Featured in The Decisive Moment (Response #10)

Featured 791 Days Ago by Pop1280 - - 10 comments

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dicksdaily said 792 days ago:

It's an interesting shot this - the more you look the more you see ... and the more I look the more I go back and raise your rating!!!

This to me sums up the problems with showing stuff on the web - I bet this image looks amazing as a large print!

LynnR said 792 days ago:

Is this person actually on fire or is he a fire eater? Too bad it's blurry ...

TheDailySunrise said 792 days ago:

???

Pop1280 said 792 days ago:

Need monitor calibration ?

Lange said 791 days ago:

Unfortunately I do not "get" it. For me, the lack of anything to focus upon and see with any sort of clairity makes this difficult to view.

luminouslens said 791 days ago:

I really, really like the framing of this. I love how the person is so small in the frame, the flame is so huge, and how everything creates a diagonal composition. Great timing. This is very well captured.

For technique and image quality, I also give high ratings. The exposure seems very nice to me (dark where it should be dark, bright but not overblown) and I really like the graininess of this (which doesn't looks like JPG artifacts or noise). And the blur is lovely! Well done!

gorin-images said 790 days ago:

I regularly say this, and I'll say it again here: a photo doesn't have to be perfectly sharp and crisp to be good!

IMHO in many cases photos are much more interesting when only a portion is in sharp focus, and in some cases, they are good even when NOTHING in the frame is in sharp focus. Not to say that perfectly-razor-sharp images canlt also be excellent...they are for certain types of subjects. I don't think being able to see the street, rooftops, and all the other details in this image in sharp focus would make it better. The subject is the motion and the FIRE. Those things come across loud and clear as-is.

All of the blurrieness here gives you the sense of a very dynamic scene in which both the subject, and the photographer, are in motion. When you can capture movement like that..in a way that lets the viewer feel it, I would argue that's pretty effective. A perfectly sharp frozen-in-time version of this would be mildy interesting, but I don't think nearly as effective as the version we see here.

tenebrophilia said 790 days ago:

The blur is good, it conveys motion. If this isn't the Moment, I don't know what is. I didn't get to rate it but nine thumbs up!

gianello said 789 days ago:

While i appreciate the energy, composition, etc. of this shot, where's the beef? How is this moment decisive? Most of the photos presented are exceptional in some way, so the theme is the key IMPO.

lbstone said 788 days ago:

Love this one. Everything about it fits for me.

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