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A photography critique community where craft serves meaning. A community for photographers who want their images to say something, not just look good.
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31 contributions to The Visual Storytelling Lab
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Seeing with Intent - Assignment 3 - Image Submissions
Light as Meaning. Comment on this to post images you have created for the Seeing with Intent Assignment 3: Light as Meaning. Intent: Move beyond light as a technical tool and treat it as part of the image's narrative.
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@Chuck Comstock Did the light in the treetops stand out as the primary subject of this image?
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@Chuck Comstock In this image, light plays a stronger role, but I think the average person would consider the subject the window with its slats.
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Seeing with Intent - Assignment 4 - Color, Tone & Mood
Week 4 Photo Challenge: A bus stop at dusk. Photograph a bus stop at dusk. Use color harmony or tension and tonal compression or expansion to convey emotional temperature in the scene, making color expressive, not decorative. Theme: Emotional temperature. Critique emphasis: - Color harmony vs tension - Tonal compression or expansion Optional breakdown: - Before/after tonal decisions Goal: Color becomes expressive, not decorative.
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@Kendric Lum Did you see my answer to your original post here, where I gave a thorough explanation? Yes, it is way more than just contrast. Read today's discussion about this assignment.
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@Kendric Lum Please remember Kendric, images are always posted under the appropriate Post Images Here tab. This thread is for further explanation, discussion, or Q&A regarding the assignment. Also, please move all of your images under assignment 3 (as the other members have) to the correct submission area for assignment 3 under Post Images Here.
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Many new users coming soon, hopefully
I am launching a large Facebook ad campaign targeting photographers. We should see new members. Hopefully, they will see value.
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Images need to be moved or re-posted
Everyone has posted images under the description of Assignment 3 - Light as Meaning. That thread is for introducing the assignment and perhaps a discussion or questions about the assignment. The images all need to be under Post Images Here - Assignment 3 - Image Submissions.
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Month 1 Photopoetry Image Submissions
Comment on this to post images you have created for this month's Photopoetry prompt.
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@Almerinda Alves van der Giezen Powerful. It looks like it was taken in attic light.
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@Almerinda Alves van der Giezen You can actually see how the rock is becoming one with its resting place.
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@mike-thompson-1972
Have been doing photography one way or another since the 1960s. Shot SLR & Medium format through late 80s. Nikon D1 in 1991. Everyday camera is Fuji.
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