So I've not taken a good shot for an aaage. Really lacking luster and generally can't be bothered at the minute. So show me the shots that you really thought... yeaah! I wanna see those. Perhaps they will inspire me.
I don't know about "most proud of," but I'm happy with today's shot. I set out to shoot flowers in the morning sunlight (don't tell @cromwell that part), and I came across a deer who didn't seem to mind that I was close with a camera shutter clicking. It was a happy surprise in the quiet of the morning, and had I not been out and about with my camera at 7:00 a.m. I would have missed it. :)
Hang in there- I recommend early morning/late evening walks to inspire (or even inside shots by a window) because the lighting is so ideal.
I really love this shot because I envisioned a whimsical fairy tale like shot of Central Park in NYC and was able to get this in an upside down reflection:
@miley89 Oh, and I would be remiss if I didn't add that you deserve props for having such a variety of photos day in and day out in your album, and for sticking with this project beyond a year! No wonder you feel like you're needing a kick of inspiration! :)
As I was going through my album I realized there was a BIG difference between a shot that I liked and one that I was "proud of". As it turned out, I was hard pressed to find one of the latter. I've come far since I started the project, but I have a long way to go before I get to the level I want to be at. I guess that's half the fun!
Anyway, out of 210 photos there are only three shots that in all honesty I am very proud of:
Shooting concerts (especially one outside at night) are always challenging. Occasionally, I get the money shot. This is one. Diana Ross hitting a high note.
It took a lot of tries to nail this one, but the payoff was worth it.
This one was a happy accident of perfect timing. A woman walking past a wall painting where her hand appeared to be holding the hand of a little boy in the painting.
I think I'm proud of my last couple of photoshoots, back beyond that I think I was pretty crap, and in another months time I hope I'll find this latest stuff pretty crap, the learning curve at the moment is steep but it sure meakes it interesting for me, even if everyone else hates my stuff. So I would say to you embark on a path which challenges and scares you a bit. The mornings of shoots when I go a meet a model and makeup artist for the first time and have to come up with a script and make it look like I know what I'm doing and please both with the results which they are trading their time for, them mornings are frightening and exciting and the mornings when I don't have a shoot I do not even consider touching my camera.
@rockinrobyn Great shot. If I could take a shot like that I would be over the moon....
@jsw0109 I love the selection of photos. Not only have you captured the subject well in the original shot but the post is fantastic.
@cromwell Great set of shots. All very different and you have done a great job on the low lighting of the concert.
@pengo Mate what can I say. I love this shot. Well planned and executed. It is something to be proud of.
@jonesp Fantastic landscape shot and I must say you really did a great job in show how beautiful that place is.
@chewyteeth Nice. Simple and effective. I love the words and it is great to see so many people growing on this site and over the life of their project - including myself. :)
@paulavdmerwe Great set of photos. I love the last one... It gave me a bit of a chuckle... :)
@jsilver Very nice. I am sure the couple would of been very happy with those shots.
I am proud of this one not because it is technically amazing ( I have issues with the focus,) but because I accepted a paying gig photographing a stranger's wedding, then followed through and made it without hyperventilating! :D
This one I am just 100% proud of, I had to slip off my shoes and get in the icky pond water, but I feel like I got THE shot
The hardest part of your question for me is admitting there is something I'm proud of! Somehow I always shy away from "blowing my own horn". But I did some thinking and decided to look over the last month and pick one from each of my albums. I'm proud of this one because it was the first time I merged 3 different photos together with texture and other effects to create a fantasy world for my granddaughter. I'd never done such complicated processing before and I really loved the results.
And I'm proud of this one because I work with a limited point and shoot camera- but I've learned what it's capable of and am constantly amazed at what it turns out when I use it accordingly.
i don't really know how to answer this... there are several shots that i quite like, but i am not sure whether i could say i was proud of them ;p
i've chosen this one because i really DO like it... and i had a split second to catch it before she walked out of the frame and someone else walked in and would have spoiled the composition, AND it came out quite nicely composed... but in some respects, i'd still call this more luck, then something *i* did, y'know?
i think we all go thru a slump now and then (well, i certainly do!)... for me, the only thing that works is to keep on shooting... and i find that things generally "click" again eventually... hang in there!
Wow! Really impressive photos! I'm glad you're proud of them all!
As for me, I don't know. I'm very picky about my shots, and I only have 16 uploaded now. So far with 365 I've done a lot of "studies" (mostly playing with settings on my camera that I tend to neglect) and uploaded pictures I'm sentimental about but aren't so great technically. Just great memories that sum up the day.
I'm pretty proud of this picture because my dog, Jaxon, is so hard to photograph with how quickly he moves and his dark fur. Balancing the fast shutter speed I need with all the light I need is really difficult. It has to be fast, but let in just enough light...and a little bokeh would be nice. Please? I've been working at it for a few years, and this is probably the best picture technically. Actually, I'm really proud of it.
Yeah I see where you're coming from on that one. I'm not as good as you are though. I'm not a photographer, more like a happy snapper. Perhaps I should grow a pair and actually do something with it.
Most of my images are for my amusement, document something from my day or are my explorations of photoshop so not particularly proud moments but I am proud of my first ever macro photo. Not many people can say they have photographed a fart ;-)
and my second macro photo. We played a great game of 'What is it?'
This is the first shot where I really felt I was starting to understand some basics about composition and POV. It took me six months to get to this point!
This is a tough question!
I took this with my new wide angle lens and it was one of my first attempts at long exposure and water
I love this portrait.
This one is an older one, but it started me on a tangent and I really love this photo. I have been meaning to get the original and re edit it in photoshop now that I have it!
