Elisa Carandina
Challenge #4 Results - Showing Emotion in the Inanimate
*The next challenge will be announced during the week, so keep an eye out for that!
Here are the challenge selections for Challenge #4 – there were so many entries (260 photos in total) that I couldn’t show them all – and I don’t think that would have been beneficial anyway.
So I narrowed them down and split them into categories: color, black & white, objects, and an example edit.
Just because some of your photos didn’t make it here doesn’t mean they weren’t good. I did my best to choose photos I related to. And there were some good photographs I left out because they didn’t really fit the challenge.
This was a hard challenge. Alec Soth spoke about not trying to force things with your photography, and I think this was a challenge that made people force things. But I still think it was an important challenge to open your eyes to this sensibility in your work.
Jonathan Snyder
But you can’t force emotion. It comes when it comes and it builds naturally.
While individual images can certainly have emotion to them, I think that the most effective emotions can be built up through a sequence and body of work.
It’s the time, the nuance, the intimacy, the succession of photos that ultimately can create the most emotion and we were lacking all those factors in the constraints of the challenge timeframe here.
So while there are many fantastic photos, it was sometimes tough to escape that forced feeling. But going forward, I think these sensibilities will grow naturally in your work.