Lost Time* by Canon DSLR Challenge

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1/29/06	Jason

Lost Time*

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For some, time doesn't move in an orderly progression, but rather in fits and starts.
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Without time, even the lightest of burdens can bury you in the chaos of the everyday.
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Canon EOS 10D ,Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

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Guest		05-Feb-2006 05:03
Jason, Everyone has a different style, a different viewpoint, and different taste, along with a different set of life experiences. I'm not relating to your experiences; that's all. The image is just foreign to me, so I can't relate or feel it. Others apparently can. That's cool. Just because I don't 'get' something, that doesn't make it a bad image - just an image that doesn't call to me. No image will call to everyone. The most important thing is how you feel about it. It does speak to those who relate to it, and that's really a good thing. It's all about knowing your audience. Present the right thing to the right crowd and you're a winner. Present the best image to the wrong crowd and they'll run you out of town! LOL! I won't run you out of town, I simply glanced and moved on. It's great that you have put thought and emotion into the image, because that shows depth. If I don't get it, it's my problem, not yours. Keep shootin' as long as you're feelin'! :) ~ Lonnit

Canon DSLR Challenge		05-Feb-2006 03:40
Markjay: thank you very much. I put a lot of thought into it, and I'm glad you like it.

Canon DSLR Challenge		05-Feb-2006 03:39
Lonnit, thanks as always for pulling no punches. I'd have honestly been disappointed if you said "nice picture". As for the eye, and the rough cutout, they were both very intentional. The intent was to have the feeling of being buried by the nonstop progression of the days, months, and years. Without something like the eye being buried in an almost brutal way, it just lacks any meaning for me. Actually, it would still be a little geeky-chaotic, since it'd be a haphazard collage of two Fibonacci series. Anyway, I like the dark spin you put on the image, but I think I'm happy enough with this one to leave it alone for now. Again, thanks!

Guest		05-Feb-2006 02:34
Jason, since you requested my opinion, it would be disrespectful of me to not be 100% honest with you. I liked the image, other than the eye. I didn't get the significance of it and it didn't pull any emotion for me. I thought it was a picture of an eye lying there like the other pieces, but now, upon further inspection, it appears to be a cutout in the background paper. The "messy" hole bothered me, in contrast to the neat cuts on everything else, not because it had any emotional impact, but because it just seemed sloppy to me. I'm sorry, but the image just doesn't work for me. It would be pleasing without the eye though, for a departure from your original intention. Perhaps if the rest of the image was not so clean looking, it would have evoked an eerie feeling, but it's all so clean and bright. If you want to keep the eye there, then I'd do a lot of dramatic burning and bringing out the shadows. As it stands now, there is just no connection between the eye and the rest. Sorry. ~ Lonnit

Canon DSLR Challenge		03-Feb-2006 09:19
Jason, this is very inventive / creative of you. I like everything about your image! Markjay

Guest		31-Jan-2006 01:02
Rob, thanks for the compliments. It's not my first, but it's the first image I felt like I was able to do justice to the image in my head. I wanted it jarring and almost "telltale heart-ish". There was a set of illustrations in a version of Poe's Telltale Heart where you just see the madman's (?) eye through a tear in the wallpaper, and that's what I wanted to capture. Something about it not fitting the shape of the eye nor the rest of the layout just seemed like it fit.

Guest		30-Jan-2006 23:20
Jason, if this is your first entry it's very very good , it's creative and fits the challenge topic very well. (*)one thing I would have changed it the shape of the cutout for the eye - something sympathetic with the shapes of the number or months maybe. That said it's still very good. Rob

Guest		30-Jan-2006 18:40
Trav, thanks! There was something about gleefully cutting up an old Ansel Adams calendar in order to use it for a new photo challenge that just seemed right.

Canon DSLR Challenge		30-Jan-2006 06:44
Dear Jason: You have arrived. This is just wonderfully smart....Great job. Best Wishes, Traveller