I posted this picture because I think its really something that only a camera could see. I turned the shutter speed way down and I kept the lens open for almost a second so that the child was moving as I took the picture. I also turned the flash off because it was late at night on the beach and there was one prominent light glowing. I think it gives the picture kind of a cool look, and makes the child look ghostly. I think the composition works well, because although the central focus is the child, hes not completely focused and is less in focus than the background. Also the lighting is very dark and hazy, which gives it kind of a surreal look.
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I like the idea of the photograph, but I don't think the child had a wide enough range of movement. It just looks a bit like a blurry photo of a child standing on the beach. If the child had been doing jumping jacks, or something that really indicated movement and jesture it might look a bit better.
i actually think it works well with the slight movement, if the kid was jumping around too much i feel like it would get too abstracted. i like that the figure is still recognizable
The idea behind this photo is really original. It's kinda creepy thinking about a child alone at the beach at night...like he was lost or something, or even left behind...Very Halloween-ish
Hey Bri--not sure how you tried to use line/shape which was what the assignment asked you to do?
But the image is very creepy and disturbing. Not just because of its subject matter--an indistinct child possibly alone in a dark foreboding environment, that normally we would find to be appropriate, but through your use of dark values, a very short value scale (no light values or whites), and deep space suggested by the darker areas at the back which we can't read. The child seems to be approaching us but its amorphous shape is not a typical formal representation of a child, which is often represented just sharp, small, and cute. This shifting of our normal expectations of how a child can be seen is disturbing! Good job.
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