Dear photo-friends,

I'm looking for suitable modification steps to give my photo the necessary expressiveness.

I already received grateful and creative solutions here in the forum for my last museum photo, so I'm sure that one or two people will have a clever tip for me.  

This photo was taken in the Kunsthaus in Bregenz/Austria. The exhibition in the modern concrete building was very spacious and bathed in red light throughout. The works of art filled the space, but were not always comprehensible at first glance. Throughout the exhibition, you could see people standing in front of or inside the artworks with their smartphones. There was a QR code that explained each of the artworks. I had the impression that visitors were more concerned with reading on their phones than looking at the artworks. 

What do you think? Thank you to everyone who takes the time to support me.

LG Ute

Hello Ute

Thank you for sharing this gallery photo with us, and I see what you mean about the visitors being more concerned with their phones than with the art. I remember seeing this in curation and feeling that the red colour was rather overpowering, so I am posting an edit with a matt finish to tone it down a little. Then I looked at the photo in black and white and felt it worked quite well so I am posting that version too, although I realise that may be too great a change for you. I think the image is well composed so I have made no alterations to the composition.

Good light, Elizabeth

Ute,

I like the photo!  It makes a statement about galleries, art, and artists.  There is humour in it.  The four in the audience seem more interested in the words (probably written in 'Art-speak') that explain the work rather than the work itself.  I guess it's sometimes helpful to read someone's opinion about the meaning of a piece, but better to look at it, dive into it, feel it - and then make up one's own mind as to what, if anything, it means.   That's just my opinion. 

I've no suggestions for editing the photo.  I wish a bit more of the painting showed on the left.  It looks like a cloudscape, or perhaps a mushroom cloud?  That would be heavy.  But perhaps it's better that we can't see it in full, as there's more mystery that way.  The blue rectangle (window?) in the upper middle is a small distraction, but I think it serves to separate the two main elements of artwork and audience, and to remind us that there is 'reality' outside the gallery.   I hope you have a good title for the photograph.  'Alexa, help!',   'The search for meaning',  'Modern Art'. 

Thanks for letting us know that your photo, 'Museum' was Published.  Contratulations for that honour! 

. . . . Steven, senior critic

Hi Ute,

I like the photo best in B&W. I think the red color overpowers the message of the photo. B&W puts more emphasize on the people on gives the painting on the left an ominous tone to the photo.

AL

Ute,

The light a little bit changed.  Theo L.

Elizabeth Allen CREW 

Hallo Ute

 

Vielen Dank, dass Sie dieses Galeriefoto mit uns geteilt haben. Ich verstehe, was Sie damit meinen, dass die Besucher sich mehr um ihre Telefone als um die Kunst kümmern. Ich erinnere mich, dies in der Kuration gesehen zu haben und fand, dass die rote Farbe ziemlich aufdringlich war, also poste ich eine Bearbeitung mit einem matten Finish, um es ein wenig abzumildern. Dann habe ich mir das Foto in Schwarzweiß angesehen und fand, dass es ganz gut funktioniert, also poste ich auch diese Version, obwohl mir klar ist, dass das für Sie vielleicht eine zu große Veränderung ist. Ich finde, das Bild ist gut komponiert, also habe ich keine Änderungen an der Komposition vorgenommen.

Gutes Licht, Elizabeth

 

Thank you for the suggestion to convert the photo to black and white. I wouldn't have thought of it, as the red lighting color is part of the artwork. But I did it anyway and reduced my photo to the painting on the wall and to the visitors who inform themselves about the explanation of the picture on the Internet. Let's see - I'll submit it again. Maybe the curators will like it better then?

Thank you very much for your best ideas. You have shown me a lot of possebilities. 

You are a part of my "published" photo ;-)

Congratulations, Ute!   It's not easy to get  a photo Published at 1X of late.