Standing Tall

minicoop1985 · Jun 27, 2014

Standing Tall by longm1985, on Flickr

Thoughts/comments appreciated. Hasselblad with T-Max 400, D76.

IzzieK · Jun 27, 2014

Is it your screen or mine? I see some little hairs in this shot...I like your title...

IzzieK · Jun 27, 2014

Is it your shot or my monitor? I see some little scratches on this one...I like your title though...

minicoop1985 · Jun 27, 2014

It's dust. Can't seem eliminate it all. :grumpy:

And my scanner's dust removal.... doesn't.

mmaria · Jun 27, 2014

My monitor is awesome! I don't know what you guys are talking about

(crappy computer at work

)

IzzieK · Jun 27, 2014

Use software to clone them out. I will if it is mine.

OK Marija -- your monitor is awesome...I got it. :mrgreen: Mine is crappy and I got three of them in front of me now...all crappy. :wink:

minicoop1985 · Jun 27, 2014

If I don't have to, I don't edit film images. It's like sacrilege to me. Gotta get it right in camera, period-the only thing I'll correct editing wise is camera error (shutter curtains being slow, etc).

The_Traveler · Jun 27, 2014

Unfortunately boring and flat.
No visual impact at all
Sorry.

hamlet · Jun 27, 2014

I think i can help you out with this picture. See you have chosen to put your subject in the center of the frame, but there is really no context here for us to look at. This is just a picture of a building against the sky. I myself am really trying my darndest best to learn how to deconstruct scenes and make an interesting composition and i'm still working on it. Here is a very simply example from one of my favorite directors who did center composition really well. link

minicoop1985 · Jun 27, 2014

The_Traveler said:
Unfortunately boring and flat.
No visual impact at all
Sorry.

No offense taken. Photos are subjective, right? I learn a lot more from the flops than I do the successes.

Hamlet, it is just a picture of a building against a sky. Was trying my hand at minimalism-works some ways better than others, I suppose.

hamlet · Jun 28, 2014

I see what you mean. I've thought about this composition and thought about how it would look more interesting. You could put your camera on a long exposure to get some more interesting clouds and you could stand in front to the left or right of the camera out of focus looking up at the building as a silhouette. There is a lot of interesting things you could do with this shot.