This one is wrong in EVERY concievable way, but I really like it a lot for some reason.

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

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fyi though, the top is the more correct, from a technical standpoint. I had the aperature to small on the bottom one, and that's what caused the vignetting (light fall off) at the corners, that and I had poor compostion (what 1/3 rule . I'll know better next time I bullseye the sun like that

[ 03-08-2004: Message edited by: AcidWarp ]

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

The bottom one does actually follow the rule of thirds because that's where the seagull is placed. My eye goes to the reflection on the water first and when I find nothing there it goes to the gull. The vignetting works because it brings your attention to the subject. I often burn in the corners in the darkroom to draw your eye where I want it. Some fill-flash to light the bird would have added more interest though I doubt you could have synced at the shutter-speed you were using. Cropping out the railing (in-camera) would have greatly improved your image too. Try covering just the rail with your hand to see what I mean.

And following the rules and being technically correct doesn't necessarily create excitng images. Unfortunately my clients usually only buy the normal-looking images where the lighting, exposure, poses, etc are all perfect. Normal = Majorly Fucking Boring. It's hard for me to escape that but I try to do small things at least. For example, I purposely used strange cropping, shallow depth-of-field, and a slow shutter speed (2nd photo) in the follwing images. I like them but the client didn't seem so impressed.

[ 03-09-2004: Message edited by: crash ]

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Originally posted by crash:
p.s. I hope that you guys (mainly you and xan) don't mind me reviewing your work. It's meant to be constructive. Critiquing is really just second guessing. I realize stuff like cropping out the rail might have been impossible as the seagull probably passed by too quickly for you to analyze things and reposition yourself

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Yeah, I know that it followed the rule of thirds, I was just making a rather subtle attempt at humour. Actually, I had no idea that seagull was there. All I did was bullseye the sun. . . and got supremely lucky. Heh. . . I couldn't even look throught the viewfinder for more than a few seconds, even with the polarizer, my eye started to water.

You're absolutely right about normal=boring. I like interesting photos. That second one you posted is a little busy, but I think that it works. One thing I need is a hand held strobe or something. I could have REAL fun with that

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

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Seriously, any constructive feedback is welcome. I'm always looking to improve.

Hopefully sometime this week I'll be hiking up to Langdale Falls, I'll take some shots and post them (yes, I have a waterfall a 2 hour hike from my house, granted, it's up a mountain )

Oh, Crash, I just read what you said about fill flash for the bird. The distances are actually a little decieving. I'm pretty sure that the bird is to far away for a fill flash to have been effective, especially considering that it was very bright out, and that shot, is somewhat underexposed. That being said, my flash, while TTL, is 25yrs old, and won't do fill (it's the same age as the camera, a Ricoh XR-2s)

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

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Originally posted by AcidWarp:

Hopefully sometime this week I'll be hiking up to Langdale Falls, I'll take some shots and post them (yes, I have a waterfall a 2 hour hike from my house, granted, it's up a mountain

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Hey you gotta show me where it is

[ 03-10-2004: Message edited by: TheKiller ]

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