Some of my Photographs

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c#minor

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March 23, 2008, 06:19:29 PM
the 7th one down is very good. Very much "room to explore" down both streets. A good photograph lets you look at things in a different light. That street corner is captured in a different light and it is very good.

Also the photo of the bridge in color caught my eye immediately. What a beautiful scene and you caught the feel of it very well. The way it draws you under the bridge is very cool.

I will also say some that i thought could be done better.
The last one of the two large (Stalinist looking) towers. I really do not see the beauty in it. It looks like a tourists picture. I mean it looks as if your taking a picture for the buildings, not the scene. The balloons pic. i could have done without. The man on the piano is not a really good photo but i would have taken it, i still like it because of the scene, not the fact it was taken well.

The rest were good, and i cannot comment of the abstract photo, thats just not my thing.

Very interesting Saul, keep posting them. I look forward to seeing more.

Saul

#3
March 23, 2008, 06:25:55 PM
Quote from: c#minor on March 23, 2008, 06:19:29 PM
the 7th one down is very good. Very much "room to explore" down both streets. A good photograph lets you look at things in a different light. That street corner is captured in a different light and it is very good.

Also the photo of the bridge in color caught my eye immediately. What a beautiful scene and you caught the feel of it very well. The way it draws you under the bridge is very cool.

I will also say some that i thought could be done better.
The last one of the two large (Stalinist looking) towers. I really do not see the beauty in it. It looks like a tourists picture. I mean it looks as if your taking a picture for the buildings, not the scene. The balloons pic. i could have done without. The man on the piano is not a really good photo but i would have taken it, i still like it because of the scene, not the fact it was taken well.

The rest were good, and i cannot comment of the abstract photo, thats just not my thing.

Very interesting Saul, keep posting them. I look forward to seeing more.

Thanks for this very nice feedback. I did some composition work on the Green Bridge that you liked, and on some other photos. The Abstract photography is basically abstractions of the light, this time using a Laser light and then trying to capture an interesting moment when it flickers.

I'll try to post more soon!

Saul

#4
March 23, 2008, 06:27:01 PM
Quote from: orbital on March 23, 2008, 06:19:47 PM
Were these calculated to look like that?
No, they were not, I took the pictures of a laser light when it flickers, trying to capture an interesting moment.

Regards,

uffeviking

#5
March 23, 2008, 07:25:13 PM
Very good composition in all of them, Saul. Stunning the last one. And I love the colour combination with the balloons in contrast to the green park setting. Thank you for sharing!  :)

Saul

#6
March 23, 2008, 07:58:54 PM
Quote from: uffeviking on March 23, 2008, 07:25:13 PM
Very good composition in all of them, Saul. Stunning the last one. And I love the colour combination with the balloons in contrast to the green park setting. Thank you for sharing!  :)

Thanks Lis  :)

I also like the Balloon picture. The lady has her pink glasses on her hair and the balloons sort of reflect colors on her glasses, together with the green of the park, I thought it had an artistic value and that's why I decided to take that photo.


The last photo from the Abstract section, I must admit that it is the favorite of the 3. The things you can do with just some light and imagination!

Regards,

Saul

Ephemerid

#7
March 24, 2008, 06:09:32 AM
Lovely photos, Saul-- the only one I'm not so keen on is the one of the balloons-- only becuase the framing seems off kilter to me and the background (that fence!).  I love the balloons themselves however!

My favourite I think is the bridge with the rich saturated green colours.  :)

BachQ

#8
March 24, 2008, 06:31:24 AM
I have issues with the color/style of the piano .........

Saul

#9
March 24, 2008, 05:22:26 PM
Quote from: just josh on March 24, 2008, 06:09:32 AM
Lovely photos, Saul-- the only one I'm not so keen on is the one of the balloons-- only becuase the framing seems off kilter to me and the background (that fence!).  I love the balloons themselves however!

My favourite I think is the bridge with the rich saturated green colours.  :)

Thanks!

Saul

#10
March 24, 2008, 05:26:38 PM
Quote from: Dm on March 24, 2008, 06:31:24 AM
I have issues with the color/style of the piano .........

What issues?

