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Help me narrow down my photos
Posted on March 5th, 2009 6 commentsEveryone likes to express his opinion, so here’s your chance.
I am attempting to whittle down some of the last three years of photos to prepare a selection for my potfolio. This is not easy, because I have a lot of photos.
Here’s your chance to tell me what you think sucks and what you think rocks. You don’t need to be a professional photographer, because professional photographers are usually not hiring photographers. I am looking for man-on-the-street feedback.
However, I do have a few guidelines. Selections should be interesting, or should have some impact. Don’t simply pick pretty colors, and don’t be caught up in HDR where it is used. Especially if a picture uses HDR (such as those in my HDR set), consider whether the use of HDR really makes it a better picture.
You can look through what I shortlisted at www.flickr.com/photos/dsobodash/sets/72157614832630128/.
Please select 10 to 20 photos you like. You can either reply to the photos on Flickr, or send me a list of Flickr photo IDs. If you look in your URL bar while viewing a photo, you will see:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsobodash/3021835268/That number in bold is the photo’s ID number. Please submit only that piece. If you give the photo names or try to describe them, it could be difficult to find. You can either reply to this post with your list or mail it to derrick (at) cinnamonpirate (circle thingy) com.
Thank you for your time and effort.
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6 responses to “Help me narrow down my photos”
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Alejandro Moreno March 6th, 2009 at 02:19
This comment doesn’t help, but I want to point out that your Portfolio Candidates set is awesome. I’ll try to vote for some images, and try to not just vote for the cats, and the puppies, and the bears, and …
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Dude, I don’t even know what HDR is.
If I give input, it’ll be only on what really sticks out to me.
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Thanks. I appreciate any suggestions I can get.
Jesse: To give the simplest explanation, HDR is when you take a normal photo, a photo that’s too dark and a photo that is too bright, and put them together in software to get a surreal effect that shows more texture than any one shot could hope to get. On the right photo, it can look awesome. Other times, it can be a cludge to salvage a shit photo. It’s often criticized for looking too much like a CG image. Hope that helps
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Shadow March 8th, 2009 at 04:52
My favorites from you are:
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2983117509
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2985674137
2946114065
2887470700
2888931223Hope this helps
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Hard to pick my favorite ten, but here’s my top five:
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Su Tan March 24th, 2009 at 10:45
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2542135403(I don’t know why I choose this one. I just did.)
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Derrick, it’s hard to narrow down. I like most of them, but I have to say I have special feelings for the above ones, kinda touching deeper inside.
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Derrick Sobodash is a copy editor and freelance journalist covering culture, history and technology in Beijing, China.
Originally from the Detroit, Michigan area, he has worked at weekly and daily community newspapers as reporter and copy editor in both the US and China, and has covered niche topics for nationally published magazines.
His photographs have been used in Schmapp!! and are often used in NowPublic stories related to Beijing life.
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