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POW week 10: Self-Potraits

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Ok...SP since I picked it I guess I should respond to your rants. Since you feel the need to critique everybody else's work in spite of the guideline against it, here is a critique of yours: 1. [b]Focus is not overrated.[/b] If your throwing the picture out of focus just to say: "Hey, look how creative I am." then you probably should not do it. I use soft focus for a reason ie. to convay a mood (like sensuality) or to portray motion. Otherwise it just looks like you forgot to focus. 2. [b]"The snapshot style."[/b] This style can be very cool. Jk's first shot is a good example of it. Its creating a snapshot with bigger themes or to represent some thing as a snapshot. Jk's first self-potrait has this kind of casualness. Yours...well...they just look like snapshots. 3.I don't know what you did to that second shot(double exposed, rear curtain synced) but you didn't pull it off. Now if you want to know why I picked Krets shot here ya go(sorry krets I tried to avoid critiques)... I liked the pose, the angle of his head and light despite the little bit of cast shadow in the background. The only thing I would have changed was the crop. I would tighten it up a bit. As I said above I like the casualness of Jk's first shot. I like the pose and lighting quisja's picture. I like taobaybee's shots but steered away from them because of the heavy use of photoshop. I tried to look at things that could be done in the camera or darkroom only. I think Izzay's would be real interesting but I can barely make it out do to size. So I had to pick one so I picked Krets...because it really isn't a competion. So grow-up. A piece of advice: If you do plan on entering your work in competitions, make peace with the fact that the results can change on any given day. It just comes down to opinion. Everybody else: I'm sorry I didn't post one...I meant to post one but I ran out of time. I had do an emergancy portrait of one of our VPs for ad this week, so I had the lights ready to go.[url=http://content.morris.com/churchnotes/nik/booth/tony.html] Here's[/url] what the lighting would have been for mine. --tiki [This message has been edited by tikigod (edited 06-03-2003).] Loading...
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