Re: Hi I'm Julie a dog lover and photographer...
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02/11/10 09:17 AM
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Jim Garvie
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Julie, welcome. With the name of "Julie" and two dogs as ready practice subjects, you have every chance to be successful as a pet photographer -- just ask Julie Poole and Julie Ford . A comment about image manipulation for the sake of "creativity": tilting, burning, doing B&W or sepia conversions, HDR, etc. are all excellent creative tools if used judiciously. They are not things to be done simply to make a good image better IMHO. The shot of Cowboy & Flash is good enough without the horizon tilt which actually tends to look like a mistake rather than an enhancement. The best way to find out how everyone is doing in terms of pet photography is to ask specific questions. You'll find that we're more than willing to share. Jim
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Re: Hi I'm Julie a dog lover and photographer...
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02/11/10 11:28 AM
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Hey Julie,
You are welcome. LOL, actually, I should be thanking Jeff. Having said that, this is an art - and you are 100% correct that there is a definite sense of movement in the image as a result of the tilt. I was reacting to the water, and my feeling that I did not want to sense that movement as much. I hope you don't mind the small critique on your fist post - and it is indeed very nice.
Thanks for sharing, and again, welcome. James
Thanks James for alerting me to the forum and the compliment. It's interesting that you say you feel the horizon should be straightened. I intentionally tilted a bit to give the dogs movement.
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Re: Hi I'm Julie a dog lover and photographer...
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02/11/10 01:43 PM
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julie Weisberg
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Hi Jim,
Thanks for the warm welcome.
I agree that throwing images off axes, using too many actions, hdr, burning, dodging, etc just to do it without thought is not a good thing. In this case I felt tilting, burning and adding green with some B&W (no hdr here) to the image enhanced it. I'm coming from a more contemporary direction, not quite as traditional, therefore I break the more traditional "rules" from time to time. I'm not saying that this image is exactly right and maybe the photograph *would* bother a lot of people with it's horizon off, but I meant to do it to keep it from being static. Here are more of my pet portraits to show where I'm coming from...
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