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 msb
    
Location: Sykesville, MD
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< on 12/7/2005 10:30 PM >
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A deviation from the rectangle. This will only work on UER, not any mirrored sites. Feel free to comment on the composition; I already know it is nothing special...and that is really not my intent. I am interested in the general feeling of the altered cropping, and if it has any potential.
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Location: Chicago
as one does
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<Reply # 1 on 12/7/2005 11:38 PM >
| | | | Because the mind naturally absorbs rectangular images it's pretty essential to photography in my opinion. Studys show that's the format we memorize most easily.
As far as the photos I really like the staircase the best.
I like what you do with depth of field but it doesn't work for your first shot as well as it does the second--maybe because of the interesting color.
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Obscura
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 2 on 12/8/2005 8:13 AM >
| | | | photography and scrapbooking do not mix... kinda looks silly in my opinion.
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<Reply # 3 on 12/8/2005 3:40 PM >
| | | | these pics are cool I was wondering if you could post pis like these here since there not like all the others. really nice shots though
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handskills
Location: Jer zay
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 4 on 12/8/2005 8:57 PM >
| | | | We as people through our natural perception confront the world in 3 dimensions. However... through socialization, via the moving picture and still image are taught to regard the world within a rectangular (though sometimes square) frame. I find it hard to asses these because I find myself wondering what the grey area that fills the rest of the rectangular picture plane I'm confronted with does for the image. I find It doesn't work to the images benefit at all. In a graphic sense this might be a useful technique as illustration merged in text, accompanying an article but as stand-alone imagery the technique here fails. The subjects of these photographs intrigue me though, MSB. With different decisions regarding depth of field and slight compositional changes some of these would make interesting photos.
holla.
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Andy "Not Dice" Dice
Location: We can live in dumpsters if we have to, MA
Gender: Male
UE'ing is for pussies, bro.
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<Reply # 5 on 12/8/2005 9:22 PM >
| | | | It's tough to do this type of thing and still get the effect...I mean, you can still feel the rectangle in most of these shots. Know what I'm saying? I think the art of photography is really taking a scene, framed within a rectangle, and composing it in such a fashion that your brain forgets about the rectangular border and, and the shape of the picture naturally becomes the movements and lines in your composition. I honestly find the cropping to be a little bit distracting because I can't extrapolate the rest of the scene. In the staircase shot, for example, if there was more context then the scene would naturally expand in my mind beyond the bounds of the rectangle, but because the context has been removed, it feels more restricted now than if it were "confined" to a rectangle.
Just my two-cents on it.
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msb
Location: Sykesville, MD
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Rails of Reminiscence
<Reply # 6 on 12/9/2005 3:59 PM >
| | | | To those who put in an opinion, I really appreciate it. As I said before, the shots are nothing great, but I was curious on the feelings of the skewed crop. I personally had mixed feelings, but didn't know if that was a result of the delivery of these specific photos, or the technique itself. It has become clear that the technique does not work, and people naturally want to see rectangular photos, and anything else is distracting.
What can I say? I was trying to do something...ANYTHING, to deviate from the typical UE photo. Art is a giant experiment, and a lot of things don't work. Time to come up with something else. 
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Plytheman
Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts
Obey The Deer
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<Reply # 7 on 12/10/2005 9:42 PM >
| | | | I like the idea, its a bit more abstract from you're regular lot of pictures and their angles and perspectives. I think you could go somewhere if you play around with the subjects and shooting them in ways to play with the angles of the crops.
As for the actual method in which you did this, my advice:
originally they were square pictures, only there were huge chunks of grey because the background color of the post was still blue. I refreshed the page and it made a world of difference. Next time you do this, save them as transparent GIFs, that way it wont matter what color is behind them. In photoshop (might be off, this is from memory and I dont make gifs too often) you'd delete the areas you want gone on the layer so that you can see the checkered pattern. Then 'Save For Web' as a 'Transparent GIF'.
Also, it might do you good to play with making the edges softer. I can follow the line in number 4 for example and see what you were going for, but you have a blurry soft image with a really sharp line cutting it off. Maybe fade it to transparency instead of just cropping it.
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Location: Portland Or.
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Rails of Reminiscence
<Reply # 8 on 12/11/2005 3:28 AM >
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Time to come up with something else.
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drawnaway
Location: Rochester, NY
Gender: Female
Eat it!
| | | Re: Rails of Reminiscence
<Reply # 9 on 5/22/2006 1:57 AM >
| | | | The idea is definitely there but it needs to be developed a little more. Maybe something with collage?
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