iposiniditos
Well-known member
Below is my photo for the "where i live" challenge. It's a shot from my balcony, so it's a real 'where i live' photo 
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Jeremy Ordan
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Wow! I am completely amazed, inspired, and in awe of what everyone has submitted and that we all actually did this. I think it's amazing.
Cheezweezl
Like: I love the overall composition. You presented a familiar landmark of massive cultural awareness and displayed it in a new exciting way that caused me to do a double take as to what I was looking at. The coulds add a feeling or urgency and really make me feel like I am falling into a surreal dream watching the world spin by. The blown highlights on the sign as well as the tower normally would turn me off, but for this image I think they enhance the image by adding to that surreal sense of emotion.
Dislikes: Other than it being a freaking huge image ? I really would like to see more detail in the hill because then you can complete that earth and sky contrast. Maybe a little sharpening. Overall, it is just hard to find anything that doesn't excite me about this image.
HowDareMe
Likes: I love the noise and super gamma throughout the image, and think that your image really screams modern art. The capturing of the scientology sign just adds so much more to this image, making you smile as well as giving some meaning to the 60's acid trip colors. I love the contrasting elements displayed from the mirror, tree, sign, street, sunlgasses.
Dislikes: I struggle with identifying the focal point in the image. Part of me believes it is the scientology sign while I am also drawn to the rear view mirror and the image contained within. The only suggestion I might be able to offer would be if you're having the mirror be the focal point, keep that part of the image looking like a normal photograph reflected in this amazing and color filled world you created.
Bfischinger (1st Image)
Likes: I love the angle you got. You can really sense this person's descent into this heavy shadowed and mysterious path. The fact that there are two choices of paths also awakes the English Degree within me. Furthermore, your subject's attire along with the book really gives this image a sense of magical strangeness in a world of complete reality.
Dislike: The only area of improvement I can identify with this image is that it looks a little flat and lacks some depth (even with the leaf up front to the right). I would just add some more contrast and maybe sharpen the image to make the folliage come alive.
Bfischinger (2nd Image)
Likes: Well seeing as how I was checking these out at work this image made me hide my browser real quick, which cracked me up. I love the angle, the composition, and the overall image. I think that this is an incredible picture that actually says a lot. What it says I think will be filtered... But it made me think and it's like a trainwreck, I'm afraid of someone coming up behind me to check it out but I can't turn away.
Dislike: There is nothing to really not like in this image, so the only constructive criticism I can offer is that it looks a little flat. I would sharpen the image to make the different elements stand out and then add some contrast. Might also play with the sky, but just post processing, nothing with the image acquisition.
Rapier_100a (1st Image)
Likes: The sharpness and detail in your foreground subject against the soft background is almost hauntingly powerfull. I stared at that horse head for 5 minutes just amazed that man can create something so unique. This image against the conflicting urban and nature elements it just a beautiful contradition of life. I really like the way you used your background to enhance your subject. Great image.
Dislike: There is nothing with the image that I would change with post processing, composition, or subject matter. I think it is great image... Sorry, I really looked for something to be constructive about.
Rapier_100a (4th Image)
Likes: This reminds me of one of those MC Escher drawings. There is so much detail within the wood and the sky that I am overwhelmed viewing this image. I love the dutch angle that you have used to create a sense of uneasy comfort. This is something I would hang on my wall.
Dislike: The only thing constructive I can offer is that because of the different elements of your image I struggle for a specific focal point. My eye follows the staircase to the sky, which is a great use of symbalism, but I am distracted by the cloverleafs on the bannisters. I wouldn't change it, but I really like this image.
iposinditos:
Likes: This image just kept going down and down and down. The length is amazing and with all of the action and buildings at the top the composition is beautiful. I think that an image like this is also perfect material for a black and white composition. I love the lines of the building, power lines, street, sidewalk, curb.
Dislike: Well I had to download the image and load it into MS Photo Editor to be able to see it all, and the only area of critique I can offer that might be beneficial is the white fence at the very bottom. It is distracting and conflicts with everything else. I would have cropped that out. Great image.
