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C'mon baby, light my fire! :D
 

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My view:


Pictures of fire, and fire alone, are stupid.
However, pictures of things (such as buildings, cars, and in the case of photojournalism: forests) that are on fire is quite alright.

opinion.



However, on a technical standpoint, the image has an overall feeling of being out-of-focus, and the fire's brightness most certinately played with the percived contrast between subject and ground. And it (the fire) is square in the middle of the picture!
 
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erikhaugsby said:
My view:


Pictures of fire, and fire alone, are stupid.
However, pictures of things (such as buildings, cars, and in the case of photojournalism: forests) that are on fire is quite alright.

opinion.



However, on a technical standpoint, the image has an overall feeling of being out-of-focus, and the fire's brightness most certinately played with the percived contrast between subject and ground. And it (the fire) is square in the middle of the picture!
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erikhaugsby said:
My view:


Pictures of fire, and fire alone, are stupid.
However, pictures of things (such as buildings, cars, and in the case of photojournalism: forests) that are on fire is quite alright.

opinion.



However, on a technical standpoint, the image has an overall feeling of being out-of-focus, and the fire's brightness most certinately played with the percived contrast between subject and ground. And it (the fire) is square in the middle of the picture!
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Oh, you wanted the earlier pic where we were roasting the RFF member!

This can be arranged - and your address is? :D
 
erikhaugsby said:
My view:


Pictures of fire, and fire alone, are stupid.
However, pictures of things (such as buildings, cars, and in the case of photojournalism: forests) that are on fire is quite alright.

opinion.



However, on a technical standpoint, the image has an overall feeling of being out-of-focus, and the fire's brightness most certinately played with the percived contrast between subject and ground. And it (the fire) is square in the middle of the picture!
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Obviously we have a very fine art student here who has leaned the rule of thirds.

And has never leanred that sometimes you "break the rules" for a reason.

How is this for thirds, dear student?

Oh the joys of PS! :D
 

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erik,
'stupid' seems to be a part of your vocabulary and i think you mentioned school in one of your posts.
now, being an old man myself i do remember back in my school days that some words had a different meaning in my peer group than it did to the old farts.

so maybe you are meaning 'stupid' in a way that i am not familiar with.

could you please enlighten me?
or maybe just stop calling people and things stupid.

joe
 
Thanks Joe.

BTW, erik.

I purposely chose to center the fire in the first post because THAT is how most people LOOK at campfires! It is a mesmerizing focus.

"Thirds" are the guide but not the requirement!
 
It is hard to get a fire in sharp focus, because the flames are constantly moving.

Jim N.
 

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Sunset shot from my roof, with smoke from two forest/range fires in a distant canyon.
 

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here's a reduced images of fire -- really REALLY large fire. might have posted one of these already when someone started a thread of "light" and was asked if there was any thing else but light/shadow, well fire light came to mind - there was enough light from this to illuminate the night sky for miles and miles.
 
I don't know, maybe I'm just having a poor day.

Joe: upon re-reading the thread with about the 50 Elmar, I did realize that (in all honesty) I unintentionally said 'stupid'. However, it was intended to be a sarcastic, joking stupid. Unfortunately, as in times past, I don't do well with sarcasm.
Here, I intended 'stupid' to be pointless: I do not like pictures of firepits, and I was just stating my personal beliefs. It did come out rather bluntly, though.

Understanding that the Rule of Thirds is not omnipresent and ever-powerful, I still do not have a personal liking to pictures that square the subject in the center.
I would hope that you understand my views, for I am not attempting to keep you from doing that which you wish to do.

As stated "because that is how people look at fires," might make sense for you; it does not for me.



For now, I shall re-learn certian parts of my vocabulary
and I do not/have not intended to come across as rude. Things just don't turn out as wished, however.
 
erik, getting a point across is hard enough when we face each other and can hear the tone & inflection.
doing that on a monitor with the help of smilies is near impossible.

my suggestion is to take it down a notch and see how that works.

joe
 
erikhaugsby said:
I don't know, maybe I'm just having a poor day.

Joe: upon re-reading the thread with about the 50 Elmar, I did realize that (in all honesty) I unintentionally said 'stupid'. However, it was intended to be a sarcastic, joking stupid. Unfortunately, as in times past, I don't do well with sarcasm.
Here, I intended 'stupid' to be pointless: I do not like pictures of firepits, and I was just stating my personal beliefs. It did come out rather bluntly, though.

Understanding that the Rule of Thirds is not omnipresent and ever-powerful, I still do not have a personal liking to pictures that square the subject in the center.
I would hope that you understand my views, for I am not attempting to keep you from doing that which you wish to do.

As stated "because that is how people look at fires," might make sense for you; it does not for me.



For now, I shall re-learn certian parts of my vocabulary
and I do not/have not intended to come across as rude. Things just don't turn out as wished, however.
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Nice exercise in self-pity and perpetrator as "victim" Erik.

But I don't buy it!

Perhaps you should be directing your photo critiques to submissions in ManGo's "salon"?

What many of us like about W/NW is that it is both "spontaneous" and "non-judgemental".

W/NWs are not intended to be a "juried" threads - they are simply here to have some fun.

I post all kinds of stuff in W/NW just BECAUSE it is a casual forum and we don't feel a NEED to judge someone's post. :p
 
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