Talk:Low-key photography

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Hello, and please forgive any formatting errors, as I am just dipping my toe into contributing to Wikipedia.

Enjoyed your article very much, but I have only one possible suggestion. When you speak of the Karsh portrait, you call it "Portrait of Winston Churchill", in capitalized text. Someone may have referred to that, somewhere, by that specific name. Certainly, it is a portrait, and it is of Churchill.

Karsh himself, however, always called this shot "The Roaring Lion". I have included a link, below, that tells the story of how the name came about. Of course, this doesn't affect the purpose or quality of the article, as a whole, so whether you choose to use this information is up to you. Thanks for listening, and thanks, again, for the article. Eric 97.122.64.92 (talk) 22:38, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

http://www.beetlesandhuxley.com/roaring-lion-yousuf-karshs-portrait-churchill.html

GA Review

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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 19:26, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

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This is a well-written, well-organised and well-cited article that was a pleasure to read. I'm essentially ready to pass it without further ado, but I thought a couple of things might be worth mentioning:

• The technique is traced, correctly, to the work of painters such as Leonardo and Caravaggio. Would it not be helpful to include an example of the low-key work of each of these two, to give an idea of what low-key meant there (and hence, what photographers could work from)?  Done

• The lead is rather short and does not mention the history of painting or photography.

improved it, in part. Chiswick Chap,  Done - improved it as you suggested as much as I could and reffed the statements. Robertgombos (talk) 05:22, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Some more is needed (lead should mention the content of each section in the article, basically). Robertgombos (talk) 05:23, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

• The lead should also mention painting the body in black to reflect the text.  Done
• In the second paragraph of the Photography section, the titles of famous works such as "Portrait of Winston Churchill" should be in italics (or else quotation marks). They shouldn't really contain wikilinks, either, unless these go to articles on the works rather than to the people portrayed in those works.  Done

• The gallery seems to me to go beyond the text with its interesting image "Low-key photograph combined mixed with red; two light sources". The text should discuss this technique, with a suitable citation.

This is an entire philosophical story behind some of the photographs featuring the painted human body. I’ve written a lengthy story about the meaning of a spot of color on a black canvas – in my dissertation. Black invokes mistery, death, unknown while red symbolizes life in most cultures. Mixing a non-color with a strong one results, metaphorically, a nice story about us, humans, feeling sometimes trapped in our own body. I can't quote myself. By the way, on my user page, at the very bottom, you'll find a tripple triptic assembled image. That was my work.

guess we can let it go then.

Thanks, Chiswick Chap! Robertgombos (talk) 22:09, 5 June 2018 (UTC)