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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 4/4/2009
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Thanks a lot again Vandi!
BTW, any new uploads of yours soon?
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/31/2009
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Hi Andre!
And I see now also that I forgot to "beautify" one of the surgery wounds. Sigh! But still thanks a lot for the encouraging words.
About images of the work of other people, well... I guess it is the difference between citation and plagiarism, which boils down to what you say. The image should keep then the character and the own beauty of the ctatue, or painting, or whatever. It is good and nice to enhance that, but it shouldn't change the own character of the work. This way it can be thought of as a small acknowledgement, or a citation to the maker.
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/31/2009
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Thanks a lot for the nice comment again, Dave!
Nick
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Vandy Neculae
{K:7990} 3/31/2009
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Nice composition and beautiful work.
Vandi
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 3/26/2009
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Hi Nick,
Now that you point it out, I can see it. It would be hard to find otherwise.
Well, at least you didn't take credit for the set up of the still life. :) I though you might have set it up yourself. There is a fine line when we take pictures of statues, art and even cars and architecture. How much credit can we take for someone else's masterpiece? I suppose if we show those things so that we don't take away from the beauty or impact of the subject, then we can at least take credit for that. You did a really nice job on this one.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/25/2009
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Hi György!
Then it has to be asked, *what* philosophy you see here? Which stream, what was the question, what was the logical approach to an answer, what was the subject of investigation at all?
First of all let it be stated here once and for all times: There are much better sources for philosophy than the images of an amateur like me.
Second: Artists should keep away from philosophy, at least as long as they naively think that their creative work automatically is also philosophy. It needs much more than shooting an image for philosophy.
Third: It is only arrogance to impose the own impressions as "philosophy" to the images of others, because this simply implies an a priory assumption of the own "correctness" of interpretation, which in turn transforms philosophy to a subject of personal taste.
Philosophy is not the vague cloud of conteplative looking, but the stroctly logical examination of matters. It is lucid, not foggy.
I am sick and tired of seeing that missusing of the word philosophy for each and every nonsensical purpose. So we have "company philosophy" (hear that, hear that!!!), "philosophy of photography" (woooow, I stand astonished!!) "business philosophy" (what else am I going to hear on this world??) and all the other cheap excuses for pretending mental depth.
To me it seems like the statements of many too many bands in rock that sit and talk about the "philosophy" of their music. I am a rocker myself, but I won't sit there and pretend to have philosophy in the songs. Same goes for my images.
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/25/2009
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Thanks a lot for the nice comment, Dan! I am only glad if my PS-faking isn't recognizable.
And indeed it has to do with advertisement, since it was arranged there in the window of a wine shop in Florence/Italy. They wanted, I guess, to convey a natural attitude for good wines and similar products.
Cheers!
Nick
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 3/25/2009
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Very well done, Nick! I never would have known if you hadn't told us! I does make a very good composition, too.
Dave.
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György Szönyi
{K:10011} 3/24/2009
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Well, Nick, it is only partly the business of the artist to decide about the philosophy of his/her work. The business of interpretation is precisely to bring out such meanings the creator perhaps not even dreamt about it. There are also gross misinterpretations, of course, but the authorial intention is only secondary here. I do see philosophy in this pic, this is why I like it - apart from the technical perfection and the visually pleasing rendering. Cheers, Gy.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/24/2009
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We could think just about anything by looking this or any other image, Gustavo. Symbolism is not on the image, it is in your mind.
As about me, I only shot an image and I also had to do much work for saving it afterwards, as it wasn't as good as I wished. (See message to Andre.)
I don't deal with such important problems like unfair distribution of wealth using photography. This is too serius to be faced by the wished "symbolism" in the minds of each and every amateuric photographer. Science will deal with it, and the libraries of universities, but not such images.
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/24/2009
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Thanks a lot for the nice detailed comment, György! I don't see anything "philosophical" and even less I see anything "mystic" on the image, though. It is an image of a nice arrangement, that's all. For philosophy we read Plato and Sartre and all the other great ones. But of course we all have our own impressions about images.
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/24/2009
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Thanks a lot for the nice detailed comment, Andre!
I am absolutely sure that the guys that arranged that knew exactly what they were doing. This was the window of a winery shop in Florence/Italy, somewhere in the labyrinth of streets on the old city. They put the wheat in such a way that it reflects a photogenic but also quite natural look just because of the small "imperfection", if we can name that this way. I agree totally with you in this. It is just the way to avoid too much "irregularities" but to also not give in into the "total order". And thus it is balance to me.
One thing that I am glad about it is that the glares and reflections of the glass, behind which it stood, are not as strong on the image.
The other thing I am glad about is of course that until now nobldy seems to notice the fake. I attach the original shot along with the markup of the area that I copied and pasted (and of course also tried to turn similar to the cut weighing cup). The continuation of the wall and the shelf was easy but the "integration" of the cup is a small victory to me. The surgery seems to be acceptable, I guess.
Cheers and thanks again.
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/24/2009
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Thank you very much, Marcio!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/24/2009
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Many thanks for the nice comment, Yazeed! I am glad if you find it good.
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/24/2009
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And nice thanks, Bubai!
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/24/2009
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Thank you very much, Malules!
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/24/2009
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Thanks a lot, Luis! Can you tell me some of those things to read?
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/24/2009
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Thank you very much, Luca!
Cheers!
Nick
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Dan Wilson
{K:21104} 3/24/2009
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Wow, amazing shot. It looks like an advertisement. No it is not obvious at all that this has been modified, super work.
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Gustavo Scheverin
{K:164501} 3/23/2009
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Muy buen still life. Interesante desde los simbolismos, podríamos pensar en la injusta distribución de la riqueza en el mundo, no?
Un abrazo!
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György Szönyi
{K:10011} 3/23/2009
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Very nice pic, Nick, goes to my favourites. Its simplicity is at the same time philosophical. And the lights and colours are perfect, you have the darker, weighty matter-stuff in the lower section (with astonishing details of materiality)and the eye moves up, through the mid-tone organic wheat into mystic light and illumination. Congratulations, Gyorgy
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 3/23/2009
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Nice balance indeed Nick!
Beautiful colour and interesting subjects. There is something about that one piece of wheat hanging down that seems to make the image work even better. Sometimes that little piece of imperfection in the image is what makes it special. Sort of like a few strands of hair out of place on a beautiful model. Or a mole on Cindy Crawford's face. I can't detect anything faked at all in this one Nick. Good job!
Andre
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Marcio Janousek
{K:32538} 3/22/2009
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Great image ,wonderful and fine work ; congrats.
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M jalili
{K:69009} 3/22/2009
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Yes . What a beautiful work my friend . A very beautiful idea,composition,details,light and color .
The sharpen is a very good likt a digetal image .7/7 .
REgards my friend .......
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Aungsita Chatterjee
{K:19843} 3/22/2009
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nice balance. ..........
bubai.
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Malules Fernandez
{K:54810} 3/22/2009
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Really Excellent, dear Nick.
hugs,
Malules
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luis pereira
{K:26013} 3/22/2009
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Nice shot Nick. One could read a lot of different things here.
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Luca Peccerillo
{K:17660} 3/22/2009
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Really fantastic image!!
Great find
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