My feeling is you should always shoot from your gut... the memories are
important.. always better to over shoot, grab and go when that is your
only opportunity... edit when you get home... The thing I try to do is
not share those things that are not up to being keepers in an artistic
sense, unless there is some very specific story to be told and that
capture is all that does it. I don't always followthe advice I once
read "show only your best work" but I try to,
and I think Ken does that always.
OTOH, we are showing otherphotogs our work sometimes only to see what
can be suggested to improve an image. with Dan's tree there is a lot
about it that is good.. The placement of the tree in the frame, etc...
but the ovehead light spoils it.. I think it would work well in BW...
and still convey the starkness.
I have a different feeling about that landscape, though.. I love the
high desert, and this scene would be so so differentif there had just
been a rain and
the desert was abloom and the sun was low...
ann
On 10/25/2016 5:01 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016, at 07:26 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote:
Not to be elitist about this, but I wouldn't take this shot if the light
wasn't acceptable - I don't see a reason to capture the image when I know
it already has major faults built it - YMMV
I appreciate your thoughts Ken, and you are of course correct.
I took the image despite the fact that the light was less than ideal, for
several reasons.
1. I act before I think.
2. In a way, the harshness of the light conveys the feeling of the
parched
desert I saw better than an image taken during the golden hour. It may
be
ugly and stark, but in a way so was the landscape, except for this
magnificent brave tree clinging on to like.
3. I was recording the trip, and was not going to be able to return.
Exactly. If I'd only taken photos in good light on my trip western USA
in 2013, I'd have come home with very little to remember the trip. When
you're travelling as much as we were, you have to accept the conditions
you're given on arrival. We had awful light and high winds when we were
at the Grand Canyon, for example, but the chances of me ever returning
are slim (sadly!) so I fired away!
Cheers
Brian
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Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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