Comments welcome; one of my first pics with my new Nikon D3000. - DSC_0018.JPG (0/1)

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You need to put a link to a website for the photo. It can't be uploaded
here, because this is a text only newsgroup. You would need to be in a
binary newsgroup (like alt.binaries.photos.original) to attach photos.

 

I wish you hadn't stripped the EXIF info out.
It looks like you had a bit of camera shake that sucked the fun right
out of it, but you're excused since photographing is such a frowned
upon activity by mere mortals that if that searchlight had of fixed
upon you you may have faced a severe dose of questioning from police
for using a camera in public.

Non binary groups are not a good place to post binary. Apart from the
pedants bellyaching, they don't propagate very well.



http://jimpicturetrail.blogspot.com/

 

I am. Look at the lights on the bridge...should be points (or close to it),
all show a diagonal trace.

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I live in Windsor Ontario, and the police here really aren't
hyped up about people taking photographs. I photograph the bridge,
people downtown, buildings, landscapes, you name it... I've never run
into trouble yet.
Then again, we haven't had the G-20 or G-8 come to town yet.
We did have the OAS (Organization of American States) people here
quite a while back... around 2002 I think. The city government of the
time was insulting in their insistence that the barriers outside the
hotel where the guests were staying were there "for the protection of
the citizens", but that was Mike Hurst, the special interests mayor,
and not the guy we have now, whose well ahead in terms of ethics of
where our former not-so illustrious mayor was. I used to call Hurst
"Casino Boy" in preference to "mayor", since he did everything he
could to make sure that the casino owners who set one up here didn't
hvae to pay the city even the normal 10%.
Anyway, the photo is now online at
http://www.jpgmag.com/people/Scotius and I'd appreciate any comments,
since constructive criticism from more knowledgeable people is always
a benefit.

 

You've both convinced me... that next time I take a photo
without a tripod from any distance I'll be using at least the
anti-vibration built into the lens. I suppose that's what the "On/Off"
switch is for.

 

A G20 delegate was heard proclaiming: "I should have had a G8"

I will only comment on the first three:
I see the mood you are seeking to capture, but all three are severely
underexposed and too centered for my taste.
The Ship would benefit from a severe cropping on the right, starting at the
background building;

The cat also seems slightly warm and the background is confusing, to me.

Bleak would benefit if the road ran from left to right and you had a single
lonely person walking down the road. I have a small collection of people I
use for that purpose. Shame that no manipulation is permitted on that site.

 

On Competition nights at the camera club I belong to the winner is
asked to make a few comments about his/her image and describe the
settings used.

Some time ago the winner's photo was well-composed evening scene with
a full moon. In his description he casually mentioned that the moon
was from another shot since the moon in the winning composition was
not as pretty.

A collective gasp from the crowd...no major manipulations are allowed.
The photo was disqualified.

Now we have a third division: Creative. Any kind of manipulation is
allowed in Creative. The other two divisions are Color and
Monochromatic.

 

There is a big brouhaha (sp) going on here. Most of our local clubs,
including mine have an "anything goes in manipulation" rule in all
categories. We have color prints, monochrome prints and digital. Digital may
be either color or monochrome. The local clubs belong to an umbrella
organization and submit images for inter-club competitions. PFLI, the
umbrella organization, wanted to start to bring its competitions in line
with PSA rules and create two additional categories in which no manipulation
beyond what used to be ordinary darkroom manipulation, would be permitted.
The proposal was rejected by vote of the local clubs and the board of PFLI
resigned over the issue.

 

While I wouldn't take a position on what should be done in your club,
I'm in favor of extensive manipulation *only* in a creative category.

Being in a local camera club is supposed be fun. It's supposed to a
place where you can submit your efforts, get a critique, and learn
something from the comments. The efforts, though, are supposed to be
photographic, not in post-processing. They are supposed to be in
getting off your butt and going out and looking for suitable subject
matter and in composing the photograph to best show the subject.

I have CS4, and I'm reasonably proficient in it. Not all club members
do. Creating the end result in CS4 gives me an advantage that some
don't have. If I choose to do so, the creative category is a leveled
playing field.

 

Distance is immaterial, shutter speed is.

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Our club mainly consists of pictorialists. Most of the members feel as I,
that competitins are primarily for critique purposes. Indeed we also have
pure critique nights, where the image does not have to be mounted. Our main
rule is that the member does the work. HOwever, the final printing, if not
done by the member, must be one that is generaly available to the public.
Last year we had a member who was hiring a professional graphic artist to do
his manipulations and printing. We created a special category for work not
done by a club member. (He would have been the only person in that group.)
This year he left our club and got caught cheating in his new club. We have
two other local clubs, where extensive manipulaton is not permittted. Some
of our members are also members of these clubs. As a small club, (65
members,) we are also very social. We do a field trip every Sunday morning.
Between 15 and 22 turn meet for breakfast. Some just show up for breakfast,
even if they cannot go on the field trip. We are also quite informal. Last
week, for the first time in years, we actually followed our scheduled
location two weeks in a row.

 

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There's a sliver of a building or something at the right-hand end. You ought
to crop that off.

Bob