Slow shutter speeds on scenes of movement are almost always more evocative of the reality of the moment. My brain knows this picture at 1/4 second, but is shocked by the detail of 1/250th.
You are not the only one to comment on the scariness of this series Marisa. Anonymity is what I saught, as we meet them at the end. In stead it appears I have caused something to happen that was never intended. What would I do next time? Maybe different subjects? But it was infact that these two looked so unusual that attracted me to them in the first place. I like this series and wish that it had not prompted "scariness" in the viewer, but perhaps an intrigue in to what they looked like with the final satisfaction at the end portrait.
Kal,
I deeply appreciate the visual search you have done with this serial of pictures, but I don’t find any real appeal for the subject. I felt like examination all the pictures carefully to detect my real emotions and perceptions, there are sometimes disturbing scenes which provoke emotional constructive reactions and have not any just devastating effect.
I think these scenes of dance are, in my personal sensitiveness, just limiting their impact to the purely disturbing and scaring first impression.
The deformed faces remind me of a mimic of Edvard Munch’s nightmare paintings, and I feel simply uncomfortable without finding any clue or starting point to get over the first scaring impression.
Your photography is a fascinating perspective on world and I think it doesn’t diminish the admiration I have for that just expressing my impressions, because loving all is like loving nothing, all what make the value is making differences
Marisa
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19-Aug-2005 18:23
When im looking at this shot,i feel giddy..everightn start to turn around me...this effect u got cuz of that little tilt to the left down side....the hands of the dancers follow this way,and the also move to the left down side with their hands..so cuz of this, we can have this srange feeling of turing...
I left a comment but it did not register. I must have forgotten to click the add comment button. I said that I liked the geometry and the movement as well as the tension, but the blurred face looks pretty scary, and fights the mood.
You did not comment on this one Phil, but it is my equal favourite with the colour version. I liked the geometric link between the pattern on the paving with the shape they made with their arms. That negative space created between their arms is full of tension for me.
