Comments on: Make Me Listen with My Eyes http://rising.blackstar.com/make-me-listen-with-my-eyes.html Professional Photography Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:56:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Spinhirnehttp://rising.blackstar.com/make-me-listen-with-my-eyes.html/comment-page-1#comment-39927 John Spinhirne Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:44:29 +0000 http://rising.blackstar.com/?p=4003#comment-39927 This is a great story and something that makes me think of my future as a portrait photographer. As I slowly move into the career of photography, I learn more each and every day.This story reminds me to make sure the photograph is about the person versus a well lit photographs. I find it hard when I am approached by someone that I don't know to make a portrait about them instead of them.As for the three images on this post, I think they do tell a story. I gather the executive with the chess piece find enjoyment when he plays chess. The painter tells me she puts her heart into her paintings and art. The hardest one is the one of Morgan Freeman because I am projecting what I know of him from his movies into the portait, but if I didn't know who he was I would say he is a man who has seen a lot in is life and that it has affected him deeply.Again, thank you for the post as it helps me move towards who I want to be as a photographer.John This is a great story and something that makes me think of my future as a portrait photographer. As I slowly move into the career of photography, I learn more each and every day.

This story reminds me to make sure the photograph is about the person versus a well lit photographs. I find it hard when I am approached by someone that I don't know to make a portrait about them instead of them.

As for the three images on this post, I think they do tell a story. I gather the executive with the chess piece find enjoyment when he plays chess. The painter tells me she puts her heart into her paintings and art. The hardest one is the one of Morgan Freeman because I am projecting what I know of him from his movies into the portait, but if I didn't know who he was I would say he is a man who has seen a lot in is life and that it has affected him deeply.

Again, thank you for the post as it helps me move towards who I want to be as a photographer.

John

]]> By: Kaatib Omarihttp://rising.blackstar.com/make-me-listen-with-my-eyes.html/comment-page-1#comment-22111 Kaatib Omari Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:35:45 +0000 http://rising.blackstar.com/?p=4003#comment-22111 Great post!I have a feeling that these photos included here doesnt adhere to the message given. And its interesting because there is no mention of them. Great post!

I have a feeling that these photos included here doesnt adhere to the message given. And its interesting because there is no mention of them.

]]> By: Luis Barbosahttp://rising.blackstar.com/make-me-listen-with-my-eyes.html/comment-page-1#comment-11278 Luis Barbosa Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:51:41 +0000 http://rising.blackstar.com/?p=4003#comment-11278 Interesting! I´m giving composition photography classes and we analyse deeply a lot of images.. We need a vocabulary to analise images, we talk a lot about formal elements,emotional and symbolic contexts... The great difficult is to take words to an universe that have a inner language, the language of non-words... :)great article! Interesting! I´m giving composition photography classes and we analyse deeply a lot of images.. We need a vocabulary to analise images, we talk a lot about formal elements,emotional and symbolic contexts... The great difficult is to take words to an universe that have a inner language, the language of non-words... :)

great article!

]]> By: Chris Ramseyhttp://rising.blackstar.com/make-me-listen-with-my-eyes.html/comment-page-1#comment-5023 Chris Ramsey Wed, 20 May 2009 11:29:53 +0000 http://rising.blackstar.com/?p=4003#comment-5023 This is a great post Paul, thank you for taking the time to write this.Chris. This is a great post Paul, thank you for taking the time to write this.

Chris.

]]> By: Leehttp://rising.blackstar.com/make-me-listen-with-my-eyes.html/comment-page-1#comment-5011 Lee Mon, 18 May 2009 15:41:25 +0000 http://rising.blackstar.com/?p=4003#comment-5011 Well spoken, Paul.A camera is just a pencil, after all.Your points get back to the "punctum + studium" in the philosophy of visual communication. In other words...have a point when you click the shutter button. Make meaning.Thanks for the article. Well spoken, Paul.

A camera is just a pencil, after all.

Your points get back to the "punctum + studium" in the philosophy of visual communication. In other words...have a point when you click the shutter button. Make meaning.

Thanks for the article.

]]> By: btezrahttp://rising.blackstar.com/make-me-listen-with-my-eyes.html/comment-page-1#comment-5010 btezra Mon, 18 May 2009 14:53:15 +0000 http://rising.blackstar.com/?p=4003#comment-5010 interesting and thought-provoking post and I could not agree more, portraiture, is to me, the hardest genre of photography to nail, and as someone who shoots a ton of street portraiture I try to capture as much poetry and prose from a subject as possible, I truly want to give the viewer an experience not just an image interesting and thought-provoking post
and I could not agree more, portraiture, is to me, the hardest genre of photography to nail, and as someone who shoots a ton of street portraiture I try to capture as much poetry and prose from a subject as possible, I truly want to give the viewer an experience not just an image

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