mickey_trageser

Cool abstract approach. You have the motion, but the identity of the person is unimportant. I'd not crop so closely to the neck next time. Try also to use a slower shutter speed to get some blur in the motion. Pan with the subject to keep the overall smeer inherent to the slow shutter speeds to a minimum. You may need a slower speed to get shutter speed of 1/15 -1/30. I like your broad selection of subjects and styles. Keep thinking.

I think this could have been better if there was a little more light to provide some detail in the trees. Try a little earlier in the evening. Open up a stop or so. Bracketing will teach you a lot. The tree refelection looks as one with the trees, no dividing line. The image could be a bit more interesting if not perfectly centered. As it is, my first thought was it resembled a graphic of a soundwave in the thumbnail. The fact that it's a tree line became clear upon opening. If this was night, try it in the morning, or vice versa. Light from another direction could give you a different perspective. Keep it up!

I assume this is heavily cropped, or a very tame bird. Taken with a 50, full frame you would have been right on top of it. Great to be able to catch the critter in action like that. The focus is soft, either from camera shake (slow shutter) or because of the cropping. I like it. Keep shooting and sharing.

Of the 4 frames you showed, this is the best. However, I really don't care for the dimensions of the frames, and why aren't they all the same? The picture, while certainly an extremely well captured image for color, focus, sharpness and news-worthiness,leaves me wanting to see the rest of it. I feel the framing is too restrictive of the scene. The hands have been mentioned, but what about to the right? There's more going on there. Don't get me wrong, if I had been there and gotten this photo, I'd be thrilled. But I'd still want more.

The image is uncluttered, focuses you to the young lady and her clutched bottle. It is striking in it's apparent simplicity, yet very direct. It could easily be on the cover of LIFE or as a movie promotion poster. It's both nostalgic and contemporary by using the sepia tone, yet targeting the modern water bottle for highlight. I can't help but like it.

I like it, I really do. But your 'titanium knees' shot brings home the danger and intensity of the moment. Had it been combined with the close, brilliant clarity and sunlit splash of the POW, even I (a total non speed sport fan) would part with money for it! Very good work. --Mickey

I think the image is fabulous. It had to be a magical moment. How often do we see things and wish we had the camera? How often do the results turn out so pleasing? Good job!

 

--Mickey

Your techique is very interesting, and creative. I think, though, that the outside needed a little more exposure. The window looks like it has automotive window tinting on it! Very good thinking on your part. The image is noteworthy. --Mickey

My, we certainly got stirred up over this one! Congratulations, people! You've expressed deep held beliefs about what you consider art. Now, lets remember that art comes in many media. Sculpting, painting, drawing, architecture, and photography to name a few. Graphic designs by pen or mouse pad can be art as well. Each of these media have tools of the trade. For me, (and I know this isn't shared by all) the tool of the photographic trade is the camera, and what makes it important is the photographic artist's coupling with the tool to capture an image he saw in his mind based on the view he composed in the viewfinder. As I said before, this doesn't rule out digital photography, since it uses a camera (some of which are quite impressive in their creative control).

 

Now, I would never deny that the mushroom image could be art. In fact, I had no negative comments about the image itself. I was impressed by it, and recognized the even lighting and cool tones as that of a scanned object. I've made good practical use of this process of scanning objects myself. It's handy and effective. Today the scanner can be a tool of the graphic artist. But what I liked, was an earlier comment (apologies for not catching the name for credit) that while a painter envisions an image and records it with pigmented oils, it's a very long stretch to call it photography. I think it's an equaly long stretch to call the scanning art, photography.

 

 

Oh, and by the way, the pinhole camera does have a lens, though not of glass. The aperture is indeed the lens that consolidates the light image and focuses it on the filmplane.

 

And one more 'btw'- if anyone took my earlier posting as being mean spirited or in any way disparaging to the image or its creator, it definitely was not intended that way.

 

Go out and be creative!

-Mickey

I found the image interesting. I found learning of its origin informative and useful. I did not find anything about it photographic in nature. We here celebrate the art of photography. This art is camera based, and to my mind, primarily of a film medium. Digital encroaches and is somewhat acceptable only because it still uses a device designed to capture an image composed and funneled through a lens/aperture/shutter. The camera is the primary device that establishes what photography is and isn't. Some would argue that the fact that selecting a shutter speed and aperture and focal length constitute the art, but the art of photography is the creative use and application of the eye of the photographer coupled with the capabilities and constraints of the camera. Photographic art has been made with everything from Brownies to View Cameras. But the image was composed by a photographer through either the taking lens or a viewfinder, not a flatbed scanner glass. The Oyster Mushrooms may be art, but certainly not photographic art. I encourage the establishment of 'scanner.net' to forward the cause of this new art medium, and leave photo.net to photgraphic images.

 

--Mickey

Many times I look a photo and think about the composition, exposure, color balance, etc. This time, I was blown away by the image. Never had a chance to analyze. To me, that's a job well done. Thank You!