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Small announcement here, new works underway. Check back in the next few weeks for
Light & Shadow.-JC

Latrobe Street

Melbourne Central at 7:00am

Tamed..

A beautiful Photog needs no description.
Taken by Junn.
As tempted as I was to touch it up, somethings best left untouched.

JC

Hmm..this photog appears vertical on my screen, think it looked better the way it was..
it's posted horizontally...

Trams?

Swanston street

A coupla kids fancy getting up close with a horse in the heart of the city, along Swanston Street.

Street photography; Melbourne State Library

Ouch. Dangers of photography. Luckily the D50 was left unscathed




















Only the nerds visit the library on a Sunday

Docklands

I quite like this photograph, simply because it captured what I felt- something I just cannot describe unfortunately;
Her pointing her towards docklands, him with his hands in his jeans pocket, attention somewhat directed by her suggestion of something apparently interesting on the right side. Beats me. Last of all, I enjoyed the composition of this photograph,and the exposure seemed right to bring out the details from both background and foreground. Balanced composition?

JC

Flagstaff gardens 2nd installation

Street photography; Flinders Station & people

I guess I've discovered that there are always more ways of doing the same thing.
One of if, shooting from inside the subject location, including certain landmarks that are around the location itself to imply the location. I was fascinated by how this skater was sitting quietly on his skateboard, staring outward while all his friends were busy chatting away...

Street photography; Flinders Station & people

I was quite disappointed with my attempts on Flinders Station I must admit, but
it wasn't till I tried cropping in that I began to find an interesting way to
depict the station-says me that is.
Walking past it, I was always mused by the masses of crowd flocking in and out of
it. I guess thats not a bad way to portray the station then. The following has been
cropped straight down, converted to B&W.

Street photography; Flinders Station & people

The following photograph, I thought had the right mix of elements to make it stand out. The main objective in capturing this image was to represent Flinders Station. The idea was to get up close to it, and picking out features unique to it that would describe the location of the picture; Flinders station. While composing to include the times of all the different train platform departures as well as portions of the station’s sign, the time of the photograph itself was also deliberate.
Deliberate to capture the two characters on the lower left corner of the photograph, involved in an act of public display of affection. I guess I hadn’t thought of this, but capturing the station all on its own seemed rather dull. It was the life and people around it that gave character to the place. During this instance there was a large gathering of people, supposedly from the “punk culture”. Unfortunately, there had to be this other figure, on the lower right corner, rushing to escape from my photograph that doesn’t seem do add much to the picture, and if anything detracts from it. Right now I’m thinking, recomposing the shot so the couple were in the middle bottom of the picture would actually improved the picture.Above all, The image isn't that clean cut, and I think people might struggle to notice what the photographer was trying to say with this picture...

The following is a photograph of Flinders station, shot from the sidewalks of
Swanston st. Personally, I feel one of the characteristics of the Station is it’s copper green dome. Converting the photograph to black and white might not have been the best thing to do.
The photograph consist on two elements which complement each other quite well.
The street lights form an implied line that is very mildly diagonal. This helps lead the viewers eye into the photograph. Converting the photograph to a black and white reinforced this implied line by allowing the bright lights to stand out from the dark background. As the eye is guided towards the left, it is stopped by this structure lying just superior to it, that is, flinders station. Despite that, there is a considerable amount of space in the upper third of the photograph that reveals no detail. Shooting at night, one would probably not expect to see much detail in the sky. The photograph could have been improved by recomposing the shot so that the dome of Flinders station were more to the left, and slightly more superior. Then again, A tighter crop could have brought more attention to Flinders station whilst still maintaining the implied lines of street lights.
Settings; spot metering, f/5.6, aperture 1/15…and the focusing was manual (which I thought was on auto-hence why you might notice a slight blurriness)
Post processing: bw conversion via lab color.

JC

D50

Photographs here onwards were taken through a Nikon D50 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
As Film critique was applied within radiography, so will I begin a
employing the same strategy to my photography, so to make myself
more aware of elements that make up a good picture. Hope you enjoy your stay. While I tinker around a system on how to critique, here are a few pictures to start of with. Enjoy your stay.