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Are we human or are we dancer?
- Killers
Materials and Methods
Nikon D80 + 50mm F1.8 + IR remote. My hands look weird because I'm trying to conceal the remote
. I'm wearing a scarf. The tutu is self made. Question mark drawn with eye liner. A lot of tone mapping in post editing to darken the blacks yet keep the photo bright. Noise reduction due to ISO 400; sharpen to compensate. Decreased red content in color balancing for a colder hue.
Additional Comments
For ~auroille 's Inspired By Words contest. It's my first time participating in a contest, partially since it's the first one I've heard of specifically for conceptual photography that's also hosted by someone I watch. Plus Jacobians are slowly melting my brain, rendering me incapable of coming up with my own concepts
My interpretation of the quote for the contest:
The first thing that struck me about the quote was the grammatical error "Dancer" is singular instead of properly agreeing with the plural pronoun "we". This suggests either that proper grammar is dying in popular culture, or that "dancer" is being used as an adjective like "human." For the sake of extrapolating a "deeper" interpretation, I will go with the latter. The way I see it, since "dancer" is being used as an adjective and the song makes a clear distinction between dancers and humans, among other nerdy reason, "dancer" must be a separate subspecies. We are either of classification Homo sapien sapien, or of classification Homo sapien praesul (or some other Latin word for dancer...who knows.) The speaker of the quote is thus asking, presumably God via this apostrophe, whether he is of this human or dancer subspecies. It is this question of identity and the subsequent inability to answer that pains the speaker to his guts, compelling him to clutch his seemingly unbeating heart with cold hands.
I don't know if it's "dancer" or "denser" and am simply following contest guidelines. According to Wikipedia, it's "dancer" but I really don't know
Please stop commenting on the dancer/denser bit. Thank you
This photo is protected under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Licenses for commercial and derivative use of this photo are available for purchase. Please contact me if interested. Under the Creative Commons license, this photo may be displayed on other websites as long as:
1. Credit is given in writing stating "Photo by Jean Fan (JFotography)"
2. A link is provided back to the original photo or JFotography.net
3. All other conditions under the Creative Commons license are met
Any use of this photo other than as authorized under this Creative Commons license or copyright law is prohibited.
Are we human or are we dancer?
- Killers
Materials and Methods
Nikon D80 + 50mm F1.8 + IR remote. My hands look weird because I'm trying to conceal the remote
. I'm wearing a scarf. The tutu is self made. Question mark drawn with eye liner. A lot of tone mapping in post editing to darken the blacks yet keep the photo bright. Noise reduction due to ISO 400; sharpen to compensate. Decreased red content in color balancing for a colder hue. Additional Comments
For ~auroille 's Inspired By Words contest. It's my first time participating in a contest, partially since it's the first one I've heard of specifically for conceptual photography that's also hosted by someone I watch. Plus Jacobians are slowly melting my brain, rendering me incapable of coming up with my own concepts
My interpretation of the quote for the contest:
The first thing that struck me about the quote was the grammatical error
"Dancer" is singular instead of properly agreeing with the plural pronoun "we". This suggests either that proper grammar is dying in popular culture, or that "dancer" is being used as an adjective like "human." For the sake of extrapolating a "deeper" interpretation, I will go with the latter. The way I see it, since "dancer" is being used as an adjective and the song makes a clear distinction between dancers and humans, among other nerdy reason, "dancer" must be a separate subspecies. We are either of classification Homo sapien sapien, or of classification Homo sapien praesul (or some other Latin word for dancer...who knows.) The speaker of the quote is thus asking, presumably God via this apostrophe, whether he is of this human or dancer subspecies. It is this question of identity and the subsequent inability to answer that pains the speaker to his guts, compelling him to clutch his seemingly unbeating heart with cold hands. I don't know if it's "dancer" or "denser" and am simply following contest guidelines. According to Wikipedia, it's "dancer" but I really don't know
Please stop commenting on the dancer/denser bit. Thank youThis photo is protected under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Licenses for commercial and derivative use of this photo are available for purchase. Please contact me if interested. Under the Creative Commons license, this photo may be displayed on other websites as long as:
1. Credit is given in writing stating "Photo by Jean Fan (JFotography)"
2. A link is provided back to the original photo or JFotography.net
3. All other conditions under the Creative Commons license are met
Any use of this photo other than as authorized under this Creative Commons license or copyright law is prohibited.
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We are both free and under restraint. It's capacity that taught me that. A hole is still a hole, but it can only be filled to the depth that it was dug. Humans are the same, we are all free, but only to the freedom that we individually have been granted. Freedom, but not unlimited, chains, but not on our whole souls.