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playing with minds :)

eKcLeNT PiCtuReS…. :)

weird, confusing and irritating indeed..
Some pics are too much of irritating.
I liked this one:
“I know what I want out of life. yet I still don’t know how to get there.”

I think timing and composition are two prime factors for clicking these kind of photographs…Kudos to all those master minds who were behind the camera and smashingmagazine for making such a nice collection.

I don’t know about confusing.. but yaa.. they surly are irritating. Thanks Aquil for sharing.

DKumar M.

Quite a few weird and amazing photos, but they just look like the photographers were out of ideas and they pushed themselves to find some. Sometimes the best photos come out unintentionally by the beauty of inner inspiration and motivation.

That made my day/night awful weather a little better.

Irritating indeed!
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yay, some awesome pictures…

just ok ! nothing new ! something that we have always seen !

There are some good images here, though none are particularly ‘irritating’.

Great Pictures.

Cool photos although can’t say any irritated me!!!

Too funny! Alternate title: Pretentious Photography

good photography

wow, nice!

quite interesting. some tips on the techniques involved would have been nice..

using technical skill to say nothing. maybe there is point of view, but it isn’t very interesting. forgetful moments.

My favorite is easily “Touch the Moon.” What the hell?…I couldn’t stop laughing.

Some photos give me a good smile indeed. Thanks Smashing, a refreshing post. I like it.

thats very, very great.
thanks

Reminds me of the Stephen Wright Joke: “What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?”

Cool, but many of those “photographs” are actually works of graphic design, not pure photographs.

Very interesting ！
How can I buy your magazine in China?

That was a great Collection !!!
They really are irritating !!!

Whats the point in this article? Rubbish.

Simply F Awesome,,,

very ugly photos

@ Louis – I couldn’t have said it better myself. I’ve been very annoyed at the lack of rewrites on this site lately. ESL is one thing, but come on. If I were to write in Spanish I would hope that a Spanish editor would give me some help. I would need it badly.

Weird, Confusing and Irritating Photography is a totally subjective title. As the comments attest, what someone finds “irritating” could be great to someone else. I have no issue with photography articles, in fact I think they very much belong on a web design focused site. If you are going to title an article as a critique, fine – I could use more thoughtful analysis as to why that’s the case. I’m all for creative counterpoint but this really falls short of that.

Eh. The majority of these photos are not even photography, but extreme post-processing and graphic design. The only photo that truly does anything for me is the “Fish Face” – an example of actual photography – which is perfectly composed, witty, and interesting.

I’m sorry, but most of this stuff just looks like emo/hipster I’m-trying-so-hard-to-deconstruct-art-and-make-a-message crap that you see every day. There’s nothing exciting or inspiring about it. Give me talented photographers who can capture the beauty and/or chaos of reality, or who can frame a great idea (like with “Fish Face”), and forget these Photoshop-addicted wannabes.

Good collection. Thanks)

those photos are inspiration ideas.. :) great jobs. great shots and great manipulations..
but I dont understand why you guys calling it Irritating..

Thanks for posting!

some are amazing~
I like these so much~
thank u

Wow! That’s some insane stuff! Great!

Irritating indeed ;)

very interesting piece of work

Thanks for being selected here !

As one of the photographers featured and a friend of some of the others, I feel that I should respond to the claims of heavy manipulation and post processing. For the most part, the manipulation or trickery you’re seeing has been done in front of the lens by hand without the crutch of Photoshop.

Sure, some of the work rests on the border of design and photography, but does that make it pretentious or irritating? Surely nobody thinks that about Strom Thorgerson’s album covers.

I can’t speak for everybody—Hermin Abramovitch clearly pastes things into his photos to make them more interesting—but I’m motivated by visualizing intangible ideas often only expressed through words or capturing what is overlooked in daily life, not just sensationalizing little things.

Amazing :)

Great job. i feel so irritated now!

Hand Vagina, have I found you at last???