Text by Zaar Riisberg
'Twist it, turn it' someone once said to me. Someone else said 'oh, yeah sure, you flip it around and all of a sudden it is art', the latter, obviously, not getting it at all. Perspective matters - in all walks of life, not only in art and photography. But it is another point I wish to make from Graham's display. Comments, I want to talk about comments - well, critique, and what can come from it.
I have three masters: comments, experimentation and failure. That is where I learn, provided that failure is not repeated. I want others to realise how much you learn from comments. It does not have to be critique, it can be just 'nice job on the highlights'. It may just be that the poster does not realise what he did. For example turning the lights down to make the portrait pop. I, myself, have learned tons of stuff from Martin Sabine, Ron Rubenstein, Chris Noellert, Nomi Khan and others when commenting on work.
Here I could muse about the greyscale - different shades of grey, whites toning into grey, dirty white - and making the central spiral pop white alongside the sky, is not easy, trust me. But what intrigues me is all the things my eyes can grab on to, and follow a curvy line, or by all means slingshot myself around the geometry, throwing myself at the top bow, grabbing it and forcing the structure to bend.
A little too much? No. I just merely looked at the image more than the standard two seconds. I took it in, I dwelled on it. A towering metal worm with DNA strains laid bare.
EDITOR'S NOTE
Graham is a recreational shooter and does not believe in tampering much in editing which can be refreshing. Be sure to check his earlier entry here