DavidW

#11
March 24, 2008, 06:26:26 PM
I am impressed Saul, I think I'll set one of them as my desktop for awhile. :)

DavidW

#12
March 24, 2008, 06:28:55 PM
The green bridge is my fav btw, and is now my desktop.

Saul

#13
March 24, 2008, 07:02:57 PM
Quote from: DavidW on March 24, 2008, 06:28:55 PM
The green bridge is my fav btw, and is now my desktop.

Cool !

And thanks!

RebLem

#14
March 25, 2008, 01:49:20 AM
A.  Poorly composed.  First of all, it is from above, and secondly, he is part of an ensemble, it seems—there is a music stand (for another musician?) partially seen to the left, but we have no idea what the size of the ensemble is, so it is a complete mystery as to what listeners might be hearing.

B.  I love the field of yellow flowers.

C.  The balloon pic is poorly composed, because only the back of the woman's head is showing; not good at all.

D.  The composition in green and yellow, a bridge in a park is beautiful.  One of the better pics.  Would have been better if you had just a little more "headroom" at the top.

E..  It looks like the same bridge as in D, but a sepia print, with more headroom.  This time, it's a little too far back, it seems to me, and I'm not sure I like sepia prints of nature scenes, though they are appropriate for some types of scenes—street scenes, alleys, etc.

F.  A somewhat more appropriate scene for sepia, though I didn't really like the angle;  I would have liked to see further down the street, or is it a street?  Perhaps its just a mews or alcove?  That's part of the problem; you can't place the building in any sort of environmental context.

G.  This is the kind of street scene I think is appropriate for sepia.  But, again, it is poorly composed—too much of the street to the right, not enough to the left.  Also, the exposure is a problem.  The right side is much too bright and washed out.  If you were making a print of this, you could adjust the light in the darkroom to correct this, but if you are transferring directly from a digital camera, well, I am not that familiar with what technical options you have for adjusting light.

H.  What is it?  Yes, they do look like Stalinist architecture.  But where is this, what is it, what is the context?

No comment on the abstracts.
"Don't drink and drive; you might spill it."--J. Eugene Baker, aka my late father.

Szykneij

#15
March 25, 2008, 02:19:00 AM
Quote from: RebLem on March 25, 2008, 01:49:20 AM
he is part of an ensemble, it seems—there is a music stand (for another musician?) partially seen to the left, but we have no idea what the size of the ensemble is, so it is a complete mystery as to what listeners might be hearing.

And why is that important?   ???

Nice photos, Saul. An enjoyable glimpse of Manhattan. Maybe others will post pictures of their part of the world.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

c#minor

#16
March 25, 2008, 03:27:39 AM
Quote from: RebLem on March 25, 2008, 01:49:20 AM

D.  The composition in green and yellow, a bridge in a park is beautiful.  One of the better pics.  Would have been better if you had just a little more "headroom" at the top.


G.  This is the kind of street scene I think is appropriate for sepia.  But, again, it is poorly composed—too much of the street to the right, not enough to the left.  Also, the exposure is a problem.  The right side is much too bright and washed out.  If you were making a print of this, you could adjust the light in the darkroom to correct this, but if you are transferring directly from a digital camera, well, I am not that familiar with what technical options you have for adjusting light.



On D, i really think that is part of the allure of that photo. The lack of headroom draws your eye under the bridge. I think that adds so much to the photo. It does more than just simply just looking at a bridge, it brings what is beyond the bridge into perspective.

On G, i agree, though i do like the photo and sepia was a good choice, it could have been better.

BachQ

#17
March 25, 2008, 03:58:27 AM
Quote from: just josh on March 24, 2008, 06:09:32 AM
the only one I'm not so keen on is the one of the balloons-- only becuase the framing seems off kilter to me and the background (that fence!).  I love the balloons themselves however!

I like the balloon photo .........  :D

Saul

#18
March 25, 2008, 04:24:13 AM
Quote from: Dm on March 25, 2008, 03:58:27 AM
I like the balloon photo .........  :D

Me too!

The different colors and the green of the Park, a beautiful summer day!

c#minor

#19
March 25, 2008, 04:36:10 AM
Saul, where was the photo of the "Stalinist looking towers" took? A trip behind the Iron Curtain i presume?
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