That is a very fair criticism. I took the image because something about the sculpture grabbed my attention and held it. I tried to capture the feeling that it aroused in me when I faced it. I tried to make it look more like a statue -- or even a head -- than just a mask. I tried to bring out the slight discolorations and the textures to make it more three dimensional. In the end, however, it is merely a reasonably decent copy of the original, as you point out.
It still affects me, almost as much as the original did. That is probably because I can recall the experience of seeing the original. It is therefore easier for me to experience that feeling than it is to create the feeling in someone looking at the photo who has not seen the original. Does that make sense? Dan On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Bruce Dayton <[email protected]> wrote: > I tend to struggle with images which are just representations of art. > If you were to look in a book or something to just see what it looked > like, then this does a fine job. But it leaves me with the feeling > of just taking a picture of a picture. > > In order to make a picture of art, there either needs to be something > very dynamic about the representation - could be emphasizing texture > or lighting or something - or there needs to be other element(s) in > the picture. Basically it changes the image from just being a copy > of the original art to being a new piece of art in it's own right. > > So for me, this shot is more a good copy of the original, but doesn't > really grab me. I hope my explanation makes sense. > > -- > Bruce > > > Saturday, March 20, 2010, 6:44:03 PM, you wrote: > > DJM> Sculpture of a mask in the National Museum, Romes; > > DJM> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10825483 > > DJM> Comments, criticisms, and suggestions greatly appreciated. > > DJM> Dan M > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
