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I have recently joint the Streettogs Critique Group on FB.
I am not a fan of FB, but this group works. Mainly because of it's rule: one can only post an image there after giving a meaningful critique on at least three images posted before.
Unfortunately, this is where our beloved DA (and most of other web sites) fail miserably: one rarely can get any meaningful feedback here!
The most one normally gets is absolutely useless "Nice shot!" or "Great catch!" etc. Arguably, those are not just useless, but misleading and harmful. Provided, one's aim is to grow as a photographer.
Not all critique in the group is top quality, naturally - it is a group of aspiring photographers. Very useful, nonetheless.
But, they have once a month a "guest critic", and in October it was Richard Bram from In-Public. That was a blast! And by itself worth the "price of admission"!
I would love to see more of DA street photographers over there!
I am not a fan of FB, but this group works. Mainly because of it's rule: one can only post an image there after giving a meaningful critique on at least three images posted before.
Unfortunately, this is where our beloved DA (and most of other web sites) fail miserably: one rarely can get any meaningful feedback here!
The most one normally gets is absolutely useless "Nice shot!" or "Great catch!" etc. Arguably, those are not just useless, but misleading and harmful. Provided, one's aim is to grow as a photographer.
Not all critique in the group is top quality, naturally - it is a group of aspiring photographers. Very useful, nonetheless.
But, they have once a month a "guest critic", and in October it was Richard Bram from In-Public. That was a blast! And by itself worth the "price of admission"!
I would love to see more of DA street photographers over there!
Moral Hazard
Very interesting work by Stephen McLaren in his street project Moral Hazard.
Three minutes slide show with author's commentary - well worth your time!
Moral Hazard: snapping the City after the crash.
Undefining Street Photography
An article by Nick Turpin, a founder of In-Public : Undefining Street Photography .
Nothing revolutionary, but a good short read.
(Many of you might have read it, but I just stumbled across it).
And some food for thought: The Phyla of Street Photography .
Composition in Street Photography.
I was asked yesterday, regarding one of my street images, how did I approach the composition. This is my reply:
"To answer you question: whether I did the composition consciously? - it is yes and no.
On the street one doesn't have time to "think" about composition - one has to see and react in the moment.
Having said that, it doesn't mean that the composition is not intentional.
One learns composition by studying history of art, analyzing good photographs, doing some drawing, beginning by photographing objects that do not move (architecture, still life) etc. - up to the point, when the feeling of composition becomes intuitive.
Then one
Last chance to see bad photos!
No, I am not removing all my photos - if this is what you were thinking :). There will be a day for that, I am sure. But for now…
I have started taking pictures about a year go - August 2012. I was keeping the photos from that time in my gallery just because I wanted to see my progress. It is time for them to go now.
So, if someone (for whatever weird reason) wants to see them - I will be happily embarrassed! But not for long - they will be taken down soon.
As for me - I am quite alright with the way my photography went through the past year.
Over 42 thousands views of my works - who could dream of that! Thank you!..
I was quite inactiv
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so true and so interesting. Will create a FB page just for that... Thx.