
Your feedback regarding interest in the subject and pp would be appreciated.
I think you handled your texture collection well on this one. I am fond of the warm brownish tones the texture brings out. The placement of the magpie is good, allowing adequate negative space for texture(s) to be rolled out across the frame. A good one!LindaShorey wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:37 pmA couple of folks here have seen this one from last summer. Sorry I didn't think to include it in the textures topic as it has about four textures on it![]()
Your feedback regarding interest in the subject and pp would be appreciated.
This clearly could lead to quite a long discussion. I had not thought of Iwo Jima even though I am intimately familiar with the image.PietFrancke wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:22 pmLinda, you did a super nice job with the textures. The composition though is what knocks it out of the park for me, reminds me of that iconic WW2 Iwo Jima flag raising image.
edit - Duck, just saw your reply to Linda's image. Thank you for that! - I felt tension in the image, and to think it has a name, the sinister diagonal leaning left.
So maybe everything that makes that incredible picture one of Time's 100 most influential is serendipity, a more-or-less happy accident considering that half the guys on that mountain were dead a day later. Or was it?Wikipedia wrote:Rosenthal put his Speed Graphic camera on the ground (set to 1/400 sec shutter speed, with the f-stop between 8 and 11 and Agfa film) so he could pile rocks to stand on for a better vantage point. In doing so, he nearly missed the shot. The Marines began raising the flag. Realizing he was about to miss the action, Rosenthal quickly swung his camera up and snapped the photograph without using the viewfinder. Ten years after the flag-raising, Rosenthal wrote:Out of the corner of my eye, I had seen the men start the flag up. I swung my camera and shot the scene. That is how the picture was taken, and when you take a picture like that, you don't come away saying you got a great shot. You don't know.
Thank, Duck for a wonderful lesson on composition. A thread to mark for future re-reading. We'll look forward to the tutorial, hoping you'll share it! The richness of feedback here is such a treasure.Duck wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:19 pmI am putting together a tutorial on advanced compositional design, or rather, breaking away from the rule of thirds. It's still in development but I thought I'd share a lesson from that upcoming topic here. Take it for what it is, a discussion, and less of a critique.
Absolutely, Duck! And that was really all I think I was trying to say in my looooong-winded way. Experience and reflex, practice practice practice. I do appreciate your very precise analysis of composition and would love to sit in on your course because I don't have a grounding in art or composition (wish they'd made us learn that but they threw us out so there y'go). I learned what little I do know as I went and I apply it (sort of) while looking through the finder. I guess I'm saying that, especially as regards photography and most especially as regards certain specialties such as photojournalism and related, the artist has no time to think, therefore it just has to "f/8 and be there" so to speak. I agree that modest Joe had a way better Idea what he had than even he knew but he knew he'd got something. BUT... after the fact the analysis can even mathematically lay out chapter-and-verse why a particular composition stands out.Duck wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2018 4:46 amLet me answer your question in this way, Charles.
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While Rosenthal may trivialize the event I can guarantee he had the image in his head, Otherwise he wouldn't have been bothering to pile rocks up o get higher. If you think about it, Get higher for what? And why at that spot and not some other spot where he didn't have to do manual labor to gain an advantage? It's because he saw the photo evolving and he was hedging for a better one. Sure, there was an element of luck involved but, more importantly, he had experience, reflex and previsualization in his favor.
Hopefully this sheds a little more light into the mind of an artist.![]()
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