MattinSTL:
Likes: It made me laugh right away, brotha! I think it is a great wide shot, with so much detail. If I didn't know you, and know it was you I could just see this farmer living in his field and this being his life. The detail in the image is great and where you placed yourself really works great for that rule of thirds thing.
Dislike:The only criticism I can offer is the blowout on your shoulder becomes a focal point. Overall a great shot and something that if it was posted in the cafe would become photoshop fodder. Where is Pookie when you need him.
DISCLAIMER:
I offer my opinion as a complete amatuer with no experience other than typing out what I see and feel when I look at these images. Hopefully some of the things I said help make better images or made you feel good about the job you did.
QUESTION:
So how do we decide who wins and gets to choose next week's assignment?
Great job, I'm really impressed by what everyone did and ashamed of my entry now.
-Jeremy
Cheezweezl
Like: I love the overall composition. You presented a familiar landmark of massive cultural awareness and displayed it in a new exciting way that caused me to do a double take as to what I was looking at. The coulds add a feeling or urgency and really make me feel like I am falling into a surreal dream watching the world spin by. The blown highlights on the sign as well as the tower normally would turn me off, but for this image I think they enhance the image by adding to that surreal sense of emotion.
Dislikes: Other than it being a freaking huge image
? I really would like to see more detail in the hill because then you can complete that earth and sky contrast. Maybe a little sharpening. Overall, it is just hard to find anything that doesn't excite me about this image.HowDareMe
Likes: I love the noise and super gamma throughout the image, and think that your image really screams modern art. The capturing of the scientology sign just adds so much more to this image, making you smile as well as giving some meaning to the 60's acid trip colors. I love the contrasting elements displayed from the mirror, tree, sign, street, sunlgasses.
Dislikes: I struggle with identifying the focal point in the image. Part of me believes it is the scientology sign while I am also drawn to the rear view mirror and the image contained within. The only suggestion I might be able to offer would be if you're having the mirror be the focal point, keep that part of the image looking like a normal photograph reflected in this amazing and color filled world you created.
Bfischinger (1st Image)
Likes: I love the angle you got. You can really sense this person's descent into this heavy shadowed and mysterious path. The fact that there are two choices of paths also awakes the English Degree within me. Furthermore, your subject's attire along with the book really gives this image a sense of magical strangeness in a world of complete reality.
Dislike: The only area of improvement I can identify with this image is that it looks a little flat and lacks some depth (even with the leaf up front to the right). I would just add some more contrast and maybe sharpen the image to make the folliage come alive.
Bfischinger (2nd Image)
Likes: Well seeing as how I was checking these out at work this image made me hide my browser real quick, which cracked me up. I love the angle, the composition, and the overall image. I think that this is an incredible picture that actually says a lot. What it says I think will be filtered... But it made me think and it's like a trainwreck, I'm afraid of someone coming up behind me to check it out but I can't turn away.
Dislike: There is nothing to really not like in this image, so the only constructive criticism I can offer is that it looks a little flat. I would sharpen the image to make the different elements stand out and then add some contrast. Might also play with the sky, but just post processing, nothing with the image acquisition.
Rapier_100a (1st Image)
Likes: The sharpness and detail in your foreground subject against the soft background is almost hauntingly powerfull. I stared at that horse head for 5 minutes just amazed that man can create something so unique. This image against the conflicting urban and nature elements it just a beautiful contradition of life. I really like the way you used your background to enhance your subject. Great image.
Dislike: There is nothing with the image that I would change with post processing, composition, or subject matter. I think it is great image... Sorry, I really looked for something to be constructive about.
Rapier_100a (4th Image)
Likes: This reminds me of one of those MC Escher drawings. There is so much detail within the wood and the sky that I am overwhelmed viewing this image. I love the dutch angle that you have used to create a sense of uneasy comfort. This is something I would hang on my wall.
