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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: michswiss on October 10, 2011, 07:54:39 am

Title: Impressionism (5 images)
Post by: michswiss on October 10, 2011, 07:54:39 am

I did some single exposure experimentation recently.   Always curious in feedback.

1)
(http://michswiss.smugmug.com/Work-in-progress/Work-in-progress-2011/i-FNqZLPS/0/XL/DS20010-XL.jpg)

2)
(http://michswiss.smugmug.com/Work-in-progress/Work-in-progress-2011/i-QKCFpKZ/0/XL/DS20002-XL.jpg)

3)
(http://michswiss.smugmug.com/Work-in-progress/Work-in-progress-2011/i-6qgsbVh/0/XL/DS29997-XL.jpg)

4)
(http://michswiss.smugmug.com/Work-in-progress/Work-in-progress-2011/i-BJqL5bb/0/XL/DS20104-Version-2-XL.jpg)

5)
(http://michswiss.smugmug.com/Work-in-progress/Work-in-progress-2011/i-xHQnt5x/0/XL/DS29891-XL.jpg)


Full versions as well as several additional takes are in the WIP 2011 gallery.

Title: Re: Impressionism (5 images)
Post by: RSL on October 10, 2011, 10:36:22 am

Jennifer, As you know, it's not my cuppa tea, but it's creative, and the colors are great. You might give the B&W and Color magazine's next Color Portfolio contest a shot with a bunch of these.

Title: Re: Impressionism (5 images)
Post by: Ken Bennett on October 10, 2011, 01:14:42 pm

I like the simplicity of #4 and #5 best. The strong diagonals and the almost monochromatic look of #4 is striking. #5 is almost painterly.

Nicely done.

Title: Re: Impressionism (5 images)
Post by: walter.sk on October 10, 2011, 09:26:34 pm

#4 and #5 work for me.  The others are somewhat busy, but the last two have stronger compositional elements that support the impressionistic blurring, and seem much more balanced in terms of their over all effects.

Title: Re: Impressionism (5 images)
Post by: Michael West on October 10, 2011, 10:32:36 pm

number four is by far the most cohesively appealing

 it required less work  to appreciate

Title: Re: Impressionism (5 images)
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 10, 2011, 11:53:45 pm

As a contrarian, I like #s 1, 2, and 3 the best, because they make me work harder to make "sense" of them. They seem to provide more ways for my imagination to work on them.

I agree with Russ that you should submit a set of these to B&W and Color magazine.

Eric

Title: Re: Impressionism (5 images)
Post by: OnyimBob on October 11, 2011, 12:24:42 am

Interesting that I had just revisited my friend Dale Cotton's blog (http://www.daystarvisions.com/Docs/Blog/2011/index.html)  ... first entry .... when you put yours up.
I like all of these but number 2 is my favourite.
Bob.

Title: Re: Impressionism (5 images)
Post by: michswiss on October 11, 2011, 06:45:17 pm

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback.  As I said at the start, this was something of an experiment.  In particular to make camera movement a more intrinsic part of still image capture.  I'm, still figuring out ways to control composition, colour and "solidity" of the subjects and background.  You might see a few more of these in the future.  Back to street.

Title: Re: Impressionism (5 images)
Post by: sdwilsonsct on October 14, 2011, 02:28:32 pm

Wow! I like it. Especially #2, the dark/light, black/colour, death/life contrast.
Scott

Title: Re: Impressionism (5 images)
Post by: RawheaD on October 14, 2011, 04:05:22 pm

People who're interested in this technique really need to check out Chris Friel's works on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cfriel/

Title: Re: Impressionism (5 images)
Post by: wolfnowl on October 15, 2011, 12:38:44 am

Interesting results.  #3 is my favourite...

Mike.