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elmaed · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2001 5:17 am

Hi.
I believe everyone of u reading this have a preference to what's most important in an image. You all have something that u search for, besides quality in the execution. I would really like to know what that is. Is it a strong concept, action, beauty, suspense, contrast, plausability (did I get that right?) or what? Something that really makes the image worth keeping and looking at again and again.

It would be great fun to hear some opinions on this. I am very confused myself regarding this issue...

... and by the way, please visit my gallery (created this very morning): http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/elmaed/index.html

schabe · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2001 5:29 am

uh i predict: this topic will be moved soon to an other section.
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well i like pictures that have strong concepts and/or beauty.
btw: didnt found anything on your website.

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Ian · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2001 5:38 am

you're site owns man. You have a very distinctive style. Excellent form, color, and mood. I love it, love it, love it! As far as what I look at in an image? All of the above.

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elmaed · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2001 5:38 am

I�m really sorry for posting in the wrong section. Is it possible to move a topic?

I have a really difficult one for ya, Schabe (or anyone else for that matter):
What is a strong concept? Does it include anything specific, or is it just original?

Do you have examples of what you think is a strong or a weak concept? Many artist make very much out of nothing... A still life for example, has no concept at all, or maybe it does?

Ian · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2001 5:42 am

A still life has no concept? Wutch'a say? Of course it does. Well, what do you mean by concept? Like an idea you're are trying to communicate through the image? Sometimes a stimple still life can say more than huge painting filled with detail and motion. At least that's what I think.

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schabe · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2001 6:26 am

hi... oh it was an netscape4.5 incompatibility issue, that i couldnt watch your site... very nice pics there ! they have all strong concepts, some are beautifull too

well i thing boring portraits or landscape pics ('venice in the evening') have few concept. but you are right, some pics may contain 'hidden concepts' and you have to make a closer look to find em.

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waylon · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2001 6:27 am

It's really hard to put into words what makes a picture good. I've got tons of images saved all over my hard drive that caught my eye for one reason or another. Some had a really cool design, even though they might not have been executed very well. Others just look great, but have no subject whatsoever. There are so many different factors, each of which can be appreciated individually. Good use of colors may be just as important in one pic as an interesting concept is in another.

That said, I think pictures of naked women are the best.

Incidentally, your site won't load in Netscape, but it works fine in IE.

agent44 · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2001 7:27 am

I really like your style, too. The colors are nice and it sets a really nice mood to your peices.

What's important to me in an image is of course all of those things, but I really like to have a certain amount of "plausability." Something has to look like it works or could really exsist.

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Sumaleth · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2001 9:30 am

(Moved to Discussion)

Painted Melody · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2001 10:07 am

Besides technique, I look for story telling. Isn't that why we love to create =) Authors, perhaps not just in words, but in imagery.

elmaed: I checked your home page. Fan-tastic! You really should post in the Gallery forum

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Lukias · Guest Member #

Well if you could incorporate all those aspects you mentioned into one pic then perhaps you'd have an amazing piece, but just a few of those and you've got something.

Remember this is purely determined by what the type of picture is. I mean if its abstract then your possibly not looking for plausibility etc.

Your style is great by the way, different and very very cool, apart from the standard action depictions, I dig the ones that make you put yourslef in the characters shoes.
Like that space one, thats cool.

Dryfire · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2001 4:05 pm

Whah dude, that site has some pretty emotional stuff - Kick ASS

In artwork I usually go for concept and originality - more so what it measn and how one can relate. Seeing a picture with lots of colors in a nice sequence doesn't do anything for me, if the picture doesn't mean anything.

Lotta ppl say eh, all pictures have emotion and new concepts to them. I beg to differ, a lot of pics are just crap - my own work included. If you don't put your heart into it, it will just be another one of you uniform works...

Well, those are my thoughts...

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marc_taro · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2001 4:22 pm

I agree with the point about story. If a picture can transmit emotion and story, it reaches me more, and sticks in my memory. Art is theater, told a thousand words at a glance...