Dislike: The only thing constructive I can offer is that because of the different elements of your image I struggle for a specific focal point. My eye follows the staircase to the sky, which is a great use of symbalism, but I am distracted by the cloverleafs on the bannisters. I wouldn't change it, but I really like this image.
iposinditos:
Likes: This image just kept going down and down and down. The length is amazing and with all of the action and buildings at the top the composition is beautiful. I think that an image like this is also perfect material for a black and white composition. I love the lines of the building, power lines, street, sidewalk, curb.
Dislike: Well I had to download the image and load it into MS Photo Editor to be able to see it all, and the only area of critique I can offer that might be beneficial is the white fence at the very bottom. It is distracting and conflicts with everything else. I would have cropped that out. Great image.
MattinSTL:
Likes: It made me laugh right away, brotha! I think it is a great wide shot, with so much detail. If I didn't know you, and know it was you I could just see this farmer living in his field and this being his life. The detail in the image is great and where you placed yourself really works great for that rule of thirds thing.
Dislike:The only criticism I can offer is the blowout on your shoulder becomes a focal point. Overall a great shot and something that if it was posted in the cafe would become photoshop fodder. Where is Pookie when you need him.
DISCLAIMER:
I offer my opinion as a complete amatuer with no experience other than typing out what I see and feel when I look at these images. Hopefully some of the things I said help make better images or made you feel good about the job you did.
QUESTION:
So how do we decide who wins and gets to choose next week's assignment?
Great job, I'm really impressed by what everyone did and ashamed of my entry now.
-Jeremy
iposiniditos
Well-known member
I am sure that everyone will find something useful in your words! Great help written in a great way! Thank you very much!!TheYankee said:Wow! I am completely amazed, inspired, and in awe of what everyone has submitted and that we all actually did this. I think it's amazing.
Cheezweezl
Like: I love the overall composition. You presented a familiar landmark of massive cultural awareness and displayed it in a new exciting way that caused me to do a double take as to what I was looking at. The coulds add a feeling or urgency and really make me feel like I am falling into a surreal dream watching the world spin by. The blown highlights on the sign as well as the tower normally would turn me off, but for this image I think they enhance the image by adding to that surreal sense of emotion.
Dislikes: Other than it being a freaking huge image
HowDareMe
Likes: I love the noise and super gamma throughout the image, and think that your image really screams modern art. The capturing of the scientology sign just adds so much more to this image, making you smile as well as giving some meaning to the 60's acid trip colors. I love the contrasting elements displayed from the mirror, tree, sign, street, sunlgasses.
Dislikes: I struggle with identifying the focal point in the image. Part of me believes it is the scientology sign while I am also drawn to the rear view mirror and the image contained within. The only suggestion I might be able to offer would be if you're having the mirror be the focal point, keep that part of the image looking like a normal photograph reflected in this amazing and color filled world you created.
Bfischinger (1st Image)
Likes: I love the angle you got. You can really sense this person's descent into this heavy shadowed and mysterious path. The fact that there are two choices of paths also awakes the English Degree within me. Furthermore, your subject's attire along with the book really gives this image a sense of magical strangeness in a world of complete reality.
Dislike: The only area of improvement I can identify with this image is that it looks a little flat and lacks some depth (even with the leaf up front to the right). I would just add some more contrast and maybe sharpen the image to make the folliage come alive.
Bfischinger (2nd Image)
Likes: Well seeing as how I was checking these out at work this image made me hide my browser real quick, which cracked me up. I love the angle, the composition, and the overall image. I think that this is an incredible picture that actually says a lot. What it says I think will be filtered... But it made me think and it's like a trainwreck, I'm afraid of someone coming up behind me to check it out but I can't turn away.
Dislike: There is nothing to really not like in this image, so the only constructive criticism I can offer is that it looks a little flat. I would sharpen the image to make the different elements stand out and then add some contrast. Might also play with the sky, but just post processing, nothing with the image acquisition.
