good separation from the background... i think the lighting is flat though, no drama.
i like the path your on with it... i think your 95% there.
jvo
i was regular army AND drafted...
i also landed as an infantryman in vietnam into an activated unit of the iowa national guard, which we were also told wasn't suppose to happen... june 1969
jvo
what really happened in vietnam was that we had a draft and 2 years of service... everybody was impacted.... people came home and said what a wasted experience it was... they told others and so on...
joe citizen no longer supported the waste that it was, the people turned against the war... CONGRESS turned against the war.
jvo
the sky is falling... the sky is falling... the sky is falling!!!!!
c.l.
love the first one in b+w - it really works - graphic, contrast of lines versus curves of fly, wings shine - great!
the 2nd one suffers from the out of focus berry so "front and center", whether color or b+w.
nice work
gotta wonder why florida "the sunshine state" has so little solar usage.
when you start to look you find out all the state electric companies lobby against it for obvious reasons. germany is at 20% solar and they don't have anywhere near the sunshine we have!
so our political leaders are either dumb or bought off - i wonder which it is? :?:
best tool to take better photographs is TIME. time studying photographs and photography OR time with your subject!
jvo
as a photographer who uses only film, i would recommend the class and film...
before i say why, let me say were i starting out today i very likely get into digital photography and never do anything else. dg photography and equipment is absolutely superb. you can take many more GOOD photographs, more quickly, and of diverse types, (macro, zoom, color, bw, special toning, etc.) - quickly and easily.
i'd recommend a film class to "slow your photography down" - you become more considerate with film. also not "seeing" the resultant image causes you to look closer at the subject, take more time with it - always a good thing. you can slow down with digital - you just don't... you aren't as considerate and thus spend a lot of time at the computer. you then spend a lot of time culling good from bad, (mostly bad), and never learn to be more judicious when clicking the shutter!
the darkroom is fun - the magic of putting ad blob of plastic in a tank and at the end you get these negatives of what you originally saw, and are surprised and sometimes let down! and elated that through this alchemy of processing you magic. somehow you always get a good picture and you did it! then you print and watch the image "transform" and come up in this chemical bath - the magic.
there's more... what it teaches you in terms of equipment use, importance of working the subject, etc. but you can do this if you are disciplined with a digital camera... i guess i'm not.
i'm a luddite who loves film and the process, try it at the least it will expand your horizons and give you an understanding most photographers don't have today...
jvo
p.s. the difference between a "good" photograph and a "great" photograph is TIME - time with the subject time improving your craft, time refining your art.
it's phenomenal - and clear... all conservatives aren't idiots... why is it that all idiots are conservative?
anybody in politics today, lacks principles! why wouldn't their backers also be hypocrites?
now, if olive garen paid a liveable wage, the wait staff wouldn't be so dependent on tips.
re. tips - sadly even when you are really great, some people are just cheap!
conservatives aren't stupid, it's just that a lot of stupid people are conservative.
when you shoot in a graveyard, how do you get model releases? :shock: