I hope you all will bear with me for what will be a long post. I'm feeling rather chatty this morning. And I'll be off to England in a couple of days, where I won't be posting much if at all, so you'll soon be free of me for a while.
Absolutely outstanding location, and the light streaming through the collapsed ceiling is brilliant. I'm really intrigued by this theatre. You've been using this pinhole/lomo effect on all of your photos. It works on some of them, but this one is surreal enough without it. I'd rather see the mess in the foreground in focus, and it would be all the more creepy if we got a sense that you were inside this war zone instead of peering in through some narrow hole in the wall. Perhaps you were actually inside the theatre, but the extreme vignetting suggests we're looking through some kind of porthole--that suggests a "safe" distance and therefore robs the photo of some shock value.
Pentax K200D 13mm f13 1/250 ISO200
Nice light here, and I just love the puffy clouds. I just wish that tower(?) serving as a focal point weren't right smack in the middle of the frame.
I always find these types of landscapes difficult to make interesting as there is no real focal point but I liked the way this turned out, no post proc.
Well, that's the challenge, isn't it? If it's not interesting, don't bother pressing the shutter button. The onus is on you to recognize something interesting and package it for the viewer within four sides of a frame.
Here is a picture that I took of a spider in my backyard. C&C appreciated.
Shutter speed: 1/500, f/5.6, ISO 450, no Flash, Nikon D40x
If you're going to make your subject very small within the frame or very centered, you need a really good compositional reason for doing so. Try getting us up close to your subject so that it will have more visual weight in the frame; if you don't have the right lens to get close enough, then crop later. And try to get the subject out of the center; a focal point centered between the four walls of your frame creates a very static composition--no incentive for the eye to explore the rest of the frame.
Another church: Kilpeck, on the England-Wales border, dating from about 1140...
A remarkable old church, charming headstones, revealing light, and a masterful composition. Alas, I prefer your more emotive photos to these descriptive stock-ish shots, but they're still a treat for the eyes.
This is beautiful. I love the three swathes of different colour (corn, green middle-distance hills and bare distant hills) in interesting light and all set off by the church. Where is this?
Thanks, Fujiko7. It's in Slovenia, looking north at the Alps. Austria is on the other side of that mountain range.
Apologies if I've posted this before.
You have. Apology accepted.
An intriguing photo. I'm glad you didn't make up a narrative for this one because I'm enjoying pondering the many possibilities.
A surreal community of colorful little doll houses, and your birds-eye perspective really heightens the effect. I've seen these kinds of prefab subdivisions before, but never on dramatic, waterfront property. Where is this?
Yup... the harder you look, the more you see. Seeing the extraordinary in the everyday... Not chasing the pix, but letting them come to you.
Yeah, well, sometimes it helps to meet them half way.