Rapier_100a (1st Image)
Likes: The sharpness and detail in your foreground subject against the soft background is almost hauntingly powerfull. I stared at that horse head for 5 minutes just amazed that man can create something so unique. This image against the conflicting urban and nature elements it just a beautiful contradition of life. I really like the way you used your background to enhance your subject. Great image.
Dislike: There is nothing with the image that I would change with post processing, composition, or subject matter. I think it is great image... Sorry, I really looked for something to be constructive about.
Rapier_100a (4th Image)
Likes: This reminds me of one of those MC Escher drawings. There is so much detail within the wood and the sky that I am overwhelmed viewing this image. I love the dutch angle that you have used to create a sense of uneasy comfort. This is something I would hang on my wall.
Dislike: The only thing constructive I can offer is that because of the different elements of your image I struggle for a specific focal point. My eye follows the staircase to the sky, which is a great use of symbalism, but I am distracted by the cloverleafs on the bannisters. I wouldn't change it, but I really like this image.
iposinditos:
Likes: This image just kept going down and down and down. The length is amazing and with all of the action and buildings at the top the composition is beautiful. I think that an image like this is also perfect material for a black and white composition. I love the lines of the building, power lines, street, sidewalk, curb.
Dislike: Well I had to download the image and load it into MS Photo Editor to be able to see it all, and the only area of critique I can offer that might be beneficial is the white fence at the very bottom. It is distracting and conflicts with everything else. I would have cropped that out. Great image.
MattinSTL:
Likes: It made me laugh right away, brotha! I think it is a great wide shot, with so much detail. If I didn't know you, and know it was you I could just see this farmer living in his field and this being his life. The detail in the image is great and where you placed yourself really works great for that rule of thirds thing.
Dislike:The only criticism I can offer is the blowout on your shoulder becomes a focal point. Overall a great shot and something that if it was posted in the cafe would become photoshop fodder. Where is Pookie when you need him.
DISCLAIMER:
I offer my opinion as a complete amatuer with no experience other than typing out what I see and feel when I look at these images. Hopefully some of the things I said help make better images or made you feel good about the job you did.
Maybe we can make a new topic/poll in every challenge. Something like: Nikon D50/D70 PhotoChallenge 1, next: Nikon D50/D70 PhotoChallenge 2 etc... so everyone (not only us that we read this thread) will be able to vote.TheYankee said:
Just a thought..
Jeremy Ordan
Major Contributor
iposiniditos said:
That just seems like a little much... I personally like the idea of everything just being in one thread because this is already an amazing thread, just think of what it could be.
-Jeremy
iposiniditos
Well-known member
Sounds logic. So, maybe it will be better if someone makes a concise post quoting all the photos (or maybe make smaller versions, something like thumbnails) + username of the authors and below the list of us who are in the contest. Everyone can make just one post with his/her vote, so we can add it to that list.
I hope that you'll understand my thoughts. Ingkloish isn't my best...
I hope that you'll understand my thoughts. Ingkloish isn't my best...
MattinSTL
Sound Modulator
I don't want to win... I like all the photos, but I like Yank, Ipo, and Cheez the best... they are the most true to the subject. Ipo probably would get the nod because this is his balcony shot. He and Rapier are the most true to the original idea... but I like the vertoramic the best.
Yank I love your nightshot, and it's very good... but I don't think you or I can vote for each other... we talk to much back and forth on this thread and it would feel like a love fest. I already don't want any designation higher then "participant".
Yank I love your nightshot, and it's very good... but I don't think you or I can vote for each other... we talk to much back and forth on this thread and it would feel like a love fest. I already don't want any designation higher then "participant".
Jeremy Ordan
Major Contributor
Well here is a voting idea... I mean the prize is you get to choose what we do next... Just list your top two in order. Say #1: Hudson Shot 1, #2: Barry Green Shot 1. And then we'll tally them all up and who ever has the most votes wins and chooses the next subject. You get 2pts for a first place and 1 pts for a second place vote and you cannot vote for yourself.
