Forum: Photography

Subject: Which one to choose?

Akinom opened this issue on Jun 15, 2003 ยท 9 posts

Akinom posted Sun, 15 June 2003 at 11:30 AM

Went out to take some photos for the June Challenge last night. Every Saturday night between 10pm and 11pm there is an illuminating show at a fountain in the middle of my hometown Mannheim. I'm really not familiar with night shots, but I tried and was pretty curious what it will look like. I'm not very satisfied, just wanted to show you and ask for some hints. Also I can't decide which one to send to the June Challenge. What would you think, could it be an entry to the June Challenge?

Akinom posted Sun, 15 June 2003 at 11:31 AM

Another one from my night shots. What about this?

Akinom posted Sun, 15 June 2003 at 11:33 AM

And this is the last for now... really can't decide Perhaps you could do ;o)

MzQt posted Sun, 15 June 2003 at 2:15 PM

WoW! All three are magical. I'm picking the first one as my favorite. The second is just as good as the first but the little fountain at the bottom is a tad distracting. Doesn't make the photo bad by any means, it just happen to be what caused me to pick number one, instead of two. Number three is also fabulous. I think all three are very fitting tobe entered! Shannon :)

zhounder posted Sun, 15 June 2003 at 9:23 PM

1 is best but I say enter them all! Magick Michael

MzQt posted Sun, 15 June 2003 at 10:59 PM

Monika, if you don't mind me asking, what type of camera did you use and what were your settings? You don't seem to have a speck of grain/noise in your photos. How did you achieve that? I tried doing some similar fountain shots in the first week of June but mine were a flop. I think I had left my exposure open too long. Giving me the results of overly saturated colors and a lot of noise. Well, I hope you don't think I'm being too invasive. I know some artists are protective of their techiniques. If I am, feel free to tell me so :) Shannon

Misha883 posted Mon, 16 June 2003 at 7:21 AM

Wow! My favorite is #2. Great job.

Michelle A. posted Mon, 16 June 2003 at 9:08 AM

All are wonderful......if you don't mind I'll take all 3!

I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com

bsteph2069 posted Mon, 16 June 2003 at 8:28 PM

All three are good but personally I like the second one best. It had more color. Alternatively you could retouch the heck out of the picture and remove the cityscape in the background of number one and/or close in the left side crop of number one picture to make the picture seem more even. BUT don't pay attention to me. I personally like to have things centered. Which I realize is a photo "no-no" Bsteph