Re: Amazing light

Ted:
Thanks for the straight critique. As I read it I realized the other two images were no better than establishing shots (and poor ones) for the third, the show-stopper. The first was an hour before sunset. I was looking for textures and detail in flat coastal terrain. It was also a bit of 'gotta shoot-itis'. And you know what that gets you - usually cow-dung. I should know better.

The second (flying gulls) was an opportunity shot. It needed an anchor point, something to break up the sky.

The image of the solo gull I posted later is interesting for the bird's expression, but nothing special otherwise. The liquid gold image with the duck and weed silhouettes is the keeper, you're right.

Thanks again.


At 05:01 PM 1/24/2006, you wrote: 
Mark Bohrer showed:
Subject: Amazing light

Finally, there was liquid gold in the water. And I found some strong shapes to put against it:
http://www.mountain-and-desert.com/California/Bay_Area_local/Shoreline_Park_Mt_View/DLC-SC-SN0167-5.htm or http://tinyurl.com/a54ny <<<<

Mark mon ami,
This is the only one >>http://tinyurl.com/a54ny<< of the 3 photographs that scores big and is absolutely #1 for quality and using the light. And the only one that you made excellent use of the "amazing light!"

You really did something with it compared to the first two that sort of just sit there.

The other 2 may have been lit by the same light, however I don't feel you made exciting plain good old fashion photographs, certainly not to the calibre with the ducks and reeds in the water with reflected light.

When the light is golden as we see here, yep you're right, "it's amazing light!" But it's a tougher light to use without elements. The over flying gulls are just a bunch of gulls doing a fly by and that's it. Like it or not, I'd have just dumped it off the light table, so some gulls! Yeah I know it's tough love, but you proved how to make it work and not to work and that my friend is the lesson for all others in how to and how not to use "amazing light!" Thank you.

Using it as an overall light for it's colour doesn't always equate to what you see. But I'll come back to the third picture and it's a beauty because you used what you saw, the "amazing light reflected on the water."

ted


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