Some Recent Photographs

Saul · June 17, 2008, 05:07:36 PM

Harry · June 17, 2008, 11:05:41 PM

Well done Saul, nice compositions, very good resolution, simply a good feel behind them.

Guido · June 18, 2008, 03:10:08 AM

Saul there seems to be a blue filter on all of these (probably a setting on the digital camera). I'm not sure if it was intentional, but it gives all the photos a rather subdued and cold appearance.

Saul · June 18, 2008, 03:57:02 AM

Quote from: Guido on June 18, 2008, 03:10:08 AM
Saul there seems to be a blue filter on all of these (probably a setting on the digital camera). I'm not sure if it was intentional, but it gives all the photos a rather subdued and cold appearance.

You're right about the blue filter. I really liked the feel to it, and for some reason it gave me more flexible zoom. The blue filter is called Tungsten.

Best Regards,

Saul

Saul · June 18, 2008, 03:57:33 AM

Quote from: Harry on June 17, 2008, 11:05:41 PM
Well done Saul, nice compositions, very good resolution, simply a good feel behind them.

Thank you Harry!

Maciek · June 18, 2008, 04:13:16 AM

Are you sure you're talking about a filter here - filter, as in ""camera accessory - transparent piece of glass that you attach to the camera lens"? Tungsten is the metal used in light bulbs. The light they produce is generally not the same as normal daylight, and photos taken by that light will usually look too warm and yellowish, have a sort of orange cast. Most digital cameras have a special color correction setting which reduces that effect. That setting is often called "Tungsten"... That setting in fact does give an effect very similar to the use of a blue filter - but it's not the same thing.

(Some computer programs for processing images also have functions referred to as "filters", and that is yet another thing.)

Just aksing...

DavidRoss · June 18, 2008, 04:20:22 AM

Though I normally ignore such threads, recent comments by others prompted me to set my prejudices aside and to take a look at several of these images. The delusion that these pedestrian snapshots are art or of interest should not be encouraged.

BachQ · June 18, 2008, 04:38:57 AM

Saul

When I viewed "Grey Wood," I felt that it represented your greatest artistic achievement to date ........ But then I saw "Sunny Leaves" ....... and I realized that you have truly reached a new apex ........

Saul · June 18, 2008, 05:09:14 AM

Quote from: DavidRoss on June 18, 2008, 04:20:22 AM
Though I normally ignore such threads, recent comments by others prompted me to set my prejudices aside and to take a look at several of these images. The delusion that these pedestrian snapshots are art or of interest should not be encouraged.

Some people disagree with you. Though you have a right to your opinion.
Thanks for the comments.

Saul · June 18, 2008, 05:10:33 AM

Quote from: Dm on June 18, 2008, 04:38:57 AM
Saul

When I viewed "Grey Wood," I felt that it represented your greatest artistic achievement to date ........ But then I saw "Sunny Leaves" ....... and I realized that you have truly reached a new apex ........

If you dislike the photos, you could just say so, but to make fun of them is really low.
David Ross also didn't like them, but he didn't resort to this kind of behavior.

greg · June 18, 2008, 05:15:10 AM

At the Lake and Blue Reflection I think are very nice. Just keep on taking lake pictures! 0:)

Saul · June 18, 2008, 06:00:57 AM

Quote from: GGGGRRREEG on June 18, 2008, 05:15:10 AM
At the Lake and Blue Reflection I think are very nice. Just keep on taking lake pictures! 0:)

Thank you Greg.

scarpia · June 18, 2008, 07:56:22 AM

Quote from: GGGGRRREEG on June 18, 2008, 05:15:10 AM
At the Lake and Blue Reflection I think are very nice. Just keep on taking lake pictures! 0:)

Looks like the sort of photos that would be taken by a girl scout troop in Prospect Park.

