p.2 #2 · your best alt film/digital picture for 2011
Like others, I really like quite a few but would like to single out helimat's San Fransisco cityscape because I feel I'm always, not always successfully, struggling not to have color landscapes look like picture postcard and this one is obviously very far beyond that; as well danklar's B&W photograph of the little girl, which captures a whole world — and in a very film-like way.
p.2 #4 · your best alt film/digital picture for 2011
carstenw wrote:
Thanks, Zaitz. It is posted in the "FM Berlin" thread, along with many other similar shots from myself and others.
Great dune shot, very beautiful.
Thank you! I'll have to check that thread more often.
sebboh wrote:
i think i've said it before, but fantastic dune shot zaitz!
my favorite picture of the year isn't that great technically. taken with nex-3 and contax g 35/2:
Thanks!
ZoneV wrote:
I think one of my Meyer Goerlitz Trioplan 100/2.8 images is my best 2011 image:
Zaitz, I am very impressed! Those details, colors and light direction.
Thanks, and I remember your photo. That one is pretty incredible. Very unique rendering.
prashant wrote:
This is absolutely fantastic!! I almost had a feeling of being there.
I appreciate that. The place was magical once lit up.
p.2 #5 · your best alt film/digital picture for 2011
My FM resolutions for the year are:
- post more photos, and create strong sets, not one-off images
- be quicker to press the "Hide Me" button and slower to rant/rave/argue
- spend more time shooting and less time pressing refresh
p.2 #6 · your best alt film/digital picture for 2011
carstenw wrote:
My FM resolutions for the year are:
- post more photos, and create strong sets, not one-off images
...
Good one, I been thinking in somewhat similar ways because at some times I feel it becomes to much in the way of go out and take some photos and then publish one or two of them on-line instead of working a little more long term or with some kind of project.
Oh, I also have a more specific resolution for this year: print more. This year I am going to print much more and improve my print work-flow skills.
p.2 #8 · your best alt film/digital picture for 2011
This is a simple picture from a restaurant which features my girlfriend's mother at her 79th birthday - three months after we almost lost her, after some heavy surgery and after many hard months my girl spent allmost all day taking care of her. While this is not my best photo 2011, that rewarding smile and seeing her so well off again, made it 'the picture of the year' somehow.
p.2 #12 · your best alt film/digital picture for 2011
No image, sorry, but I don't think I got a single worthy image last year. I spent way to much time switching from micro 4/3 to Nex and trying out different lenses and such.
carstenw wrote:
My FM resolutions for the year are:
- post more photos, and create strong sets, not one-off images
- be quicker to press the "Hide Me" button and slower to rant/rave/argue
- spend more time shooting and less time pressing refresh
and a more specific one:
- spend more time finding great compositions
Wow!
That's all good. Strong sets, story telling (hopefully with a really good image among the other ones every now and then), is a good thing. Trying to avoid meaningless discussions (which often are about preferences in the end, or just nasty) is good. Spending more time taking images and taking care of the images and spending less time hanging at forums is good. Working on compositions is good.
Thank you Carsten, for phrasing parts of what I have in mind.
The only thing I may add is that i would like to become better at giving meaningful and constructive critique. That's hard, and a part of the problem is to know when it is OK, and when it is not, to deliver this hopefully great critique.
After having wasted time and money on contemplating minor details related to the system switch it is a given I'll just be happy with what I have - and I hope I'll be able to post a good image in the "best alt image for 2012 thread"!
p.2 #13 · your best alt film/digital picture for 2011
Jonas, I have seen some great images from you. Anyway, best isn't an absolute rating, but a relative one
Why don't you post your graffiti image from the top of the Heizwerk at the Fleischfabrik? That was a really great shot, and one which only you got.
About constructive critique, I guess knowing when it is okay is down to being sensitive, but you cannot get it right every time. I am sure I have stepped on some toes sometimes, although I try to be positive in my critique.
