[LRflex] Re: Are your pictures really good?

  • From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 15:28:31 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Douglas Sharp wrote:

>
>http://acquine.alipr.com/index.php
>
>this was posted on the LUG by one of the newest members, Ming (I think).
>
>
>Find out for yourselves how good you really are - it's quite surprising, 
>and completely off track - it already relegated our own established 
>master of bird photography Doug Herr to below amateur status. Henri 
>Cartier Bresson and Dorothea Lange didn't rate too well either :-)
>
>I managed to score 89.3 with this one, but everything else I tried was 
>apparently utter rubbish
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Sunglasses.jpg.html  - Not far 
>behind Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother :-)
>

One feature it seems to like is a bright center and darker edges, also the rule 
of thirds.  These two both scored quite well, apparently because they follow 
the classical rules of composition:

http://www.wildlightphoto.com/land/sublog.jpg
http://www.wildlightphoto.com/land/denali.jpg

and this rated only 30.8 (out of 100):

http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/rsha01.html


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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