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 don’t like it.
It’s too distracting right off the bat.
I like it. Kind of reminds me of Two-face from Batman with different sides, but that just my geek showing.
What makes this photo to me is purely that it is interesting and it draws me in.
In this over-saturated world of images, videos, and the like. Isn’t capturing something interesting what matters? A reader’s attention? A pause to just like in a little longer.
Now that I’ve been drawn in, I notice other things as mentioned above, such as, orientation of the photo, that the distortion is due to water, but I also like the tree and how he is framed against the building. While those could be “happy accidents” they could also be compositional choices, as Chase could have also moved in the water to capture this from a different vantage.
Like! Because as a good photo should, it draws you in and invites you to spend some time.
Like very much. It’s a beautiful optical WTF.
Though I’d love to play with the “color” to bring out certain details etc.