Thanks... do you ever feel like you no longer "see" what's in the picture? Like I can't tell if I like it or not.. I get like that with web design as well. I start off with an idea and like it and by the end of the work I have no clue any more.
It's like the search for the Holy Grail!! always just out of reach..
I'm impatient I know. If only it were that easy to get good shots but I'm feeling like the amount of knowledge needed to get even the most rudimentary "good picture" may take longer than I have to live.. and it 'aint the camera's fault.
Thanks... do you ever feel like you no longer "see" what's in the picture?
that would be me. The delete button and I have become quite intimate lately. No big deal. Shooting it, then deleting it is much better than not shooting it in the first place.
Then again, sometimes I really like the bad stuff too
"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
I feel like I'm lost in the shuffle... lost the plot...comments on this please..
Lynn
Boy, this seems to have drifted from Lynn's pic.
Lynn , do have that photo hosted somewhere so that it can be bigger?
I'm having a tough time with it in its current size, though maybe then you have succeded in "lost in the shuffle" to me...
-Pete-
A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Of course, so does falling down a flight of stairs.
Lynn , do have that photo hosted somewhere so that it can be bigger?
I'm having a tough time with it in its current size, though maybe then you have succeded in "lost in the shuffle" to me...
I feel like I'm lost in the shuffle... lost the plot...comments on this please..
Lynn
Lost in what sense?
Perhaps a wider angle lens shot from a lower position might have given you
something different and more visually pleasing? The shot pulls the viewer to
the right but there's not a lot there to go to.
Ian
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I feel like I'm lost in the shuffle... lost the plot...comments on this please..
Lynn
Something alive might help. There needs to be something for the eye and the interest to fix on, or some lines to lead the eye from point A to point B. The photo of branches and moss that I put up is a worse example of the same malady. We both took pictures of something very interesting but failed to make our point.
Just for fun, I tinted it and increased the contrast.
Something alive might help. There needs to be something for the eye and the interest to fix on, or some lines to lead the eye from point A to point B. The photo of branches and moss that I put up is a worse example of the same malady. We both took pictures of something very interesting but failed to make our point.
Just for fun, I tinted it and increased the contrast.
you are both so right.. I kept looking at it and wondering why the heck I took it.. and it's dead. No life to it.
I've been messing about in PS converting a photo woman I cropped from a color photo and experimented with black and white. It's not very refined but I thought I'd show it for critique. Thanks for all your comments... always very helpful and usually reinforce what I already really knew deep inside.
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It's like the search for the Holy Grail!! always just out of reach..
I'm impatient I know. If only it were that easy to get good shots but I'm feeling like the amount of knowledge needed to get even the most rudimentary "good picture" may take longer than I have to live.. and it 'aint the camera's fault.
Then again, sometimes I really like the bad stuff too
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
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I rarely delete in camera. Uses up time and batteries... I have plenty of memory so I keep on shooting. I figure my computer's one giant delete key.
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Lynn , do have that photo hosted somewhere so that it can be bigger?
I'm having a tough time with it in its current size, though maybe then you have succeded in "lost in the shuffle" to me...
A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Of course, so does falling down a flight of stairs.
but I'm not sure it's worth the bother of waiting for the download
lynn
The larger version definetly is easier to view.
I think its good. The grasses versus the branches have some really good contrast in textures.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Of course, so does falling down a flight of stairs.
Perhaps a wider angle lens shot from a lower position might have given you
something different and more visually pleasing? The shot pulls the viewer to
the right but there's not a lot there to go to.
Ian
Just for fun, I tinted it and increased the contrast.
Operating System Design, Drivers, Software
Villa Del Rio II, Talamban, Pit-os, Cebu, Ph
I've been messing about in PS converting a photo woman I cropped from a color photo and experimented with black and white. It's not very refined but I thought I'd show it for critique. Thanks for all your comments... always very helpful and usually reinforce what I already really knew deep inside.
Oops! *blush*
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
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