On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 07:11:45PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: # # On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Larry Colen wrote: # # >http://flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157614015431223/ # # Of this set, these two attracted my attention most: imgp4272-1, # imgp4298-1. # Nice classic views, night work, well done.
Thank you. It turns out that the shots that I posted from New York have gotten a lot more favorable comments than most of the shots that I have done recently. This is ironic since that trip was very soon after I got my Pentax (I bought my third lens for the camera, including the kit lens that came with it, on that trip). In the past year I have spent a lot of time, taking pictures practically every day, any time I had a few minutes, trying to improve my craft. It would be sad to think that my skills are actually deteriorating. I like to think that more of my photos are technically better than the ones I took on that trip. I have a tremendous number of near misses from that trip. Shots that would have been nice except for camera blur, blown exposure, etc. There is also the case that while I've only had my Pentax for 16 months, I started my photographic hobby (albeit with some long hiatuses) 35 years ago. So I hope that by a year ago, I had some grasp of composition, just lacked the skills to get the photo digitally. And last, but not least, there is the excuse that on that trip I was in New York City. Most of the 36,000 frames I've taken since then have been pretty much literally whatever was close when I had a few minutes to play. I consider one of the marks of a good photographer is to be able to take beautiful pictures of things that aren't beautiful (witness Godfrey's pictures of sticks and stones), it's a lot easier to get pretty shots of pretty views. In the meantime, I guess I'll try to keep sharpening my skills so that when I do get a chance to shoot something pretty, I'll be able to make the best use of the opportunity. -- Photographs are like sentences, the best ones have both subjects and verbs. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
