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untitled, gesturing children by *mgilpin:iconmgilpin:

Categories Photography > People & Portraits > Spontaneous Portraits

©2008 *mgilpin
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Submitted: March 25
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Resolution: 600×480
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Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL
Shutter Speed: 1/200 second
F Number: F/9.0
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Mar 24, 2008, 12:41:56 PM

Artist's Comments

it is popular to discuss these kind of images in terms of cartier-bresson's "decisive moment"...

popular and, in my opinion, often misleading and the rhetoric of elitist apologetics...

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*verdunmom:iconverdunmom: Mar 25, 2008, 12:25:10 AM
i like it!! well done...
~FiLH:iconFiLH: Mar 25, 2008, 2:52:29 AM
Nice, but you should maybe remove the thing on the right...

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Bang bang, he shot me down / Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound / Bang bang, my baby shot me down.
~AmildCaseofSanity:iconAmildCaseofSanity: Mar 25, 2008, 3:02:21 AM
mmm. fancy words.
the pole on the right is annoying me, and i think a crop would help anyway... :shrug:
the focus is fantastic.. because they are each so sharp, they seem to merge as one. which turns the boys into forms i guess... the angles of their arms becomes more pronounced when you look at it that way, which im sure im preaching to the converted here. (i just want reassurance :P) What am i trying to say? well... that it works nicely as a sort of optical illusion.. the more you look, the more things change. OR i might just be reading into it a bit much.
And that environment, its so sparse! way cool. do you live near/in a rural area? i know weve seen it before.
~LifelessBeforeThis:iconLifelessBeforeThis: Mar 25, 2008, 5:24:51 AM
that pole! it has some nerve!

but i do like the otherwise rural/plain atmosphere and the lighting.

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Comma splices make me cry.
*silversmith:iconsilversmith: Mar 25, 2008, 6:54:44 AM
Ah....the decisive moment. I think he just liked to think he was in that much control.

Are you teaching those boys tai chi?

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Let yourself go.
*mgilpin:iconmgilpin: Mar 27, 2008, 8:24:06 PM
i wish... this was one of those moments that has no real significance... but there is something about the gesture/forms that seems to invite projection...

do you do tai chi?...

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'a witty saying proves nothing.' - Voltaire
*mgilpin:iconmgilpin: Mar 27, 2008, 8:25:16 PM
thank you...

and, yes... damn that pole!...

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'a witty saying proves nothing.' - Voltaire
*silversmith:iconsilversmith: Mar 28, 2008, 6:48:35 AM
I used to...haven't done it since I came to Chicago. Should start that up again.

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Let yourself go.
*mgilpin:iconmgilpin: Mar 31, 2008, 12:10:47 PM
thank you, mrs claus...

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'a witty saying proves nothing.' - Voltaire
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