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Ah Mrs Windsor. Well I figure it's difficult to get close to these people (not that I'd want to) so I guess you have to take what you can get. Pitty she hadn't wound the window down further.

"Are you honestly saying you are not familiar with the concept of watermarking photos?"

 

Yes, it's ugly and pointless. So why do it.

 

"You have a terms of use on your website."

 

Indeed I do, and thank-you for taking the itme to look at my work, I do hope you noticed that my 'terms of use' is not the usual 'all rights reserved', nor are there any ugly 'watermarks'.

 

"Looking at your portfolio I can see you are attempting to be hard edged; if you want to see something rather closer to the bone look at Vietnam Inc."

 

I'm not attempting anything, I just record some of the things happen around me.

 

If you like things close to the bone, have you looked at http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9711/req1.htm It might help quench your thirst for such things.

 

"Good luck with developing your style and I hope you continue to capture some more of the world's problems."

 

You are so kind! As for the world's problems, they are our problems.

 

Oh, and Miles, I am familar with the work of, as indeed many are one Philip Jones Griffiths.

"I just have to be careful with the copyright of this at the moment - I'll re-post it with a smaller watermark as soon as possible. "

 

I'm sorry, but why?

Any comments/ratings most welcome.

Very artifical looking. There's possibly a good shot trying to crawl out from under all that heavy manipulation.

"A candid potrait of Philip Jones Griffiths who is, in my opinion, the world's greatest living photojournalist "

 

Perhaps, but I bet he never splashes his name right across his snaps.

Thank-you again for these comments.

Michael, I think the problem is, that if I get the faces and their expressions in the picture, well then there will be no bike, or if there is a bike it will appear to be in the wrong place. I felt the most important thing was the position of the bike.

Oh and thank-you for your kind comment and generous rating Kineret.

Hopefully later in the summer I'll get another chance to shoot some of the Irish Road Racing.

 

"Muddy and muddled. Is there a point of focus? It appears to be soft throughout. BND "

 

Paul (class of 62), It's shot with a 35mm prime at 1/60th of a second at about f8, I pre-focused on a bit of the road just in front of me. The print, I can assure you is pin sharp. You are looking at a highly compressed Jpeg at 72dpi, and as such it looks fine to me. Oh the bike is intentionally blurred.

 

 

It's a flag, a bit of cloth, in this case a little tatty. What else is there to say?

No worries Daniel. Though the idea of photo-journo is to provoke thought and discussion. It's political photography to me.

Anyway it's unusual (though not unheard of) for things to get out of hand on photonet.

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I dunno, would have been better if you were in front of them and not behind. There are no faces or eyes here. As for gay marriage, well I see no reason why a gay couple cannot have the same rights as a heterosexual couple, whether you call it a partnership or a marriage. It's discrimination.

Good luck with your photojournalism, and remember get close, very close and shoot wide when you can.

 

Thank-you for the comments.

This was supposed to be me making a stab a documenting the Irish road racing scene. Stupidly I only took one camera with me. It jammed on the second roll. Hopefully I'll get back over there for some more road racing later in the summer.

I know what you mean Nestor, I thought about that, it's not easy. You need a number of bikes bunched up so that somebody turns to watch the first bike go by as another comes through. Also the bikes are set off in groups of four for safety reasons, but now and again you can get them bunching up. There is lots of scope for interesting shots, and if I'd taken a second body....Shutter speed was 1/60th at f8, I'll try 1/30th next time.

The Irish road racing season kicked off last weekend with the

Cookstown 100.

This is the 750cc support class.

Comments/ratings most welcome.

Powerful picture, I too would like to know a little more.

Lovely shot, excellant composition and timing.

What were they protesting about?

Nice shot. I'd have maybe tried to move forward and left a bit to try and catch more of both subjects. Maybe that wasn't possible though and as I know in these situations you take what you can get. As it is is it's pretty good, well done.

Excellant.

Danielle, it's a fine shot. Interesting if sad subject.

Yeah that looks better. Though I'm not sure about changing what you have offered for critique after it's been critiqued. Better to add photo on below or to create a new post.

Great shot though!

He does indeed. Good shot also.

I like it, do tell us more about it.

Nope not that Carlos. It looks as if you have run the blur tool across the picture from one side to the other just above their heads.

Excellant shot, but what's the mess above their heads?

The colours are spot on by the way.

Good shot, but I'd maybe try to shoot it so that tree ain't bang in the middle.

I kinda like. There seems to be a slight distortion across the frame.