Show everyone the latest shots which make you feel dead chuffed with your camera choice
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This is one spot which produces consistently good autumn colours and light, and it's on the Mertoun estate (private woodlands and riparian planting - the poplars are there as a shelter belt and to stabilise a large river bend which was encroaching).
I do not use iStockphoto - I don't approve of its sales model - except for occasional purchases for non-commercial uses, and to fund these, I have put a dozen shots on the site. They produce enough money to pay for the two or three images I need each year. Example - I needed a copyright model release cleared really ugly portrait with bad skin etc, to do an article on Portrait Professional software. iStockphoto to the rescue! They have the worst portraits around, all guaranteed model released.
With the exception of bonneville who may never carry a camera again on a golf course !
I did find much of the debate instructive as it brought into the open how much of what is considered normal for where you are born and raised affects your choices in editing and presenting your works.
If you come from an area where mist and drizzle are common and most days of the year do not produce hard shadows this does affect your natural inbuilt colour palette and what is sharp enough. And vice versa.
Many early European painters didn't know what to make of the Australian landscape.It was so ugly and vulgar to their artistic sensibilities, it was black and white with so few shades of gray in between. The light was usually harsh and in summer absolutely brutal and forget about using pastel shading ! There you were with half a lifetime learning nuance and now it seemed half a dozen basic colours was all you needed.
And then there was the commercial reality if you painted it as it was, it wouldn't sell back home in Europe. After all people were after a hundred years still having trouble with kangaroo's - how were you to present the duck billed platypus ? No the sort of painting a gentleman would easily buy to fill a gap on the dining room wall. Life without the Discovery Channel was a real b.....
Kevin: Good series! Hard too pick only one. (If pressed, I would choose the 7th one…) By the way, where did you find such a photogenic subject? Never saw him in my life…
Alfonso
ps: Peter, very interesting post. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
bonneville wrote:Oh well, should have known better.
Bye Bye
I never got to see the original you posted, until Don re-posted the one he downloaded, it looks like a "mood" shot to me, if so, it probably is a tad subtile for some.
Greg
ps Don't worry about Don's antics, I get the impression he sort-of means well....it's the digital age thing, apparently you have to make loud pictures so you can be noticed.
While I can't be bothered to waste time seeing just how many times Don has repeated the same old already-seen material (relevant or not) in multiple threads, please see the rules now added to the Photo Discussion forums (overall).
In future, there is a limit to how many times the same image can be reposted on this board - three times.
David Kilpatrick wrote:While I can't be bothered to waste time seeing just how many times Don has repeated the same old already-seen material (relevant or not) in multiple threads, please see the rules now added to the Photo Discussion forums (overall).
In future, there is a limit to how many times the same image can be reposted on this board - three times.
