SINGLE FOCAL POINT, for TSC

pourquoi ,,,

ein ganz tolles Macro dieser Iris

And now one wonders what the model was looking at. Obviously not the camera =)

A tree on my left side, his right side ! I took about 4 different shots... he was patient...

So, the focal point in this picture is actually a tree ;-)

LOL !!!! Have to imagine it then... oh gosh, terrible idea for a challenge: take a picture in which you have to guess what the main subject is... because it is out of the frame !

No, it is a great idea! =)
And you could have also replied to me: "Use your imagination!" ;-)
And that is what makes this image great. It works as on the article I found on what makes a photograph good when the story continues outside:

martinopietropoli.medium.com/the-difference-between-good-photos-and-beautiful-photos-2e66e5066c0b

It is of course a subjective point of view, but there is a point in there, I think.

About your link, I fully agree with this

"Beautiful pictures annoy me. The photos I’m most interested in are not even the ones I would like to think of “Who knows how he did it”. The technique is interesting but usually I got bored more sooner than later. I’m only interested in photos able to capture my attention for at least 10 seconds. 10 seconds is a lot. Watching a photo for such a long time is a big thing, it’s more than the time we spend looking at a painting in an art gallery."

For me a photo is about a feeling. Having good gear can help expressing the feeling, but if you don't feel no gear will help you. I try to show my feelings through my pictures, I am glad when someone feels that and tells me about it.

"Paraphrasing Cartier-Bresson who said that the sharpness is a bourgeois concept, it can be said that the color itself is a bourgeois concept. To be able to communicate, a photo must also be striking at times, it must be shouting, so to say. Otherwise it is just sugar. Enjoyable. Sickening other times.
Not very interesting in the end."

It is how I feel about this sharpness obsession: pictures loose their magical side... That is why I use mostly large pertures and low contrast.

"Orwell said that the repetition of metaphors, especially in journalism, was the death of language. Repeating without re-inventing means to give up the sense of the metaphor that is to “bring out”. In other words, to explain a concept using highly evocative and more comprehensible images. Repetition undermines this evocative power, as the repetition of stereotypes undermines photography, which is more direct than a metaphor being a metaphor in existence, already a finished image in itself.
There is a particular emotional alignment that arises when an image represents a certain moment, which is also a mood got by the photographer. It is an intimate mechanism that is only activated when seen for the first time because it evokes a particular emotion, a memory. When it remembers a memory that is the recall of an image already seen it only generates a recognition and a weak re-affliction of an emotion."

This is how I feel when visiting places everyone has to go to, all taking the same views... I don't, I look first and only if a detail strikes me I take the picture, I am not looking for pictures to be taken, they eventually come to me -or not.
When I go somewhere with other photographers I always am entitled to the same boring comment : "You dont take a picture here ? Why? Why do you take so few pictures?"
My answer not to hurt people is... that I am still acting as if I had a film on my camera , not an SD card...

"In every already seen image there is a double betrayal: that of the original image and that of the creative idea. The first image — the one copied and declined in a thousand variants that are always recognizable and tedious until exhaustion — remains a memory; the creative idea no longer emerges, because there is no creation. There is a cautious trust in the already seen. It worked once, then it will work again.
No.
Commercially, yes. But it’s no longer photography. It is an image, it is a functional object or an expression of stereotypes. It does not like the anarchist variations of art: it’s just a monument to the security of the already seen."

Agree 100%

"Technically it is a photograph. But the technique describes a support and not the art that is supposed to be in it."

As I said above, technic is a support, not a feeling... my feeling is poetry and tenderness towards nature, animals, people... and decay, with the utmost respect.

I am glad you found the article interesting =)

I also agree on most parts, but sometimes I approach the problem from experimental point of view. I take the sugar coated images and popular scenes to prove myself how sugar coated and popular scenes they are. Hoping that one day I find a way out of them. But as usual, there is no single magic trick. All one can do is to do more, and hopefully capture at least few shots that are genuinely good. Well admitting that I do not have any "natural talent" for photography. Only a good strong upbringing for the beauty in art.

Excellent macro Isabel which shows the eye is focused on the World around !!! Keep well !!

Obrigada Marj, same wishes

Toll, Isabel !

Obrigada Ulrich

Excellent close-up! Stay well!

Admired in:
www.ipernity.com/group/tolerance

Obrigada William, same wishes

Well captured...

Obrigada Udo

A fantastic photo- the tree reflected in the eye! You had a very patient model, I'd have been blinking all the time;-)

He blinked... between 2 photos ! Obrigada Gudrun

Superbe compo !!!

Obrigada Thierry

wonderful interpretation

Obrigada Wierd

Well done, your model seems to be focussed on something way beyond the photo.

That was the purpose too...obrigada Diederik

William Shakespeare once said: The eyes are the window to your soul.
A good depiction of the great window. Great work!

Obrigada Tan Tee, express a feeling is for me the purpose in photography...

Espantosa ideia e um olhar belo e calmo...sem pestanejar!
Deslumbrante, Isabel

Obrigada Judite, o ponto é o que está mais além, fora do quadro da foto.

WOW, just FANTASTIC, Isabel **********************

Obrigada Marie Claire

Nicely done macro here

Obrigada Amaz

worth the asking, well done!

Obrigada Markus

Wonderful detail Isabel. The colours of the eye are beautiful. In my art classes I always preferred to draw older people. They had so much more character.

I feel the same, that is why I have chosen this model... well, as I am an old person it is not difficult to choose among friends. But in this covid period we really have to trust one another to do this close-up take!
Obrigada Rosa

cet oeil en très gros plan , n' a presque plus rien d' humain ! il est inquiétant :-)
Pour ce qui est du challenge d' aujourd'hui , le point focal , le sujet sur lequel tu veux nous emmener : c 'est toi ! d' ailleurs , on distingue ta silhouette dans l' oeil de ton modèle. Philosophiquement c 'est une photo très intéressante !

Ce n'était pas moi... je n'ai pas réussi à ne pas être dans le reflet... je voulais le paysage et son regard d'une acuité de chasseur sans fusil.
Obrigada François

:D
beautiful

happy Sunday evening:)

Well this is perfect and really does the job

Obrigada Jan

Oh what the eyes can capture! I always wonder when I view up close photographs of mature faces how many fascinating, sad, happy, painful or joyful things they have seen over the years. If one is fortunate to have someone share their stories of a lifetime, you will notice the memories still move them as their eyes tell the story as well as the spoken words. Very nice done Isabel.
WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER - STAY POSITIVE- TEST NEGATIVE

I have always loved listening to the old ones... and now I am myself part of them...
Obrigada Chris

:) I am one of the old ones as well!

Me recuerda a mi amiga Liana cuando hablábamos de "otra forma de morar", lo escondido...

Lo que hay que saber interpretar....
Gracias Rafa

Perfect focus Isabel

Thank you for posting in the group
www.ipernity.com/group/magicalsunlight

Obrigada Roger

I agree "For me a photo is about a feeling. Having good gear can help expressing the feeling, but if you don't feel no gear will help you. I try to show my feelings through my pictures, I am glad when someone feels that and tells me about it." Fine work!

Obrigada Gillian, enjoy your day

Wonderful focus.

Obrigada Esther

Ein exzelllentes Makro!