New work

[Andrew Brooks]

Hi,
I've not posted on this group in a long long time, so I wanted to share some of my newest work. Here's a mix of images from my recent travels and also some commissioned photography I have been doing for the BBC Philharmonic.  Lots more work on my site which you can see here.

Thanks,
Andrew Brooks
@andrewpbrooks

[amolitor]

These look to me like really nice stock photographs. The strong converging lines and sense of perspective in three of them seem like they're trying to accomplish or communicate something, but without anything to communicate. I feel like they'd work well behind an ad or something, something that will lean on those strong converging lines and the other themes.

The forest scene with the path and the sun light through the leaves is pretty but ultimately strikes me as very well executed decor, and not a lot else. Again, it might well work as a stock photo supporting something else, but it's not as.. dramatically communicative as the other three potentially are.

[RSL]

Stock or not, Andrew, #3 is a fine piece of work. The reason some photographs are "stock" is that they're good.

[popnfresh]

One, two and four are pretty darn good. Not crazy about the foreground in #3, but the light in that one is quite nice.

[wolfnowl]

I find #2 with the ships the best work; they all look like they're converging or racing to a specific point.  Being a panorama, however, I would have liked to be a bit wider, showing more of what's to the right.

Mike.

[amolitor]

I did not intend "stock" to mean "bad" at all. I meant only that these are the kinds of images that are intended to work inside of other content, to support and enhance another idea, not to be the idea in and of themselves.

[popnfresh]

I did not intend "stock" to mean "bad" at all.

There's nothing wrong with stock. Even Cartier-Bresson shot for stock and co-founded the world's greatest stock agency, Magnum. Most people who post here wish they were good enough to sell their work through a stock agency.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

#3 has a Camille Corot feel to it.

[Rob C]

There's nothing wrong with stock. Even Cartier-Bresson shot for stock and co-founded the world's greatest stock agency, Magnum. Most people who post here wish they were good enough to sell their work through a stock agency.

Used to be a good idea...

;-)

Rob C

[RSL]

Good point, Slobodan. I missed the similarity.