Photography Best-of Collection
April 22nd 2005
I’ve selected and uploaded 100 of my best photographs ever. I thought I’d only come up with 20 or 30 or so worthy of putting in this collection, and while I admit that maybe they’re not all the best, I’d consider it a pretty good overview of my photographic experience thus far.
I’m highly critical of others and not critical enough of myself, so I appreciate comments of all kinds. My thoughts are that I’m obsessed with three things in general: skies, reflections, and shadows. I always try to frame a shot in some interesting way rather than just point my camera straight at the subject.
I know you can’t see it with the small images, but the truth is, my camera (a Casio Exilim 2MP) isn’t good. The quality of the CCD is horrible. All images turn out grainy and pixelated, and that can only be fixed by resizing down. So prints are bad. It also has no possibility of macro. But the good thing is that it’s really really small, so I always have a camera. Many of the photos in this collection were taken with borrowed friends’ cameras, including a 5MP Sony Cybershot, my dad’s 2MP Canon, and my brother’s 3MP Nikon, all of which have great optics and macro modes.
Anyway, take a look at the photos and give me comments! I won’t blame you if you don’t look at them all. I went a little overboard.
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.
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!
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.
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.