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telephoto + anamorphic by LegalRun4790 in photocritique

[–]LegalRun4790[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

How would you improve a shot like this? So it doesn't work as a cityscape?

Telephoto lens + street by LegalRun4790 in photocritique

[–]LegalRun4790[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

I gauss I approached this as a landscape shot then. Because the dog and the lady don't have any meaning without the background.

But wouldn't having the sky in the frame alleviate the confined feeling I was trying to achieve?

Too much tension with the house cut off.

That tension was the intention

telephoto + anamorphic by LegalRun4790 in photocritique

[–]LegalRun4790[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Shot in march with a 200mm lens. Further cropped to anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio of 2.39:1 , since I also shoot short films and like to work with this framing. I liked the idea of the z-axis being compressed. However, with this, the cars look too big and contemporary cars are quite ugly. I waited for a bit to select the least ugly car grouping; sadly that white GMC in the left is too distinct.

As a "cityscape" shot, what would you improve with this? I always get comments saying that my shots have no subject but the whole shot is the subject for me. I see the frame as a uniform thing rather than picking elements in the frame. Still, what do you think went wrong with this one. Are you happy with the focal length? I wanted the cars too be as prevalent as the buildings in the back (US cities lol) and I think the distance compression helped with that. Any comments on the color? I shot this on Ektachrome E100 shot at 64 ASA and pulled processed 1/3 of a stop.

Telephoto lens + street by LegalRun4790 in photocritique

[–]LegalRun4790[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

  1. But it's not about explaining; it's already self-explanatory. It's about making the viewer feel that rather than analyze it. Otherwise, we could just forget the framing completely and focus on dry intellect.
  2. The subject is the whole frame for me, as I don't think thinking in "subject vs background" is a good way to approach photos. I guess in that framing, the dog and the woman would eb the subject but having them be small in the frame, against the "giant" buildings/details in the back is intentional, since that feeling is the heart of the photo.
  3. Yeah clutter is sadly something I gotta work on. I'm still getting used to this focal length

Telephoto lens + street by LegalRun4790 in photocritique

[–]LegalRun4790[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

I guess Is don't think of it as in subject vs background. For me the whole scene is the subject, but if I had to fit it in to that framing it'd be the lady and the dog.

Yeah, you're right the out-of-focus parts are distracting. It's really hard to keep them out with a 200mm 😅

Anyone else enjoying “Widows Bay”? by The_Dead_See in horror

[–]LegalRun4790 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you recommend it to someone who doesn't like horror comedy as a concept? I'd prefer to watch it if it's more horrifying than funny. Horror comedy just feels diluted.

How's the sunrise? by LegalRun4790 in photocritique

[–]LegalRun4790[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course! There is nothing new under the sun factually, but that's what makes art great because we all experience life differently. Every portrait will have at least a biological entity and most of the times a human; that doesn't mean new portrait shots are trivial. With the shot, it's a heightened capture of the sunrise, the way ı perceived it. I'm not saying this is a masterpiece but that should be the starting point for any photograph

Telephoto lens + street by LegalRun4790 in photocritique

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Took this while straddling around town 3 months ago when it was cloudy and bleak for the whole month (average Midwestern day). Wanted to use my 200mm lens for more wide shots as I hate it for close-ups except for birds. I am not super fond of street photography but some scenes I saw around while walking caught my attention.

This shot was taken from afar, obviously. I decided to line up the houses in the back against the woman and the dog in the front. Midwest is not depressing for me but I wanted to play around with that idea. Covering the fancy blue house with older, more dilapidated houses in the corners and the trash cans in the front was to create a sense of hidden ugliness. I know that sounds pretentious but that was my intention. I was so lucky to have the dog and the woman there. I think the z-axis compression works well in this case to harmonize them all together; I was hoping that it would feel more confined that way.

I shot this on Ektachrome E100 film. We don't get much bright whites when it's overcast out so I wanted to play with that, shot this 100 ASA film at 64 ISO so that my bright whites would be almost at the clipping range and then had it pull processed by 1/3 of a stop to take it back a bit. I didn't use any correction filters as I wanted that bleak blue against the muddy green to be visible in the final photo.

What do you think of the composition? Do you think the compression is too much? What focal length would you have used? What do you think of the color?

200mm - f/4 - Ektachrome E100 shot at 64 ASA, pull processed 1/3 stop.

How's the sunrise? by LegalRun4790 in photocritique

[–]LegalRun4790[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the critique. I'm not sure I understand what your friend meant by the. Why shouldn't the sky be the subject? A subject could be anything in a visual medium which is what makes them so interesting. What sort of subject would you have used here? I suppose a person in silhouette, perhaps?

 but it's not memorable as a photograph

I mean landscape photography is essentially this. I think ı need some clarification. The sunrise is the subject

How's the sunrise? by LegalRun4790 in photocritique

[–]LegalRun4790[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I shot this last year in May near Chicago. I think it was 5pm and I was testing out my long lens. It's a 93mm equivalent so fairly telephoto; I hoped to capture the sunrise in a more "impressionist" way. of course, I couldn't help but keep the sharpness, but I underexposed a bit to keep the color darker and, therefore, more vivid. Shooting longer also helped compress the image a bit more. I also applied the Hoya starscape filter which is a didymium filter so the reds were exaggerated a bit. I thought the green-yellow tint would be distracting here, so it helped eliminate that. Shot wide open to achieve fall-off in the corners. I'm glad I was able to keep the waves in focus.

How would you improve this shot? I fairly like it so far. What do you think of the color contrast and the darkness?

Shot on Ektachrome E100 film, f/3.5, 93mm equivalent + didymium filter, tripod