testing RUNER

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  Ian Leake

• Nov 6, 2007

Yes, for me the text is too intrusive. It takes my attention away from the wonderful complexity that you've created. If I could read runes then I suspect it's be even more distracting...

 

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  Shawn Dougherty

• Nov 6, 2007

Excellent as usual. For me the text works well within the image.

Being able to read it would certainly change my interpretation, though I have no way of knowing for better or worse...

 

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  gandolfi

• Nov 6, 2007

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vikings/runes.html

an internet site that can "translate" into runer...

(if you hold the cursor ower the image, the text will show...)

 

• sjb

• Nov 6, 2007

This is beautiful. She looks like a tired angel, and the text gives it even more emotional depth.

 

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  RobertP

• Nov 6, 2007

Don't touch it! Just stand back and enjoy. Robert

 

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  Shawn Dougherty

• Nov 6, 2007

I think knowing what it says and being able to read it are two very different things. If it were written in English it would have a totally different.... weight within the photograph for me. Again, I love it. Best. Shawn

 

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  Thomas Bertilsson

• Nov 6, 2007

I find it an interesting concept, and I love the amount of experimentation you indulge in, Emil. So much fresh air in here with you contributing.
However, I do find the runes slightly overbearing, stealing the limelight so to speak. Perhaps you can subdue them by using a semitransparent color in the writing so make them less pronounced.
- Thomas

 

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  gandolfi

• Nov 7, 2007

thomas - I think you're right.
I would prefer the text to be a more suttle colour (lighter), but there you go...
I have bleached the text in the original negative, so I can't do anything about it now...

next time....

 

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  Thomas Bertilsson

• Nov 7, 2007

Sandwich. Sandwich a blank neg or some sort of transparency film for (ehhhrrrrmmm) d(&(+al negs, you can write what you want...
- Thomas

 

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  gandolfi

• Nov 7, 2007

I know - but that is not my way...

I have to do the ruinings (incl txt) directly on the negative...

it has to hurt...otherwise it doeant matter....