1y ago

Astronomatopoeia 031, #photography, 2023

#photo #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #mnartists #lightandshadow

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- Yes, I suppose it is. Sunlight from two different windows created the hotspot shapes and shadows where the ceiling and wall meet. Your use of the word 'just' implies criticism of the piece. What do you think of the photograph?
  
  Well if you're actually asking for a critique, I deleted it because I thought I sounded mean., I think this one looks pretty bland and amateurish compared to your other pieces, the light doesn't really give off enough contrast to give the picture any sort of composition, that being said, there may have been something there but due to how subtle this sort of subject matter is, it's pretty difficult to capture it just right and it just didn't come out for this one. The only advice I could think of to fix things is possibly some post processing? Give a thin outer shadow to the form you're trying to highlight to get it to pop. Once again though, looking at your other work, I just think this one fell flat, it happens, it's definitely not a critique of your skill as a whole since you're obviously talented
  
  Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your feedback and your decision to delete mean sounding opinions and instead leave a critique of the work. And yes, I value critique of my work.
  I'm wondering if you could elaborate on what makes it bland and amateurish. Are you reacting to the overall composition, the subtle contrast, or the lack of an obvious subject? Or maybe all of those or none of those things? I feel the photo is comparable to the subtleties of light and shadow of Astronomatopoeia 029 and 008 and taken with a similar artistic eye while 012 and 005 are definitely spontaneous snapshots. Astronomatopoeia 025 is similar only as minimal subject matter but dissimilar as abstracted space.
  
  I think the lack of obvious subject, either that or just the composition of the forms, it's minimal, but also not well defined enough to be able to pick anything out to my eyes
  
  Thanks for elaborating. I'll keep that in mind moving forward when posting to this sub. I have noticed that people tend to respond positively to more traditional photos and negatively to abstraction. But there are specific subs for posting those images so it's not a big deal.
  If you are at all interested in abstract photography, there are plenty of artists to look at. There's Man Ray, Aaron Siskind, and Edward Weston. It started gaining in popularity in the late 1800s / early 1900s with the Abstract Expressionist movement and on through Cubism and Futurism.

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