if i squint a bit,
the streets sort of look like a spark
theres something surreal about this
also: it is gorgeous
Thank you! I have also this for consideration from the same evening. I haven't actually gone through these pictures. This one just appeared on my screensaver shuffle:
It is indeed. you can see where the ducks have moved about in the water and in the middle left sky you can see the blinking wingtip lights of a passing airliner It's an inland quay that I discovered a year or so back but didn't explore.
Logicalharm; This is probably just personal preference but I'd like to see more contrast. Those shadows are dying to pop out but they kinda fade away into gray. I don't know.
Here are comments on everyone's pics. After typing so many comments I feel like I sound like some douchebag know-it-all, so please take it all with a grain of salt and know that I am a mediocre amateur so who the hell am I to crit? Just some dude.
Daysleeper - Both pics are very pretty!! I almost prefer the 2nd one, but there's a little too much of the green roof showig for my tastes. But I love the lights and the brightness of the colors a lot!
Jamp - My favorite of all of yours on this page (and I like them all) is voltot5.jpg (metal doors on left, stairs, lighted light pole)! I can't get enough of your desaturated colors that still feel rich. Wonderful! Also the eye portrait rocks! The quality of colors is terrific!
LogicalHarm - I like the first one better, and the repeating shapes catches my eye, but it doesn't quite have enough umph. I am not sure exactly would kick it up a notch, however, so I have no good suggestions. Maybe a little more intensity on the shadows? That may not be a good suggestion. The second one bothers me. Either I can't find the focal point or else I see it but want so badly for the chain to be in focus that I overlook it. I think that needs to be reshot with the chain in focus or else a different but still obvious subject.
Jonis - The shingles is definitely the best shot. I want to like the second one, but the powerline/pole contrasts too much topically from the trees. It's too different and so the image doesn't feel cohesive to me. :^: on the shingles, though!!
Goshinga - I like the colors/contrast in the first pic but the content doesn't excite me. I see a hint of style, so keep shooting!!
Quartermaster - I love your second pic everytime I see it, until my brain figures out what it is. As an abstract design it's awesome. As glasses it loses that spark. Still, it's pretty cool!
Saltiness - It's so obvious, but I really like your second pic ("stairs to sutter st"). It looks like an album cover, or a magazine cover or something. The composition is solid!
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This feels so contrived. :-/ Is it wrong of me to still enjoy it?
salty- your city shots are quite fucking excellent
jonis- i love them. all of them
pope- i like your ideas and compositions, but the images seem a little too flat.
pope: Thanks! I like the second shot better as well..although I see what you mean about the glasses. Also, I really like your shot of the tree. The colors work very well together!
saltiness: I'm going to agree with everybody here and say that your shots are excellent. The one of the parking garage is perfectly composed..it really turns something that would normally be mundane into an cool photo!
I thought the text was added in post at first, the composition is killer.
Really like the roof too. Would have liked richer colors but the way it leads the eye is nice.
Thanks everyone. I gotta say I was really lucky with that shot. The sun was in just the right position to make the shadows coming off the guardrail and reflector cone thing perfect.
Jonis - The shingles is definitely the best shot. I want to like the second one, but the powerline/pole contrasts too much topically from the trees. It's too different and so the image doesn't feel cohesive to me. :^: on the shingles, though!!
I agree about the shingles, but I disagree about the trees/power lines. The vines or whatever on the transformer tie it in, plus there's stuff going on at the inside corners when you do the rule of thirds thing.
Saltiness: I also really like the second one, rules of thirds really makes it click, and the varying weight of the three major lines (between the panels of the wall, the heavy one at the guard rail, and the orange thing), which I think also applies to the third one. I feel the fourth one has a little too much going on, and nothing really sticks out. The curves in the first one really set a nice rhythm, my eye started in the top right, follows down to the bottom left, is sent back to the right by the white slashes to the cars, then another curve.
Jonis - The shingles is definitely the best shot. I want to like the second one, but the powerline/pole contrasts too much topically from the trees. It's too different and so the image doesn't feel cohesive to me. :^: on the shingles, though!!
I agree about the shingles, but I disagree about the trees/power lines. The vines or whatever on the transformer tie it in, plus there's stuff going on at the inside corners when you do the rule of thirds thing.
Saltiness: I also really like the second one, rules of thirds really makes it click, and the varying weight of the three major lines (between the panels of the wall, the heavy one at the guard rail, and the orange thing), which I think also applies to the third one. I feel the fourth one has a little too much going on, and nothing really sticks out. The curves in the first one really set a nice rhythm, my eye started in the top right, follows down to the bottom left, is sent back to the right by the white slashes to the cars, then another curve.
