Mailbox C&C please

[iPhoto17]

I found one of my older photos that I've grown attached to and I'm gonna print and frame this one too I know I like it but how about you guys?

 

[Light Guru]

I wish the mail box was in focus and not the grass behind it.

 

[iPhoto17]

Me too, sadly the mailbox and the abandoned houses with it all got torn down so I can't redo the shot, but I'm sure there are plenty more abandoned mailboxes out there

 

[timor]

Hey man, you don't look like beginner, is this a digital photograph ? There is not only focus problem but also an exposition dilema.

 

[iPhoto17]

Hey man, you don't look like beginner, is this a digital photograph ? There is not only focus problem but also an exposition dilema.

Can you please define "exposition" in the use of photography please? The exposition of the photo I suppose is abandonment? And yes, it is digital...

 

[robbins.photo]

Well if you want my opinion, my opinion is that my opinion doesn't matter, at all. If you like the shot well enough to have it printed/framed then have it printed and framed and enjoy it.

Just my opinion about my opinion of course, YMMV... lol

 

[mishele]

Can I ask what you like so much about this shot. Does it have some personal meaning behind it?

 

[keyseddie]

It's soft. A boring pic of a mailbox in the center of the frame with no separation from the distracting tree behind it. If you realize this you can only get better.

 

[iPhoto17]

Can I ask what you like so much about this shot. Does it have some personal meaning behind it?

I don't know why I like it so much, I just do, it's one of the ones I always go back to look at whenever I'm going through my work.

 

[Designer]

I think I understand why you keep looking at this as there are some elements of composition that seem to work, and could have worked better with some minor changes.

The flag being up is the thing that strikes me as being quite odd, but it is that flag which works as an "accent" in the composition. The photo has flaws, which have been mentioned, but I think the lesson to be gleaned from this is; learn to take your time, try different points of view, watch the backgrounds, make sure of your focus, and your exposure, and make several exposures of something that is interesting. When you get home, pick the best one and work on it. Discard the rest.

And it is quite possible that timor's first language is other than English.

 

[mishele]

Can I ask what you like so much about this shot. Does it have some personal meaning behind it?

I don't know why I like it so much, I just do, it's one of the ones I always go back to look at whenever I'm going through my work.

Well then, you shouldn't worry about what everyone else thinks. As long as you realize that the shot probably isn't going to end up in a gallery somewhere. hehe =)

 

[timor]

Hey man, you don't look like beginner, is this a digital photograph ? There is not only focus problem but also an exposition dilema.

Can you please define "exposition" in the use of photography please? The exposition of the photo I suppose is abandonment? And yes, it is digital...

Exposition is a time your digital sensor was exposed to light. OK I used wrong version of that word, should be "exposure", my apologies, translated directly from my native language. (After so many years living in Canada I still do not think in English .)
If that is a digital take you probably used auto exposure which averaged everything in the frame leaving half of your main subject just black, but background is perfect. That's the problems with leaving to camera program choice what will be represented on the picture. Maybe in the future cameras will have telepathic link to our brains to act accordingly with photographer's visualization. But not yet. Keyseddie is quite blunt about it: "It's soft. A boring pic of a mailbox in the center of the frame with no separation from the distracting tree behind it." And I can't agree more with his advice to you.

 

[limr33 2]

Y'know what? Sure, the focus is off and there could be better tonal range...but there's a feeling to this photo, which is perhaps why you keep coming back to it, OP.

The low angle means the mailbox is going to dominate, so the missed focus is highlighted, but it was still a good instinct to get a more interesting angle. There's also the element of movement in the wheat around the mailbox. There's a contrast here that makes the photo interesting despite its flaws: the movement in the background is more dynamic while the mailbox itself - with its flag up and door open, clearly abandoned - is static.

It's technically flawed but it conveys an emotion. It's a sad picture.

 

[iPhoto17]

Hey man, you don't look like beginner, is this a digital photograph ? There is not only focus problem but also an exposition dilema.

Can you please define "exposition" in the use of photography please? The exposition of the photo I suppose is abandonment? And yes, it is digital...

Exposition is a time your digital sensor was exposed to light. OK I used wrong version of that word, should be "exposure", my apologies, translated directly from my native language. (After so many years living in Canada I still do not think in English .)
If that is a digital take you probably used auto exposure which averaged everything in the frame leaving half of your main subject just black, but background is perfect. That's the problems with leaving to camera program choice what will be represented on the picture. Maybe in the future cameras will have telepathic link to our brains to act accordingly with photographer's visualization. But not yet. Keyseddie is quite blunt about it: "It's soft. A boring pic of a mailbox in the center of the frame with no separation from the distracting tree behind it." And I can't agree more with his advice to you.

You may be right with that, I think it was the only picture I took with the camera on auto because of it's weird angle I couldn't look into the viewfinder

 

[iPhoto17]

Y'know what? Sure, the focus is off and there could be better tonal range...but there's a feeling to this photo, which is perhaps why you keep coming back to it, OP.

The low angle means the mailbox is going to dominate, so the missed focus is highlighted, but it was still a good instinct to get a more interesting angle. There's also the element of movement in the wheat around the mailbox. There's a contrast here that makes the photo interesting despite its flaws: the movement in the background is more dynamic while the mailbox itself - with its flag up and door open, clearly abandoned - is static.

It's technically flawed but it conveys an emotion. It's a sad picture.

Whenever I'm out and have my camera with me I try to stop any abandoned building I come across, It's a type of morbid beauty that not a whole lot of people see, they just see the stuff as an eye sore, I see them as stories and emotion. It's getting harder and harder to find abandoned places now with the town taking them all down