On Friday 14 January 2005 10:21, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Hi ... > > While it's a nicely framed shot and well executed, the subject is soooo > overdone. I suppose every photographer should have such a pic in his or > her portfolio, if only to suggest something of a sense of humor. > > This shot brings nothing new to the > SUV-in-a-compact-only-parking-space-snapshot, so while you get an A for > technical competence you get a D for originality. I have to ask: how many > shots did you take of this scene? I ask because I can envision a more > interesting photo were it made from a different angle - lower to the > ground, perhaps emphasizing the size of the SUV more, perhaps a different > focal length ... anything to make the scene more interesting. > > Shel
I was wondering when someone would mention this. I took four four shots, in total, of the situation. Two were boring, "look how illegally these dopes are parked" pictures, which I thought I might save and forward to the town authorities someday. One, you see here. The other was this: <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/Brunellus/Stuff/Compact2.jpg> This wasn't as good, in my opinion. Actually, to give my whole technical assessment of that shot--it *sucked*. As far as focal length: This is one of those situations where I really wished I had a 14mm lens, or even the Sigma 12-24mm zoom at the 12mm end. I was already at the wide end of the widest lens I currently have (the 18-55 that came with the DS), and I wished I could go wider, precisely to use the perspective distortion to emphasize the size of the SUV while simultaneously getting the sign in the picture. Maybe a rectangular fisheye? h'mmmm. I should mention that I have always been interested in signs and graffiti, especially where cheap visual irony can be extracted from them: <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/Brunellus/Stuff/Brick.jpg> ("Bricks and Mortar," Fairfax, VA, Oct 2004. A bunch of new houses were being constructed, in the modern, flimsy, "matchstick" method, around the corner from our house) <http://members.cox.net/luigi12081/London/Flats%20Available.jpg> ("Flats Available," London, Oct 2002. Schumpeterian "creative destruction" at work on the South Bank of the Thames) <http://members.cox.net/luigi12081/London/General%20London/I%20know%20I%20have%20lost.jpg> ("I know I have lost," London, June 2003. Graffiti near Bankside.) <http://members.cox.net/luigi12081/Images/everything%20must%20go.jpg> ("Everything must go," Fairfax, VA, Sept 2004. This is the only non-pentax image in the bunch: the others were taken with my MX. This was taken with a battered Rolleiflex MX-A, with an uncoated Jena Tessar 75/3.5.) whoa. I didn't expect this to turn into a "signs" retrospective.... *grin* =-Luigi www.livejournal.com/users/ouij photos, rants, raves
