Taking a compliment... A photo essay

[Sherlock77]

Last spring I created a photo essay for a camera club competition, with some rather unorthodox material, for any of you who are into slam poetry...

It was first shown at our club banquet in June where it took third place, very few people attended...

Tonight for the first actual live club meeting in two years, they showed the top three photo essays again, had lots of compliments again as I did back in June... One guy in particular said he loved it, he's a photographer who I sometimes view as my nemesis sometimes, simply because his fine art photography (that is almost perfect) kicks butt on mine and constantly wins award and trophies... I did say "thank you" couched between explanations of what I was doing, because I feel a need to explain myself?

Alright here it is, see what you think, and why do I apologize so much? I suppose because I don't feel accomplished, but enough of that...

 

[velociraptor]

Damn. That's top shelf work there mate. Don't apologize to anyone for these images.

 

[Sherlock77]

Damn. That's top shelf work there mate. Don't apologize to anyone for these images.

It's easy... Anyone could do it, it's just observation really...

 

[velociraptor]

Anyone could do it

As someone who teaches photography on and off I guarantee you that 99% of people would not get quality results like that. Cameras on auto will not handle the scene properly and very few know how to cope with that kind of high-contrast yet low-lighting.

 

[Sherlock77]

As someone who teaches photography on and off I guarantee you that 99% of people would not get quality results like that. Cameras on auto will not handle the scene properly and very few know how to cope with that kind of high-contrast yet low-lighting.

I always used spot metering for shows like that... This was all with no flash