[0918] Instaban
└ posted on Friday, 8 September 2017, by Novil
- Sandra: “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”
- Sandra: “A good photograph is one that touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it.”
- Sandra: “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
- Woo: Is this one of these press photos where they blurred the crime victims’ faces?
- Sandra: I wonder how many other people have been banned from Instagram for “crimes against photography.”
Anyone with vision bad enough to think the blurred images look normal, parkinsons people, and those who over caffeinate.
@ Crestlinger:
Parkinson’s tremors come and go.
Maybe instagram is programmed to recognise and blurr any photos with Larissa in them, due to the naked photo incident a while back.
10 weeks since we’ve seen Landon, and he doesn’t even get a speaking part nor even a kissing part.
Was she banned because Cloud’s hand looks like it’s touching Larissa’s crotch?
So basically, she doesn’t stop the camera before hitting the button.
I dont get it
All those photos, taken at low-res and with malfunctioning auto-focus! Tsk tsk.
Everything tilted too I bet…
Invest in a tripod, Sandy.
@ Martin:
Neither do I, what?
@Martin, d.Artemis: Me neither. I suspect you have to use instagram to get it.
@ asdf:
Her pictures are blurry. She sucks at taking pictures. I think that’s it.
ratfox wrote:
That is weak sauce, they should have shown the photo THEN we would get the joke……
Cloud’s getting a little “handsy” in that group shot.
Oi, Novil, two questions:
1. Do you even read the comments anymore?
2. Why no after-pictures?
Advice from an old Kodak book:
In order to take good pictures, you have to take lots of pictures.
A Friday comic? What gives?
@ Ctor21:
He does. You’ll notice that he still sometimes replies to comments by submitting his own comments.
My ex-wife took a photography course, and it turned out that taking artistic photos is actually very difficult. The most technically-proficient photographer can miss that “whatever” that makes Art.
And there are the occasional “anti-artists” who, while trying to make Art, somehow perform the exact opposite.
It seems Snadra is a talented “anti-photographer”.
argentlupus wrote:
Yuna’s fault. Weird things happen when the Sun goes “boom”.
The time-glitches will eventually smooth out though I’m sure.
I also have no idea what the joke is. Is it the unfortunate position of Cloud’s hand, are the photos blurry or are they bad? Something else?
For those of you that don’t get the joke, the joke is that Sandra was going on about the wonderful art of photography (which, speaking from somewhat talented personal experience, is awesome), and then the fotos that she took were really bad.
@ TheSwanDragon:Beyond that, she’s quoting three real photographers in the first three panels: Matt Hardy, Irving Penn, and Robert Frank.
Cloud’s hand is in an, uh, interesting spot.
It took me a while and some comment-reading to understand that the joke is about Sandra’s photos being so bad she got banned from Instagram as the result.
I’m finally getting the joke. The problem for me is that I’m not much into the art of photography. I could see that photo 1 and 3 are pointless and photo 2 should have been shot from the opposite direction, but they don’t trigger a “oh they are so bad” reaction from me, just a “meh”.
Crystalgate wrote:
Awww. Macro-mode could make for an excellent photo of any purty flower!
Half the photos I take are blurry on purpose, does that mean I’m photography hitler?
TheSwanDragon wrote:
Woo’s comment doesn’t really make that clear, though. It could mean anything.
Given nowadays ability of cameras to produce nice results even for complete inept photographers, the joke is even harder to understand. If at least her camera looked like a complicated one for professionals where you have more space to do something really wrong …
But maybe it’s a meta joke about comics being also more complicated to do right then we think? 😉
And unlike photography there are no smart comic devices doing most of the work for you…
oledakaajel wrote:
Exactly. The ‘show, don’t tell’ method of story telling would have worked so much better here. This reminds me of the time Tom Preston, aka, Andrew Dobson made a story arc involving an art student struggling because while he had potential, he wasn’t all that great. In a later story arc, the kid reunites with the teacher who criticized him. Said teacher looks over his new work and says he’s improved. The big problem here and what makes the execution rather lazy is that Preston didn’t do a thing to prove this. He doesn’t show us the new images, so we’re just supposed to take this teacher’s word for it and assume that this kid really did improve. That’s why this particular joke only works if you’re actually a photographer. Because he didn’t show how badly the photos came out, we’re just supposed to assume they were bad enough to get Sandra booted off of Instagram because of that one line from Woo. Again, Novil didn’t really show it, he just said it.
@ Neil Dunsmore:
I zoomed in; you can clearly see that the photo is extremely pixelated! 😛
Feh. Instagram. Don’t let it get to you, kid.
@Novil:
You should definitely post this strip (or a photo of this strip) on Instagram. It’s sure to go viral.
Woo is looking at the photo in the third panel, which seems to be just fine there (you’ll notice we’re being shown the camera’s screen). So I’m sure it’s not the originals that are fuzzy, people just thought they sucked so they blurred them off afterwards.
That being said, I’m still not sure how any of these count as “crimes against photography”, especially that Happy ‘Coon Family moment she caught.