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Sorry, I wasn’t trying to promote someone else’s photography. I was trying to convey a deeper meaning to billspad’s photo, as it is titled: Buddy can you spare a dime.
And isn’t our photos about telling a story?
There was an Lightstalking article a few months ago about photographing the homeless.
http://www.lightstalking.us/photographing-homeless/
And I was just trying to point out a deeper meaning to our photos. If you follow the ‘Light’ link in my previous post, it is about providing solar lights to those in need. And photography is about light. It is a photographer who wants to do more than just take photos around the world. My post wasn’t about promoting the photographer but how we can ‘spare a dime’.
I know what it feels like to be homeless. And I appreciate those that didn’t just stare or just take my photo, but those who cared and helped me and my family back into a home.
And the artists (visual or musical) who we appreciate, aren’t they the ones who have ‘soul’?
To quote from the article: http://www.lightstalking.us/photographing-homeless/
“I believe we can make the world a better place for the people in need. . .”
Billyspad, there isn’t much to critique about your photo as a photo. And you did indeed capture this person’s soul.
The photo itself is an excellent photo. Good lighting and composition, etc. But hopefully, the purpose of the photo is to move people’s hearts to help end world poverty. What is the purpose of just taking photos of those in need? The street photographers who take photos of the homeless on the streets. The travel photographers who take photos of beggars in Third World countries. Is it just take ‘gritty’ photos? Hopefully, we can capture a photo that tells a story which touches the hearts of people – to do something positive to bring prosperity and peace in this world.
Here is one travel photographer who is doing something to bring hope and light to those in need.
David Middleton is a full-time professional outdoor photographer, teacher and writer.David is increasingly doing more and more philanthropic photography actively supporting the non-profit New Course and Mpowerd, the maker of Luci Lights. He is the founder and executive director of the foundation, All About the Light, a non-profit organization created to encourage photographers to give Luci Lights to the energy impoverished.
The All About the Light foundation gives at no cost small, inflatable, solar-powered lights- Luci Lights- to travelers of the world so that they may in turn personally pass the lights on to those who live without electricity-the 2.3 billion energy-impoverished people of the world.
Perhaps, we can all share this and help as we can, so that it will brighten more lives of those in need and to offer them hope.
The second is much better. The orchid frames the bee nicely. I do like how you are able to capture (in both photos) the metallic green color and tones of the bee. In the second photo, the bee looks like he posed for your photo. 🙂
The flower competes to much with the bee as the flower has strong colors as well. I really like the colors of the bee and they are my favorite colors. You are trying to show the relationship between the orchid bee and the orchid, but there needs to be a focus point, which is the bee.
In other words, either make the spice chili or curry – adding both to the same pot of beans – ummm. . .
Sometimes less is more. The photo could include less of the orchid and still, the viewers will know that the flower is an orchid. Make sure the orchid isn’t distracting from the orchid bee.
Keep trying, the best photographers are the ones who don’t give up. You have really captured my interest and I would like to see more of your photos of the orchid bee.
LG v10 and Snapseed
Bee Balm Flower, in a field of wildflowers in central Texas
I think the fire, especially the overexposed white parts, overwhelm and distract from your wife’s face. I cropped your photo, to try to bring out your wife’s face and expression. Your wife looks like an amazing person, as she seems to really enjoy cooking outdoors, in the back country. Not sure what you think of my crop of your photo, but I do like this capture of your wife’s face.
Samsung S5 and Snapseed
Samsung S5 and Snapseed
It was the right day to capture this Sunflower bud. I walked by this flower the next day and it was in full bloom. I think this flower bud unfolding, is more interesting than this flower in full bloom.
Excellent lighting and composition. This photo is truly art. The only critic, since you put this in Shark Tank, is to have dark brown tones, instead of black, for the background. I really like the foreground and the lighting.
Very nicely done. Methinks this is somewhere on the west coast – anywhere from British Columbia to northern California. The tree to the right and the branches in the middle look like a cedar tree. I do like the Sword Ferns but the stream with the bird adds more depth to your photo. What kind of bird is that?
