This one literally took my breath away. Sometimes I think you are the manifestation of my mind. I love this and I haven't even seen the black and white version; yet, I am sure I will love it as well. Beautiful beautiful work Edward Galagan
Absolutely outstanding work! Normally I tend to criticize people for placing their main subject in the center of the frame as it diminishes dynamics of the composition. In this particular picture everything: light, composition, color are intended to bring our attention to the main subject and placing it in the center actually adds a great deal of drama to the picture.
Fred Scott Jr. My dear friend, I really appreciate your absolutely kind comment to my work! But I will be much more appreciated, if I get you some great feelings that I put in my works! Thank you for your open heart!!!
Michael Mossiagin Michael, nice to hear from you such expected pro-comment! Really I am breaking the rules here - not to put the subject in the center... :-) . Because I put nothing outside the main POV. Sorry, here again comes the new rule.. :-)....... Honestly, Michael, my friend, I am too far from the rules already. With my pleasure I would like to ask you see my works by your heart. Rules - are not for the art. Thank you very much for your open heart and feelings!
The title is "Freedom" for this one. I feel that the use of a woman with no clothing certainly symbolizes that and most women will relate to it. In the scope of human history, women have had to fight and continue to fight against ideas that they are not equal nor allowed to express their desires like men do. An attempt to keep them covered up and dictating their fate has been the constant struggle for them over the ages.
Thus, this image of a nude woman in an open field with the light of freedom warding off the darkness of suppression makes a powerful statement about the heart and will power of a woman.
However, I would have to agree with Michael Mossiagin on his comment of centering the subject. Maybe rule is the wrong word to use. Artist tend to shy away from rules. Ha!
I would say it is a "fact" that a centered subject in photograph and motion pictures losses the attention of the viewer. It is simple human nature or human makeup if you will.
Does this take away from this image. I can't really say. The hat she is holding and the shading of the field give this a little sense of being "off center" I guess the question is does it take away from the story or would it add to the story. Hard to say without an actual comparison.
Now how does that all make me feel? I can't say it stirred that kind of response from me.
What it says to me is:
I am alone in this world. I can not read the minds and hearts of others. I can only see what other will show me. And, for me to be a part of another persons life I must be will to express my heart and mind. Weather in painting, writing, photography and or touch. To me it represents the light of bravery and will to express the heart and mind in a very dim and cold world.
That's my take on it my friend. Again, thank you for sharing your work. It inspires me in many ways.
Well done, and well stated all. Whatever the rules, or science of it, I like it. And ultimately that is what counts. Do people "like" it.
It is as true of photography as is with art, that one image will evoke many different thoughts, and interpolations. Some may be expected or desired to be ahead of time. But others, they are something the artist or photographer (they both produce art) had never envisioned. And that is likely the best possible thing, to have the desired, and the unexpected.
Edward Galagan not to dispute your point but to clarify mine: every artist I have known has learned some basics and techniques, some rules and then overstepped them. Once you learn the technique, it becomes one of your tools, used unconsciously. To learn from the best, I try to understand why did I like this image/view/composition or another, what made it attractive or not? I wish one day to be able to feel harmony intuitively and expressive my feelings as skillfully as you do but I am - not doubt - not there yet.
This one literally took my breath away. Sometimes I think you are the manifestation of my mind. I love this and I haven't even seen the black and white version; yet, I am sure I will love it as well. Beautiful beautiful work Edward Galagan
ReplyDeleteThat is beautiful! True freedom.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely outstanding work! Normally I tend to criticize people for placing their main subject in the center of the frame as it diminishes dynamics of the composition. In this particular picture everything: light, composition, color are intended to bring our attention to the main subject and placing it in the center actually adds a great deal of drama to the picture.
ReplyDeleteThe selection of colors creates the dramatic atmosphere of this image!
ReplyDeleteFred Scott Jr.
ReplyDeleteMy dear friend, I really appreciate your absolutely kind comment to my work! But I will be much more appreciated, if I get you some great feelings that I put in my works! Thank you for your open heart!!!
Natalie K.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, Natalie! I am happy that you feel this freedom!
Michael Mossiagin
ReplyDeleteMichael, nice to hear from you such expected pro-comment! Really I am breaking the rules here - not to put the subject in the center... :-) . Because I put nothing outside the main POV. Sorry, here again comes the new rule.. :-)....... Honestly, Michael, my friend, I am too far from the rules already. With my pleasure I would like to ask you see my works by your heart. Rules - are not for the art. Thank you very much for your open heart and feelings!
Igor Rybnikov
ReplyDeleteThank yuo, Igor, really I had some doubts in the varians...
Alright Edward Galagan I can do that.. Ha!
ReplyDeleteThe title is "Freedom" for this one. I feel that the use of a woman with no clothing certainly symbolizes that and most women will relate to it. In the scope of human history, women have had to fight and continue to fight against ideas that they are not equal nor allowed to express their desires like men do. An attempt to keep them covered up and dictating their fate has been the constant struggle for them over the ages.
Thus, this image of a nude woman in an open field with the light of freedom warding off the darkness of suppression makes a powerful statement about the heart and will power of a woman.
However, I would have to agree with Michael Mossiagin on his comment of centering the subject. Maybe rule is the wrong word to use. Artist tend to shy away from rules. Ha!
I would say it is a "fact" that a centered subject in photograph and motion pictures losses the attention of the viewer. It is simple human nature or human makeup if you will.
Does this take away from this image. I can't really say. The hat she is holding and the shading of the field give this a little sense of being "off center" I guess the question is does it take away from the story or would it add to the story. Hard to say without an actual comparison.
Now how does that all make me feel? I can't say it stirred that kind of response from me.
What it says to me is:
I am alone in this world. I can not read the minds and hearts of others. I can only see what other will show me. And, for me to be a part of another persons life I must be will to express my heart and mind. Weather in painting, writing, photography and or touch. To me it represents the light of bravery and will to express the heart and mind in a very dim and cold world.
That's my take on it my friend. Again, thank you for sharing your work. It inspires me in many ways.
Well done, and well stated all. Whatever the rules, or science of it, I like it. And ultimately that is what counts. Do people "like" it.
ReplyDeleteIt is as true of photography as is with art, that one image will evoke many different thoughts, and interpolations. Some may be expected or desired to be ahead of time. But others, they are something the artist or photographer (they both produce art) had never envisioned. And that is likely the best possible thing, to have the desired, and the unexpected.
Edward Galagan not to dispute your point but to clarify mine: every artist I have known has learned some basics and techniques, some rules and then overstepped them. Once you learn the technique, it becomes one of your tools, used unconsciously. To learn from the best, I try to understand why did I like this image/view/composition or another, what made it attractive or not? I wish one day to be able to feel harmony intuitively and expressive my feelings as skillfully as you do but I am - not doubt - not there yet.
ReplyDeleteOshi Shikigami
ReplyDeleteThank you, Oshi! You are right!