living

happen by accident...what about you?

was captured in real time or if it was posed...but I love it! I just wish we could see his eyes.

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An intimidator? Tough love?

or meaningful really....I just got a little tired of looking at the same self portrait of me in my portfolio (the unedited one). And plus, this is edited with some knowledge I've gained since I've taken this, which was almost 6 months ago.

that is now called inner struggle. I decided to change the

composition of this image after a large discusion with my peers at

PN. If you want to read more on why I changed it, you can read

several different comments and mine as well. And just to let you

know, I didn't change it because the majority of the people weren't

in favor of the original edit of this image, I changed it mainly

because I need to break the habbit of taking negatively spaced

photo's. Just like Fred G. said, "Don't be afraid to be a little

messy." :) Thank you.

Correy.

God has blessed me to recieve this much feedback. As I stated in the forum thread, I'm here to learn. Not just about photography or the philisophical aspect to it, but I need to learn more about myself. Ever since I've started regularly visiting this site, I have noticed substantial improvements in all areas of my life. My thoughts are deeper, more meaningful, and go further than just the concrete subject of whatever I'm thinking about. I'm starting to realize the true nature of the world and understand why people act the way they do. It feels like I've unlocked a door in my brain that leads to a room more vast than any desert on this earth which enables me to think in ways I've never thought before. I ask myself why it's happening and I come up with a number of reasons. Maybe it's photography. It could be enhancing my creative mind to a point where it's changing my entire way of thinking. Or it could be the grocery store I work at; I come into contact with thousands of people a week that it leaves me time to actually look at society and it's intentions as a whole, rather than selfishly worrying about myself. Lastly, it could be a maturity in my physical and spiritual body which renders a greater understanding of life. After drawing those conclusions I say to myself that "it could be a combination of all three." Whatever it is I can safely say that my thought process has changed immensly over these last 8 months and I can also safely say that I have SO much more to learn in the near future. I am hoping that college will highten my creativity and extend that vast room I've openned in my brain.

 

Fred G. Thank you for your insightful comment(s) on my image. When you said "Don't be afraid to be a little messy," I realized that when I cropped out the "clutter" I cropped out the mood. The environment and the setting around a skateboarder plays a tremendous role in skateboarding. It's apart of our life just as much as the actual spot is (a "spot" would be the actual obstacle that is being skated). So I went back and did it over and out came a much better representation of what I was trying to capture. And yes, I did try to capture this moment, it wasn't accidental. Although this instance in time happened in about 2 seconds, all that went through my head was an impulse of a familiar emotion that runs through a skateboarders mind. I also misused the word "comtemplation", which is a long thoughtful reflection. The subject isn't thinking or reflecting at all. There is a war going on in his head and contemplation doesn't reflect this image at all.

 

I thank you all for your time and thought on and about this image as well.

Correy.

If your going to leave a terrible rating, tell me why. And for those that are reading this, tell me what you think about it. I personally hate the rating system on this site and how it works.....if you rate it, you should be required to critique it as well. Have you ever gone to an art show and walked up to a persons work of art and simply said, "This sucks" and continue walking? NO!! Same deal with this site, and don't give me a lecture on why you think the rating system works using big words because I can play that game too.

skateboarders point of veiw, they'd look at this and say "Why is he

contemplating over such a small stair set?" Well first of all, there

is a steep bank that you have to land into. Second of all, I wasn't

trying to capture skateboarding......I was attempting to capture the

thought process that runs through a skateboarders mind when doing a

trick. And this is one of them. Contemplation. The mental and

physical sides of your body start battling for an answer as to

whether or not what you're trying is a logical thing to do. Right

now, the physical side of his body has brought him back, his mental

side is ACHING for acomplishment and that is why he is facing the

stair set.

DOF personally. I think this could be used as some sort of

promotional poster or something of that nature........I'll come up

with something.

and how they move? Annoying huh? Yep but I'd say this is a pretty successful image. AWSOME B&W!!

That's why I liked taking pictures here. It was fun. Feel free to

tell me what you like or what you think this image needs or doesn't

need. Thank you.

Correy.

The awareness and interest the world has taken to skateboarding is OUTSTANDING!!! All ages love to watch it and at the same time love to participate in it. We've got 12 year old pros (Nyjah Houston) and 40 year old pros (The Gonz). All amazing people and use skateboarding as an outlet for expression! And who knows about these kids? This scene in their life could be just enough for them to start. I guarentee at least one of the kids in the group of about 15 will start skateboarding because of this event in they're life. Because that's all I needed, I saw a couple of kids skateboarding in my neighborhood when I was 7 and ever since then, I've had an imenent interest in it. A love.

interest of skateboarding these days is OUTSTANDING!!!

learning more about portraiture before I go and attempt travel and

documentary (humans being my primary source of subject). I think

portraiture gives you confidence for accomplishing the task, and also

insight on how to capture the right emotion.

If you could tell me what you see in this man's face and it

matches up with what I tried to capture, then I was successful.

But Anthony (the skateboarder) isn't the only point to this

photograph. I have a bystander (there were a few others) to show the

interest skateboarding has taken in the past few years. I've also

included a filmer to show how influential the industry has on kids.

It's rather sad actually. The proffesionals of today throw their

carcusses not to have fun....no no no no......they do that to stay

alive. I've talke to many proffesionals and even spent the night

with some. They tell me that when they're done logging their footage

to their done filming....they usually go skate a four stair or a

small ledge to, like I said before, have fun. So this photograph

communicates a lot to the audience but you'd have to know a bit about

skateboarding to understand it. Any questions on this photo just ask.

This kid has a buttery smooth style.

if you cropped the bottom out I think it would be missing the point of the title of the shot. The title is "Go Gator!" and the empty space at the bottom shows theres space left to advance forward. We as an audience don't know whether or not the gator is moving or standing still but the empty space at the bottom provides that assumption and lets our minds think that. The only thing I would have to say is that you may have to tilt it a little to the left to make it completely horizontal. It seems a little crooked to me but other than that this is a great looking photo!

HOW....IS HE......DID HE......WHAT..........What the heck, is he ok. Was this a firefighter drill or something?

used the filter under "Render" called "Lighting effects" first to get that sort of glow (but was already kind of there in the first place) then I burned the edges. And vuala, burnt edges.

so he didn't do it. You can see how tall the hill is if you look at

the other photo on my profile! It overlooks all of central texas.

And what I think strikes such interest in only seeing feet is that it leaves the rest of the body to your imagination!

I SEE IT NOW!!!! VERY good pov!!

Skate photo. Well that's because I don't like shooting that type of

photogoraphy. I try to keep it a little artistic and hopefully I

achieved it on this one.

on how to do a photo without an explination. I came up with nothing. Maybe it'll come to me some day. Which is why I saved these shopping lists.

 

Thank you both for your comments.