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Surajit Mukerji
{K:3889} 4/15/2003
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Well done
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Adam Kimmerly
{K:382} 12/1/2002
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Thanks for the BS Marc. And thanks for taking the time to look through my images and comment. You read this one the way I imagined it - and that's no BS :-)
~Adam
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Anindya Maity
{K:7880} 12/1/2002
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Great mood ,and I like the trash can where it is .
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Marc Gougenheim
{K:5398} 12/1/2002
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I shall leave aside the technique here, since I happen to agree more or less with Debbie on that issue, and I shall go directly to the BS ! :-))
As I flipped through the thumbs in your folder, the one picture that really got my attention was this. I find it original and maybe worth exploring further. This picture tells a story. To me, the trash is part of the story: the story is about a real man, lonely at night, in an odd place where we wouldn't want to be... "where we wouldn't want to be" would not be part of the message if the trash was cropped off - imo. The trash also balances the composition conveniently, though it isn't beautiful in itself. Here might be the time to post the key sentence...:-)
How about this ? What if aesthetics would just be the art of matching the form with the content ? To me, that's exactly what it is, and thefore, the trash belongs there.
End of the BS. :-)
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Debbie Groff
{K:9569} 10/8/2002
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Hi Adam,
I have found film to be tricky buisness. Slide film is best all around. For portraits of people..I think Kodak Portra VC160 or NC160 to be an excellent choice of film.
I have had a really hard time with slide film. My pictures always come back with such a blue tint..it's awful. I don't know how to improve on this problem as I think it's the company I have develop my film?
I know you will be happy with slide film on all your projects for the grain is so much finer than print film. Believe the professionals when they say slide film is less forgiving in lighting exposures and such but once you figure out your camera and how it exposes and how your surrounding lighting is you will be quite satisfied. If you are new to photography you may be like me and throw 1000's of pictures away in the beginning due to the lack of knowledge in lighting and such. You can read magazines and books and Usefilm members have excellent advice as to how to get wonderful pictures...but you will never learn as much as you will with hands on experience. You may be quicker than I have been but I have defintely had fun and learned alot. I'm now getting more and more pictures that I consider keepalbe than I was a year and a half ago:) At least 15-20 out of 36 rather than 1-5 our of 36:)
You have fun. Don't get to frustrated. There is alot to learn and you will learn the more you practice. Just laff at yourself when you get less than perfect pictures and know that your next roll of film will produce even better pictures than the last one:)
The trash can does not bother me. It seems to be a part of the surroundings:)The picture would be nice without it too:)
Debbie
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Ray love
{K:124} 10/7/2002
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Adam I think that if you could get the Trash can out and somehow maybe have gotten the bridge in the back ground out might be a little better just my opinion though.
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Adam Kimmerly
{K:382} 10/7/2002
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Thanks Debbie. The shot is actually a self portrait. I set the camera up on my little $5 tripod, set the timer, sat on the bench, and waited for the shutter to go. My position, centered on the bench was intentional - part of the mood. It was around 10pm so the light you see on the horizon is from the shipyard floodlights. The light in the shot was actually very orange. I actually expected the shot to turn out more orange because of it. I debated whether or not to leave the trash can in the frame. Should it go? I think it balances everything a little better. After a few rolls of Kodak Max 400 through my camera, I realized just how much that film sucks. Just brought my first roll of 'professional' film (velvia) to the shop today. Can't wait for the results :)
~Adam
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Debbie Groff
{K:9569} 10/7/2002
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I like the idea of this photo. I think a nice slide film would have made the colors a little more vivid. I also may have not centered the person in the middle of the bench..but then that may take away from what you were trying to say with your picture?
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