Since this is the Shark Tank and we are suppose to be critiquing photos here, I would have moved the bird a little to the right, so that the head isn’t so lost in the white highlights of the water.
The scenery is making me homesick as it reminds me of back home, the west coast of British Columbia. I have hiked and camped in forests that look like your nature photo. If this is your first time in composite photography, I think you did an excellent job.
This is indeed a very touching photo. My parents were married for 51 1/2 years when my mother passed away. My dad visited her in the hospital, every single day for 3 months, before she passed away. So, I can deeply relate to this photo, even though it was my mother who passed away first.
The look of longing, grieving and loving in her eyes, says it all.
My eyeglasses on the coffee table.
Edited with the ‘Magic Pen’ effect in my Samsung S5 and cropped in Snapseed.
I enjoy taking photos of flowers, outdoors with natural sunlight, and I watch for:
1) Light
2) Background
3) Subject of the Photo – Flower
I have learned to check the light and the background behind and beside the flower, before taking the photo. Editing can improve a photo but it’s a more natural photo if I can capture good lighting and a great background (as well as a beautiful flower) before taking the photo.
Your flower is amazing, I like how you captured and edited the vibrant color and raindrops. It’s just that the background is cluttered. Your flower would really stand out with a black background or a textured background. Some photographers will place a black or colored cardstock behind the flower, when taking a photo of a flower in a garden, if the natural background is too cluttered.
As Andrew1812 suggested, try to darken the background in Photoshop.
For your first flower photo in Photoshop, you did a great job on your flower. 🙂
I think it needs to be cropped as well. And perhaps sepia instead of B&W. This is just my suggestion. . .
Samsung S5 and Snapseed
At a Senior Citizen Community Garden. Cosmos are growing among the vegetables.
Samsung S5 and Snapseed
Not exactly a travel photo but I was going somewhere. . .
Love the lighting and the color tones in this photo. Excellent photo. Congratulations Om. All the best to you.
It is a very well balanced artistic photo. It may break the rule of thirds but that rule is made for breaking. If I am suppose to critic it, there are some techy issues, I am sure with an expensive camera and an even more expensive lens, this photo could be sharper and not blown out in the red lights, etc. (But, Kent, you did put this photo in Shark Tank, which means we are suppose to critic it.) Otherwise, I really like this photo – your artistic style, the amazing color combination, your composition and editing, blows me away. It definitely has Umpphh!
So, I am going to come out of the shadows and say that about a month ago, I sold my Sony A6000 with the kit lens and all the accessories that I had bought 6 months ago. I learned everything I could about taking good photos with that camera. Studied all the buttons, bells and whistles on that camera. And I didn’t see any improvements in my photos (with that kit lens) than I did with my Samsung S5 mobile phone photos. I can’t afford expensive camera lens and besides, my mobile phone (with its camera) is always with me. And what do they say – your best camera is the one you have with you. And so, my next camera is going to be the latest iphone.
I take photos of nature around my neighborhood, flowers on my patio, spiderwebs in a nearby park, etc. I am a nature photographer. Great photos are everywhere. We don’t need to travel half way around the world. This world is beautiful, wherever we are. There are beautiful people – beautiful looking and beautiful souls, everywhere in this world. And besides, I live in a different part of the world than where I was born and raised. How much travelling do I need to do – for great photos?
The more I researched about mobile phone photography, the more I realized that it is being taken seriously and is now highly respected. I would like to see Lightstalking regard mobile photography, not just as a separate category but as equally respected. This mobile photo really proves, it’s not just the gear but the artistic eye that makes a great photo. Photography is visual art.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
– Ansel AdamsPhotography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
– Ansel AdamsThe three top lights and the things hanging at the top of the photo are distracting and takes away from the subject of this photo, the fruit stand man. My suggestion is to crop it just below the top of the fan. The two bottom lights help to bring light and focus on the fruit stand man. Otherwise, a very good travel photo and I think you did a great job on post processing.
