[simoncookerussell]

Where am I coming from. I said it in my last post.

Its all all about shits and giggles. You guys deliver in spades.

Could I improve that pic, maybe, I actually don’t care.

 

Understand this this point very clearly , I post here because I find this place laughable.

[simoncookerussell]

Lol, I’m not nor ever will be a pro, that last pic was the only shot I’d taken in 6 months.

Get at it right in Camera? I’ll make an image I like whether it’s all in camera or not.

 

You think im precious? You should read your replies, you guys need to relax. Photography is art, not science.

i made a picture of my pet bird I like, and going by the Flickr results, so did others. So who’s critisim is right, Flickr or here?

and for the record, your responses on here are part of the fun I post the odd pic or two, so thanks for the expected giggle this morning.

[simoncookerussell]

Try again

 

[simoncookerussell]

One of my latest explored pics

 

stupid pic won’t show, this site is still whack on iPads

 

[url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/94214228@N05/15701846268/][img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7583/15701846268_9340bb3573.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/94214228@N05/15701846268/]Charlotte Photoshoot 4 (Explored)[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/94214228@N05/]Simon Cooke-Russell[/url], on Flickr

[simoncookerussell]

My best work to date, well I think.

[simoncookerussell]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pDPWvZhoaE

[simoncookerussell]

Couldn’t live without my Canon L Series 100mm macro. So good, so versatile.

[simoncookerussell]

This sumes things up perfectly, quoted from the Member “Egglington” on whirlpool forums, under the topic “What makes a good photograph?”

“I don’t believe there is any decisive answer when it comes to defining what is a good photograph. Why? Simply because it is a subjective opinion and is going to vary depending on the person critiquing it. Therefore I don’t think the question can be answered, merely only be debated.

At the end of the day the only persons opinion that matters is the photographer who captured the image (with the exception of commercial work where client is king). The photographer who took the image defines his or her own great photograph. Once you start photographing to please others, then I think as a photographer you are always going to be slightly annoyed. Stick to your own vision regardless of what other people think. That takes far more guts and conviction in your work than bowing to popularity. Finding a point of difference is far more important than being another clone.

What makes a good photograph? Good intentions. Great meaning. The right execution.”

 

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2127771

[simoncookerussell]

Thanks for the concern, but I have no intention to sell.

And to be honest, if people do indeed look at them on Flickr, I’d like them to enjoy them at their best.

If someone took the time to make a print, I hope they enjoy it.

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This is one of mine favs, simply because the edit makes it look like a painting. It was such an underexposed pic, gettin the tower out of the shadows made it look horrid, so I tried to make it look painted instead and then tried to edit the rest of the pic to suit.

[simoncookerussell]

I love my photos, and I work on them till I do.

I hate reading that some photogs hate their own work, and that’s sad.

I just need to get out there again, it’s been awhile.

[simoncookerussell]

But, IMO that picture of the girl is perfect.

Theres another pic of my partner and my dog, does that work for you?

not the best composed pic, but it was a candid I took as I was walking past.

but I see your point, and being a portrait photographer is low on the want scale 😉

[simoncookerussell]

Thanks IHF, but what you are seeing in my better compositions is me now not photographing for Instagram. Most of my older pics were ok in composition, bit making the pic work in a 1×1 ratio killed them a bit.

My Instagram profile is gone now, so I compose pics now how I originally saw them 😉

the explore photo is an old, re post processed Instagram pic.

this is the second explore pic-

[simoncookerussell]

And please, Im not trying to sound arrogant or anything as such, just proving a point ive known all a long that my own opinion in my work is all I need, and it will be accepted by others or not. If I conform to what others think it should be like, it’s lost is originality.

There are indeed, obviously bad photos, like a girl photoshopped on a helicopter tail, and then theres  photos that are trying to be great images, not just pictures, and for that, there are no rules.

[simoncookerussell]

Hostile, possibly, but if you go by what everyone else here in the past has said in the negative about my photos and then you watch that video of the competition results, and the comments made to other photographers that my flower picture was  the level you have to be at to win, and given that that photo was produced in my overly critesized style,  how do you possibly think I may react to any further critisim from this site?

 

Dont take that personally, just use some reason and think about what I just said.

If I indeed took the previous advice I got here and applied it to that flower photo, I’d be one of the 100’s of flower shots that didn’t make the final.

if I’m ever going to succeed as a photographer, it’s going to be with photos I can love myself, and trust me, I’d never ever release publicly, photos that are featured by Fauxtogs on this site. I may have made some irky ones in the past, but that was all down to learning PP, I assure you if I ever become pro, I won’t be singled out on here.

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