I agree with you Marnie, but classes aren't my thing. My approach: - study -- *carefully* -- a ton of other photographers work, especially published masters, and anything in genres I'm particularly interested in.
- look at other artist's work too. From the Old Masters to Picasso etc. These folks know/knew composition. And light, of course. - read (just about) every online tutorial on composition you can find. I have a standing order at my local used book store to hold every book on photography that comes through so I can have a look. I've got a steadily growing library of inspirational photography and art, and art and drawing theory. And a really critical thing that follows after select/edit: DO NOT SHOW ANYTHING ONLINE OR OFF BUT YOUR VERY BEST WORK. Just doing that alone fools people into thinking you're a good photographer. :-) On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:32 PM, <eactiv...@aol.com> wrote: > Serious suggestion, Larry (to follow). When you first started showing here > I suggested off list that you edit your photos. You commented about it on > list and everyone essentially jumped all over me (although you did not name > me, thank you for that.) > > Take a class, with a critical teacher, like an advanced photography class. > From live feedback from students AND teacher you should be able to get > enough feedback to get a better feeling for what are your best/better photos. > What compositional elements make up your better photos. You don't have to > agree with all their assessments, but you will still get a feeling. > > HTH, Marnie aka Doe :-) > > In a message dated 1/8/2013 1:14:56 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > l...@red4est.com writes: >> but you need to edit the set yourself. > > There's the rub, They all look to be of about equal quality to me, I tried > to narrow it down to the best one or two of each type. I don't see what > makes one better than the others. Which is why I so much appreciate more > detailed critique. A few of the photos have people, or birds, doing > something, > which I think makes the photo more interesting, it's not just of a pretty > place, but it's of something happening at a pretty place. That's why I > posted 022 as the PESO, because I found it amusing to see all these other > guys > out there taking pretty much the same photo as each other, which was pretty > much the same photo as 006 or 151. > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
