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Second try at posting! Took these this morning in the garden.
A couple from the
Edit: What happened there?? Most of the message disappeared, along with the photos!
And staying with the boating theme…
Pretty much a standard approach in plant photography, but I suspect that’s not what you’re getting at Diane! If we’re looking for forced perspectives here’s an older one. It’s a great game to play with a wide-angle lens!
John, so good to have you back (and I’m delighted to be still here to welcome you back!). Difficult times now behind you, I hope.
Absolutely, Rob! It’s such a sterile debate when phrased as in the article. It always suggests to me that the writer doesn’t really understand how photography (or almost any art form) works.
Without disagreeing with the article itself, I would like to see the same test applied to a genre which is heavily gear-dependent. Maybe sports or certain styles of night photography, blown up to A1 perhaps. But that wouldn’t feed the dogma, would it.
A part of any photographer’s toolkit (amateur or pro) is surely to understand the capabilities of their kit and work with those to best effect. But only a part!
Very nice Simon. I love the simplicity. Title’s pretty neat as well!
Also great for an Hon.Mention, Diane. Really nice image.
Congrats to both.
Hi Rob, yes I’ve been doing that recently. The upload to iPad is pretty clumsy, as the iPad insists on opening every shot on your card as a thumbnail, then allowing you to select which you want to download.
I have also struggled with workflow on the iPad. I can open LR and then import a photo for editing, but not open the photo and edit using LR (although ios is keen to offer me other options). I’ve also saved photos into dropbox from the iPad but then LR can’t see them.
My motives for starting this were twofold. First to give me a backup capability whilst away – works OK in a limited way but is way too slow for serious back-ups – and to enable on-the-go uploading to instagram. This has worked OK but mainly through using the IG editor. Incorporating LR into that task is possible but a significant hassle.
You can view some of the results if interested https://www.instagram.com/gordonjamesphoto/
Lots of loverly colour! Really like your Hot Rod, Gray B as well as your water drops Frog. As a youngster I remember being told all about the Theory of Dominant Colours and in the early 60s no landscape was complete without a red van, pillar box or woman in a red cardigan as an eye-snag in the foreground!
Old shot from Barcelona
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonjamesphotos/20909716699/More recent from Tenby
New beach huts at Swanage
Time to support the train set…all taken at a local steam railway
That’s great Bobbie! This is one of those times when the foreground subject is so strong that a messy background works to give context without being an undue distraction. Love that sound of ‘rules’ being flushed away!
Puzzled as to why DC’s three shots are showing up rather than mine…@admin @tersha
Far too many options for this, Diane! How about one on trains, one on boats, one on skateboards…!
Tow wheels…
Supernova, Leiden
Oxford
Florence
Nice Jim, interesting viewpoint and resulting composition. Great choice Kent!
(Have to agree with Erik though, it looks seriously uncomfortable!)
Hi Erica! Sorry, I’m a bit late to the party on this, and you have already ben given some good advice above. I’d like to take a slightly wider view. Firstly, you are obviously thinking about your photographs, with the intent of taking photography seriously. Indeed, a bit of up-front thinking is the step that it takes many novices a while to make. Visualising what you want the image to look like before you take it is really important to most styles of photography so you are doing well there.
The second point, coming back to the photo you gave us, is to experiment. Taking individual images is more-or-less free, so with something like a waterfall, and an idea of the appearance you want, try loads of variations. In the case of water flowing, anything from 15th of a second to 3 or 4 seconds will give a range of variations on blurred water. Even that will be affected by how fast the water is flowing. Take a dozen shots, varying shutter speed and levels of exposure compensation and the consider them at leisure at home!
Lastly, you ask about composition and impact. Composition is pretty good to my eye, I’d perhaps leave a little more space at the top to balance the nice water you have at the bottom (always assuming there isn’t some red sign or something that you’ve cropped out!). For impact I would have darkened down the water just a fraction but the greenery quite a lot. Small changes but they would address some of your concerns.
You have a good eye and a great attitude. I think photography will be very rewarding for you.
Shouldn’t that be ‘henning in the hay’ Elin?
(OK, I’ll get me coat, as they say in parts of Engalnd!)
I do like the textures you have managed to capture on the various metal elements. Excellent lighting, whatever it was!
I always knew I would find a use for this shot…
https://www.flickr.com/gp/gordonjamesphotos/3Hi9Qd
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