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.]
I like this. It makes you think and not think at the same time, especialy for me after deconstructing it I see more. I liket that it’s rotated 90 degrees from ‘normal’ I like the Ying/Yang thing going on. THe play of light and shadow is great. the use of soft and hard focus, the clean and simple background on the left vs the clutter we live in on the right. I like the tree growing out of his neck/shoulder. This would be a fun concept for a book, with athletes, celebreties and regular people.
I can see why you kept it. Very inspiring.
I don’t know how long it would have taken for me to figure it out w/o someone saying it. Your rotation of it actually makes a big difference in my perception of the photo. I like it.
I like it.
Don’t take me too much time understand the photo, because see the TECH_ Underwater Camera episode =)
Thanks for the unrecommend tip.
I *love* this shot!
The fact that you oriented it this way and framed it so tightly make it really hard to see what’s going on without looking closely. It’s immediately fascinating and intriguing. As it is, he could be a guy standing partially behind an overflowing glass watertank. The reflections in the windows and what I presume is a tree behind him indicates that he’s really in a horisontal position halfway submerged. Of course, it being B&W is what makes all this mystery possible. There’s also an interesting duality between the very clean, simple, and seemingly closer left side and the more detailed, busy, and seemingly distant right side. I also love his expression.
Great photo. I like the originality and the choice to make it black and white. It makes it more interesting. I had to look at it for awhile to realize the left side is underwater. Very well done.