Because of the crop/zoom-in of the camera and what you are focusing on, it is very mysterious to me. I think the mysteriousness, color, and lighting of this postcard is giving it a negative tone. Lots of texture in this photo. The smooth cold metal on the flat handle has a mechanical feel and the ruff detail of the case of the camera is a nice contrast with the smooth soft background. Also, the very harsh contrast of light and dark that you did with the lighting enforces the negative tone as well. The image is representationaly and mechanically driven transmission. It's is representational because it is a photograph of an object. Mechanical because it is to be viewed on the internet. The big thing for me is what you have chosen to be seen. If i were to not know what your object was, I'm not sure if I would know what it is. That's perhaps the main reason for it being mysterious. Also, the numbers. What are these numbers for? Why are they on this object? And why have you chosen to focus on them? One way i see the numbers use is that it is some sort of a serial number. This is negative in a way, having this number represent this camera? Overall, a cold color pallet, harsh light and dark contrast, texture, and context gives this a negative tone.
Josh's interpretation was dead on. The whole point of the crop is so that you don't really know what it is and it portrays a mysterious look which gets the viewer interested and investigate more time into what he/she might be looking at. I definitely wanted my tone to be negative because this camera came out in a time of depression and it relates to today with all the economic downfalls nowadays. I felt like this object can relate to people of today because of this idea of economic crisis from 1930's. I loved the texture of this photo and I wanted to exploit that in this photo because of how technology has evolved into such smooth sleek little devices, whereas the beginnings of the tool had just the opposite; rough, worn, big, bulky. The numbers add to the mysteriousness which I thought worked nicely with the whole idea. Im guessing those numbers are the serial numbers of that specific camera... which also relates to that time period of war, and the nazi concentration camps and such, also adding a negative tone overall.
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Because of the crop/zoom-in of the camera and what you are focusing on, it is very mysterious to me. I think the mysteriousness, color, and lighting of this postcard is giving it a negative tone. Lots of texture in this photo. The smooth cold metal on the flat handle has a mechanical feel and the ruff detail of the case of the camera is a nice contrast with the smooth soft background. Also, the very harsh contrast of light and dark that you did with the lighting enforces the negative tone as well.
The image is representationaly and mechanically driven transmission. It's is representational because it is a photograph of an object. Mechanical because it is to be viewed on the internet.
The big thing for me is what you have chosen to be seen. If i were to not know what your object was, I'm not sure if I would know what it is. That's perhaps the main reason for it being mysterious. Also, the numbers. What are these numbers for? Why are they on this object? And why have you chosen to focus on them? One way i see the numbers use is that it is some sort of a serial number. This is negative in a way, having this number represent this camera?
Overall, a cold color pallet, harsh light and dark contrast, texture, and context gives this a negative tone.
Josh's interpretation was dead on. The whole point of the crop is so that you don't really know what it is and it portrays a mysterious look which gets the viewer interested and investigate more time into what he/she might be looking at. I definitely wanted my tone to be negative because this camera came out in a time of depression and it relates to today with all the economic downfalls nowadays. I felt like this object can relate to people of today because of this idea of economic crisis from 1930's. I loved the texture of this photo and I wanted to exploit that in this photo because of how technology has evolved into such smooth sleek little devices, whereas the beginnings of the tool had just the opposite; rough, worn, big, bulky. The numbers add to the mysteriousness which I thought worked nicely with the whole idea. Im guessing those numbers are the serial numbers of that specific camera... which also relates to that time period of war, and the nazi concentration camps and such, also adding a negative tone overall.
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