Comments on: Photography Best-of Collection

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:42:51 +0000

You’ve got some great photos there. I can see you are very creative photographically. You’d definitely benifit from a better camera, I think.

Just one thing…how come we can’t comment on individual photos? hehe

Keep up the good work. I think you’re photogallery program is a good idea as well. EXIF data is a must. If you want to do it directly in php, you need to have it enabled in your build, however. You might also want to include photoblog functionality.

Sounds like quite an undertaking, though. Good luck! I’m very interested to see how it turns out.

By: Dad

Dad — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:07:38 +0000

This is a really good collection Tris. The thing I like best is that many of your best images are done with a minimalist camera. It’s one of the best ways to build technique, to really work with composition - features and lenses can complicate this period where you are learning to convey an emotion that only you can feel at the moment. You do this extremely well. If I were to narrow your collection down to 10 images that strike me, here’s what I came up with. Interestingly some of the images have the same impact on me that they had months ago when I first saw them - others don’t.

#10 (0010)
#34 (0029)
#47 (0063)
#66 (1009)
#64 (1007)
#72 (0655)
#85 (0079)
#89 (N0153)
#92 (N0239)
#59 & 60 (0125-0126)

#34 is probably my favorite if I had to choose -it’s perfectly exposed and it feels so intimate that any viewer can easily fill in the scene with their own intrepretation of time and place and story.
I chose #59 & 60 together for the same reasons. The flowers are only so beautiful when captured in the full context of where they are, but it can seem otherworldly. The next image seems to say “let’s go there”, it’s so inviting. Just think of all the happy souls who have used that path - even if you have never been there the image says you can, and there’s an unmistakeable kinship with people you have never met.
Nice work.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 00:04:55 +0000

Thank you Joen! Wow. Let me look through all of those.

Okay, so for the double shot, definately didn’t mean to do that. I was deciding between the two in Picasa and forgot to unhold the horizontal. The vertical was definately my pick.

The bench in the redwood forest is in the University’s Redwood Grove up the hill. It’s about a two mile walk from my house, so I don’t get out there often.

These were thrice-compressed images, so there are artifacts in the regular-sized album JPEGs. You can always click “View Original” to see the not-so-bad twice-compressed version.

Thanks for all the comments, and taking the time to look through all of those!

By: Joen

Joen — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:37:09 +0000

Wow, that’s some feat. And not a bad idea either.

Some really good photos in there.

I really like this one:
http://www.trisweb.com/photos/bestof/CIMG0007

On the other hand, you asked for criticism, and you shall get it. You uploaded both a horisontal and a vertical version of this picture:
http://www.trisweb.com/photos/bestof/CIMG0008
I like the vertical one best, but for your 100 best, there shouldn’t be space for a double dip

This one is great! The haze is gorgeous:
http://www.trisweb.com/photos/bestof/CIMG0009-1

This picture can make you religious:
http://www.trisweb.com/photos/bestof/CIMG0010

Beautiful, is this near where you live?
http://www.trisweb.com/photos/bestof/CIMG0011

Great shot:
http://www.trisweb.com/photos/bestof/CIMG0026-1

As you can see, I love sunsets:
http://www.trisweb.com/photos/bestof/CIMG1008

I see you’ve posted some 4 or 5 pictures of this city, but this is my favourite, even if it seems to suffer a bit from the jpeg compression:
http://www.trisweb.com/photos/bestof/DSC00701

Incredible shot:
http://www.trisweb.com/photos/bestof/IMG_6115

All in all, quite impressive.