The Continuity of Life

Shrimp

I've got a thought behind this but I think for the moment I'll hold it... I don't want to influence you any more than I may have already with the title...

What you think?

Thank you.

JackKelly

It's a lynx clicker

Dundhoone

Based on the title and what you have so far sounds good - but do these photos convey what your trying to get across?
How about some wrinkley hand holdin the 999 counter? A dark old pic vs a brighter younger one?

Right now i'll go with timmay. Its a lynx clicker right now.

Shrimp

For an image to convey a certain message it doesn't have to be extremely obvious. One problem, I don't have an old hand laying about and I wasn't prepared to PS my one either.

Thanks for the feedback Dundhoone.

eas

Shrimp wrote:

For an image to convey a certain message it doesn't have to be extremely obvious.

true, but I think Dundhoone suggestion would make your message much stronger.

another suggestion I'd have based on the 1st person perspective of these maybe consider the degradation of eyesight in the older shot (slightly out of focus maybe?) - again re-enforcing your theme. Or at least what I think your theme is.

shots look very good tho. Love the vignetting

elven

I think there are pictures that are pretty and there are pictures that tell a story. You're obviously trying to tell a story but in order for that to be done well, think the pictures have to stand on their own without any title or description, and I don't think that these do. You could come back and say that I "just don't get it" and you may be right, but I'm just expressing an opinion which you can take or leave.

I think as well, if you want to convey a message, you're right it shouldn't have to be simple and obvious but at the same time there's a difference between being subtle, or being purposefully obscure. I think you've slightly missed out on both counts here because the pictures are very 'simple' in graphic terms, yet they don't have a particularly polished feel. The vignette appears as a slightly crude effort to draw focus onto the subject and also to add a 'mysterious' (wrong word but I can't think how better to say it just now) feeling but it's just a little too simplistic without being perfectly executed - and with what I understand you to be aiming for, it has to be absolutely bang on for the picture - and the story - to be taken seriously.

I like that you're trying to do something other than just take home a slice of something pretty like a sunset. I just think it needs a bit of refinement. Is there something in particular that inspired you, another picture that you've seen?

I hope you take this post in good spirit, like I said before it's just one opinion of thousands. Even though at first when I saw it, it make me think of Ben Affleck, hehe...

Shrimp

hey guys, thank you for the comments, I appreciate that, and I do take them in good spirit.

I will be the first to admit that I don't think this is my best photo, however I do feel that it is in my eyes my most conceptual piece. Hmm.. perhaps I'm relying on my own personal thoughts behind the piece, and somehow along the way I have neglected the fact that the actual photographic content and effect is just as relevant as the anecdote or motive behind it.

My idea was, to take a fickle or false object, in this case the lynx clicker, and recompose or reuse it to play a different role. A darker role perhaps. The particular idea for this photo was...

"That for life to be continuous; Death must come upon us."

The Clicker... symbolic of each human life, may only click so far, at which point it must end, restart, be continuous.

Fionn

i get it now, even tho at first i didn't know what a lynx clicker was :rolleyes:

maybe a poem would need to accompany it

good effort all the same

heffsarmy

I have never read so much SH!T in mylife...this place is getting worse...

Shrimp

good man..

Flipflip

Shrimp wrote:

good man..

Hahaha. Legend.

I think its a really nice shot shrimp.

I got a fairly good feel for what you were going for when I saw it so I think its pretty succesful really.

Fionn

emmm which sh!t???

Valentia

I'm sure that anyone without one of these amazing objects don't get it. I have been banging the bejazus out of one for a few weeks now ( have you tried the "how many clicks you can get in a minute one yet? My record is around 420 whick is killing ny 22 year old son btw)

I like the concept Shrimp. A bit like poetry or Ulysses. Understandable when explained. Which is not a bad thing.

Ruu_Old

Well I like it anyway, good job Shrimp.

Shrimp

Thanks guys..

oh and velentia.. see how many you can get in 10 seconds.. I forget what I got..

melekalikimaka

very well done, tho your fingers are shockingly long!:D nice idea

Valentia

oh and velentia.. see how many you can get in 10 seconds.. I forget what I got

Hey I'm a cross country runner not a sprinter

Shrimp

lol velentia.. and yep i've been told i've got big-ish hands.. thanks guys for the feedback..

rymus

Jaysus Valentia, if you have a 22 year old son, you should take it a bit easier on your ol' fingers.. Something that old could break quite easily. How would you practice your own brand of photography then?

Valentia

LOL. I'm young for my age!

SexyD4Lady

Shrimp-

Absolutely love this shot. Won't go into it as I've had conversations with you before about it but it's still a piece that, I feel, triggers the emotions when I look at it.

Good work.