@agima thank you Brandon! I'll be getting a print of the one with the round barn on metallic paper soon... I'll let you know once I have and what I think of it
I'm quite proud of this one... probably my first and last chance to shoot a fly as tiny as a grain of rice drinking water. I accidentally bumped into it while taking macro shots of petals after a heavy rain. I search for drinking flies every now and then like crazy but to no avail. LOL
This was such a simple set up. I'm walking from the bus, heard a commotion behind this fence, got my camera out of the back pack and here was this dog nose. Every once in a while an eye would appear but the nose really stood out.
Another significant shot I hope you don't mind me sharing. This one I took today really made me proud and reminded me of the value of 365. I'm having a bad day (slept most of it, woke up with sore joints and a headache soon after...a "bad flare day") and thought, 'I doubt I'm going to be taking any pictures today.' Then I remembered that it's Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month and started thinking about what kind of picture I could take to illustrate that...to illustrate that these are children suffering...taking chemo, going blind, dying. By the time I finished taking the pictures, I don't know how proud of the picture I was, but I was so proud of myself for doing it when I could have said 'It's too much--I quit.'
@miley89 I agree with @gracej , this is a great thread. I'm following a lot of new people now!
@gracej This shot is free-lens. I don't know how you do it so often; it scares me! I love the results so much, but I don't know that I could do it as often (or as well) as you do it!
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Hang in there- I recommend early morning/late evening walks to inspire (or even inside shots by a window) because the lighting is so ideal.
this was the very first one from my project that I was truly proud of:
and then this one because I had done something completely different for me and I was so happy with the end result:
and this one because it was the first one that led to a sale:
and the one I posted today because I felt it lives up to the one above this:
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Anyway, out of 210 photos there are only three shots that in all honesty I am very proud of:
Shooting concerts (especially one outside at night) are always challenging. Occasionally, I get the money shot. This is one. Diana Ross hitting a high note.
It took a lot of tries to nail this one, but the payoff was worth it.
This one was a happy accident of perfect timing. A woman walking past a wall painting where her hand appeared to be holding the hand of a little boy in the painting.
I think I'm proud of my last couple of photoshoots, back beyond that I think I was pretty crap, and in another months time I hope I'll find this latest stuff pretty crap, the learning curve at the moment is steep but it sure meakes it interesting for me, even if everyone else hates my stuff. So I would say to you embark on a path which challenges and scares you a bit. The mornings of shoots when I go a meet a model and makeup artist for the first time and have to come up with a script and make it look like I know what I'm doing and please both with the results which they are trading their time for, them mornings are frightening and exciting and the mornings when I don't have a shoot I do not even consider touching my camera.
@jsw0109 I love the selection of photos. Not only have you captured the subject well in the original shot but the post is fantastic.
@cromwell Great set of shots. All very different and you have done a great job on the low lighting of the concert.
@pengo Mate what can I say. I love this shot. Well planned and executed. It is something to be proud of.
@jonesp Fantastic landscape shot and I must say you really did a great job in show how beautiful that place is.
@chewyteeth Nice. Simple and effective. I love the words and it is great to see so many people growing on this site and over the life of their project - including myself. :)
@paulavdmerwe Great set of photos. I love the last one... It gave me a bit of a chuckle... :)
@jsilver Very nice. I am sure the couple would of been very happy with those shots.
@shirljess Fantastic rays and colour. Well done.
@water1997 Now how can you pass up a photo of a kitten.. Well done and keep them coming.
This one I am just 100% proud of, I had to slip off my shoes and get in the icky pond water, but I feel like I got THE shot
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i've chosen this one because i really DO like it... and i had a split second to catch it before she walked out of the frame and someone else walked in and would have spoiled the composition, AND it came out quite nicely composed... but in some respects, i'd still call this more luck, then something *i* did, y'know?
i think we all go thru a slump now and then (well, i certainly do!)... for me, the only thing that works is to keep on shooting... and i find that things generally "click" again eventually... hang in there!
As for me, I don't know. I'm very picky about my shots, and I only have 16 uploaded now. So far with 365 I've done a lot of "studies" (mostly playing with settings on my camera that I tend to neglect) and uploaded pictures I'm sentimental about but aren't so great technically. Just great memories that sum up the day.
I'm pretty proud of this picture because my dog, Jaxon, is so hard to photograph with how quickly he moves and his dark fur. Balancing the fast shutter speed I need with all the light I need is really difficult. It has to be fast, but let in just enough light...and a little bokeh would be nice. Please? I've been working at it for a few years, and this is probably the best picture technically. Actually, I'm really proud of it.
@chewyteeth
And this one might follow :)
I remember the apple one! That was so cool! @marieooi
hey I'm just a happy snapper dude. We're all just happy snappers. Apart from the cocks who'll shoot your wedding for £15,000
and my second macro photo. We played a great game of 'What is it?'
I took this with my new wide angle lens and it was one of my first attempts at long exposure and water
I love this portrait.
This one is an older one, but it started me on a tangent and I really love this photo. I have been meaning to get the original and re edit it in photoshop now that I have it!
@chewyteeth
My top stat shot...
and my fav B&W shot.
Without a tripod :D
and this one as it my first butterfly shot
@bugik
This was such a simple set up. I'm walking from the bus, heard a commotion behind this fence, got my camera out of the back pack and here was this dog nose. Every once in a while an eye would appear but the nose really stood out.
I love how crystal clear her eyes are.
and
@miley89 I agree with @gracej , this is a great thread. I'm following a lot of new people now!
@gracej This shot is free-lens. I don't know how you do it so often; it scares me! I love the results so much, but I don't know that I could do it as often (or as well) as you do it!
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This was the first shot I was proud of:
And this was the first edit I was really proud of: