Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Roberto Frieri on October 25, 2011, 03:49:50 pm
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M8 + Biogon 2.8/25 + ND filter & Capture One
Freehand photos
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They are starting to grow on me. I like how these images are composed by near squares in or across the 7 by 10 proportion rectangles. #4, is my favorite. It seems to me to be the most direct, dynamic, and open.
Bruce
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These are intriguing. I like the colours better in some of the similar posts. These look a bit muddy to me, perhaps it's just the time of year. Scott
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Some more...
That is "autumn as I see it".
Feel free to see my portfolio on http://web.mac.com/frieri/20111113T212951.html (http://web.mac.com/frieri/20111113T212951.html)
(http://web.mac.com/frieri/img/L1003366DNGp.jpg)
(http://web.mac.com/frieri/img/L1003322DNGp.jpg)
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Frankly, I see this style (or similar) as the only way forward within the genre. No amount of hi-fi, stitching etc. can negate the fact that straight landscape has simply been done to death. We all know how reality looks; not all of us have seen it from a different perspective, through techniques more often applied within other branches (groan...) of photography.
It's my view that ultra-high definition and detail is not a step forward at all, just more of the same stuff that has been done since the invention of the camera. The same held with paint: from high definition to Impressionism and other isms, it's all about the search for some new way, some magical potion that'll sustain the genre as it faces the huge problem of over-exposure in most media.
(It's a problem in all genres of photography outwith pure research/technical applications; we really have seen it all, more or less.)
It won't be easy.
Rob C
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It won't be easy.
Rob C
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Biased in favor of detail though I am, I enjoy the figuration in the pictures. However, in the recent set of pictures, which read less like receding landscape to me than the first set, I wonder what is the relationship between the smooth blue ground and the ruff red figures; are they just different and distant from each other? Are they connected by the black? Can the gradients of the light provide continuity? In my favorite, #4, the last of the first group, leaves [with a little detail] turn blue gray and link to the ground.
Bruce
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Roberto,
The first of the new pair really knocks my socks off! Gorgeous!
Eric
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Intriguing idea. There's a sense of playfulness there - the wind dancing with the branches.
Mike.
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Some more...
That is "autumn as I see it".
Feel free to see my portfolio on http://web.mac.com/frieri/20111113T212951.html (http://web.mac.com/frieri/20111113T212951.html)
(http://web.mac.com/frieri/img/L1003366DNGp.jpg)
(http://web.mac.com/frieri/img/L1003322DNGp.jpg)
Very nicely done. Great combination of colors and forms!
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+1. Nice!
Scott
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Roberto, It's not my cuppa tea, but it's good stuff within its genre. Keep shooting. When the next B&W & Color magazine annual color portfolio contest comes along, pick a dozen of your absolute best and enter the contest. From what I've seen in the magazine you'd have a serious shot at a win.
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Thank you Bruce, Scott, Rob C, Eric, Mike, Justan and Russ for your kind comments.