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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 9/19/2008
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Hi Andre!
Thanks a lot for the nice detailed comment. And imagine that loading the B&W film wasn't really my intention. I first noticed that when I already had shot some images and so I thought, let's give it a try.
About the shadows now, I did make some thoughts about that and assumed that some time of the day could be best, when the sunlight comes not right from the top above. I was not really sure about that, it was a rather vague assumption, but it seems it worked well. So the swans brought also some opportunity to me to exercise on a "mainly white" subject. ;-)
BTW, the series is from some years ago and I almost forgot about it. Then while I was reviewing it I saw the one I named "Pseudo-elegance" and I had to smile because it reminded me of that one of yours which you told me about and gave me the URL some time ago. Somehow the same pose of the swan, though I find yours much better. But still I had to recall your words: "Great minds think alike". ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 9/18/2008
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Hi Nick,
I think this one is my favourite of the swan series. Black and white suits swans just fine:)
One of the things you captured beautifully in this image is the shadows on the neck, head and wings. Sometimes these bird can come out looking too washed out looking if you don't take advantage of the shadows the way you have here. Also the dark water is a nice compliment to the white swan.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 8/28/2008
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Thanks a lot again Dave!
Could be a bit better to avoid the overexposed part on its back right behind its neck, though.
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 8/28/2008
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Many thanks Aziz!
Again some overexposed parts though.
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 8/28/2008
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Thanks a lot again, Valerij, for the detailed nice comment!
I also tend to prefer the B&W images of the series exactly for the same reason. To tell you the truth I am surpriced that nobody talked about that yet.
I also said so many many times here that such things like flowers, birds, and nature in general, are much more difficult to get right than some perhaps "naive" views about photography might suggest. But when I talk about such things most people start talking about "the beauty of nature", etc, etc, as if cameras knew automatically about that and delivered that without any care from the photographer. Oh well, long story! ;-)
I am also not as much into "nature" for the time being, though I started with that. (At that time I was exactly as "naive" as I described above. ;-)) This series is from some years ago. I must first get some distance from my own photos before I post them, or else I am too "attached" to them and I consider each of them to be "wonderful", you know.
For the time being I'm more into things like streets and cities, scenes withs humans, and similar things. Much more interesting to me.
But if I did get some idea about how to turn some picture of nature to a "winner" then it is that many many times we tend to isolate some "nice" detail by zooming in, standing under the influence of the impression we have at the time of the shot. And when we look at the image after some time has passed by... well, it looks like nothing. The impression about the "niceness" of that detail might also have been generated because the *rest* of the scene was also perceivable when we shot - in some way "on image" in our minds. But on the image itself we see then quite a "protagonist" outside the plot. And a protagonist is always defined inside the plot. I think that this is somewaht useful for images of nature because nature has simply too many "nice protagonists".
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 8/28/2008
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Many thanks once more Yazeed!
Nick
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 8/27/2008
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Good exposure and tones here, Nick!
Dave.
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aZiZ aBc
{K:28345} 8/26/2008
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Excellent > 7 <
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Valerij Reznikov
{K:3367} 8/26/2008
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Hi Nick. Thanks for good words and comments.
The b&w series of swans is much better, for even the extreme whites of the birds still have texture. As to the composition - I'd choose this image for it's simplicity.
But, frankly, photographing birds is like photographing flowers. I dont know HOW do I have to shoot them to make it a winner. We have a zoo, we have swans, but all I get when I shoot them is just another snapshot. Maybe in future when I'll get some insight. Right now flowers and birds are outside of my photographic interests.
Valerij
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M jalili
{K:69009} 8/26/2008
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A series of beautiful images. I think that this picture is beautiful ............
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