new thing i am working on

[chrisu002]

so iam working on this new set of photos. they are costrasty dark and bright forest scapes with a minimal subject almost liek you have to look for the subject but if you think you found it is that the subject anyway..if that makes any sence

i shot these throught a screen to give it a kind of outof focus feel but not

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3367/3526129366_d421edb100_b.jpg

[Flo]

Sorry, not working at all for me subject wise, nor contrast...you have lost any detail in the blacks, it looks OOF . The trees on either side of the photo don't draw one in, they just look dark.

Chris, I could have said..


meh ;)

[canonnoob]

too dark... there is nothing interesting here either..

[joedlh]

Your thoughts are far too advanced for my feeble mind to absorb, Master. I don't see anything remarkable in this shot. It's too dark, except for the tree on the left. There's no compelling composition. I feel so inadequate.

[DerekSimon]

Not a good one at all, but definately dont be discouraged. Keep working on it and you will get better with practice

[chrisu002]

so why is this nat a good shot, because the trees are dark and it has a overal darkness to it. does every picture have to be totaly sharp with perfect exposure and perfect lighting. i think you people lost the art part of photography.

[Gapton]

Well what can I say, every person's perception of Art is different. It is totally fine if you wanna do things completely original, but you will not be likely to find a lot of people to agree with your view.

Your photo is dark and is lacking a subject. If a "lack of subject" is the art you are trying to deliver, I cant say I am able to agree the meaning that this has to you.

Sharpness, exposure and lighting, these are the things that photographers use to express a feeling in a photo. We are not just "technically insane" by trying to achieve all these, we try to achieve top sharpness and perfect exposure and lighting because IT HELPS ILLUSTRATE THE THEME AND MESSAGES IN THE PHOTOGRAPH.

That is also why we use MOTION BLUR to express movement, and UNDER-EXPOSURE to create grain, and creative lighting to express emotion.

[blueskyyy]

I agree with gapton.. he said it really well.

[tonydee]

It does tie in with your stated purpose...
minimal subject almost like you have to look for the subject but if you think you found it is that the subject anyway

It has that man made table thing, complete with what looks like a beer can. I personally prefer to see only more elegant man-made elements mixed in with nature, but accept that it might be fun to be there having a few snags on the bbq... and no reason you shouldn't want to capture that setting. I'm trying to get my head around it, though I've found it an effort.

so why is this nat a good shot, because the trees are dark and it has a overal darkness to it. does every picture have to be totaly sharp with perfect exposure and perfect lighting. i think you people lost the art part of photography.

Nothing wrong with being dark. I think the challenge is to compose such that there are areas of interest to carry the eye around naturally, each one providing at least some degree of satisfaction, which may require focus or sharpness but not necessarily. Against that criteria, the points of relative interest are the brighter leaves at left and right, the brighter rocks in the middle, the single bright rock at the very bottom edge, and that table thing. They're all overly cramped into the bottom of the photo, but they do have a slight oval loop through them and if the viewer's patient enough to look at the photo long enough to find it, then the picture takes on a bit more appeal. The whole is still very much marginal to me though. As you say art entitles you to do whatever works for you, but it's useful as an artist to see the image as other people see it: without the emotional attachment and contextual knowledge that you've got. It's also important to realise that people won't necessarily take the time to work at appreciating a shot the way we sometimes do with our own work.

Cheers, Tony

[Flo]

This is silly Chris.if ya'll look at his anything posts, you will see his crit's.he would have slammed this big time.

Its not art, it's a dark non issue.
Seems everytime you post a photo Chris.it disappears in short order.

Go to His Thread starts.. you are not very consistent.

[RMXSeven]

Hmm,

It's starting to grow on me lol.
Like a journey, starting at the bottom left, walking down to the table thing.....then hooking left further into the background.
It's as if the path is lit up... by the light.... (k that sounds a little lame).

It's just the tree on the right that kinda ruins it for me.....
Still, quite strange.
If not for the context and explanation, had I just seen it hanging on the wall, I probably wouldn't have given it a second look.

~Ronen

[DrFil]

Your thoughts are far too advanced for my feeble mind to absorb, Master. I don't see anything remarkable in this shot. It's too dark, except for the tree on the left. There's no compelling composition. I feel so inadequate.

lol hilarious!

[chrisu002]

This is silly Chris.if ya'll look at his anything posts, you will see his crit's.he would have slammed this big time.

Its not art, it's a dark non issue.
Seems everytime you post a photo Chris.it disappears in short order.

Go to His Thread starts.. you are not very consistent.

i know my post are inconsistent, that beacuse i post something later to realize i dint realy like what i posted so i take it off. i like one thing that day ten minutes later i spot something and i dont like it any more.