Monday, September 22, 2008
Apparently I only take photos at Eastern Market
The first one is "Beautiful at Eastern Market." The second is "Hats of the Lonely." Taken with my teeny Canon Powershot SD750. Cropping done on Photoshop. I didn't want to make that lady uncomfortable by making her sit there while I got all up in her grill.
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I'm voting for limequat for this challenge.
Not for the second photo. The second photo contains a lot of interesting shapes and the juxtaposition of the painting of the (dapper?) gentleman and the dummy torso carrying accessories and a wireframe shoe plays at the edge of my mind that there's a composition thing here that almost forms... but not quite. This doesn't quite feel like still life, it just feels still.
Ah, but the first photo. I don't know if it took effort to compose this shot or just good timing but it's brilliant. This picture does seem to be worth a thousand words: I could talk about the hats on nobody alongside the hat on somebody, the use of the hat to conceal identity, the vibrance of the colors, the contrast of the colorful hats to the darker shades of the rest of the woman's attire, even the fence separating the foreground from the background--the storefront from real life. I'm totally making all this up, but my point is that I CAN. It's not a photo that I would necessarily own, but it's definitely the photo that I vote for.
I like the first photo cause it looks like the lady is trying to hide by pretending to be one of the hat stands.
^^^what Paul said^^^
This set is my fav!
I like the first shot for the colors and expression. It's a good picture. My eyes went immediately to the lady wearing the hat and then explored the other colorful hats that leads the eye right to her. Colorful. Bright. =)
My fav of the set is the second picture. I like the different perspective of the shot. To me, it's easy to take a shot of a person or animal wearing a hat. What else is there?
The picture of the man wearing the hat is clear, the foreground is just hazed enough to be visible without taking the viewer away from the focus, the portrait.
The shots are creative and fun. Yay!
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