Posts for: MichaelEBM
Sep 22, 2019 05:12:15 #
Since the focal point of the photograph is your wonderful view of the Tetons, the window need only be suggested as a frame. That makes the second shot, I feel, the stronger one.
Sep 22, 2019 04:10:09 #
Lukabulla wrote:
br . . . I always ask or at least point to my cam... (show quote)
I wonder if most of the respondents to this thread missed the underlying message presented by the OP. As stated in his post (which I selectively quoted above), he has repeatedly had interaction with this female phone-photographer, and her attitude has irritated him for, I have to assume, a long time. This incident at the festival seems more the case that she had finally gotten on his last nerve, and he just finally let her have it! Then she proved to be as arrogant as he had always thought!
Sep 20, 2019 22:03:44 #
Just for the sheer exuberance of it, I vote for #11.
Sep 20, 2019 04:27:10 #
Could she be persuaded to be a model for you as a "child" instead of as a tiny adult? There's an impish quality about her that doesn't fit with the "dressed up little adult" image that she presents. Your photography works very well though, and that's with only the one workshop as your experience. Keep up the good work, and maybe your model can be persuaded to not rush to grow up! :)
Sep 16, 2019 17:57:46 #
Artist At Work in the Late Afternoon Light on Monhegan Island
Aug 31, 2019 05:45:30 #
Keep practicing and once you are sensitive to the technical aspects of your camera, then, as has been stated, there is the "impact" of the photo. Is there a focal point, is the viewer being invited to engage with your photo? Sometimes a photo can be worked on in post-processing to improve its impact. That's a whole other set of skills that you might decide to look into later. We're really not supposed to grab a photograph and work on it unless invited to do so, but I just wanted to show you a bit of what can be done after you've taken a photograph:
Enjoy the journey!
Enjoy the journey!
Aug 31, 2019 05:23:23 #
I think a title does add a "punctuation mark" to a photograph as was stated above. I enter photographs in online competitions, and titles are usually requested. I think a title should be short and to the point and try to capture an essence of what has been photographed. My idea: "Contemplation"
Aug 16, 2019 02:13:23 #
Aug 13, 2019 16:36:43 #
artBob wrote:
I'm interested in what you consider reality. I see no objective reality, as the camera records differently from our eyes, and our eyes see as our mind controls. The differences are often small, but that is where fine photography resides. Is this similar to your thinking, or do you have a different take?
I very much like your take on "reality," Bob. Once I take a photograph, it becomes its own entity. I then feel free to work on it until it becomes my own "finished product." I am not a photojournalist. My photograph is just the beginning of my creative process. Thanks for so succinctly stating what I have always believed.
Aug 13, 2019 16:30:35 #
kenievans wrote:
I enjoyed working on this one so much I decided to do a second entry. This one also playing off the name of Cathedral Gorge but a different direction. . . . I hope I did enough for you to see what I saw in my mind.
Keni, your take suggests a Nativity scene to me. Very creative!
Aug 13, 2019 08:41:13 #
Gave it a little more breathing room at the top and worked on bringing out the colors and details of the hoodoos.
Aug 10, 2019 02:49:00 #
Jul 29, 2019 17:44:26 #
It's all about the gentle curve of the shoreline, the wonderful colors in the water and reading the photograph from left to right.
Jul 28, 2019 03:44:47 #
#2 for me because the photograph "reads" from left to right (as we in the Western world do); from the land to the girl out to the water and beyond.
Jul 23, 2019 03:11:29 #
old-fashioned faded sepia in keeping with its time period
