Portrait: My Personal Vision

[Moppie]

Thats a very cool efect, I see your exploring your artistic side.

Its deffinitly a legtimate portrait, I don't see any rules about the medium you can use to make a porttrait :)

How much of it is photography is another question, its deffinitly digital art, and it is based upon a photograpgh, however I think it transcends normal photography into something more unique and artistic.

Of course if the same effect was done to a large format film negative useing dyes, etching and manipulation of the development process what it also transcend photography into something more unique in its artistic merit.


By the way, if you use the tags around the link you can imbed your images in your posts:

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/BlooDog/TechnoGeek.jpg

[Mark Kemp]

This is a bit hard to judge as its quite personal.

If it expresses something that you feel about your brother then it worked, if not well you can always try again.

To an impartial observer it is quite heavily distorted, it suggests that your brother is seen as particularly hard to understand or very different from other people. On the other hand his pose is quite normal, open and friendly which seems to contradict the impression of hard techno colours and distortions. Anyway that is my impression, if that is what you wnated to say then it worked for me. Maybe other people will read it differently.

[Pekka]

What if you painted his original face almost "thru" the effect (perhaps still tinted as blueish) so that it would be the only thing "real" in the photo (leaving body, hand, hair and glasses as they are now)?

[Mark Kemp]

Since you clearly spend so much time and energy making pictures, spend all your money on cameras and hang around this forum - I think your sister in law may have a point!

[rick barclay]

You haven't told us explicitly what your interpretation of your brother is, only that he works
in a high tech electronics field which he cannot discuss with you. But I'm guessing that you
applied your ideas regarding high tech electronics to your photo of him.

What do I think? I think I don't like it.
Is it photography? Yes, loosely speaking.
Is it a legitimate portrait? Yes, again loosely speaking.

I don't like it, bloo, because I'm prejudiced against the use of such filters as graphic aids. To me
your photo constitutes "push button" photography, which does you a great disservice in my mind,
having read your posts on wedding photography. Honestly, I'm really disappointed in what I've
seen from you so far.

[ChP]

I really like it. The effect is really cool, looks like chalk on a blackboard almost. If you feel you have represented your brother well, and he agrees, the image is more valuable than a plain photograph.

[jgbeam]

I think a good portrait should convey the essence of the subject, be it physical attributes, mood, attitude, whatever. Does this portrait do that? I don't know your brother so I can't say. It holds no interest for me.

Jim

[JeffreyP]

I Like it a lot. Lots of deep discussions around here on this. I like the discussion, I learn a lot about what photography/art means to me.

The best picture I have hanging on my wall is a very large, nice professionally framed print of Michael Parkes' "Gargoyles" (anyone know it?). A lot of discussion in my living room is sparked from that print. (about what the gargoyle is attempting with his leap to catch the bubble.......etc. etc. ). It facinates people to debate what the artist meant.

I think you have accomplished art, my friend, in this sense (at least one of my criteria). You can tell by how long this thread is getting.

Well done.

I love it.

Jeff

[chris.bailey]

I would imagine it would look better enlarged a lot and printed on canvas and hung in his office. Interpretive pictures always look better in the setting for which they are intended imho.