Here’s the Photo of the Day.
Like it or not? I’d love to know, and it would be good for everyone if you told me why.
[BTW, this image is from our “OGI” file. What’s that? Well…when Scott and I are editing photos after a shoot, combing through thousands to find the select few that see the light of day, we employ a practice that I can’t recommend highly enough. That practice is to put those surprise images–the unexpected happy accidents that have merit, but maybe aren’t relevant to the job we’re editing–into a file of their own with other like-minded (bizarre, unique, etc) images. We call that file “Otherwise Gifted Images”. That’s sort of what I meant by the title of this post. It’s got a double meaning… in one sense, like this image or not, the practice of saving random, unexpected stuff to a common file, or tagging it a certain way, is a good practice. In another sense, I do want to know if you like this photo or not. I’m bias, but I love it. In fact, I took a spin through that whole file last night and fell in love all over again with about 40 photos.. I’ll be sharing more of them over time.]
Like it. Why? Because I’ve never seen anything like it before. And it’s creatively mind-bending. Two ingredients to a great image if you ask me.
Did not like this one. Cool idea that was well executed, but the photo is uncomfortable to look at.
Exactly, momentarily interesting, but then, meh…
I like it… at first its almost arresting; but then as you look at it again it reminds me of Jekyll and Hyde, like you are truly showing two personalities at the same time. Its not a beautiful picture but it is worthy of discussion.
Like other commenters above, I didn’t like it at first because I couldn’t create a context for it. BUT….I *HAD* to keep looking at it trying to get the context, I couldn’t let it go.
After I “got” it, I still liked it…although (also mentioned above) maybe not in a “print this up put it on my wall and in my portfolio” sort of way?