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17 years ago
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A few days ago I got a watch from 
FPphox who declared himself to be a 'fellow photographer' so as usual I went to their gallery to have a look. What a nice surprise! So tell me, how often have I drawn attention to an artist here? Twice I see, not very often at all! So come with me now and have a look at his gallery.
The first thing you'll notice is lots of trees and lots of sunsets. First the critique... too many sunsets! Yes they're stunning, but since they are it takes something special to set one apart. Here is one such. Such a nice contrast, those two clean edges, one of land and one of clouds forming almost a secondary surface, topped by nice chaotic colorful fluff. Yah, I like vibrant in-your-face color. It takes a while to get into the habit of pulling back a bit though and I would have here, just a wee bit to get those lines more towards 1/3'rd and 2/3'rds.
There are a lot of shots that show open eyes on the lookout for the overlooked. Check out this one tangle from a series. Most people I think would see that, but not SEE it. There's a difference. But most of all I think there is a great sense of color that admittedly fits my own inclination towards serious eye-candy.
We're photographers. Light is our palette. Check out what he does in these shots. Can't pick one, gotta list em all.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1729771/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1654645/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1654629/
Tone, composition, color, all combine nicely here...
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1594955/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1013719/
So what do we have here. Well, the usual cliche's that I think every photographer including myself has to work through and some inclinations that have to be dampened down a bit, all very normal. What we also have is some of the best innate sense of color and form that I've seen in a long time. Huge potential and I'm sure they see the world around them as noisy and vibrant as I do, colors you can almost taste and fractal trees squirming with mathematical functions.
What would I like to see? More variety of course, and much more close-up and particularly macro shots. Water and ice! Reflections and refractions that toss the light around. I'll finish this off with a tip and a question using my personal favorite picture in his gallery. My friend taught me and I repeat ad-nauseum that we read pictures from left to right like we do text. So with that in mind take a look at this original and this flipped version. The question is do you see what I see and which do you think works better?
Yep, definitely my fave. Watch this guy, if he throws himself into it and really stretches he's going to be a powerful talent.
FPphox who declared himself to be a 'fellow photographer' so as usual I went to their gallery to have a look. What a nice surprise! So tell me, how often have I drawn attention to an artist here? Twice I see, not very often at all! So come with me now and have a look at his gallery.The first thing you'll notice is lots of trees and lots of sunsets. First the critique... too many sunsets! Yes they're stunning, but since they are it takes something special to set one apart. Here is one such. Such a nice contrast, those two clean edges, one of land and one of clouds forming almost a secondary surface, topped by nice chaotic colorful fluff. Yah, I like vibrant in-your-face color. It takes a while to get into the habit of pulling back a bit though and I would have here, just a wee bit to get those lines more towards 1/3'rd and 2/3'rds.
There are a lot of shots that show open eyes on the lookout for the overlooked. Check out this one tangle from a series. Most people I think would see that, but not SEE it. There's a difference. But most of all I think there is a great sense of color that admittedly fits my own inclination towards serious eye-candy.
We're photographers. Light is our palette. Check out what he does in these shots. Can't pick one, gotta list em all.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1729771/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1654645/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1654629/
Tone, composition, color, all combine nicely here...
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1594955/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1013719/
So what do we have here. Well, the usual cliche's that I think every photographer including myself has to work through and some inclinations that have to be dampened down a bit, all very normal. What we also have is some of the best innate sense of color and form that I've seen in a long time. Huge potential and I'm sure they see the world around them as noisy and vibrant as I do, colors you can almost taste and fractal trees squirming with mathematical functions.
What would I like to see? More variety of course, and much more close-up and particularly macro shots. Water and ice! Reflections and refractions that toss the light around. I'll finish this off with a tip and a question using my personal favorite picture in his gallery. My friend taught me and I repeat ad-nauseum that we read pictures from left to right like we do text. So with that in mind take a look at this original and this flipped version. The question is do you see what I see and which do you think works better?
Yep, definitely my fave. Watch this guy, if he throws himself into it and really stretches he's going to be a powerful talent.
I just remembered an image I would have loved to have captured... on the way to town a couple of weeks ago driving on the smoothest, slickest ice any of us up here have ever seen. Traffic was down to 40 kph, seriously, and I spent three hours driving on the worlds largest curling rink. When the sun finally broke through the thin clouds the highway was mirror shiny, and going around long curves felt like navigating the edge of a giant phonograph record. Absolutely unthinkable to try and stop though.
And I agree, he has some very pretty pieces- seems to really like to hit hard on the saturation, I've noticed. I'm bad for that, too. *thinks she should post some of her fave pics.*
I over saturate far too much, I suspect, but I love the colours it brings out.