I agree, the last one has too much to look at. I wanted the teal AC unit and the skylight at the bottom to be the main elements but they just didn't end up standing out enough.
Actually, the shots are for an eBay auction that my wife opened. The thing's been used twice. It sounds pretty good for music, but it doesn't handle voice over the best. Since we do pro voice over out of the home, we have a different system and this poor thing has been collecting dust.
pope: Thanks! The 'green roof' is actually the stone of the ESB and the green comes from reflected light. It was still done up in green and red for Christmas when I was there. I really like the composition of your second one but I think I'd like it even more if there was a bit more contrast.
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i enjoy this, let me tell you why:
if i squint a bit,
the streets sort of look like a spark
theres something surreal about this
also: it is gorgeous
Thank you! I have also this for consideration from the same evening. I haven't actually gone through these pictures. This one just appeared on my screensaver shuffle:
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That's some wickedly calm water.
I like it.
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This is probably suicide posting after JAmp but whatever. And please dont kill me I suck at borders. Other than that chew away.
i think the shadow profile in the last shot kind of takes away from it though, but still nice extended exposures.
older shot of pencil shavings:
burkhart, I think you've posted that before. Cuz it looks familiar. That, or I'm crazy.
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Logicalharm; This is probably just personal preference but I'd like to see more contrast. Those shadows are dying to pop out but they kinda fade away into gray. I don't know.
JRosey, that image in the banner on your site, is it edited or what? It's cool as shit.
Playing with lighting saturation and err...makeup not on me.
I said I would try shooting the moon through a telescope, so here is the one good fruit:
I took it with my Sony DSC-W50. Not as sharp as I would like though.
And here's a random shot I took with the same camera in macro mode..
needs less contact lenses
Very pretty
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
Daysleeper - Both pics are very pretty!! I almost prefer the 2nd one, but there's a little too much of the green roof showig for my tastes. But I love the lights and the brightness of the colors a lot!
Jamp - My favorite of all of yours on this page (and I like them all) is voltot5.jpg (metal doors on left, stairs, lighted light pole)! I can't get enough of your desaturated colors that still feel rich. Wonderful! Also the eye portrait rocks! The quality of colors is terrific!
LogicalHarm - I like the first one better, and the repeating shapes catches my eye, but it doesn't quite have enough umph. I am not sure exactly would kick it up a notch, however, so I have no good suggestions. Maybe a little more intensity on the shadows? That may not be a good suggestion. The second one bothers me. Either I can't find the focal point or else I see it but want so badly for the chain to be in focus that I overlook it. I think that needs to be reshot with the chain in focus or else a different but still obvious subject.
Jonis - The shingles is definitely the best shot. I want to like the second one, but the powerline/pole contrasts too much topically from the trees. It's too different and so the image doesn't feel cohesive to me. :^: on the shingles, though!!
Goshinga - I like the colors/contrast in the first pic but the content doesn't excite me. I see a hint of style, so keep shooting!!
Quartermaster - I love your second pic everytime I see it, until my brain figures out what it is. As an abstract design it's awesome. As glasses it loses that spark. Still, it's pretty cool!
Saltiness - It's so obvious, but I really like your second pic ("stairs to sutter st"). It looks like an album cover, or a magazine cover or something. The composition is solid!
Here are my latest shots, for what they're worth.
This feels so contrived. :-/ Is it wrong of me to still enjoy it?
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jonis- i love them. all of them
pope- i like your ideas and compositions, but the images seem a little too flat.
prints from tonite:
I honestly think this is the best photo in the thread.
I have no idea why I say this, and my view is strictly opinion, but damn............something about that is just wow.
Like something i'd see on a movie poster.
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What they said.
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saltiness: I'm going to agree with everybody here and say that your shots are excellent. The one of the parking garage is perfectly composed..it really turns something that would normally be mundane into an cool photo!
Really like the roof too. Would have liked richer colors but the way it leads the eye is nice.
Saltiness: I also really like the second one, rules of thirds really makes it click, and the varying weight of the three major lines (between the panels of the wall, the heavy one at the guard rail, and the orange thing), which I think also applies to the third one. I feel the fourth one has a little too much going on, and nothing really sticks out. The curves in the first one really set a nice rhythm, my eye started in the top right, follows down to the bottom left, is sent back to the right by the white slashes to the cars, then another curve.
jamp: :^: :!!:
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It looks like it's floating the second one
I agree, the last one has too much to look at. I wanted the teal AC unit and the skylight at the bottom to be the main elements but they just didn't end up standing out enough.
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I do, however, really like your lighting. Hardly any shadows at all!
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