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 – because it made me look again and again and again and go hmmm…
I totally agree with what you posted. Many of us photographers shoot thousands of images and we only pick a select few to go up. It also sucks because although we like a creative standpoint some images we shoot, we know we can’t show them off to our clients or anyone else because we’re so caught up with trying to show our “best.”
Anyway, I like this one a lot because it forces me to look around the whole picture to catch all the details and to even figure out that he was underwater. I kind of wish it were in color, but I’m guessing the black and white makes it a bigger mystery as to where he’s located.
Like it very much. At first it took me a second to figure out what he was doing…but then I remembered some underwater pics shown to me from a friend. Clever. It made me think…and I think that’s the point.
J.
Nah, I don’t like he big separation line in between, if you would have got close with a normal lens, the line would have been negligible, and then I would have liked this shot so much !
I think it’s a beautifully simple capture with no pre-conceptions and that’s what makes it so organic. The fact that it’s black and white makes it so strong, for me it would not work in colour.
Great shot Chase.