p.3 #1 · 2 weeks in Ghana with Sigma 35 Art |MORE ADDED|
Great work!
In terms of how to present them beyond their initial NGO purpose, I think a book, or a gallery show if you can get one. But it's easier to self-publish a book on Blurb or some other service than to get a gallery show, which probably takes some pretty serious self-promotion....
As good as the whole set is, most of the photos are just really really good, whereas several of them really stand out and are pretty amazing - probably classics. I'd edit ruthlessly and get any book you do down to about 50-75 of your best shots (assuming you have a lot more and you've only scratched the surface here so far). The sheer volume of really good shots nearly obscures the really amazing ones, so I'd try to live with them a while and pull out the very best of them for a book. And if you should get a gallery show, you obviously have to be that much MORE ruthless in your editing. But you clearly have the goods here - but culling down to the very best of them is your biggest challenge regardless of how you proceed with them...
p.3 #2 · 2 weeks in Ghana with Sigma 35 Art |MORE ADDED|
Ray,
Ya I totally agree. Once I get thru all of them which will probably be a month from I can take a little break, come back with a fresh eye and see which one's really stand out and tell a story of these wonderful people and culture the best.
You guys know how it is.....some of the ones you think are junk when edited can become the best outta the bunch.
Here's a few more for now...I probably wont post anymore until they're all done and I can put captions with them, etc.
I'd really like to do a show but I agree it'd be a lot of work...I've done it before but as a collaboration, so I didn't have to do much except hang my work, lol...this would probably be a lot more involved. I just feel like only showing them on the net is a disservice.
p.3 #3 · 2 weeks in Ghana with Sigma 35 Art |MORE ADDED|
This was a tailor with a tiny shop in this attic...only had a few minutes with him tho :-(....I know I poasted the portrait of him already, but I figured the 3 go best together
p.3 #12 · 2 weeks in Ghana with Sigma 35 Art |MORE ADDED|
Many of these images are compositionally excellent, but I can't help but feel like the processing is occasionally heavy-handed and distracting. The dodging / burning is obvious in certain images, and, in light of the more serious nature of the subject matter, makes them feel almost overdramatic; it gives the impression that you, the photographer, are sometimes 'playing up' the drama in a scene.
I would love to see dialed-back versions of many of these, though I should again say how technically excellent a great majority of them are.
p.3 #13 · 2 weeks in Ghana with Sigma 35 Art |MORE ADDED|
Ya I could see why you'd say that and I'm suer some could be dialed back a bit for the better. But there;s really only a small amount off all of them that I did that too and it was never "just to do it"...there were reasons behind it...bringing some more drama to an image, taking focus off of unwanted objects and bringing the eye to what is important.... amoung other things.
Ket me know a few images you're talking about and I'll redo so we can see the difference :-)
p.3 #15 · 2 weeks in Ghana with Sigma 35 Art |MORE ADDED|
Thank you Marve!!!
I've only used "fearless photographers' & AGWPJA" for submitting images in contests.....does anyone know of good quality places where I could submit these in online or print contests.
And again, thanks everyone for taking the time to look thru them!!!
p.3 #18 · 2 weeks in Ghana with Sigma 35 Art |MORE ADDED|
Thanks Tony!!! I love this one too. I think this is one of the ones NFagan menrtioned the over use of burning and dodgine, which I can see what he saying. Altho it really brought out the girls tears and attention to her face.
I shot everything except landscapes at 1.4 while somewhat keeping in mind the distance of the background to subject
