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November Photo Comp. -- 'All in the Detail'

The last few subjects i've not had anything to submit, now i've got hundreds to choose from, so anyway here's one....


tiger beetle



Cropped and photographed in mid wales earlier in the year.
 
Firky said:
That is two entires of other people's artwork...
lizzieloo said:
I thought that too, that's where the impact comes from, the original artwork.
I agree with you both, but would that extend to say photos of graffiti/street art as well?
 
BiddlyBee said:
I agree with you both, but would that extend to say photos of graffiti/street art as well?
Depends if the photo itself adds anything. If not then you're just making a repro of someone elses work.
 
Jangla said:
Depends if the photo itself adds anything.
That makes sense - never really thought about it properly before - but like you said it is someone else's art and not your own.
(my brain's not working full speed today!)
 
BiddlyBee said:
That makes sense - never really thought about it properly before - but like you said it is someone else's art and not your own.
(my brain's not working full speed today!)
Exaclty. I mean, if you take it up close or from a bizarre angle then you're actually doing something with your subject and creating a different piece of media from it. if you take the shot exactly as it was created, you've done nothing.
 
Jangla said:
Exaclty. I mean, if you take it up close or from a bizarre angle then you're actually doing something with your subject and creating a different piece of media from it. if you take the shot exactly as it was created, you've done nothing.

Nah, because the main subject is the artwork, if you add other elements around it - then maybe.

Two examples we have in this entry carry such impact because it is another artists' work, however the Pollock one does have a lass looking intensively at the painting, so I'm more at ease with that shot, in letting it go - even though the visual impact and main focus is Pollock.

I wouldn't enter this shot because all I did was take a photo of someone elses' work, at a funk angle with a little bit of oversaturation.
 
Firky said:
the Pollock one does have a lass looking intensively at the painting, so I'm more at ease with that shot, in letting it go - even though the visual impact and main focus is Pollock.
I though that too, the fact that she's looking at the detail in the painting ~ All in The Detail...
 
just looking at thumbnails page,
going to be hard to pick only three.

RAR that nice Berryberry - franklin1777
 
I thought that that pollock photo was a huge improvement on the painting itself and fits the theme. And it's perfectly ok to photograph what you like, imo.
 
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