On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:14 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Great choices, Larry, although I cannot help but notice that you chose more > images with people than I have an impression you've been showing as PESOs or > GESOs. I mean, you've shown us some excellent landscapes and closeups and in > general greatly diverse body of work throughout this year. Yet, you chose > these twelve... I find it fascinating...
I am very definitely my own worst critic, and by worst I don't mean harshest, I mean least competent. For that reason, I'd really benefit from feedback on selecting my best shots, not only which ones, but why. Part of the discrepancy between this set, and my PESOs http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157632077606072/ comes from the fact that I might post a PESO for reasons other than I think that it is a great photo. I may think that it is an interesting photo, it was challenging to take, it may document some event in my life, or I may simply think that it is amusing. The selection of the monthly faves is more from my wanting to save that photo to look at later. The main reason for putting a shot in the monthly faves is because, at the moment, I really like that shot, or other people comment very favorably about it. I started the monthly faves to make selecting three to submit for the annual that much easier, but realized that with my terrible editing skills, it is a much better place to point people to my photos than my flickr account in general. A lot of the selection into the annual faves probably has to do with the mood I'm in when I go through the monthly faves to select the annual faves. Looking through my faves from this past year, I was actually somewhat disappointed, I didn't have a lot to choose from, and didn't see much that was particularly good technically, while still original or creative. "An imperfect ten" was probably my most creative photo this year: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/8068490566/in/set-72157631471892470 Since it incorporated using the astrotracer, as well as shining a green laser through a lens in a special mount so that I could use it for calligraphy, but when I was making a print of it for my sensei, I realized how technically flawed it is. The problem with doing things that are cutting edge technically, is that they aren't going to be technically perfect, or even very good, without a lot of work and development. As much as the astrotracer really helps, star photos still seem to need photostacking, which I haven't learned yet, and would probably greatly benefit from darker skies than I have convenient access to. Unfortunately, the friend's house that I shot it at, because it was one of the best locations for astrocalligraphy, caught fire a few weeks ago, and he has had to move out. > > > > On 12/30/2012 5:25 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >> I had decided not to do a book this year because when I picked out my >> photos good enough for a book, I only had 23. Narrowing those down >> to the 12 in 12 meme: >> >> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157632376912567/ >> >> >> -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
