Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on September 18, 2016, 02:51:43 pm
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Thoughts?
Jeremy
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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...
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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. :-\
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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.
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I have to agree with all the above critics.
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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
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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.
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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
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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!
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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
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With regret, I fear you're all correct. I was confusing my memories of a very pleasant day with photographic merit.
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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 ;)
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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.
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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?
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Rob
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Can you ratchet it up ten percent?
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Rob
The highest I'll go is 99%.
The rest are because my wife asked me to take them. ;)