A really interesting, curious image that held my interest and stood out from the crowd – it was the one I kept coming back to. It gives us plenty to contemplate in what looks like a multi-dimensional scenario, playing with vantage point, perspective, scale and narrative – and is an image that defies any notion of a grid. Well done.
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This image works well and is intriguing both in terms of narrative and scenario. She seems to be brushing through freshly washed hair, but it is the strangeness of the dark line across her mouth at the centre of the image that gives the image a possible off-grid meaning. The woman is also being looked at by the knitted doll, who has an uncanny resemblance to the woman, and doubles the visual references to hair and eyes.
This image looks like a re-photograph or a detail from an historical document/photograph because of the marks to the surface. These marks both add to and interfere with the image, and in essence could be seen in contrast to the innocence of the playing children that are being depicted. In that way, the image is off-grid from the norm, presenting an image that feels appropriated in some way, resonating between image and object (photograph/ print). It's certainly interesting.
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Compositional convention may rely on it, but the Rule of Thirds is still there to be broken. For February's Photocrowd Assignment, see what happens when you put things in the 'wrong' place.
This is a curious snap-shot-style image that seems open to interpretation. Sharp foreground focus shows a range of bar bottles that is presumably on a beach somewhere, given the context of the blurred background, but the water looks as if it could be a flat backdrop. Either way, the two bathers look lost in time, as the whole image seems slightly nostalgic in both colour and sense of place. Engaging, and somewhat off the grid.
