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Originally posted by dub.dub
The contrast on the 1st one seems a bit too much as sleeve is pitch black
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This reminded me of an epiphany I had recently.
I remember reading a thread from before I became a regular, entitled "Photography is ART!!!" started by Salar. I read through it and found some pretty valid points, however heated the thread became. I, and probably everybody else here, totally agree that art is subjective, but I'm going to expain something that occured to me using another example.
I'm sure we can all agree that music is art, right? But if you have one Chopin's nocturnes, or Beethoven's symphonies, you don't want to hear it played like a machine; all the notes perfect length, all volume levels perect as compared to the average volume of the whole piece. Why? Because it has no character nor humanity. The best musicians vary their time (Can anyone say Frank Sinatra?) and their volume thereby portraying a different emotion.
I now believe that the same goes for photography. Ever look at some of Justin's wedding shots? NONE of them are 'properly' exposed, that would be too AVERAGE and wouldn't evoke any emotion or interest - only from the people that were there, and maybe the odd person those few explained it to. Most of the time he's got the whites blown out, or in darker shots he's got the blacks underexposed creating a different emotion. Making us see differently than we're used to makes things interesting and artistic.
/rant
That being said, I like the first shot more, the second one scares me :S