Φωτογραφίες

cfreire (11741) 2007-08-22 17:44

Hi, Ryan
I've just entered in TE and I saw your photo. So, I sad: this a good photo. You work very well. Good POV and good composition.
Best Regards,
Consuelo

danielswalsh (13597) 2007-08-22 18:11

Hi Ryan;

Appologies for not stopping by in awhile... I was away on business for a couple weeks- then on vacation for a couple weeks. Needless to say- I have some catching up to do on TE! Hahaha

This shot actually reminds me a lot of my current posting. The subject being the people in the perfect location (an intersection if you're familiar with the rule of thirds), and the the tracks leading the eye into the frame. (My shot following the same concepts- also in B&W)!

Excellent tonal levels with just the right amount of shadows. I like how the background mountains silhouette in contrast to the flats and the sky.

Nice one!
- Dan

P.S.- I cannot find the flaw...

zeca (19762) 2007-08-22 20:14

Hi Ryan!
Very nice lights and a the black and white is a good choose to this picture, enhancing its nice contrast and details, specially on the ground. Something like a space shot, indeed!
Well taken!
Regards,
Zeca

goodwill (4274) 2007-08-22 21:19

Hi Ryan,
I like your way of self critique. Its unique in many ways. You sensistise the mind and provide another POV.
Its another form of riddle, in which you ask others.
Well I like the body language of the subjects, the way they seem to study the marks...as if they had forgoten the way back to home...and learning from them, trying to figure out something.
You can make as many stories from this shot.
For Example, the pair is lost on Planet WWW, and something has fallen from the space and the scientists are studying it.
A thought provoking shot, thought the odd footmarkfacing us prevented you to upload, it does tell many such stories.
Keep it up.

Rajeev

Dpbours (222) 2007-08-22 22:47

Hi Ryan,

Hmmm... You make me curious there! I can't see anything wrong with it! Oh, a hug and a kiss if I find what's wrong... Well, it's not in the picture itself, nothing technically that's wrong. As Peter's comment, the isolation in the lower part is not at all a problem.
So I go for the terms of service hahaha. Rule 5: "Photographs of family, friends, or pets (not only one's own) are highly discouraged and may be removed with notice."

Are the two guys friends of yours, or family?! ;-)

Nice photograph!

Greetings, Dennis

gary91 (15348) 2007-08-22 22:58

Hello Ryan,
This is a superb composition and I like very much the processing you applied. It enhances well the shadows due to this beautiful light...
But you make me very curious with your note ! Where is the fault ? The only critique I can tell, for my side, would be that I wouldn't have cut the right track, but can't consider it that major...
Hope you will give us the solution ;-)
Have a nice day.
Best regards, Christian

bhardwajkapil78 (486) 2007-08-23 0:19

Very interesting picture...

forget about asking me whats wrong with it... i may never find it..

i saw it and closed my eyes just to smile on it... the picture has everythin..

Regards

Andro (4) 2007-08-23 0:29

Very nice shot...

luisafonso (862) 2007-08-23 1:00

I still can't figure out what you thought was wrong, even after reading Peter's critique. Did you want to have one of the guys standing across the horizon? Man, that wouldn't work, would it? Anyway, I love the scene just the way it is. The composition is good and the elements are well placed. Probably I would have corrected those highlights in the top left, but in this b&w it doesn't bug me at all. The way the curved tracks are crossed by the shadows for a giant stylized "A". Beautiful.

cbrman (21685) 2007-08-23 2:34

Hello Ryan,

Superbe noir et blanc ! Le lac salι est un lieu mythique pour tout ceux qui veulent battre des records de vitesse ! J'aime bien la trace de pneu qui rappelle la vocation du lieu et ces deux personnes qui observent le sable !
Excellent !
A+

Dominique

luiscar (3286) 2007-08-23 3:29

Hola Ryan.
Buen POV y composiciσn.
Fotografνa muy original llena de detalles. El formato y el blanco/negro dan a la fotografνa mas intriga.
Buen trabajo.
Un saludo.

jonathan_hart (21276) 2007-08-23 5:28

hello Ryan,
it's an interesting composition, good POV, excellent framing, the POV a little bit lower was an option too by making a link with the horizon and the man on the left, i like the title ;)
regards
jo

kensimage (8563) 2007-08-23 7:46

Well, the flaw must be subtle; I figured I would only find it by comparing yours to the best, to magazine-cover-quality photography. And a comparison to America's magazine covers reveals what must be the flaw in this shot: it doesn't have Paris Hilton in it.

Despite that now-clear lack, it's a great shot. The low light angle brings out every grain of foreground texture and makes for a wonderful combination of lines and curves, from the inverted L of your friend's (oops, I mean that stranger's) body to the way the shadows cross the tire tracks.

Regards, Ken.

baba_flies (8829) 2007-08-23 7:56

Hello Ryan! It looks like "my" film crew I was talking about and I remember that you downloaded some parts of the Bonneville 400 stuff (I have actually to ask how they do, at least I have never seen it in the movies so far). But maybe these people on your photo were just checking the environment after all the races on the salt lakes :) Personally I love this photo and it does remind me of the film. And this is a compliment as Hannes Schmid is a very famous photographer and there are many stars that hire him ... see, it is that good. Take care, Barbara.