I don't think it's personal or anything and it's nothing anyone is going to get hard feelings about, just a simple 1st and 2nd and that gives us enough participants and votes to move forward.
This is for fun and to help us focus on shooting...
What do ya'll think of that method?
-Jeremy
I don't think it's personal or anything and it's nothing anyone is going to get hard feelings about, just a simple 1st and 2nd and that gives us enough participants and votes to move forward.
This is for fun and to help us focus on shooting...
What do ya'll think of that method?
-Jeremy
iposiniditos
Well-known member
I agree. This will help us to know how other people from other places with other experiences feel about our photos. And will make us better for sure.TheYankee said:
iposiniditos
Well-known member
Jeremy Ordan
Major Contributor
Well I guess I will chime in first:
1st: Rapier_100a 'Stairway'
2nd: Cheezweezl's 'Hollywood'
Great job everyone!
-Jeremy
1st: Rapier_100a 'Stairway'
2nd: Cheezweezl's 'Hollywood'
Great job everyone!
-Jeremy
iposiniditos
Well-known member
1st: MattinSTL
2nd: TheYankee
Great job everyone indeed!!
2nd: TheYankee
Great job everyone indeed!!
bfischinger
Well-known member
Im gonna say
1st-Cheexweezl's Hollywood
2nd-The yankee's b&w city shot
3rd (are we doing 3rd?)- iposiniditos B&W street
1st-Cheexweezl's Hollywood
2nd-The yankee's b&w city shot
3rd (are we doing 3rd?)- iposiniditos B&W street
iposiniditos
Well-known member
bfischinger said:
Nope. Two.
TheYankee said:
MattinSTL
Sound Modulator
1st: cheez
2nd: yank
now sing... cheez 'n yank, cheez 'n yank...
I give cheez 1st because lately I'm really into motion... I like shots with blur that enhances the subject and I've been working on that myself. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but the dreamy motion blur of Hollywood at night is pretty close to accurate for anybody who goes there thinking they will become famous. It's a dirty, imperfect shot that works because it suits the subject so well.
2nd: yank
now sing... cheez 'n yank, cheez 'n yank...
I give cheez 1st because lately I'm really into motion... I like shots with blur that enhances the subject and I've been working on that myself. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but the dreamy motion blur of Hollywood at night is pretty close to accurate for anybody who goes there thinking they will become famous. It's a dirty, imperfect shot that works because it suits the subject so well.
Jeremy Ordan
Major Contributor
Well hopefully howdareme, rapier, and cheezweezl will vote soon so we can move onto the next challenge (hint, hint).
-Jeremy
-Jeremy
cheezweezl
Veteran
How long do we have to vote? I'm out of town until late tonight. I am typing this on my phone in an airport right now and while I can kinda see the pics, I can't see them well enough to make a decision. Can I vote tomorrow?
Matt Grunau
Adobe Demigod
#1 iposiniditos
#2 Yankee
I didn't really unstand the rules for this one. I should have posted my self portrait-lighting test instead.
The ones I posted were pretty untouched locationals. I didn't know we could photoshop for manipulation in them.
Hmmm. Mine were more about composition than substance. Next time, I'll do something more funky.
#2 Yankee
I didn't really unstand the rules for this one. I should have posted my self portrait-lighting test instead.
The ones I posted were pretty untouched locationals. I didn't know we could photoshop for manipulation in them.
Hmmm. Mine were more about composition than substance. Next time, I'll do something more funky.
Jeremy Ordan
Major Contributor
We're down to waiting for two more and then we can move onto the next challenge...
I have a little excel sheet that I started to keep track of the votes, which is really copmlicated considering there are six of us, but oh well.
Hopefully tomorrow we'll find out what the next one is and have five solid days to work on it.
-Jeremy
I have a little excel sheet that I started to keep track of the votes, which is really copmlicated considering there are six of us, but oh well.
Hopefully tomorrow we'll find out what the next one is and have five solid days to work on it.
-Jeremy