> > From: AlunFoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/06/13 Fri AM 10:02:55 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: PESO - Black-headed gull > > 2008/6/13 mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I disagree with you. Your picture is more compositionally complicated, not > > awkward. > > The first page of that gallery exemplifies what I have thought for a while > > now; > > that graphically dramatic and simple shots are what people are attracted to > > these days. > > Almost without exception, those pictures look as good in the thumbnail as > > they do at > > "full size", so there is not really much point in looking at them. I find > > myself, more > > and more, clicking on thumbnails which do not allow me to work out what the > > bigger > > picture [8-)] is. > > I agree with you that some parts of nature photography has an uncanny > tendency to oversimplification. > I think this happens because the species portraiture genre is > dominated by people whose prime interest lies with the subject rather > than with photography. Ornithologists/birdwatchers, entomologists, > botanists, and so on. But take a look at this pic, for example: > http://www.biofoto.no/galleri.asp?mode=view&pic=ensen > > There are _some_ who manage to take technical excellence to extreme > without sacrificing compositional qualities. That's the direction I'm > looking. If I get there I'd be happy, but it's a fair stretch to go. > > I remember buying a book by Frans Lanting called "Eye to eye" a while > back. A large, coffe-table thing devoted in its entirety to animal > portraiture. It got boring after the first 30 pages, even with his > talent behind the camera. However, species portraits are by default a > part of any nature photographer's portefolio... :-)
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