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[Siberian Husky]

https://tinypic.com/4jksk8


m1469

holy crap..m1469 is this YOUR work?..cause if it..its off the hook, seriously..i love it..

give me more or i will do terrible things to this beautiful forum..i need my fix

[m1469]

holy crap..m1469 is this YOUR work?..cause if it..its off the hook, seriously..i love it..

give me more or i will do terrible things to this beautiful forum..i need my fix

wow, thanks Siberian Husky.  It appeared to have come out of me anyway, though it has taken me a few years to start to understand it.

m1469

[tds]

https://tinypic.com/4jksk8


m1469

i was expecting to see a silhouette of a grand piano standing on the cliff head near the sun. oh, mayla, it is missing the whole life meaning without it!

just joking!! . your work is totally cool!! i love the color contrast. well done. best, tds

ps. it is not a cliff head, or is it?

[Siberian Husky]

https://tinypic.com/4jksk8


m1469

you know..i just got done reading the text in the middle of the beautiful portrait..is that your poetry?..cause if it is...you really do have alot of talent..i fancy a person who can conjure up some healthy literature...

i have an idea...

lets have you...dressed in a huge sports jersey and FUBU with platinum chains and shades...we'll have you rap those poetic rhymes over a synthesized beat...with that portrait of color contrast in the background...it'll be an awesome video...we can send it into MTV and I'LL MAKE MILLIONS WE'LL MAKE MILLIONS   

[puma]

LMAO ---> But how in the world do you accomplish that crossout thing-a-ma-jig?

m1469 ---> Awesome, babe, awesome.  I write poetry and plan on teaching English so I enjoyed your poem very much. I remember you posting up a pic you did a few months ago and that was very cool as I remember it.  What exactly it was I don't remember.

You inspired me a bit, I must say, to post something, but I really don't know what to post.  I have been playing around in the haiku post, however.

[puma]

Ok, here it is, a short poem by me, Puma.  I have a lot of them, but I liked this one and hopefully you will, too.

“Crisis in a Library”

It is raining outside and bullets of water pitter-patter
the windows through which I may
look outside and see crystals form
on the branches.

My eyes tire at this desk, watching a
young student sleeping as my
mind plays to fantasies of
pushing my chair back to slowly roam

the stacks of books, where
peace is squirreled away, waiting for an impatient man to wake
Her.

[m1469]

I am wondering if those people for whom it is enjoyable to form opinions on this stuff, would mind critiquing my photos?  I am particularly curious about composition and shading (is there anything more?) they did come out a little darker after being scanned.  I know, more boring sunset photos, simply learning tools.  (there is also some strange stuff on the surface of them and maybe in the resolution, if you can just ignore that, please).

m1469

PS-  I am actually truly wondering because I learn in strange ways and I feel like comments on my photos would help me quite a bit musically.

[Torp]

I am wondering if those people for whom it is enjoyable to form opinions on this stuff, would mind critiquing my photos?  I am particularly curious about composition and shading (is there anything more?) they did come out a little darker after being scanned.

I've been known to find the formation of opinions on this very thing to be enjoyable!  Compositionally, the horizontal photo is much better than the vertical photo.  Why?  The vertical photo can be broken down really into 5 pieces, starting from top to bottom:

Blue sky
Clouds
Sun sky
Sea
Beach

If you look closely at each one of those 5 pieces there is nothing really happening of great visual interest in any of them.  By nothing happening, I mean with the light.  Photography is about light.  Remember this concept, you are not photographing things, you are photographing light.  To tie this to music, you are not playing notes, you are making music.

The second photograph is far superior in every way.  There is something happening in the photograph, the light is there, it has emotion.  The light interacts with all the elements in the photograph.  There is more visual interest in all areas of the photograph.  You have already pointed out the greatest problem the photo contains for us the viewer, it is too dark.

The darkness of the photos was caused by two compounding factors.  My guess is that when you took the picture your camera was set on Auto Exposure.  When a camera looks at a scene with a tremendous amount of light in it it will choose settings to compensate for that.  If you have the ability with your camera, you would need to override those automatic settings.  In this particular instance, you would have wanted to add "more" light to the film.  While this would have made the sun "brighter" it would have made everything else brighter as well.  Since the camera tried to darken the sun, it darkened everything else in the photo as well.

When you subsequently scanned the photograph, the scanner did exactly the same thing as the camera.  It looked at the sun as the brightest spot and tried to compensate by making it darker.  Again, you would need to override the controls on the scanner in order to offset this.

If you want to discuss this more in-depth, let me know.  We can start a new thread on it.

I know, more boring sunset photos, simply learning tools.

Life is short.  Don't photograph things you don't like or that you find boring.  Pointing your camera at something as a learning experience is like playing Hanon in order to learn Chopin.  Photography, or any art for that matter, is about personal expression.  When we look at the world around us and it moves us we want to say something about that.  The trick in any art is to have the recipient of that art somehow feel what we felt when we created that art.

You will learn photographic techniques faster if you point your camera at things that truly move you emotionally.  Technique in photography is very similar to technique in piano.  Use the technique you need in order to say what you want to say.  There are literally thousands of ways to make photographs.  Some people spend their whole lives learning all the techniques in order to then go out and find things to photograph.  It should be the other way around.  Photograph what you love and let the technique grow organically from that.

I personally think photography and music are very linked.  I often hear strains of music in my head while I photograph and I find music to be very "visual."  A good friend and colleague of mine is a world-renowned photographer who has published several books that are a collaboration between he and Judith Cohen (a pianist).  You may find his photography and books to be particularly inspiring.  I know I have.  That, and he's just an awesome human being and a wonderful mentor for me.  He can be found at:

www.barnbaum.com

Jef

[m1469]

Okay, thank you very much.  This is actually getting quite profound for me and I was correct in that this is giving me such a perspective and insight on my sense of musicality.  I am in a hurry right now, but I think I would like to start another thread on this.   

Thanks again,

m1469

this particular subject is continued in a new thread within the following link :

https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,8720.msg88588.html#msg88588