Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:56 pm Posts: 19957 Location: Jenny Lewis' funbags
I really like your work. Especially how you approach your subjects. The angles are very skewed and often your subjects are lacking a reference point so they seem very disorienting....which i like
Checked out the new stuff. Some of it I really like. It's well composed, original. Stuff I've never seen through the eyes of another photographer. I would say this acounts for 40% of the work.
But I have contetions with the rest. And it's just personal things. You're selling shots, and I'm not, and everyone has their own personal flavor and style but...
Some of your shots, like the seats in Boston, or the skyscraper in San Diego, I know what you're doing and trying to convey, but to me, you're not conveying enough of it. It's just...a few seats in a stadium, and a piece of the facade of the skyscraper. Color and contrast is there. Lighting is there. But the message isn't what it could be. As J look at those style of shots, I feel short changed. I want to see more.
You have a tendency to shoot very long. Not a bad thing, but in some of your shots there is just too much emptiness. It's distracting. If I took the shots, I'd crop down a bit on some of them. Otherwise, almost all those long and empty shots are real good, and almost all original.
Some of them I've seen before. And all photographers fall into this trap. Including myself. We all like to show of those pictures though for some reason. Ya know, those pictures that 100 other photographers have taken before.
One big thing that I don't like to do, and again, this is just personal, is take pictures of other peoples art. I may do it for myself. But I really turn away from taking pictures of grafitti, or drawings, or anything that someone else made as art, take an image of that art, and make it into my own. Have I shared pictures like that publicly? Yeah...but it still feels dirty. Even my graveyard shots I will only share if it's truly something special, just because it's someone elses work at the root.
There are definitely shots that stand out in the mix. The pro and the edge is definitely there. Also, you should have the first shot that MF copied put up in your gallery. That one is sharp.
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little wing:
thanks for taking the time to look around and for putting so much thought into your post. you definitely know your shit and i will happily take your 40% approval rating. peace.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:01 am Posts: 19477 Location: Brooklyn NY
Good stuff
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MF wrote:
I really like your work. Especially how you approach your subjects. The angles are very skewed and often your subjects are lacking a reference point so they seem very disorienting....which i like
good stuff!
great detail on the first one there. I like the motion effect on the second one, could use a little contrast (though that might not be the point)
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