This online blog has been created to enhance the communication between students during the artmaking process. While working on a photographic work and upon completion, students will post their images and wait for comments from their fellow peers, teacher, and other registered users. This blog will also be used as a venue to discuss historical and contemporary works by artists from around the world.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Online Sketchbook Prompt Sixteen
Yesterday, Jeremy Brotherton
When you look at this image, what thoughts run through your mind? How do you think this "ghostly" effect was created? If this image was in focus, would it's meaning change? Why?
I think of a ghost traveling down a long and abandoned street with noone in sight except the legs of the woman who also happens to be wearing high heeled shoes. I think that the artist created this image by using a "dodging technique" where he/she blurs the legs with a moving object or by moving the paper. I also think that if this image were in focus that the meaning would not change at all it would still try to describe a time when the woman's legs looked different.
i think of a ghost, in a lost world. i think the effect was created by dodging and burning. something along the lines of movement to make the subject matter (woman's legs) unfocused. I think if this image was in focus the overall meaning wouldnt change, but i DO think that it wouldnt have the "ghostly" effect it does now.
I love this photo. I think the "ghostly" effect was used by fading the photo in photoshop. I love how the photo looks old and forgotten. If it didnt have the ghostly effect, the photo would be completely different and would give off more of a content mood.
At first, i thought this image was like a camel or llama. ha... BUTTT, now i realized that it's actually an image of a lady with really cute shoes. I think the photographer wanted to represent the past and its memories.
I honostly do not have a single idea as to how this image was even created. Maybe it was just taken by a pin hole camera because of its blurriness.
The images meaning would completley change if it was all in focus because the inaccuracy of it makes it seem really emotionally important but if otherwise noticed it would seem like , not as important.
thsi image is very ghostly and creepy. they probally did it by like negative sandwiching or whatever its called. and then made it alll blurry. if it was in focus it wouldn't look ghostly, it would just look like a girl standing there so yea obviously it wouldn't mean the same thing.
Obviously a ghost standing in what looks like an abandened jail or building or whatever. And I think it was created by trying to make like a serrealism picture that just came out bad and blurry. The picture is not bad, im just saying that might be how the legs came out the way they did. And if the image was in focus, the picture would have a toally different meaning. It would be boring to look at, instead of interesting the way it looks now.
I like this photograph. The ghostly appear to the image is really interesting. If the image was filmed and not used in photoshop it was probably dodged where he wanted the person to look like a ghost.
When looking at it, it looks like someone wanted to create a ghost. I personally don't believe in ghosts or spirits, so it doesn't really have an effect on me. I think he created the image by not focusing it and scratching it a little. If it wasn't in focus, it wouldn't look as "ghostly" therefor losing the meaning behind it.
11 comments:
I think of a ghost traveling down a long and abandoned street with noone in sight except the legs of the woman who also happens to be wearing high heeled shoes. I think that the artist created this image by using a "dodging technique" where he/she blurs the legs with a moving object or by moving the paper. I also think that if this image were in focus that the meaning would not change at all it would still try to describe a time when the woman's legs looked different.
i think of a ghost, in a lost world. i think the effect was created by dodging and burning. something along the lines of movement to make the subject matter (woman's legs) unfocused. I think if this image was in focus the overall meaning wouldnt change, but i DO think that it wouldnt have the "ghostly" effect it does now.
I love this photo. I think the "ghostly" effect was used by fading the photo in photoshop. I love how the photo looks old and forgotten. If it didnt have the ghostly effect, the photo would be completely different and would give off more of a content mood.
At first, i thought this image was like a camel or llama. ha... BUTTT,
now i realized that it's actually an image of a lady with really cute shoes. I think the photographer wanted to represent the past and its memories.
I honostly do not have a single idea as to how this image was even created. Maybe it was just taken by a pin hole camera because of its blurriness.
The images meaning would completley change if it was all in focus because the inaccuracy of it makes it seem really emotionally important but if otherwise noticed it would seem like , not as important.
this has a wierd ghostly affect to it, it looks like the photographer didnt inted to have the legs in there, its pretty creepy
thsi image is very ghostly and creepy. they probally did it by like negative sandwiching or whatever its called. and then made it alll blurry.
if it was in focus it wouldn't look ghostly, it would just look like a girl standing there so yea obviously it wouldn't mean the same thing.
Obviously a ghost standing in what looks like an abandened jail or building or whatever. And I think it was created by trying to make like a serrealism picture that just came out bad and blurry. The picture is not bad, im just saying that might be how the legs came out the way they did. And if the image was in focus, the picture would have a toally different meaning. It would be boring to look at, instead of interesting the way it looks now.
I like this photograph. The ghostly appear to the image is really interesting. If the image was filmed and not used in photoshop it was probably dodged where he wanted the person to look like a ghost.
I really like this image. When i look at it I it reminds me of old photographs my great-grandmother has in her room.
Well I heard Matej reading the photographers comment today and he said photoshop and vinnetting for how it was created.
If the subject was in focus, for me the meaning would completely change because it would have a ghostly feel.
When looking at it, it looks like someone wanted to create a ghost. I personally don't believe in ghosts or spirits, so it doesn't really have an effect on me. I think he created the image by not focusing it and scratching it a little. If it wasn't in focus, it wouldn't look as "ghostly" therefor losing the meaning behind it.
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