Photo Landfill

I was asked to post more of my photos, so here we go! I couldn't choose which ring picture to post, so a few people told me to post them all. Photo landfill much?






I glimpse a flash of green -- EmmaJane, I need you to write


It was beautiful. Every inch of it, every line, every curve... -- muunilist10, love in an elevator.


...emerald as the jewel itself ... -- killchika, The Oddities of This Place


This unimportant treasure you hoard with your life -- springrain, The Worthless Life You Live.


"There’s no such thing as a synthetic star.” -- Sachiko



"Then, something magical happened." Wisemann210


“Cats are smart. They figured out how to get eight more lives.” -- XYZinnia


I feel green today./Not the fresh shade of new-life, -- abstractpoet


Drifting into dreamland,\Staring at the sky, -- Explosive Pen


As the clock strikes twelve -- Golden Quill


Green eyes snapped open, wide and scared, -- Kyla/Marie



Lily of the Valley

These are really nice.

- Anshita

Whoa June. You toned them perfectly, and all. Black and white really works on the pictures you used them for, and I don't think they could be any better. Perfect zoom, perfect angle, lovely lighting, wonderful backgrounds that top it all off... just, wow.


~April

June. Prepare yourself. You are about to be my very very very first art and photography review-ee.

The ring pictures, first of all, are absolutely gorgeous. I'm not sure how you did it, but in the first one the light reflects off the ring perfectly so that everything else is in semi-darkness, and then there's this bright band of gold and green. I love it love it love it. Love. It.

The flowers are nice too, especially the second one. I mean, the quality of the photos is great in all of them, but I like the second one especially because of the insect in the middle; it's juxtaposing beauty and ugly, working together, harmonious, symbiotic, you know? And I'm probably reading too much into it, but I think that's incredibly beautiful in itself - that the flower is made prettier by the insect. And the "ugly," the insect, is clearly the focus of this picture, which also sends a message. I could type another, oh, three paragraphs on this...

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Okay. The third-to-last picture. The cat. It's looking straight into the camera. How do you get it to do that? Because I've taken countless pictures of cats and they all turn away too fast. It's so frustrating. Tell me your secret, you cat-hypnotist-woman!

And the lily-of-the-valley; it's so delicate and pretty! Awh.

<3
-Mars

Aloha, konichiwa, hola, bonjour, howdy. Tex here to review your pictures!



1-3 ~ Rings:
Okay... I guess. Not my favorites at all. I guess it's the black background that keeps me waiting for someone to pop out and give their jewelry store logo. It just looks too generic.

If the bases had been black instead of brown, these would've looked much better.


4 ~ B&W ring:
Now this one is cool. I'm not going to make you suffer to what I see in it unless you want to, so:
[spoiler]The black and white was a nice choice for this. Just... yeah. I love how it's on the carpet, making it seem like, oh, I don't know, like a guy had just proposed and been rejected and left the ring on the floor in sorrow. The dust actually looks good in this one.[/spoiler]

I would have liked it more if that carpet had been flat all the way through.


5 ~ Yellow Flower:

The background is nice, and the idea is nice, But, honestly, I would have liked to see more flower than background. And it's a bit blurry.


6 ~ Daisy:

This one is basically perfect. The flower isn't wilting in the slightest, the background is black, wow.

The only thing I can see, and this is only my opinion, would be if the bee were slightly turned upward so it wouldn't take so long to figure out if this were his front of back.



7 ~ Kitty:

Aw, how cute. Really awesome eyes. I'm sorry, but I can't really find much to say.



8 ~ Pink Flower:

Good job. The background is in color (I'm contrasting myself, aren't I, with the lack and white and color. But you know what I mean, each is needed in it's own turn) which looks nice, and there actually IS color. Blue, green, some fence. And the flower would've been perfect had it not been for that one little wilting one. Right... there. See it?



9 ~ Clock:

I like the angle. It's nice. *crickets* Um, and I wish we had a grandfather clock at my house? Sorry.

It's too beat up. That's the main thing. Then there's the fact that I would've preferred the pendulum to be centered and the color to be sepia tone.


10 ~ Cat:

Okay. The third-to-last picture. The cat. It's looking straight into the camera. How do you get it to do that? Because I've taken countless pictures of cats and they all turn away too fast. It's so frustrating. Tell me your secret, you cat-hypnotist-woman!

What she said. However, there's that one little tuft of hair sticking straight up that me no likey.


11 ~ Lily o' Valley:

Water. It works perfectly in any nature picture, and this one is no exception. And then there's that one little drop on the lowest stem with a flower, which half looks out of place, and half looks great. Hm.


12 ~ Dandelion:

Finally I've gotten to it! After all that critiquing, I get to review my favorite of them all!

