I have been asked to pick my best 5 street shots for an exhibition - OMG, I am stunned that I have been asked but how on earth do I pick? They have to be good and I don't think they are that great - I think I have only genuinely liked 1-2 of my shots.
How would you go about this task?
Also, this is going to sound really dumb but how do I send my pictures in the highest resolution possible via email? I also have to try and work out how to do a watermark on PSE 10 - I know I put 'megsyphotography' on my shots but is that enough?
Hi Meg one thing I would say if they are going to be displayed I wouldn't put a watermark on them. You would do that for online display but if they are being printed and hung, then a watermark? For sending them you would be best saving as a TIFF file and zipping the files and sending that way as JPEG's aren't high enough quality for enlargement, but it depends on how you have saved the original edited files. If you have the raw files you could re-edit and save in higher quality format. I save my edit as a TIFF file - usually 140mb+ and then a JPEG copy for online display. Hope this helps. Oh yes watermark's are simple in Lightroom and you can download a trial of the new version 4.
@rich57 - thank you, hey my shots are nothing special at all and they might not get picked but it is fabulous to be asked. Will let you know how it goes if I do get chosen. I totally love your work - you have to be professional right?
@ozziehoffy - awwww thank you, have to say I do like your first choice - that guy is definitely a model do you think? He certainly had an air of confidence anyway.
haha no not at all, just an amateur, still learning. We take a lot of shots in the same area and I always enjoy seeing what you've come up with! Best of luck with this!
@rich57 - I bet we have passed each other - I have seen a few street photographers out and about. Well for what it's worth you should be a professional.
Megsy - I love your street shots and I think you have lots of contenders.... Can't easily pick out my suggestions right now, but one question... Will the shots be hung together? Do you feel they need to be clearly a group somehow? You know - consistent tones, processing or locale? Just curious!
Congrats on being asked to exhibit, btw... That is just so awesome!!
Tell the exhibition goers a story, get them wondering what was going through the subjects minds etc. Try and go with a photo essay, a study of a place or emotions if you will.
Lose the watermark, the street photography community will rip you to pieces for that. Try and use 5 shots with similar contrasts, focal lengths etc.
Don't take in the next bit as a criticism but start getting closer. Lose the zoom lens and get maybe a 50mm or 38mm. It will make a world of difference to how your shots look, and what you shoot.
Congrats! You have some great shots. I really like @38mm suggestion ... as I go through your work, you have a lot of variety, but I like the "love" theme. To the ones above, you could add: http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-04-15
Congrats! The email part can be tricky - many email servers limit how much you can send out, and even zipping can't completely shrink a large file down. The way I got around this one time (only it was for a book, not an exhibition) was to upload the files to a photo hosting website, where the other person could download the original, large file. One shot I ended up having to make a CD as it ended up exceeding my photo hosting site (which actually is VERY generous with the size of individual files and allows me unlimited storage space). While tiff files are preferable for a number of reasons, a jpg that's not been compressed a lot, can still print out very nicely (a friend of mine printed a picture from a 10 mp camera that had been cropped a bit and printed it on 8 1/2 x 11 inches to convince me that I really didn't have to work that hard to upsize it for a full page, almost full double page print.
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Here's a few I really like... http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-05-02 http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-04-15 http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-05-28
http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-05-02 http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-03-23 http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-05-30 http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-06-07
http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-05-09
http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-04-24
http://365project.org/megsy/projects/2012-03-15
http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-03-27
http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-05-02
http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-04-16
http://365project.org/megsy/extra-s/2012-06-05
http://365project.org/megsy/extra-s/2012-06-01
http://365project.org/megsy/extra-s/2012-05-21
these are some of the ones i really like:
http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-05-30 http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-05-21 http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-05-09 http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-06-06 http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-06-07
Congrats on being asked to exhibit, btw... That is just so awesome!!
Lose the watermark, the street photography community will rip you to pieces for that. Try and use 5 shots with similar contrasts, focal lengths etc.
These 2 stick out as the start of a theme, BUT the contrasts in the 2 are quite harsh.
http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-05-01 http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-05-28
Don't take in the next bit as a criticism but start getting closer. Lose the zoom lens and get maybe a 50mm or 38mm. It will make a world of difference to how your shots look, and what you shoot.
http://365project.org/megsy/365/2012-04-15
Unrelated, I also like: http://365project.org/megsy/extra-s/2012-05-18