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Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Lesson 5 – My Best Work
This is very hard to do as my first narrowed down list of pictures was 430 images! This is as small as I could get it and I have added the last two for Keith
The swan and cat are lovely shots of what they are. Both capture something of what we imagine it is to be each of those animals.
I love the blue London Eye (is it?). Such an interesting angle.
I like the thoughtful man. Have you tried that in monochrome?
Great detail on the sunflower.
I like the girl lying on her teddy. What was she thinking? Sad? Tired? And the next one is a brilliant angle.
The great structure -whatever it is- is such a direct, architectural style shot. If my memory was better I would offer a comparison to one of the greats (am I thikning of that guy who did millions of shots of the water towers?). This is one of the photos that appeals to me in the same way that first one I brought in (the empire state building being built) - you can blur your eyes or walk miles away and it's still interesting. Get closer and there's so mcuh detail to enjoy - the light on the side arches, the steps through the verticals of the staircase, the silhouetted man in the arch on the right, but no such person matching in the left. Love it.
Yer that’s the London eye from a few years ago at Christmas, they had it all lit up blue, it was interesting to be as it contrasts against the orange light polluted London sky.
I like the thoughtful man. Have you tried that in monochrome?
The picture was of a friend of mine that we spent an evening experimenting with portraits, it does work very well in B&W, bit this one just tips it because of the detail you can see in his skin (its does not come across so well on the website.
That’s my daughter laying on her monkey on holiday, the look is pure exhaustion, this was only about lunchtime but she recovered in about 30 mins after a rest. The building is the Natural History Museum in London, it’s above the big diplodocus skeleton in the entrance.
The portraits stand out for me full of emotion and well composed. Leaves things to the imaginations and interpretation. The museum photo is well composed and interesting. Was wondering on the beach huts if you were slightly tighter on the framing and only focused on the two huts not having a bit of the third on the left, whether it would be stronger? Did you look at other angles on this?
With the huts I have lots of crops on them but I found this one the most pleasing because of the zigzag line on the tops of them and I could not work about to crop out the other huts without effecting this.
My Best Work added
ReplyDeleteGreat shots, Steve!
ReplyDeleteThe swan and cat are lovely shots of what they are. Both capture something of what we imagine it is to be each of those animals.
I love the blue London Eye (is it?). Such an interesting angle.
I like the thoughtful man. Have you tried that in monochrome?
Great detail on the sunflower.
I like the girl lying on her teddy. What was she thinking? Sad? Tired? And the next one is a brilliant angle.
The great structure -whatever it is- is such a direct, architectural style shot. If my memory was better I would offer a comparison to one of the greats (am I thikning of that guy who did millions of shots of the water towers?). This is one of the photos that appeals to me in the same way that first one I brought in (the empire state building being built) - you can blur your eyes or walk miles away and it's still interesting. Get closer and there's so mcuh detail to enjoy - the light on the side arches, the steps through the verticals of the staircase, the silhouetted man in the arch on the right, but no such person matching in the left. Love it.
Glorious sunset, lovely with those couples.
Look forward to last class tonight!
Yer that’s the London eye from a few years ago at Christmas, they had it all lit up blue, it was interesting to be as it contrasts against the orange light polluted London sky.
DeleteI like the thoughtful man. Have you tried that in monochrome?
The picture was of a friend of mine that we spent an evening experimenting with portraits, it does work very well in B&W, bit this one just tips it because of the detail you can see in his skin (its does not come across so well on the website.
That’s my daughter laying on her monkey on holiday, the look is pure exhaustion, this was only about lunchtime but she recovered in about 30 mins after a rest.
The building is the Natural History Museum in London, it’s above the big diplodocus skeleton in the entrance.
The portraits stand out for me full of emotion and well composed. Leaves things to the imaginations and interpretation. The museum photo is well composed and interesting. Was wondering on the beach huts if you were slightly tighter on the framing and only focused on the two huts not having a bit of the third on the left, whether it would be stronger? Did you look at other angles on this?
ReplyDeleteWith the huts I have lots of crops on them but I found this one the most pleasing because of the zigzag line on the tops of them and I could not work about to crop out the other huts without effecting this.
Delete