Rate my photos on a scale of 1-5 please?

[BadgerBadger92]

Maybe what you need is a red thread that goes through them all. Of if you already mentioned one, then a less artistic one. One of the Danish photographers I wrote about started out taking shots of children in inner Copenhagen in the 70s but ended up just taking pictures of the architecture. Her collection just got its own exhibition on some museum in Denmark.

I’m mainly a street and architectural photographer. I admire the work of the great street photographers like Robert Frank.

 

[sbrothy]

I’m mainly street and architectural photographer. I admire the work of the great street photographers like Robert Frank.

See I'm way out of my comfort zone here. How did you select precisely which pictures to show us? Was there an underlying message?

 

[BadgerBadger92]

See I'm way out of my comfort zone here. How did you select precisely which pictures to show us? Was there an underlying message?

Some yes, some no. The majority of my photos express a sense of “nihilism,” there’s not much of a story behind the photographs as a group (they’re fine individualistically) but I am looking to give the viewer a certain vibe. It’s somewhat hard to explain.

I have more good photos, including several excellent ones on my Nikon d750 I need to upload and use photoshop to edit them.

So to wrap it up, there’s a connection in that it’s intended to express meaninglessness of life besides what we make of it.

 

[DaveC426913]

The problem is that only you know that you see some kind of geometric progression and connection between objects. Western viewers are accustomed to "reading" photographs from left to right, unless there's something compelling in the strong points of the composition.

And there's nothing wrong with that. It's not a shortcoming of the observer, nor is it a "problem".

Art is a communication between artist and viewer, supported by some amount of agreed-upon language.

Imagine me publishing a poem I wrote from back-to-front, and then telling you the reader that the "problem" is that you only know how to read front to back.

 

[DaveC426913]

I went to school for photography but dropped out because I thought it was limiting my creativity. I dislike the idea of “artistic rules.” I just follow my gut and heart.

That is unfortunate.

Have you heard the expression "You can't think outside the box if you don't know what's in the box?"

School doesn't limit your creativity. It can't jam your camera when you want to take a pic you like, and it can't fire your shutter against your will.

 

[BadgerBadger92]

That is unfortunate.

Have you heard the expression "You can't think outside the box if you don't know what's in the box?"

School doesn't limit your creativity. It can't jam your camera when you want to take a pic you like, and it can't fire your shutter against your will.

I know the basic rules like the rules of thirds, Fibonacci sequence, basic compositional techniques, leading lines, framing, symmetry, negative space etc., you can find these techniques in my work.

Plenty of famous photographers dropped out of art school or never went on general, such as Robert Frank and William Eggleston, and Saul Lieter. Though Saul lister went to school, it was to be a rabbi not an artist. Many artists would agree with my statement.

Van Gough dropped out of art school too.

Even Ansel Adams didnt go to college.