A Few Snapshots From DC
Jul. 22nd, 2004 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aseIt's amazing how many pictures you can take, thinking, "oh, this is going to look so cool!" only to discover that the actual snapshot is somewhere between pretentious and incomprehensible. Discussions of photographs as narratives make lots of sense when you're trying to use a shot to show, say, the spacious, empty feeling of the National Gallery's east building.
Some of them, however, came out sort of nice. After much abuse of several pictures in Photoshop, at least. Three 640x480 shots behind the cut. Dial-up people, yell if this is a problem. I have no sense of proportion or other's people's interest/tolerance.
L'Enfant Metro Station at rush hour. They run trains close together when the commuters are flooding the city or rushing home; the bright light in the left-hand tunnel is an inbound train. (Resizing, sharpening, brightness and contrast)
The Castle has some spiffy gardens. And I go for the neat-looking raindrops. (Cropping, resizing, levels)
The underground walkway between the National Gallery's west and east buildings, as seen from the east. (Resizing, cropping, saturation, and color fill)
Some of them, however, came out sort of nice. After much abuse of several pictures in Photoshop, at least. Three 640x480 shots behind the cut. Dial-up people, yell if this is a problem. I have no sense of proportion or other's people's interest/tolerance.
L'Enfant Metro Station at rush hour. They run trains close together when the commuters are flooding the city or rushing home; the bright light in the left-hand tunnel is an inbound train. (Resizing, sharpening, brightness and contrast)
The Castle has some spiffy gardens. And I go for the neat-looking raindrops. (Cropping, resizing, levels)
The underground walkway between the National Gallery's west and east buildings, as seen from the east. (Resizing, cropping, saturation, and color fill)
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Date: 2004-07-23 08:14 pm (UTC)The arts
Date: 2004-07-23 08:32 am (UTC)Which is why good photographers take a lot of pictures. Digital makes it so much easier to just delete a poor picture without having to do the developing and waste. It's also good that you're developing a sense of which photos are which. Some artists never do, ya know.
For a study of foreground verses background, I feel the Metro shot is more successful than the leaves. The walkway, not too sure about that one.
Re: The arts
Date: 2004-07-23 08:22 pm (UTC)And Photoshop makes it much easier to correct a picture that's a little off. Crop to fill the frame with the object(s) of interest, tweak a skewed or tilted perspective, adjust a too-dark or too-light or off-color picture, etc.
The metro shot's the best of these three, I think. The picture of the leaves is an example of me being too enamored of the macro setting, and needing to practice to get across what I was really interested in: the way the water droplets caught and bent the light. The walkway shot's been adjusted in a number of ways; I suspect I'll look at it in a few weeks and cry, "what was I thinking with those levels and color changes?"