You win plenty! But this one - for me - just doesn't come together. It took me a while to even figure out what was going on.
Haha, fair enough. Thanks B.D.
Speaking of winning... I recently received my very first print from SmugMug. I had a metallic 8x10 printed of the runner in this thread and it simply blew me away! I appreciate the encouragement you and everyone else provided in that thread! Thanks!
10 month?... oh, we must be talking about something totaly different stuff.
let me read again.. metallic? ok.. i dont know what that is. does it show the bw-tones much better? is it expensive?
10 month?... oh, we must be talking about something totaly different stuff.
let me read again.. metallic? ok.. i dont know what that is. does it show the bw-tones much better? is it expensive?
Oh no, the print only took a few days to get. I've been shooting about 10 months and it took nearly that long to get an image I felt compelled to print.
The metallic prints have a silvery base instead of white. I've not seen a color example, though I know a lot of folks use it for that. What you end up with is a very metallic (can I be more redundant? ) image that has an almost 3D feel to it. In my example, when viewed with an oblique light source, the runner appears to be almost lifted off the image. It is extremely cool.
It's a little more expensive than a standard print but not much. I think the 8 x 10 was a little over $3.
Speaking of winning... I recently received my very first print from SmugMug. I had a metallic 8x10 printed of the runner in this thread and it simply blew me away! I appreciate the encouragement you and everyone else provided in that thread! Thanks!
I just received my first metallic print and am quite impressed with it. It was $3.95 preshipping. The people do "pop" some. The hardwood floor looks gold plated and the back grey wall looks like construction was metal.
But to bring you back on track, I do like your photo. It did take me a few secs to figure out that this was a carnival game. Then it fell into place cuz you captured it perfectly. He was making his pitch for what is a deceptively difficult game and the people were just ignoring him.
I just received my first metallic print and am quite impressed with it. It was $3.95 preshipping. The people do "pop" some. The hardwood floor looks gold plated and the back grey wall looks like construction was metal.
But to bring you back on track, I do like your photo. It did take me a few secs to figure out that this was a carnival game. Then it fell into place cuz you captured it perfectly. He was making his pitch for what is a deceptively difficult game and the people were just ignoring him.
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for the comments, Rainbow. I'm glad you liked the photo.
The background is too busy to work as negative space for what might be an interesting composition of the three people. There isn't enough context to tell an actual story. So in the end it doesn't work as either an abstract composition or a story. The best images are both.
The background is too busy to work as negative space for what might be an interesting composition of the three people. There isn't enough context to tell an actual story. So in the end it doesn't work as either an abstract composition or a story. The best images are both.
Thanks for the additional information, Rutt.
I understand that the shot is too busy, and lacks something compositionally, but I didn't expect to hear that the "story" wasn't obvious in this one. I suspected there may not be enough tension between the carnival worker and the women to provide any real relationship, however. Perhaps this is what you and B.D. are referring to?
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You win plenty! But this one - for me - just doesn't come together. It took me a while to even figure out what was going on.
"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
Speaking of winning... I recently received my very first print from SmugMug. I had a metallic 8x10 printed of the runner in this thread and it simply blew me away! I appreciate the encouragement you and everyone else provided in that thread! Thanks!
let me read again.. metallic? ok.. i dont know what that is. does it show the bw-tones much better? is it expensive?
The metallic prints have a silvery base instead of white. I've not seen a color example, though I know a lot of folks use it for that. What you end up with is a very metallic (can I be more redundant? ) image that has an almost 3D feel to it. In my example, when viewed with an oblique light source, the runner appears to be almost lifted off the image. It is extremely cool.
It's a little more expensive than a standard print but not much. I think the 8 x 10 was a little over $3.
I just received my first metallic print and am quite impressed with it. It was $3.95 preshipping. The people do "pop" some. The hardwood floor looks gold plated and the back grey wall looks like construction was metal.
But to bring you back on track, I do like your photo. It did take me a few secs to figure out that this was a carnival game. Then it fell into place cuz you captured it perfectly. He was making his pitch for what is a deceptively difficult game and the people were just ignoring him.
Thanks for posting.
The background is too busy to work as negative space for what might be an interesting composition of the three people. There isn't enough context to tell an actual story. So in the end it doesn't work as either an abstract composition or a story. The best images are both.
I understand that the shot is too busy, and lacks something compositionally, but I didn't expect to hear that the "story" wasn't obvious in this one. I suspected there may not be enough tension between the carnival worker and the women to provide any real relationship, however. Perhaps this is what you and B.D. are referring to?