Dvorak wrote:Chosing the next theme was something I found tricky, since the comp seemed to have gained quite some momentum last month, and I felt a certain responsibility for preserving that (or at least not totally destroying it...). No idea how it will work out, but let's have "Atmosphere" as the theme for May.
Sometimes pictures are all about the object depicted, but sometimes they are not. Then they may live just by the mood, the feel, the atmosphere that they convey or evoke. I mean, how often did I try to capture a real-world atmosphere within the few bits of my camera sensor just to find out later that the cam actually saw it in a totally different way ("Oh, the colours are all wrong..."). Then again, my cam made a totally moody and appealing shot of a scene that I haven't seen that way at all. And then as a third, I sometimes found that I could work out something interesting out of an otherwise totally boring snapshot just by some (heavy) post-processing, conjuring up a feel that has never ever been there in the first place.
So, atmosphere. Be it peaceful, bright, gloomy, bleak, sinister, comforting, or just strange.
May it be a spontaneous snapshot or a carefully composed study.
Standard rules. Any kind of post-processing welcome (if you like).
Dirk
Dvorak wrote:Anyway, here's the shortlist.
nyarla: Untitled #2
I love this one. You might nearly sense the presence of some underlying harmonics or golden ratios, yet the composition tilts into total unbalance.
There's a smooth distribution of greys - but a good third of the image is nothing but crushed black, sharply contrasted with a blown-out white detail.
That together with something that feels like a lurking but not apparent symbolism hidden right under the surface structure makes for a vibrant sense of
uneasy tension. Quite fascinating to see how blatant violations of standard photography textbook rules can create such a dense atmosphere.
OnlyIntruder: Into the Woods
A wide angle capturing a movement of view in just one static image. A very balanced composition of high and middle frequencies, of shadows and light.
Entangled tree branches normally let me crack cheap jokes ("How many Black Metal Band logos can you spot?") - but this one is really lovely.
Whiteball: The Moon
Could not other than to put this onto the shortlist: that's exactly the pale moon I watched through my dad's field glasses when I was a kid.
What an alien ... thing.
sdetoni: Te Miro
Panorama Sphere App stuff may be something we'll have seen too much too often pretty soon - but, hey, this here IS the Shire.
D.
Usual rules apply
