Personal Made Public

Over at Flickr there is a group called Self-Portrait Tuesday. I took this pic as my contribution to the group.

Home from work, chillin' with my Strat -- some days you feel the need to play so badly that you don't even change out of the button-down and slacks. Just plug in and start to strum your cares away...

Posted by Kevin at 07:03 AM | Permalink

This is just a random Flickr pic that I really like, so I'm sharing it here.

Great color, sharp focus, and good point-of-view.

Plus, I love big cities!

Make sure you click on it to see it at a better size.

Posted by Kevin at 06:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I hope to be a better photographer by studying good pictures (or pictures I like) over at flickr. Today I realized I could blog about them (from WITHIN flickr, no less -- how cool is that?) to keep notes on why I believe certain pictures are extraordinary rather than ordinary. Here's my first!

This one is by "-Harry-" and is entitled "A Boat Sank". The FACT that a boat sank is interesting, but it's tough to make a picture of the masts sticking up into a good picture. You are limited as to where you can stand and you can't adjust your subject matter (unless you have a BIG wench). However, you may still want to save a memory of what you see by taking a picture. How do you make it worth the shot?

-Harry- did it by including the unknown girl in the foreground taking a picture of the wreck. In doing so he created a sense of foreground and background and ended up framing the shot well to boot (i.e.: don't stick your subject in the middle of an empty frame -- move it to one side). Additionally, the fact that she is taking a picture of the wreck reminds us that the wreck itself is really interesting. Finally, any picture with a person in it just seems to connect better with the viewer.

Great work, -Harry-!

Posted by Kevin at 06:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)