Friday, February 10, 2006
Central Milton Keynes
Hello,
I'm Colin Jago (user name auspicious) and this is my first posting to this collaborative blog. The picture is not particularly representative of my work, although the element of humour is. I thought I would post a self-portrait to begin with and anyway we needed a test file of a certain size to check on page dimensions.
The original text with this posting said "A modern shopping centre. A little bit shiny and very faceless." which may make the comment by John E a bit more understandable.
I'm looking forward to talking to you all and getting you comments on my photos.
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Comments:
I have now signed up as a member of this Blog (I hope) and this is a test comment. It looks as though Milton Keynes has some attractions after all - at least, photographically. Maybe the face is somewhere else? Or should any surface presenting itself to public view have a face (architecturally speaking)? Perhaps, in this instance, the designer/architect felt that this was a suitable compromise but by hiding the inside, and stopping people looking out (unless there is something unpleasant behind the photographer), an unnecessary area of exclusion has been created..
John E,
It is interesting isn't it, trying to interpret intent in a picture. At the time I was just pleased to have something to photograph that had some spark of interest in it, having had a not very productive couple of hours beforehand. However, looking at the result I can see all sorts of interpretations that I didn't think of at the time.
Also, I think photographers can rarely resist multiple refelctions.
An intriguing image and as has been said what photographer can resist reflections? I’d also add that I cannot resist patterns, repeats and visual echoes.
My definition of visual echoes is best demonstrated within this image by the rectangles in the blue vs. the foreground ‘windows’ and the horizontal lines in the blue vs. the wires in the balustrade.
I also like the sneak partial self portrait, well I guess that is you behind the ‘window’ frame?
Rex: yes that is me. I spent a few moments trying to compose a patterns picture (i.e. trying to get my reflection out of shot) before noticing that the 'self portrait' was worth a go.
Although this is a fairly straight shot, the colours were substantially enhanced using C1 and the saturation slider. Milton Keynes is a lot grayer than this in reality.
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It is interesting isn't it, trying to interpret intent in a picture. At the time I was just pleased to have something to photograph that had some spark of interest in it, having had a not very productive couple of hours beforehand. However, looking at the result I can see all sorts of interpretations that I didn't think of at the time.
Also, I think photographers can rarely resist multiple refelctions.
My definition of visual echoes is best demonstrated within this image by the rectangles in the blue vs. the foreground ‘windows’ and the horizontal lines in the blue vs. the wires in the balustrade.
I also like the sneak partial self portrait, well I guess that is you behind the ‘window’ frame?
Although this is a fairly straight shot, the colours were substantially enhanced using C1 and the saturation slider. Milton Keynes is a lot grayer than this in reality.