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MrKiltYou
Location: Hayward, CA Gender: Male Total Likes: 15 likes
| | | Graffiti Art Photo Critique Wanted < on 5/5/2015 3:37 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Here is some photos that I took on a recent trip to a local navel base. I am looking to get input on them. 1. Nikon D90 / Nikon 10mm-24mm Lens Shutter: 1/125 Aperture: 4.0 ISO: 400 2. Nikon D90 / Nikon 10mm-24mm Lens Shutter: 1/40 Aperture: 4.5 ISO: 400 3. Nikon D90 / Nikon 10mm-24mm Lens Shutter: 1/200 Aperture: 4.2 ISO: 400
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| skatchkins
Location: The Desert Gender: Male Total Likes: 1476 likes
| | | | Re: Graffiti Art Photo Critique Wanted < Reply # 1 on 5/5/2015 4:00 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by MrKiltYou Here is some photos that I took on a recent trip to a local navel base. I am looking to get input on them.
| The line for me on actual art and then photos of someone else's art is blurry for me. There's a difference between it having it add to the background/scene and then just photo'ing for your own. Like taking a photo of a painting. The painting was good. As far as the selective color desaturation/saturation, we all go through that phase, and then we move on and pretend we never did it. Thrown into a set of location photos, these are a good contribution. I like 2 a good deal. I'd be anal and straighten the lines. All just my opinion. Doesn't have to be yours. Thanks for sharing.
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| RedBush
Location: Twin Cities, MN Gender: Male Total Likes: 13 likes
| | | Re: Graffiti Art Photo Critique Wanted < Reply # 2 on 5/5/2015 4:26 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by skatchkins
As far as the selective color desaturation/saturation, we all go through that phase, and then we move on and pretend we never did it.
| It's always been full color or not at all with me, actually. Selectively coloring photos just reminds me of those godawful wedding photos where just the eyes have color, and it makes me cringe. It's just...so...so...unnatural looking. As for taking pictures of other folks' graffiti, if you're taking the picture to showcase a fantastic piece that may or may not get covered up/painted over/disappeared some other way I personally encourage it, but taking a picture of someone else's artwork and calling it your own because you took the picture does you no favors in my book, though. One way to maybe work around that is to go for some slightly more creative framing, as well, just to show the environment that the graffiti is in. Might just be me, but I think it makes for a more interesting picture overall, as well (Not that my work is necessarily the bee's knees, either): 1) 2)
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| DJ Craig Moderator
Location: Johnson City, TN Gender: Male Total Likes: 374 likes
Break the Silence
| | | | | Re: Graffiti Art Photo Critique Wanted < Reply # 3 on 5/5/2015 6:47 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | The "selective saturation" thing (much like HDR) was cool once, but has become a really overdone cliche, imo. That doesn't make it "wrong" or "bad" if it's the look you like, but many photographers won't take you seriously if your work contains a lot of cliches like that. I would have to agree with the others about the line between your art and someone else's is being blurred here, but really, who's to say. That's not so much a critique of your photography as a academic quandary with no right or wrong answer. Those two points aside, these are great! They are technically well done, properly exposed and focused, editing is clean, etc. Composition is not bad, but not particularly exciting or unique either. Thanks for sharing!
| "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." -Dr. Suess |
| skatchkins
Location: The Desert Gender: Male Total Likes: 1476 likes
| | | | Re: Graffiti Art Photo Critique Wanted < Reply # 6 on 5/5/2015 4:23 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I think Red's examples show good examples of pieces adding to the scene. They help with the depth, scale and perspective. Rob brings up something that does haunt me sometimes too about shooting an existing building. I've felt that slippery slope sometimes with anything created, even say a waterfall. I didn't make that, I'm only documenting. I think it comes back to perspective: sharing a unique vision of your own view And accessibility: do others get to see it/is it worth being seen You don't just go take a picture of a building downtown. It already exists and it's seen daily. But a photo of it from a new view, capturing an angle not observed by everyone else, putting your own creativity into it, that would give it new life and interest to even those who walked by it every day without your vision. Inaccessibility rarefies beauty in the same way. Bringing back a photo of a waterfall that took a 4wd adventure, a day's hike in, and a camp with an early wake-up call to capture the light just right would hold much more allure than a tourist shot of a waterfall everyone can see daily out their car window. I love that about UE photography as well as it feels like you are bringing back something, inaccessible (new) to most, that can still hold attentive beauty. Of course if someone doesn't consider their photos art, those words may mean nothing to them and that's fine. Documenting and art do not have to go hand in hand as exploration and photography don't have to be best benefit friends either. Keep doing what you have fun with and keep sharing with those that can't/won't.
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| NotBatman
Location: MSP Gender: Male Total Likes: 443 likes
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| | | Re: Graffiti Art Photo Critique Wanted < Reply # 7 on 5/5/2015 5:39 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by skatchkins Inaccessibility rarefies beauty in the same way. Bringing back a photo of a waterfall that took a 4wd adventure, a day's hike in, and a camp with an early wake-up call to capture the light just right would hold much more allure than a tourist shot of a waterfall everyone can see daily out their car window. I love that about UE photography as well as it feels like you are bringing back something, inaccessible (new) to most, that can still hold attentive beauty.
| I agree with most of what you're saying, but I think this specifically is more personal to the photographer and how the image brings back memories of the trip. Unless there's something in frame that demonstrates that it's not readily accessible, some larger context, there's no way to know it isn't. When I see the picture of that waterfall, I see the framing, I see the light (and the shadow), I see what you've done with the specifics of the exposure, but I don't know anything about the hike, the camp, and how hungover you might be while shooting it. (Ok, well, sometimes the latter definitely shows through for some images, but you know what I mean.) I feel all of those things in my own pictures, but for all I know, the wiper blades might be just outside of the frame. The peeling paint might be in your mom's basement, and maybe someone should check on her a little more often, you know?
| I'm a "Leave only footprints, take only pornography" kind of guy, myself. |
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