you ! most of time the mood of visiter is what influences his/her attitude towards some specific photograph or series
Agree too about "every single Artist has his/her specific touch and point of view on different subjects" as you said to @fiftysixnort. I think you can not follow trending topics to do your pics, thats would be the way to destroy the artist.
you're absolutely right - trands are "destroying", especially new coming Artists who are only look for their stile of making Art.
i have daily discussions about mainstream and how to recognise it :-)
thank you for taking a part of this conversation
Thanks u @victorbz! Glad to be part of this interesting conversation. See u around! ^_^
Not an easy question, as others have already mentioned.
I think there is not one answer to this. It all depends. However, I can make some humble random remarks:
Photo and text are a strong combination if done right. Your post about happiness is a strong example of this. The photo itself is quite simple but ok. The message makes it a really strong image to me.
A lot has been written on composition, so it is rather tricky to add something to it. However, I think that a composition should be clear and crisp, and support the message. Leading lines, the rule of thirds, negative space, etc, etc, are just some tools that can help to make a composition relevant. And I find it very hard to make this work all the time. Leading lines per se don't make a photo interesting. The photo that goes with this post has a lot of leading lines, but for me, it is not particularly interesting (and those white blobs on the left don't help either!).
A single photo is just on its own. A series of photos are often much more interesting. It's just too much for one single photo to carry the ideas and vision of the photographer. I like your feed for this reason very much: a consistent atmosphere and view that is shown in many photos.
it was my bad photo if the only diversity of my word made it great.
this image is about the life around us and i feel happy when i go with my camera and take a snapshots of this life - sometimes simple, sometimes even more simple, but i don't feel that i have to add a words about who is this man, or what kind of a fish is this catched one. I prefer to make a series then to explain the going around with a words. Both these images taken from the different series i always shoot and post in such way, but not here cos ppl on steemit, even they vote, even don't open the posts so i don't feel that i would like to be deeper. Absolutely different in my personal blog site, but we don't talk about this site right now. and thank you for your frank feedback, even i asked about something different but it's ok Jan :-))
btw, if you're interesting - this image is a part of my night photography series (one of them) - catch the light or photography exercises
http://www.victorbezrukov.com/catch-the-light-photography-exercises-4/
Thanks for sharing this link; I enjoyed this series. And now the image that goes with this post makes much more sense, and I definitely like it.
This illustrates the point that I tried to make with my remark on photo and text. It is not only the elements (leading lines, contrast, negative spaces, etc.) in the photo that determine how we appreciate and like the photo. The caption and elucidation are elements that determine what impression the photo makes on us, and whether we like the photo or not.
And for me, it also illustrates that a series of photos (when done right) have a lot more impact than one single image.
I hope, I made things more clear. Anyway, I like your series!!
"And for me, it also illustrates that a series of photos (when done right) have a lot more impact than one single image" - exactly what i feel last time. Thank you very much for taking a look on the whole series and for understanding.
As i said before - to post here series of images and stories is kind of time wasting, sorry for saying this but i do feel so.
thank you again for taking a part in conversation too :-)
An interesting photo. What was the f number used in the settings?
The lights at the background are a bit "unusual" for the image.
There are so many things in photography, that allow us to "tell a story" or to show an interesting image. I prefer to play with the geometry in the composition.
thank you very much ! i used Canon 50mm lens for this low light condition and f1.4 for this example
i used it as a part of my night photography series "catch the light or photography exercises"
http://www.victorbezrukov.com/catch-the-light-photography-exercises-4/
you can find a lot of geometry i use for my images - i think that geometry is what many of us are looking for when we look on photographs even when we don't think about but our brain and perception do