haha - oh well Helen....I am very grateful for your explanation; it was hugely kind of you to reply so comprehensively. I shall watch your portfolio with interest.
As an experiment to give a slightly better idea of how it might look printed, I took 4 MP from the full 78 MP image. It still had to be heavily compressed to fit in the max thumbnail size.
Thanks for saying what you meant instead of passing it over. I'm grateful for that, and I don't find the comments hostile.
I don't comment on my own work much because I don't know what to write that I'd be happy with - very much along the lines of wanting the images to speak for themselves.
The garden series are 'about', and are supposed to share qualities with, real gardens in cities, not idealised 'Home and Garden' pretty pictures (nothing wrong with those, just not appropriate for this series).
They (the pictures) are not supposed to be strongly attractive at first viewing (ie they are not supposed to have strong graphic impact) but I would like them to work as abstracts (most of my pictures are made that way, not as a conscious intellectual exercise, but because that is what I am aware of). There is, however, supposed to be enough in the pictures that the first glance makes the viewer curious enough to continue looking.
I look on the city gardens as places for quiet contemplation or meditation, and the photos are supposed to have that quality. I accept that the loss of all the fine detail when compressed for the web makes images like this lose a lot of their depth - you couldn't spend ages getting lost in the leaves, even if you wanted to.
They are supposed to be a series, so the order in which they will eventually be shown in is important to their 'understanding', whatever that means. I've only just started this series, and so there is a lot to be developed. Showing my work at this early stage is a bit of an experiment for me.
I will put a condensed version of some of these comments with the pictures. I'm not trying to be an obscure artist or to create mystique.
You say that they are 'technically suspect' and 'artistically moribund'. If you would be kind enough to spend a little time elaborating on those comments I would be interested, and grateful.
Helen, I am puzzled. You have top kit - Rollei and Leica and whatnot. And you do not to comment on your images (which I'd find helpful in order to provide clues as to your intention) presumably on the basis that your images speak for themselves? But this pic to me is technically suspect, and artistically moribund, and many of your recent uploads seem likewise. Can you enlighten us please? I'm just curious; please do not interpet my comments as hostile.
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