Okay, sorry about that. But anyways, I'm a sucker for macro. It looks like a painting how the, uh, needle seed flying umbrella things connect to the actual stem. It has that tiny bit of blurriness, just a tiny bit, where it needs to and then there's the sharp and the really blurry and it just looks great in that sense. And the background is... green. Nothing to say, really.

Only cons? The leaves. They distract from the whole image, now that I've stared at the picture for long enough. I know it wouldn't have been possible to remove the leaves without disrupting the dandelion, but just for future reference.




Okay! Done! Hope I helped,

-The Writer who happens to be Texan

I really like your work. Where can I get some of your pieces, no joke. The first couple were ok, but the black and white one was amazing. I also like the flowers, they show beauty in different ways, and how nature can suprise us. Thanks for your amazing work. let me know where I can get some of the photo's and how much they will cost.

your pics rock...no joke...haha.
well my favorite one was the grandfather clock...i don't know why, maybe it was the angle or something, but i just love it. and the cat is also amazing. and if you're have trouble with your cat looking into the camera(even though i love it how it is) just make a wierd noise as you're clicking the shot button. it works with my dog...you can go view my pics if you want
~cookies
KEEP SNAPPIN'!

Lily of the valley was my favorite. Very pretty and spring ish
Very earthy and innocent

Wow, nice, June, as usual, your pictures are epic, yo.

I like how you always post a bunch of pictures relating to certain member's writing. It's a very creative and smart idea.

Not only do I know so, but I can tell that you're an experienced photographer. The angles and proportions are crispy and perfect!

I can't think of anything else right now, but those pictures are great...you really deserve to get a star!

Feel free to PM me with questions, reviews, or help, but I don't think you'd need to.
-Ryan

The clock would definitely be my favourite. I love the angle.

I don't like the last one. It's disturbing and makes me uncomfortable.

The rings are a little boring, apart from the last one in colour which is more straightforward. The others just seem like a mix of box and lining and ring; the last colour one gets a better balance.

The kitties are cute and the flowers are nice, though the yellow one's focus is a little off. It'd be better if the flower was in a sharper focus because the background's so indistinct.

The pink flowers seem a bit... I don't know. Like there's too many flowers in too small a space, but the picture is trying to take in the whole plant. If you had gone in close and filled the whole picture with flowers without any boundaries or trying to get a sense of the whole plant, it might have been better.

With the lily of the valley, it's rather blurry but the last flower at the very bottom is in a sharper focus. It's uneven, but that flower isn't distinctive enough to make a picture by itself. If you cut it out, the picture might be better.


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That was really harsh and horrible and I know absolutely nothing about photography. >_< Sorry. I do love the clock photo, though.

Juniper wrote:I was asked to post more of my photos, so here we go! I couldn't choose which ring picture to post, so a few people told me to post them all. Photo landfill much?

Hello, June. These are really, really beautiful. I loved how you paired each photo with a quote from a YWS story. Let me just see if i can pick out the nitpicks

Juniper wrote:I glimpse a flash of green -- EmmaJane, I need you to write

I love how it was done close up, but maybe you should have done it with a little more angle. That is, so we can see more of the ring. And then maybe photo shop it so the emerald glints a little bit more.

It was beautiful. Every inch of it, every line, every curve... -- muunilist10, love in an elevator.


It's good, but what you could have done was either made the background a little bit lighter or used photo shop to brighten the case, because right now I cannot exactly tell where the case ends and background begins.

...emerald as the jewel itself ... -- killchika, The Oddities of This Place


Exactly what I was talking about with the first photo.

This unimportant treasure you hoard with your life -- springrain, The Worthless Life You Live.


Okay, I have no idea why this is in black and white. Some photos are good in black and white, but this is a really pretty photo that I think deserved it's color.

Juniper wrote:"There’s no such thing as a synthetic star.” -- Sachiko

I do have a few problems with this photo. I like how the yellow flower stands out against the black and white background, but what's the point if we
a) cannot exactly see a lot of the flower
or
b) cannot not tell whats in the black and white background.

So, my advice with this one is to maybe sharpen up the background a little bit (still the softness, i like that, I just want to be able to see whats back there), and have more of the flower.

Juniper wrote:"Then, something magical happened." Wisemann210

It's beautiful, But i do not like the bee. I think It takes away from the photo.

Juniper wrote: “Cats are smart. They figured out how to get eight more lives.” -- XYZinnia

Sharpen the background just a tad. The cat looks really cool, but then he's standing in the middle of bla.

Juniper wrote:Drifting into dreamland,\Staring at the sky, -- Explosive Pen

I think I would have liked this photo better in black and white.

Juniper wrote: As the clock strikes twelve -- