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 it a lot. Photographs that make you stop and scratch your head to figure out exactly what you are looking at (if done well) are some of the best. Any photograph that gets people to slow down and really look is a success.
Toughie. I like the concept, great use of water but am bummed at one side being a tad over exposed, the other being under exposed. Would like more structure and contrast. I keep lookin, it’s growing on me. Would have been hard but an HDR of this would have been cool.
I like that it’s different and takes a moment to figure.
However, overall I don’t care for it. For me, it doesn’t flow with my eye, it’s too jarring and dis-associative. I immediately disliked the image when I saw it, though I’ll admit it did intrigue me enough to hold my attention. (part of that was you asking for opinions)
So, my final opinion is that I don’t like it aesetically, but it is a good conversation piece and if it were hanging in a gallery, I would take a moment to look at it and discuss it.
LOOOOVE IT! Any photograph that makes me think is cool in my book!
It really draws me in partially because the orientation and the split. It makes you do a double/triple take on it noticing other nuances of the image each time.