This is my first choice.
For those of you that follow and enjoy these posts from AskJoeB, you’ll know that I like to let my fellow photographers read what each person had to say when they submit. I’ve found that other people have had the same experiences or have at one time or another similar questions. Here’s what Valeriano had to say:
“Hi Joe,
I’m submitting these photos to you cause I’m not really sure about which one works the best. As you can see it’s the very same composition and subject which I was shooting at sunset. There are subtle changes in the light and in the sky —clouds were also moving fast since it was a transitional weather with lots of wind— I had been shooting it while the sun was setting till the latest rays of sun (I was also bracketing and I also have different exposures but I think these are the ones working better)
I’m also interested on your overall opinion and critique about it. As usual thank you for your invaluable help.”
Valeriano.
Quite a while ago Valeriano had taken my four week online class with the PPSOP, and like all the other photographers in the classes and in my “Stretching Your Frame of Mind” workshops I conduct around the planet, they learn how to incorporate the elements of Visual Design and composition into their imagery. At the end of my Part I and II class each person leaves with what I call the ‘Artist Palette’. On this palette are all the things we cover. First the basic elements of Visual Design: Texture, Pattern, Form, Shape, Color, and Line. Also on the Palette are the elements for good composition: Visual Tension, Negative Space, and how to create a Vanishing Point.
Here’s what I had to say: http://www.screencast.com/t/iiAzpyvBKa
Looking at the photos Valeriano submitted to me to look at, it didn’t take very long to see most of the elements on his ‘Artist Palette’.
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