I liked the tall grass on a hiking trail. I feel good about the image, the colors and diognal line. But wondering how does it feel for you..
Is it a mediocre shot or just another picture not to be highlighted.
What you saw was undoubtedly nice and I've often admired grass for the very same reasons. Translating that beauty into two dimensions is a challenge.
Photographing grass in a way that makes an interesting image can be done (see pointandshoot's image in the Zen challenge) but in general there isn't much to hold the viewer's attention in a shot like yours.
There are ways to spice it up a bit when photographing something like this. Things that come to mind are different angles (lower perhaps), closeups of seedheads, brightly colored grass (reds, yellows, purples), something hiding in it, or a colorful BG (like a sunset).
As it stands, the busyness of composition, and lack of contrast and detail makes it an average image, IMHO.
This is just my opinion: Art should make some sort of statement other than just show a scene.
Oh hell, Leroy... if anything I'm thinking the exact opposite LOL. I think any time "art" becomes so aware of itself that it is consciously "making a statement" it stops being art and becomes propaganda, social commentary, whatever. For me the purest art just "is", it's simply visual and it affects me at a very fundamental level.
Oh hell, Leroy... if anything I'm thinking the exact opposite LOL. I think any time "art" becomes so aware of itself that it is consciously "making a statement" it stops being art and becomes propaganda, social commentary, whatever. For me the purest art just "is", it's simply visual and it affects me at a very fundamental level.
Possibly neither crap or art. But you intent is vague. Seems to flicker on my screen as a document about grass. Possibly could be viewed as a scientific statement about sedge, coupled with a proper name, like Audubon - with no intention for art or crap, it might be useful.
I can't decide which one of those two to use for my signature. ;-)
FWIW, I would agree that it would make a decent stock image. Even subjectless, it has some appeal to it and that is what I sometimes look for in stock photos. Whether you call that art or not doesn't really matter. :)
