I still cannot create posts on my laptop at home, I tried Chrome, internet explorer, and safari. Please consider giving me some credit for attendance for these issues. I should have made you aware that I was still having an issue this week and for that I am sorry. Here are some pics I have taken over the last week of some interesting shadow/light I noticed on my walks I take.
Hi Mark,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post… I'm confused about the difficulty you're having from home… Any device that can connect to the Internet including phones, Chrome books etc. will work perfectly fine in posting to the class blog. When it comes to using Photoshop, that's another matter. You need to have a Windows or Apple operating system to run Photoshop… And it should be a fairly recent computer at that.
So this is a nice series… I'm going to start from the bottom. I really do like the simplicity of the dog and it shadow handled this way. You made a good choice in the editing. I like the way you brought it into black and white and dialed back the values so that the dog had just the right value of white… the pavement and the dog's shadow is rich and charcoal gray. I find it to be simple, elegant and clean.
Shooting at night is now possible with phones and more modern cameras… They are more sensitive to lowlight than in the past. I appreciate the way you moved in close and cropped this image so that we only see a portion of the tree and how the right side of the tree is perfectly situated down the center of the frame, and is balanced by its lovely nighttime shadow.
Going to the next one up, normally I like to see a full range of tonality but in this case I find your approach to be subtle and mysterious. What are these lines on the ground and where are they leading? In other words, there's much room for interpretation and lots of room for metaphor.
The projection of the railing styles onto the pavement is a classic way to approach this project. I like the one point perspective and the strong diagonals. Nicely done.
The view of the wall at nighttime with the projection of shadows on it is quite nice as well. That must be the Albertus Magnus perimeter wall? One comment… The Blacks appear to be gray... possibly vignetting the outside edge of the image would strengthen the outside areas of black and lend it more richness.
… Okay… Rage against the machine. It is strong though.
Nothing special in the next one up… that's okay.
I do like the image of the flag on the electric pole with the God light streaming in. Again, with this one, there is room for metaphor and a more complex interpretation. Both decay and optimism are present at the same time.
Looks like a firework display perhaps... of the flag. Shooting into a light source at night is not all that interesting… It is how light reflects or eliminates or makes magical the objects it touches that makes nighttime photography resonate more.
The underexposure on picture number two from the top is what is giving it that amount of noise and softness. I would add more light into the lake and probably I'd rotate the image to the right a bit to bring the lake parallel with the edge of the frame rather than the tree line.
And finally the top one… Not as exciting as some of the other ones but it is cleanly seen. Notice how I was interested and excited by the last shot of the dog, and it was photographed in much the same light yet transformed magically… Perhaps I'd try some editing on this one too.
Nice work… Keep it keep it up!