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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/28/2008
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OK, nice to know, Andre!
All the best,
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 1/27/2008
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Hi Nick,
No problems here :) Just a little less time to spend on Usefilm lately. But I will remain a regular here for sure.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/24/2008
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Hi Andre!
I was wondering if everything is OK with you and so I am glad you're back now. Hope you're doing just fine. As about the images, just take your time. I am also pretty much absorbed with scans for the time being, and so I have much less time than usually.
See you,
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 1/23/2008
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Hi Nick,
I haven't been around for a little while. I will catch up on a few more of your images later on tonight.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/14/2008
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I guess you're absolutely right with that, Andre! And also with your rather simple and down to earth way of not insisting that they should drop everything for looking at your images. You wrote that with a funny touch, but it also has a very mature touch of not taking the own self also too absolutely. I guess this is also why you don't even try to suggest some kind of superiority by using words like "I created", and the like. For me it is a sign of experience and maturity.
I had also sometimes a very good feeling for some images but they went almost unnoticed, while some others that I considered only relatively good got much more recognition - and still I don't know why ;-) So, though there are such general things and criteria, still any artwork can only be subjective. It can even cause two completely different impressions to one and the same person according to the mood, etc.
Thank you very much for the link too - well, had I evenr shot such an image, I would have more than a good feeling for that! Not only for the details and the lighting, but above all for the very intrigzuing composition that capture the essence of the swan right away. It is one of the images that depict reality but also more than what the eyes see. It is such images, I guess, for which we say that a photo can tell 1000 words.
Cheers,
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 1/12/2008
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Also Nick, photographic arts is so subjective that what works for some people does not always work for others. Yet both sides can present their arguments.
We are all in that same boat of not really knowing 100% if something is going to work or not. Every now and then, I will take an image and seem to intinctively know that it will work well, but that is an exception rather than a rule.
I usually show my wife and two boys what I would consider to be my better images, when they have the time, just because I am proud of the work that I do. But, I hardly ever insist that they drop everything to come and see one of my creations :) But, one day a couple of years ago, before posting one of my images here, I called them to see an image that I took of a swan. I had until that time, never got an award at this site. I told them all that this was going to get an award. I just had a feeling that it was that good. :) The next day, the image got an Editor's Choice award and to this day the image is my most popular one here. I also entered the image in a Canadian Wildlife Federation monthly contest and it came in second for the month. :)
So, like I said, sometimes you just have a good feeling about an image right from the start.
http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=1029193
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/11/2008
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Yep! I have to second that Avi! And still everybody talks about the "personal development of the individual". ;-)
Oh well, we drink to that now, and once again when you'll be exhibiting in New york!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/11/2008
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Thanks a lot for the encouraging words, Andre! And it is indeed encouraging to know that I somehow approached a bit of that kind of softer look that still conveys something. And surely you got the point quite exactly for which I am once again very glad too.
When I was trying to get some shots about this theme, "Humans" I was thinking all the time, how much can be still not thought as some purely voyeristic attitude of mine? I still continue with this series and so I only wish to not turn people to some kind of objects for microscopic examination captured on a phpto. At the same time the particular atmosphere has still to be captured, and so the problem "how much is enough" appears once again. Anyway, street is a very fruitful place both for technical as also for the more subtle skills.
Back to the image, could it be that softness works exactly when it is not the particular details in, say, some face expression, but rather the general look/atmosphere? I must confess that I am still on the try without really knowing when it's going to wprk and when it won't.
Cheers,
Nick
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Avi
{K:70138} 1/11/2008
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fashion is a tricky thing, you see.. it LEADS us more than we want... always...
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/11/2008
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Thank you very very much, Luis!
Cheers,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/11/2008
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Thanks a lot, Avi!
I am especially glad since I thought that such images are out of fashion nowadays.
Cheers,
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 1/11/2008
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Nick,
And I just noticed that you mention in your about, the very image I was comparing it too :)
So, it seems I got the point ")
Supporter of Curiosity
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 1/11/2008
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Hi Nick,
I think the softness in this one works much better than with the image of the ballerina with the car in the background.
I think the zoom is just fine. No need to be further away or closer. It is a fine composition the way it is. Umbrellas are always such great props for creating a sort of mysterious or romantic mood. Also as you mention they can be the iconic protection symbol in an image as well. This one has almost a similar theme to the image of the man on the edge of the dock with his two young children.
Very well done!
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/10/2008
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Thanks a lot for the nice comment, Claudia!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/10/2008
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I couldn't describe that better, Paul! A big thanks for this comment!
Nick
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luis pereira
{K:26013} 1/10/2008
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You should not wonder about anything with this image Nick. It's excellent.
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Avi
{K:70138} 1/9/2008
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BRAVO ! BRAVO !! BRAVO !!!!!!!!!!
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Claudia Perilli
{K:31090} 1/9/2008
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Great capture, very nice composition.
Claudia
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Paul Lara
{K:88111} 1/9/2008
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Yeah, it's interesting how you can hear family stories for so many years, you construct these fuzzy 'images' of that moment, and later can no longer be sure if you remember the moment or your own construct.
I like it, Nick.
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