M forever · June 18, 2008, 07:50:11 PM

Quote from: Maciek on June 18, 2008, 04:13:16 AM
Are you sure you're talking about a filter here - filter, as in ""camera accessory - transparent piece of glass that you attach to the camera lens"? Tungsten is the metal used in light bulbs. The light they produce is generally not the same as normal daylight, and photos taken by that light will usually look too warm and yellowish, have a sort of orange cast. Most digital cameras have a special color correction setting which reduces that effect. That setting is often called "Tungsten"... That setting in fact does give an effect very similar to the use of a blue filter - but it's not the same thing.

(Some computer programs for processing images also have functions referred to as "filters", and that is yet another thing.)

Just aksing...

You are correct. That is a color correction filter designed to offset the different color values of the same materials in different lighting conditions, e.g. lit by tungsten filament incandescent lamps - our eye "corrects" these, a camera can not.

That Saul thinks that is actually a filter that is there for him to use "artistically" is really pretty funny. The same that has been said about Saul's "music" and "art" also applies to his "photography" - a lot of people take pictures, most of us have something called "self-criticism" though that makes us understand that our snapshots - esp. those taken with automatic, "point-and-shoot" digital cameras which require very little to no understanding of the matter to produce relatively presentable pictures - that pur snapshots are nothing more than that - just snapshots.

On top of that, Saul's pics as well as his comments betray that he doesn't even understand the basics of photography, so his pics are really just random. There is nothing "artistic" behind them. They don't even look particularly good or interesting. Saul doesn't have an eye for dynamic, composition, proportions. His "Children at Play" aren't "at play", they just stand around. Most of his pics are beginners' nature photography with randomly applied and not properly understood (as we have learned) color settings.

PSmith08 · June 18, 2008, 08:41:28 PM

I will say this: I am a little confused why Saul decided to go for the whole nature thing (more or less), when he could have gotten his camera and trekked into the urban areas. The subjects, especially in a well-photographed city like New York, certainly aren't wanting in such an environment. Nature shots are so hard to do in a way that's original and compelling that it's really the sort of project for someone who has developed an eye for a good picture over years of trial-and-error.

Of course, he really should - if he wants to take photography seriously - get Ansel Adams' introductory series, a book of Adams' landscapes, and a Cartier-Bresson collection. Building up technical chops and then seeing how the masters did it is one way to develop an "eye."

Also, and apologies in advance to anyone bothered excessively, unless you're a photojournalist, zooms are simply dreadful inventions. A fixed-focal-length lens, like a 35mm or 50mm, forces you to think about composition in a more meaningful and serious way, since you can't just zoom until you get the picture you "want."

Keep at it, Saul. It's not art because it's easy.

BachQ · June 19, 2008, 05:23:03 AM

Quote from: GGGGRRREEG on June 18, 2008, 05:15:10 AM
Just keep on taking lake pictures! 0:)

I agree.

After all, it's difficult to screw up a lake shot.

маразм1 · June 19, 2008, 05:54:42 AM

I had posted some of my digital camera phone pics on the old forum. And I disagree about "point-and-shoot" cameras incapable of producing wonderful works of art

I happened to take several really amazing pictures, with just my crappy cell phone. Here, take a look. I so wish that I had a real camera! oh well.

Train

Gotham Bridge

Window

Day I got fired

Safe

Mountain

scarpia · June 19, 2008, 07:37:33 AM

Saul has left and now we have a new Saul. Even steven, just like in the Seinfeld episode!

Quote from: маразм1 on June 19, 2008, 05:54:42 AM
I had posted some of my digital camera phone pics on the old forum. And I disagree about "point-and-shoot" cameras incapable of producing wonderful works of art I happened to take several really amazing pictures, with just my crappy cell phone. Here, take a look. I so wish that I had a real camera! oh well.

маразм1 · June 19, 2008, 07:59:04 AM

Quote from: scarpia on June 19, 2008, 07:37:33 AM
Saul has left and now we have a new Saul. Even steven, just like in the Seinfeld episode!

get that baton out of your ass

M forever · June 19, 2008, 08:06:59 AM

Quote from: маразм1 on June 19, 2008, 05:54:42 AM
And I disagree about "point-and-shoot" cameras incapable of producing wonderful works of art

Who said they were incapable of that?

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