Cormac (26565) 2007-08-23 7:59

Wonderful shot! The two people have an interesting pose (the man is bent over like a number 7 in reverse) and a nice shadow slashing across the frame. The curving tracks of the tires are perfectly positioned to go around the people and balance the photo. What's the problem? I know - it's too perfect!

Angelillo (9374) 2007-08-23 14:36

Hi Ryan,

Beautiful! The sunset light is very well and you has taken great advantage of it! It's a graphical composition very interesting: the cros off the car's traces and the shadows is really good. I like too the vast space, the context given for the people here! I don't know what's the problem you figure out! I like how you has cropped the shot, the fact you has cropped the right trace, but that's good in my opinion, because we have in the corner just the space between the two traces! Perhaps the overexposure in the upper left, but that's not a great problme here! Well... One thing is true: you make us to think very much! Great shot!

Greetings,
Angel.

Philippe (11836) 2007-08-24 0:40

Hi, RYan. Well, I suppose the problem is the UFO had just taken off a few seconds before the shot and you arrived late ;o). Apart from that, I like the beautiful curving track left by the tyres leading us into the photograph and dividing it into two parts with the detectives on the left and the landscape on the right. Nice shadows and light.

crhieatt (5347) 2007-08-24 9:31

Ryan,
Great shot, some ways sparse and mysterious; what are these people doing? - we wonder!
In my book, they are not very bright detectives on the trail of a fugitive in a stolen car. They find a discarded cigarette end and wonder if he might have passed this way.

Regards
Colin

Polonaise (5802) 2007-08-24 19:12

Oh, yeah...
This photo has a lot of problems...!!!
Oh, do you think, that I 'll tell ya what's wrong with it?
Nope, but I'm sure you can find your own problems with this photo !!!
You don't pay me Ryan to do your job, do you ?
Be more carefull next time and don't let it happen again... That's all.

Two point smiling monkey ( Even though I shouldn't !).

george

darrasin (2860) 2007-08-25 14:06

Hi Ryan! I see maybe 2 things wrong but they are very subtle. One, since the right tire track is cut off it interrupts the symmetry we expect of having 2 tracks clearly seen. Two, but this one I am not too sure about, the really thin shadow doesn't seem consistent with the lady's arm. Perhaps that is a tripod leg?

Nonetheless, very good B&W conversion and beautiful capture of the contrasty light.

TFS
Doug

sebinho342 (19329) 2007-08-28 11:04

Hi Ryan, first time i saw this picture was a morning drinking a coffee ... I asked myself : Ryan must be very hard on himself, perfectionist to write a note like that ;)
Strange Ryan ... ;) But for sure best photogrpahers are those who always ask themselves to be better, to be exigent ... and you are one of them, no doubt on that fact.
Brilliant BW, i feel like those searchers, trying to find a mistake in that shot
Excellent

meltemb (164) 2007-09-03 23:39

Hi Ryan, a very cool picture, the shadows and the lines looks perfect and very effective.
The idea in BW is very good.
Meltem

Furachan (0) 2007-09-09 4:27

Simply one of the best, nost pristine uploads on TE, in my humble view. Is there something wromg with it? I HOPE so, Ryan, just can't for the life of me figure it out.. Much as I would have an easier time critiquing some of your earlier color work (andscape, architectural, which is not my thing at all), I think here you are flying very high indeed and you have transcended those genres to create a mood, a (here I go again) cinematic moment, and well, that's alright by me...;o)
Francis

mphotographies (1976) 2007-09-10 2:53

Hey Ryan,

Your note makes it more ambiguous, making me stare more beyond what we're looking for? The result IMO is very good, kinda fall in between a reactive or planned scenario, those marked foot or tire treks, in search for evidence? Lost in space/earth? I see a very good style here -just can't say what it is, the harsh lighting is given, gives those shadows justice from your POV...the juxtaposition of space, the untouched, empty space , those trekkers just added the exploitation of the possibility. Well done!

Cheers!

Jom

dolin (7369) 2007-09-11 15:04

Hy Ryan.
La courbure des traces de pneus, cette texture au sol....ca fait tout ici et tu les as superbement utilisι. Le cadrage avec ces deux hommes sur la gauche, trθs bien ιquilibrι.
La lumiθre rasante, cette ombre portιe....waouhhhh
Rien ΰ dire, c'est superbe et ca accroche!
Fred

ktanska (44804) 2007-09-28 0:16

Hi Ryan,
You really have evoked a lot of detailed well thought critiques with your riddle. And I have nothing to add to those except to express my humble admiration. What's wrong? They should wear space suits.
Kari

     picus (914) 2008-02-11 12:41

Hi Ryan,

I didn't read all the posts, there are way too many! Just wanted to add my words: congratulations! That's a very impressive photo, and the shadows, the B&W etc are just so perfect. Somehow, there are some elements that help guessing the date: maybe that's the point you said is wrong? I wouldn't care as the message is much above this layer, for me...

Cheers,
Pascal