This tells a very clear story and the individual photos are very clear. Is that your hand in the photos? You have great shallow depth of field. Did strike me that you are well prepared for disaster if you carry rubber gloves in the car! And that is a spotless engine!
I do like the empty road stretching out to infinity. Looks like those photos we were looking at.
The story is really clear. I think it's a shame about the clipped highlights in the clouds. Perhaps you wanted to over expose to get some detail in the car? Love the road and the light on the fields.
Can't see what the phone shot is about. Are we supposed to be able to read the screen?
The tool gets the message across, but it's weird to me that it's not actually doing anything - if I have a socket in my hand and it's not on a nut then it's moving towards the nut but there's no sign of motion here.
Like the mucky glove and the part. Like the triumphant hand on steering wheel.
The invoice is beautifully focussed - we can read just the key bits that you want us to see. It leaves me wondering why we didn't see a picture of the assistance arriving/leaving. Practically, I guess it's because it's just you pretending (this time!), but that for me makes the story less convincing. But it also generates questions, (did help come? if it was someone else why didn't we see them?) so perhaps that's more important.
Overall, it's a good balance of start, middle, end. I like that the end is one step after the successful journey - the bill!
Both the first two pictures I had issues with, in the road shot I had the choose to expose for the sky or the road as there is a massive contrast difference, any advice to get around this issue in the future?
The shot of the phone is meant to show phoning a garage but there was so much like it was near imposable to see the screen with your naked eye.
Do you capture the raw files from your camera or just jpegs? Raw files have soooo much data in them that you can often recover mildly clipped highlights, and lift details from shadows. It's amazing what you can get out, but of course if something is absolutely clipped then that's it. Alternatively, you could have done bracketed exposures and combined them (HDR), but that's way more work to get right. For the detail you needed (just showing that there's an engine there) I would have thought you'd be OK if you'd dialled down the exposure a bit to capture more cloud, then lifted the shadows from the raw file.
I think the phone against your head (take w self timer) would have been more obvious - could have silhouetted yourself and car against bright sky?
I thought of HDR or using a flash but these were not that practical as I was having to crouch down on a high speed country road to get these shots, so there was no time to use a tripod or anything.
I do capture in jpeg and took about 10 shots of the same picture using different places to expose, ultimately this was the most balanced.
I didn't need to see the message on the phone - your story made it obvious that that was what you were doing. So actually, the phone could have been facing in any direction. That is the non technical solution.
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ReplyDeleteThis tells a very clear story and the individual photos are very clear. Is that your hand in the photos? You have great shallow depth of field. Did strike me that you are well prepared for disaster if you carry rubber gloves in the car! And that is a spotless engine!
ReplyDeleteI do like the empty road stretching out to infinity. Looks like those photos we were looking at.
The story is really clear. I think it's a shame about the clipped highlights in the clouds. Perhaps you wanted to over expose to get some detail in the car? Love the road and the light on the fields.
ReplyDeleteCan't see what the phone shot is about. Are we supposed to be able to read the screen?
The tool gets the message across, but it's weird to me that it's not actually doing anything - if I have a socket in my hand and it's not on a nut then it's moving towards the nut but there's no sign of motion here.
Like the mucky glove and the part. Like the triumphant hand on steering wheel.
The invoice is beautifully focussed - we can read just the key bits that you want us to see. It leaves me wondering why we didn't see a picture of the assistance arriving/leaving. Practically, I guess it's because it's just you pretending (this time!), but that for me makes the story less convincing. But it also generates questions, (did help come? if it was someone else why didn't we see them?) so perhaps that's more important.
Overall, it's a good balance of start, middle, end. I like that the end is one step after the successful journey - the bill!
Both the first two pictures I had issues with, in the road shot I had the choose to expose for the sky or the road as there is a massive contrast difference, any advice to get around this issue in the future?
DeleteThe shot of the phone is meant to show phoning a garage but there was so much like it was near imposable to see the screen with your naked eye.
Do you capture the raw files from your camera or just jpegs? Raw files have soooo much data in them that you can often recover mildly clipped highlights, and lift details from shadows. It's amazing what you can get out, but of course if something is absolutely clipped then that's it. Alternatively, you could have done bracketed exposures and combined them (HDR), but that's way more work to get right. For the detail you needed (just showing that there's an engine there) I would have thought you'd be OK if you'd dialled down the exposure a bit to capture more cloud, then lifted the shadows from the raw file.
DeleteI think the phone against your head (take w self timer) would have been more obvious - could have silhouetted yourself and car against bright sky?
I thought of HDR or using a flash but these were not that practical as I was having to crouch down on a high speed country road to get these shots, so there was no time to use a tripod or anything.
DeleteI do capture in jpeg and took about 10 shots of the same picture using different places to expose, ultimately this was the most balanced.
I didn't need to see the message on the phone - your story made it obvious that that was what you were doing. So actually, the phone could have been facing in any direction. That is the non technical solution.
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