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Originally Posted by Cherry7
So it turns into a pissing contest of who know what about photography...
The photograph I presented was not selected to show off photography but just a typical photo from my site as a typical photo from Paul Markham "The Teacher" site...
It is noticed that you do not do any criticism of Paul's pictures as I see you come from the same school of photography, with its daft rules....
Rules which have nothing to do with photography.
example;
And the crop. OMFG, Just below knee kinda works, but anything mid shin or ankle is just nasty. Quote...
Photos from SImon Scans
I think this speaks for itself....
Your photography is just dull, it is competent but where is the desire to try something new, to be creative? To push the borders back a bit...
We would like to spend more time on photography, make less but better, Needing lots of pictures for advertising and as they come second to our films, means that we put a lot of pictures out there that we would not consider great. But at least we are trying to do something different and with a bit of humour and imagination.
Cinema Erotique
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Yup. Shot her too. Same pose and everything. If only I had some different and humorous coloured gels.
As for the shower shot. I was trying to do something a bit different and humorous there. What with being sat in the damp corner of a shower cubicle, something was going to get cropped, but in this case, no crop, then no shot either, so a compromise was made. Not the same thing as standing in a field and choosing a nasty crop.
Photography is about breaking the rules, but first you have to know the rules, then you can make a judgement about why and when to break them.
As for implant blondie on the lounger - yes her head is cropped on that thumb, but it's not on the members file. DSLRs shoot 2:3 ratio images but they aren't a great format on pages being a bit long and skinny, something around 3:4 looks nicer, so all the thumbs on that grid layout get a trim top and bottom to fit the layout. Making stuff fit pages sometimes requires compromises.
Look at any magazine and it'll be full of images that have been utterly buggered by designers to fit pages. It's just what happens, but no way can you sell images that have been pre-buggered to those same magazines. Every year photography degree courses chuck out another bunch of kids who's final shows all feature through the forehead crops like wot they saw in magazines - the FIRST thing they learn in the real world is you don't shoot them that way; its what designers sometimes HAVE to do to make them fit pages.
Also worth noting on those grid layout pages only the big image on the left is hand picked, the 2,3 or 4 on the right get picked by a script on autopilot. Saves me time in admin, but works because, most of the time, I shot it as right as I could.
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