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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 40 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
I am part of a club in South Florida, it was not a PSA club, but they told me about PSA and I joined that too. I go to meetings for both and I go on field trips with my club. I've submitted my pictures for "club days" when we look at each other's pictures and give comments. But really I think another couple years of working on my skills. I did join a street photography group on facebook and even submitted some pictures. But what I like the best is submitting to this group, having a sense of what people have done before, discussing possibilities, roads not taken, then come up with ideas for the next month. I spend my whole month thinking about what I will do next for this group! This month I wanted to post a portrait but still don't have anything ready... have to keep working on that.
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Jun 25th |
| 40 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
I haven't tried submitting anything for competition yet. I am a little afraid to, the process seems laborious and not terribly rewarding.
But I'm rather fascinated that you, Andrew, know so much about Jamie's club's competition. How do you know all this? Are all photo competitions judged on the same scale? |
Jun 25th |
| 40 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
Andrew, I find your version interesting, though the sky is a little too white.
What I like best in yours is the treatment of the boulder. I think leaving the twigs in is better. This is a game of rock-twigs-erosion. We know that given enough time, the twigs and water will defeat the rock. The twigs left in there are a promise. |
Jun 25th |
| 40 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
I think the lower angle is what makes this one. Looks like you had a low tripod, or found a rock or something to put the camera on? |
Jun 25th |
| 40 |
Jun 19 |
Reply |
Thanks so much, Henry!
Cloudy again tonight- I still can't get to Jupiter. I'll set my alarm and see if the sky clears later. |
Jun 13th |
| 40 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
I see Bob's point but I'm not sure cropping out the black background is the solution. Without it the image would be cropped too tight, so the focus would be on the hood ornament. I feel that the image tells a story about how the car's design conveys its potential for fast forward motion. She almost looks like she's body surfing, and the angle and composition enhance that feeling.
Personally, I like the image as it is.
But one response to Bob's point is to bring up the reflections - own them. Make the contrast between the "indoorness" of the product image and the "outdoorness" of the reflection more blatant.
I really like this picture. There is an antique car museum near me, I would like to go and take a series of pictures there, this picture gives me an idea of things to try. |
Jun 13th |
| 40 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
I've been trying to think what it is about the image that makes it so engaging. There is clearly an "Escher" feel to it, as at first glance the stairs don't seem to go anywhere, or seem like they could move, (as in Harry Potter). The books don't read as "books" right away- there is a dollhouse effect. The artificial blue of the benches gives it a dollhouse feeling; the dark figure adds to a sense of unreality, as if this were an artist's rendering of a space that hasn't been built.
If you are ever in NY, there is a place called Hudson Yards with a structure called "Vessel." If you are ever in NYC I think you would enjoy taking pictures of it. It's treated like an attraction, one has to buy tickets to go in. You can read about it here: http://www.artnews.com/2019/03/18/thomas-heatherwick-vessel-hudson-yards-review/
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Jun 13th |
| 40 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
Original 2 has a painterly effect that I personally don't like. A lot of people in my photography club use Topaz, which I have never used, but I personally have not found their effects pleasing. I much prefer your final, which I find beautiful and thought-provoking. So that's the personal part of my reaction.
As with any tool, it depends what story you want to tell. You return to this spot often, so clearly there is something about it that holds you, you want to tell its story. The PS picture, both the original and your final, have a "documentary" feel that also conveys the passage of time in the way the movement of the water is depicted.
One of the things that strikes me about the picture is the mass of boulder in the foreground. You carefully photoshopped away a couple of twigs, so you clearly respect this massive boulder. To me it is a little too massive: I would experiment with cropping some of it out, or I would return to the spot and try another angle that doesn't foreground the boulder's mass like that. In the picture I see, the story is about the water, it's long journey to reach the viewer.
It seems to me that your Topaz image shows that you feel the same way about the boulder, because most of the Topaz effect buries the boulder under colors that look like leaves, basically hiding it.
My suggestion is to rethink your relationship to the boulder first. Since you photograph this place often, you clearly have more than one story you want to tell about it. |
Jun 13th |
| 40 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
This is an assignment I want to do myself soon- silhouetted figures on the beach. Yours is marvelous. I love the detail in the sand in the foreground, and in the surf to the right.
To me the sun in the background is a little too bright. Anyway to shade it down a little?
I also feel there is a tension between the horizon, which looks crooked, and the tilt of the figure. I can see the ground is straight but the main line of surf against the sky feels crooked.
I don't know if you want to play with the image further, but I would suggest cropping away some of the left side, so that the figure is no longer centered. This also cuts out some of the white sun. Then maybe play a little with the tilt of the image.
Like I said, it's beautiful as it is, but there are options to consider if you haven't already.
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Jun 13th |
| 40 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
I'm surprised the handholding worked too. Of course I took many pictures and only a few came out well enough to use for the sequence. I think photographing the moon is easier, as it is very bright. I've been trying to take pictures of Jupiter the last few days, just handheld (I was traveling without a tripod) and they don't work. The planets actually move very quickly, so you get that blurred light effect.
Last night was cloudy here, so I couldn't try again. I hope tonight will be better and I fill finally get a picture with a tripod and the remote trigger, two things I haven't actually used much before. |
Jun 13th |
| 40 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
This is beautiful! I don't think stepping back would have added anything!
Is this the library Wim Wenders used in the movie Wings of Desire? |
Jun 3rd |
| 40 |
Jun 19 |
Comment |
Are you serious? No focus stacking? No exposure stacking? It's gorgeous! |
Jun 3rd |
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