vuk_vuksanovic

The picture you've posted is quite good, but the size is a little too small to say anything beyond that.

I find the aesthetic here a little too much in the domain of immature teenagers who maintain an interest in horror movies and superstition. There's obviously a great deal of skill behind this image, but I'd rather see it matched by an equally developed artistic vision.

It seemed to me, that you were a bit envious of the fact that people took time to rate my photo, but haven't rated yours as kindly--James Fernandez

 

James.

 

I think you and Bernhard have missed the element of wit in my posting, so please let me be boring for a second assure you that I genuinely don't really care about Photonet ratings--in part because it seems to make people lose their sense of humour, in part because of all the cheating, pandering, sucking-up and vindictiveness it has generated. Indeed, the aim of my initial comment was, in some measure, to suggest the glorious scores you were receiving were not something that should necessarily be taken as a measure of quality. I will confess, however, that I was also taking a bit of a swipe at the system at the same time, but in these days of censorship, I'm sure you can forgive my indirect methods.

 

Anyhow, to be blunt and rephrase my critique, your picture is not particularly good. For sure, a great deal of it is to do with compositional choices. Did we really need to see so much of the scene? Was this best time/lighting for the shot? What about the intrusive tags on the orange metal and what about the bits of black pipe? Nontheless, I still wouldn't discount entirely the limitations of your equipment. Let's say, for the sake of argument, this was in fact the best possible way to frame the shot. Given that restricting condition, a radical use of shallow DOF would probably have yielded something much more accomplished. Unfortunately, your camera makes this particular aspect of creative control virtually impossible. That is one example. The sterile, 2-dimensional rendering of the scene by the glass/CCD is another. These are limitations of your equipment that it helps to understand and work with or around. I have been trough it myself and, although I eventually sold my digital toy, I definitely managed squeeze some decent results out of it by that time.

 

BTW--if you like, you can have a look at my little web page to verify my photographic credibility and/or any hypotheses involving jealously you may still harbour ;-)

 

Cheers,

Vuk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emil.

 

This is the one. Congratulations. Please contact me about a potential purchase.

our attitude towards life needs an adjustment--James

 

My evaluation of your picture seemed ambiguous, so you come back with an overarching put-down of my attitude toward life based on this miniscule bit of "interaction"? Absolutely remarkable.

Emil.

 

It's a great shame you're wasting so much talent creating all the incredible kitsch in this folder. Why????

The quality of the model's skin does not hold up to the scrutiny such a close-up invites. Consequently, it is a failed shot and hardly PoW calibre--well, given the history, I suppose it actually is.

Susan.

 

I think that bit of darkness in the bottom left corner is simply too big to be cropped out without substantially degrading this photo. Nonetheless, the picture, which is quite good, would be even better if the shadow was not there to begin with.

I'm with Jill on this. The breasts are completely out place here and it doesn't strike me as some profound psychological question posed by the photographer, but rather something that verges a bit too closely on a "trailer-trash" aesthetic of beauty. Matters are not helped by the coifing on the girl which makes it seem as if she's sporting a mullet.

Doug.

 

I hereby award you the first official CoW (Comment of the Week)!

You've definitely made something out of nothing here. It would also be nice with shiny, black shoe stepping into the frame from the left.

Albert.

 

I'm pretty sure the red part is a ping pong racket

Rinky-dink camera, rinky-dink film, rinky-dink digital effects, but it all bloody works! Good job my friend. Definitely something to hang in the dining room.

Bradley.

 

I think the scene is brilliant and certainly good enough to hold up even after the technical "deductions" have been applied. The small JPEG makes it hard to form a proper opinion of such things as focus, though I should say that the fuzzy look has grown on me over the course of the week and I think it compliments the mystery that has been captured.

 

Part if the success of this photo is that it's quite cinematic, although this doesn't really have to do with the panoramic perspective (at least to me). In fact, a regular 35mm frame would have been preferable (IMO), especially if you took a step in and to the right.

 

Cheers,

Vuk

I would prefer a more subdued capture in terms of lighting. Otherwise, the composition is very good.

Bernhard.

 

This is a natural vertical! I would stongly advise rotating 90 degrees counter-clockwise.

Very good, but it would have been great had you approached the subject in an even less literal fashion. F/1.4 with carefully chosen focus, for example.

This is very interesting and I like it consderably more than the "pattern" experiments that appear later in this folder.

Andrea.

 

I think this would be more interesting if you could rotate the camera to get a bit of diagonal oriention to the horizontals.

Technically, the shot is quite good, but the composition is a bit vague and doesn't carry the photo on its own. Another element in the frame would raise this to another level. As it stands, we've got a respectable backdrop with no real subject.

The symetry is a little disturbing, but perhaps useful (it will take further viewing to settle that one). Seems like a good candidate for Photo of the Week.

Dieter.

 

Absolutely brilliant! Great imagination and eye to create and shoot this.

Andy.

 

Of the three "post" shots, I like this one the best. The subtle luxurury of the colours is echoed by the graceful curve of the shadow. I also appreciate that you haven't gone overboard with cropping ;-)

This picture is outstanding. Definitely among the best I have seen uploaded on Photonet. There is a brilliant tension between realism and abstraction that raises nature photography to a higher, more inventive and sublime level.

This is a very nice picture, but the severe cropping undoes a lot of the effort. That said, the post-capture editing would probably have gone completely unnoticed before I became a photographer myself. Fucked up but true.