Post by alexr on Feb 5, 2023 15:40:32 GMT
Thanks again for the great varied entries, as this week's judge it always makes it such fun to make a selection.
I have selected three images that stood out for me, one for its technical brilliance and two for their artistic vision.
Kathylee - The Black Vulture
live.staticflickr.com/65535/52612711691_805f9ac48a_o.jpg
Oh how I wish I could take an image of this quality. The detail is impeccable, capturing every hair and fold on its face, which means the focussing was perfect, the separation from the blurred background is faultless. And the subject itself is beautiful. Lovely.
deany - cosmos painting
i.ibb.co/gVq7s3n/cosmos-painting-copy.jpg
I have made no secret in the past that I am fascinated by the images that deany produces, and this one has that lovely ethereal quality that their style so often evokes. The processing turns a great image into a great piece of art.
blackmutt - seabird
i.ibb.co/JsGnQPR/bird.jpg
When people are scrolling through lots of images you need to stop the viewer and make them take a second look. There are, of course, many ways of doing this, but this one just stopped me in my tracks and made me keep going back to it. At first sight it is nothing special, it is a somewhat soft mono image of a wading bird in a sea of texture. But then it is also endlessly fascinating. Why the position? Yes the bird is on the thirds and walking into the centre but it still feels extreme. Why do the large areas of untextured space in the image work? Because they form a path. Why isn't it pin sharp? Because then it would all be about the bird, and somehow the image isn't. Would I have dared ever present this? No, but I bloomin' wish I could. As with deany above - blackmutt has the eye of the artist.
I have selected three images that stood out for me, one for its technical brilliance and two for their artistic vision.
Kathylee - The Black Vulture
live.staticflickr.com/65535/52612711691_805f9ac48a_o.jpg
Oh how I wish I could take an image of this quality. The detail is impeccable, capturing every hair and fold on its face, which means the focussing was perfect, the separation from the blurred background is faultless. And the subject itself is beautiful. Lovely.
deany - cosmos painting
i.ibb.co/gVq7s3n/cosmos-painting-copy.jpg
I have made no secret in the past that I am fascinated by the images that deany produces, and this one has that lovely ethereal quality that their style so often evokes. The processing turns a great image into a great piece of art.
blackmutt - seabird
i.ibb.co/JsGnQPR/bird.jpg
When people are scrolling through lots of images you need to stop the viewer and make them take a second look. There are, of course, many ways of doing this, but this one just stopped me in my tracks and made me keep going back to it. At first sight it is nothing special, it is a somewhat soft mono image of a wading bird in a sea of texture. But then it is also endlessly fascinating. Why the position? Yes the bird is on the thirds and walking into the centre but it still feels extreme. Why do the large areas of untextured space in the image work? Because they form a path. Why isn't it pin sharp? Because then it would all be about the bird, and somehow the image isn't. Would I have dared ever present this? No, but I bloomin' wish I could. As with deany above - blackmutt has the eye of the artist.
