the other shoes by ctfchallenge


23-AUG-2007	b.c.

(not sure if these are incongruous enough to be on-topic...)

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
1/640s f/8.0 at 105.0mm iso200 hide exif

other sizes: small medium original auto

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Rod		12-Oct-2007 22:26
:-)hehe

ctfchallenge		12-Oct-2007 21:16
Rod - the gallery called, you're hired! :) - b.c.

aam1234		12-Oct-2007 19:27
Reading the first part Rod I knew you are having a beer (or a dozen). Being a Friday confirmed it :) Have fun, mate.

Rod		12-Oct-2007 12:28
This to me evokes a sense of arcs, not the Joan type arcs but parts of a segmented circle as in Pythagorarse arcs. So the implementation of the arcs to juxtapose within their differing tonal ranges is to me a work to be looked at very closely, wiv sunglasses on of course......hic...Looks fine now after two beers:-)

ctfchallenge		11-Oct-2007 22:46
The whites look ok on my monitor, and the extremes from the bright whites to deep blacks works for the topic because it battles the uniformity of the subject matter. "Uniformity" is generally a liability in this topic because that's not clutter. But this image provides a tension between the apparent uniformity and the messy arrangement and the aforementioned white-black contrasts. The result is a good take on the topic, given the requisite frame-filling details. What I'm hoping will be discovered by posters as well are other various and complex kinds of clutter of dissimilar objects that may be held together perhaps only by their abstract and visual relationships or, as in Armin's pieces, the situations that encapsulate the various objects. That alone would not be enough, but Armin's framing is tight and filled with details as well. -tv

ctfchallenge		11-Oct-2007 21:01
hey Rod & aam - thanks for looking! my take is that the group of white shoes naturally draws your eye first, but then you notice all the others. kinda evokes a sense of uniformity among the diversity. order among the chaos. :-) or something. yeah, that's it. that's my story and I'm sticking to it. anyhow, may be all moot if this doesn't fit the challenge's definition of clutter... - b.c.

aam1234		11-Oct-2007 20:46
I don't see any harm in that. It's a mess, but cool kind of a mess if you ask me.

Rod		11-Oct-2007 19:27
The exposure does look right Aamm as a sunlit shot but the bright white shoes seem to take all me attention.

aam1234		11-Oct-2007 14:34
Is your monitor calibrated, Rod. Here the exposure looks spot on.

Rod		11-Oct-2007 10:14
We will learn more when Tommy wakes up. The white shoes look overly bright to me B.

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