Firstly, I want to thank you for the envolvment. This is is exactly what I wanted to achieve in the firts place - debate, to provoke discussion. I have deliberately chosen a provocative title in order to achieve just that, to stir up things a little, to get people talking.
Since you already asked twice, I will offer MY OPINION
regarding the photo and the painting, but this whole thing isn’t about MY OPINION
, contrary to what the series title would suggest, but rather an attempt to push people to make their own judgements.
Now, I think the photo is bad. It lacks context, mainly due to the long lense it was shot with. The frame is too tight, showing nothing of the environment and messy. As far as colours go, it is well know that the color red attracts the viewer’s attention like nothing else, and usually, if you have red in your frame, you want it to be on your subject. Now I doubt the subject is the car. Furthermore, the composition is really bad. The long lens compresses everything into a mess of shapes and color. Then there is the bottom of that oher car in the top of the image. Everything about how this was framed is sloppy, careless and unintentional. It looks like a pictures someone who knows nothing about photography.
Technicalities aside this image says nothing. There is no story here. It’s devoid of any soul and meaning, it’s instantly forgettable.
Lastly, it is another UNPOPULAR OPINON
of mine, and the subject of a future video, that shooting people from behind is extremely rarely conducing to a good picture. Most often than not it’s lazy, it’s boring and cowardly.
I do somewhat like the fact that they both have hats. It’s the only thing I find interesting here.
Now as far as the drawing goes, while I know nothing about drawing, I will say I think it’s… OK. It looks decently pleasing graphically, but to me it looks unfinished. It looks like a sketch, like the foundation for a more serious and finished piece.
Wrapping things up, I do notice a lot of you appear to have missed a second point I was making in my video, and possibly the most important one. While I do stress the importance of rules, guidelines, measurables I finish by saying that these alone don’t make a good picture. They are NECESSARRY
but no SUFFICIENT
.
What I think is most important is the ability to speak through one’s photography. To tell a story, to move the viewer, to stir some emotion. And that is ENTIRELY SUBJECTIVE
.