Pete B
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Critique
I'm guessing that this piece is a photography project rather than a personal journey, but if I'm wrong I apologise.
Nice technical skills and you've used the exposure and tonality to reinforce the emotions that you're attempting to convey here. The be linen in the last shot is blown (from what I see), but that's fine; it's supposed to be stark.
I have an emotional issue with the first photo as at first look, it immediately reminds me of drug paraphernalia, something in there to reinforce the medical purpose may be needed to outline the rest of the story here (a clip-board of patient history maybe).
Interesting and certainly emotional though.
Thank you.
It's just routine brain surgery, but still difficult to control the attendant anxiety that attaches to any surgical pricedure. Thank you, Alkiro.
I can easily imagine your anxiety :-(
I hope everything will be ok and you will be with your close family members very soon. Best wishes Alkiro
Thanks. The patient is taking it remarkably well...
But I can sense the anxiety beneath the jovial demeanor.
Critique
I'm guessing that this piece is a photography project rather than a personal journey, but if I'm wrong I apologise. Nice technical skills and you've used the exposure and tonality to reinforce the emotions that you're attempting to convey here. The be lin...
Life is a photographic journey....our eyes the shutter....our brains the sensors.
Either way, Thomas..........bold.
you have shot in colour....
....yet most of the images are essentially monochrome. I did that once by accident and it worked out well. It adds a form of starkness to an image. Here the two-tone nature of the natural scene creates that starkness without the deliberate effort to do so...
Thanks, Baron, there was a bit of desat applied.
the first picture had a bit of saturation bump and heavier contrast increase (which tends to drain color) the second and third were mainly desaturation and light cropping. your comments are much appreciated affirmation for the success of what I was after....
Thank you for the very interesting commentary and no need
No need for apologies. The pictures are a bit of both - a psychic pressure valve release; the eye catching photodocumentary opportunities - how often is one in an admitting room before a surgical procedure?; and some potential in the mind's eye for some p...
I hear you. I have been more than enough...
.. a few for my late wife (cancer), and a few for myself (neuro-surgical). These are all traumatic photos for me, but it is important to have "valve" to vent, and that's why we are here. Ken
No worries. I got so used to it :-))
..you guys helped me out here and now it's your turn to rely on us. Cheers. Ken
If....
these represent your family member undergoing treatment then I can easily feel a tremendous level of anxiety being conveyed through these images. Even if that is not the case the images convey a sense of urgency and anxiety as is usually the case with a h...
Thank you, Filip. It was my hope that the pictures
The pictures could stand on their own, without context, touching a universal chord and allowing the viewer to project their own context after evoking a primal, emotional response, and that knowing the pictures were very personal and real only adds to thei...
My best wishes to you and your family/friends...
and the patient. I am reminded of the photo you posted some time back of the two empty chairs in the small hospital conference room.
the procedure went well, a few post procedure complications but overall things are as good as one can hope for,
the patient is home resting. thanks, Padj
echo everybody's comments here
without context, these pictures already are strong, but with the person they're tied to, even stronger... I wish only the most courage, strength, and calm optimism for the loved one facing this. Life is a gift, simple is that. Thanks for sharing these mom...
Excellent series on many levels...
and as part of an unfolding theme we have been following. Without the patient, the series becomes a larger story, and the unused bed and unused medical aids gives hint of a positive future. A lot going on and we can catch the focused nature of a personal ...
Very stark and powerful...
...my son underwent emergency brain surgery at 8 years old...he will always have a titanium plate in his head to prove it. It was the most (to this day) traumatic experience of my life watching him wheeled into the operating room and trying not to let him...
thanks, mdg. glad to read your son is doing well.
the connection and empathy shared of having been through something like this... thank you.
Often art and poetry allow us an expressive means to cope
It's a beautiful thing and the images do stand on their own. Without even knowing the background story, the viewer can sense the tension, and every other emotion that goes with these references. Thanks for sharing and best wishes to the patient for a spee...
thank you, Ping, During times like this we find solace where we can...
browsing forums as a diversion; venting through creative processes; keeing in touch with friends; even finding comfort at the bottom of a glass or bottle. thanks, Ping, your sentiments are much appreciated.