Originally posted by vonBaloney Oh no, so many of my photos are "stupid". I thought they were cool. (I'll post some later when I'm able to upload.)
I like the parking lot one especially.
Thanks
I didn't want to offend people you take or like those types of images
I think I got the "stupid" from the "Stupic camera tricks" thread here and chose to use it because of my inability to accurately describe what exactly it was that made me take those kinds of photos. There's just a certain "je ne sais quoi" sometimes, and in rare cases this actually manifests into something worthwhile for me.
Originally posted by jumbleview Both are cool.
Thank you.
Originally posted by Sir Nameless The first one is interesting. The left side is warm and organic, while the right is cold and industrial. There's sort of a cubist face in there with the windows and duct work. I could read some sort of story into that about how modern humans are stuck half in a natural world and half in a machine. Or something.
Maybe I'd categorize it as graphical/geometrical.
Thanks. I only saw the face when I looked at the thumbnail prior to uploading the picture
I think you nailed it. Geometrical arrangements with a touch of colour to make it interesting.
Originally posted by ramseybuckeye The first one is kind of interesting. Post it to 500px, the editors there would probably go gaga over it, but maybe not without a model.
haha, I'm not at 500px
Originally posted by stevebrot I think of this sort of thing as "found composition". One sees it, one is taken by it, and one makes it their own!
That's a good characterization of what I mean as well. And googly eyes make anything funny
Originally posted by robgski I don’t know how to categorize these images either, but the first one is especially eye catching
Thank you!
Originally posted by Dartmoor Dave But the second one is a really brilliant piece of seeing. The sad little eye shapes in the wall looking out at the bollards are just wonderful.
Thank you, but I don't think I can really take full credit for that, because at the moment of capture I did not actually make the conscious connection
Originally posted by vonBaloney I think of it as album cover photography.
I see what you mean, yes. But I think album covers photos are much more diverse than just what I mean here. Perhaps only those of a certain genre of music?
Going by @Sir Nameless categorization "graphical/geometrical", I think this one qualifies for this kind as well, as it were shadows of the straight lines of the fence bent a little by the uneven snowy underground in combination with the colour gradient from the lamp above that made me stop there and take some shots:
Colour Gradient
Although this one also has a shadow theme and the "seasonal aspect" that makes this a little unique because it doesn't snow that much around here very often and without snow the shadows never fall that cleanly and contrasty onto the dirty ground.
I don't know if this one really qualifies to be in the same category as the first two because I'm still trying to grasp the common elements of what I'm feeling. I think it should.