Why is this photo popular?
May 13, 2020 09:34:54 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
Perhaps most people don’t know how to take a photo like that so they’re easily impressed. Aside from that, I think it’s a pretty good photo.
May 13, 2020 09:47:49 #
Guyserman
Loc: Benton, AR
hobbit123 wrote:
As someone who is very much in the 'still learning' phase I'm horrified when I look at some of the editing I've done on images not that long ago that show a heavy handed use of the sharpness slider, and I now think how could I ever have considered that was good?
You just described me!
May 13, 2020 10:23:14 #
This one, by comparison, looks rather fake and amateurish.
--Bob
--Bob
hobbit123 wrote:
Well you might be right. By comparison I posted another photo which I think is more dramatic than the first but garnered only 20 "likes". Why the difference I wonder?
May 13, 2020 10:56:26 #
hobbit123 wrote:
Occasionally I post a photo to the local community... (show quote)
It's just a wonderful image of the moon over a clean shot of that city and it's romantically stunning.
May 13, 2020 11:27:12 #
The first Pink shot fits the compositing grid, and has the landscape as a point of comparison. The second shot does not. The second shot is much more dramatic than the first. I happen to like the second shot better.It defies the normal perspective.
Don
Don
May 13, 2020 11:48:37 #
hobbit123 wrote:
Excellent, we have grade school teacher on board. As well as the we're vs were can we add "I could care less" vs "I couldn't care less"? Seems like a no brainer to me. And how about "off of"? That's my personal favourite!!!
But at least we finally have a spell checker!!!
And some people actually use it!.
May 13, 2020 12:13:18 #
hobbit123 wrote:
Thanks for your well considered piece of constructive criticism. Very helpful indeed. One word has me puzzled though "acoarst", what does it mean?
The only thing puzzling you in that post is the word "acoarst"?
May 13, 2020 12:22:21 #
mrpentaxk5ii wrote:
I will answer your question with a question Grasshopper, for who are you taking photos for, your self or people that will not know you and why you photograph in the first place.
That is actually an interesting question. All artists, knowingly or not, have an audience in mind when creating a work. Assumptions about that audience play a major role in decisions from conception through final work.
It is something I spent some time on when I was a young academic. Particularly I looked at theater and how the views of Stanislavsky, Brecht and Grotowski shaped the nature of their work as well as how their times affected their views. The same holds in other disciplines. We are all creatures of our times and backgrounds. A view widely understood in most of the modern world, except for a few isolated places where a few deluded people really believe they are "self-made" owing nothing to the rest of the world.
May 13, 2020 12:28:24 #
hobbit123 wrote:
Well you might be right. By comparison I posted another photo which I think is more dramatic than the first but garnered only 20 "likes". Why the difference I wonder?
I think this one is more abstract, and most folks prefer realism; personally, I prefer the second but, as my mother used to say, that's why they make chocolate and vanilla or, as the Stoics used to say, de gustibus no disputandem est.
May 13, 2020 15:05:37 #
May 13, 2020 15:12:13 #
LESTAHL wrote:
Because photographers and good people like it.
Most photographers are good people
May 13, 2020 17:46:32 #
hobbit123
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
As an aside there were some interesting comments on the FB page:
FB user: "Wow please share details of your technique"
Me: "Low ISO, small aperture, 500mm lens, manual focus, turn off image stabilisation,use a tripod, use
a remote shutter release and use the electronic shutter if your camera has one."
FB User: "Tq one day ... I will try" :-)
FB user: "Wow please share details of your technique"
Me: "Low ISO, small aperture, 500mm lens, manual focus, turn off image stabilisation,use a tripod, use
a remote shutter release and use the electronic shutter if your camera has one."
FB User: "Tq one day ... I will try" :-)
May 13, 2020 17:53:06 #
hobbit123
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
Another one:
FB User: "it didn’t look pink but must have been a super moon!"
:-)
There were a few alluding to the fact that it wasn't pink except in my photo. But most deferred to my photo and accepted it was pink. It obviously wasn't, we all know that. It wasn't yellow or green either, it was white. When I posted the photo I didn't set out to deliberately deceive anyone because to me the colour was so obviously fake. As someone said above it's more an exercise in artistic expression (and yes I accept that some will judge that effort differently to others :-) than a true record of the scene. But I was surprised that more people didn't call me out on that.
FB User: "it didn’t look pink but must have been a super moon!"
:-)
There were a few alluding to the fact that it wasn't pink except in my photo. But most deferred to my photo and accepted it was pink. It obviously wasn't, we all know that. It wasn't yellow or green either, it was white. When I posted the photo I didn't set out to deliberately deceive anyone because to me the colour was so obviously fake. As someone said above it's more an exercise in artistic expression (and yes I accept that some will judge that effort differently to others :-) than a true record of the scene. But I was surprised that more people didn't call me out on that.
May 13, 2020 17:58:49 #
Bonnie Halsell
Loc: Ocala, Florida USA
My 2 cents:
The photo of the moon alone is what I call a studium photograph. The photo has an element that interests the viewer, they have seen it before, and is a familiar object, etc.
The photo of the moon with the cityscape is what I call a punctum photograph. It is a photograph with a second element that makes the viewer stop, think and view the photograph in a different way. It changes the moon into something interesting, i.e. moon over my town.
Bonnie
Bonnie
The photo of the moon alone is what I call a studium photograph. The photo has an element that interests the viewer, they have seen it before, and is a familiar object, etc.
The photo of the moon with the cityscape is what I call a punctum photograph. It is a photograph with a second element that makes the viewer stop, think and view the photograph in a different way. It changes the moon into something interesting, i.e. moon over my town.
Bonnie
Bonnie
May 13, 2020 23:12:55 #
Can anyone even begin to hazard a guess why this particular image should be so popular? I can't.[/quote]
I think we took it for an actual photograph.
I think we took it for an actual photograph.
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