gate

[Jeremy Roussak]

Thoughts?

Jeremy

[luxborealis]

Great detail and colour, but the harsh, flat light isn't working in your favour. Being a human artifact, I'm looking for a story in the photo, but I'm not seeing one. Perhaps if the gate was slightly ajar...

[stamper]

I would have taken this image if I had seen it but I don't think I would have posted it for a critique because most people would have thought it not worthy? An image that appeals to the photographer that saw it but not to an audience.

[RSL]

Great detail and colour, but the harsh, flat light isn't working in your favour. Being a human artifact, I'm looking for a story in the photo, but I'm not seeing one. Perhaps if the gate was slightly ajar...

I agree with Terry, Jeremy. It's a beautiful gate, but the picture is tourist photography. And Robert hit the nail on the head. It's a picture I'd have shot for myself but not for public consumption. You at least need sidelight for something like this in order for it to become more than reportage.

Here's a not yet famous adage I use on my local amateur photographers: Reportage tells you about an experience. Art gives you an experience.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I have to agree with all the above critics.

[Jeremy Roussak]

With regret, I fear you're all correct. I was confusing my memories of a very pleasant day with photographic merit.

Russ: nicely put.

Onwards.

Jeremy

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

With regret, I fear you're all correct. I was confusing my memories of a very pleasant day with photographic merit.

You are in good company, Jeremy.
I suspect that probably 80% of the photos I take function only as reminders of nice places I want to remember.

[Rob C]

You are in good company, Jeremy.
I suspect that probably 80% of the photos I take function only as reminders of nice places I want to remember.

That made me stop and think, Eric.

I haven't been off this island for over ten or more years, and to the towns beyond mine very rarely indeed after Ann passed on - why bother - for one, a restaurant meal ends up pretty similar to another... Yet, I make images at least every second day (except for those periods when varnishing rules my life) and I spend far too many hours a day at the computer, killing myself more rapidly than I need to do by challenging my vascular system too hard. I get withdrawal symptoms almost every day I don't shoot - symptoms that remind me of banks, too. Yet none of those photographs have the slightest thing to do with 'nice places I want to remember'. Mostly, I find it hard at times to recall where I shot what!

So out 'pecentages' have hugely different mathematical bases!

;-)

Rob

[luxborealis]

You are in good company, Jeremy.
I suspect that probably 80% of the photos I take function only as reminders of nice places I want to remember.

That made me stop and think, Eric.

I haven't been off this island for over ten or more years, and to the towns beyond mine very rarely indeed after Ann passed on - why bother - for one, a restaurant meal ends up pretty similar to another... Yet, I make images at least every second day (except for those periods when varnishing rules my life) and I spend far too many hours a day at the computer, killing myself more rapidly than I need to do by challenging my vascular system too hard. I get withdrawal symptoms almost every day I don't shoot - symptoms that remind me of banks, too. Yet none of those photographs have the slightest thing to do with 'nice places I want to remember'. Mostly, I find it hard at times to recall where I shot what!

So out 'pecentages' have hugely different mathematical bases!

;-)

Rob

+1 to each of you!

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Actually, Rob, what I should have said was that probably 90% of the photos I take are taken for my own enjoyment.
If I leave out "places," will our percentages be a little closer?   

Eric

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

With regret, I fear you're all correct. I was confusing my memories of a very pleasant day with photographic merit.
...
Onwards.

I wish your ability to take critique without whining, prima-donna tantrums, defensiveness, etc. is shared more readily across other threads and forums on LuLa

[RSL]

That'd be wonderful, Slobodan, but it ain't gonna happen -- unfortunately! Everybody wants a pat on the back. I'm a member of "everybody," and I'm pretty sure you are too. I hate to criticize, but sometimes I just have to.

[Rob C]

Actually, Rob, what I should have said was that probably 90% of the photos I take are taken for my own enjoyment.
If I leave out "places," will our percentages be a little closer?   

Eric

Can you ratchet it up ten percent?

;-)

Rob

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Can you ratchet it up ten percent?

;-)

Rob

The highest I'll go is 99%.
The rest are because my wife asked me to take them.