Thursday, October 04, 2007
Dublin 9 - faithful texting
Comments:
I feel a Stills series starting here, another text orientated image. I shall have to check my HD :-)
Is it grainy?
She doesn't look happy, hasn't won a Dorothy Perkins voucher then.
Rex - a combination of shooting through glass, a dirty window and ISO 400 perhaps? Not so much text orientated as juxtaposed.
So the question is, "how faithful are you?" and appears that she has something going on. but what? we shall never know, which adds to the intreg with this picture.
John, I really think that you should try to pull together a series on this.
The combination of grain and dirty train window makes this feel cold and dreary, which clashes with that awful pink book cover. While her expression is interesting, it's the clash that makes it work for me.
The girl on the bench is enough for me -- I could do without the sign despite the faithful text thing. I like the bright blue "V" of her shirt with the red brick wall.
The reflection makes this a little too voyeuristic and adds a boundary to really getting close to the subject. Having said that it is well seen and the interest in the phone and the caption on the poster are a perfect compliment.
Christine - I think that it was the overall colouring that appealed most, plus her expression.
Doug - as with Colin, a series smacks of being organised and, considering that I don't get out that much and certainly not with the intent to collect something specific, is unlikely to happen.
Akikana - I might take you up on the semantics of "voyeristic": given that the viewer is as open to being viewed as he/she is able to view; similar to the goldfish in the bowl - who is looking out and who is looking in? - then an occupant of a train can observe, overtly, with not enough control over the process to make it covert.
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Is it grainy?
She doesn't look happy, hasn't won a Dorothy Perkins voucher then.
John, I really think that you should try to pull together a series on this.
Doug - as with Colin, a series smacks of being organised and, considering that I don't get out that much and certainly not with the intent to collect something specific, is unlikely to happen.
Akikana - I might take you up on the semantics of "voyeristic": given that the viewer is as open to being viewed as he/she is able to view; similar to the goldfish in the bowl - who is looking out and who is looking in? - then an occupant of a train can observe, overtly, with not enough control over the process to make it covert.