Shack fire pic - Warning man burnt to death picture

[jjmcnab]

A pic i took last year. Its personally one of my favs, so wanted to see what other people think about it.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2251/...0c5f0b4f93.jpg

[jujitsu1]

I had a look and I think its a bit guresome.

[Matthew James Norman]

what critique are you asking for? Composition? Colour? Subject?

[waffles]

I really don't see anything in this one. Something burned, but I can't tell what it is. What's the point in this picture, because I can't find one.

[indigoboo]

I can tell that it is a body that has been burned, but there is nothing here to tell me why the body is burned. It seems rather shocking, but then there is nothing more to make you think. Reminds me of something you'd see on rotten.com or one of the other shock/gore sites out there.

jjmcnab, I read in your other post that you felt like there was something missing. I do too. The thing that is missing is the story. For pictures of trees or children playing or insects, there doesn't necessarily need to be a story. For pictures of charred corpses and the like, you need to give the viewer the answer of why they are looking at something so against our grain to see.

[Mr Guy]

Agree with indigoboo, what's missing seems to be context. As art, the composition is a bit uninteresting, and there seems to be some motion blur, though it's hard to tell. Without knowing what it was, I wouldn't say it's possible to differentiate it because last week's cookout. As news, there's just not enough to tell you what's going on, what's happening, who's the guy in background, etc. It's just too close in on the result without giving any perspective on what's around it.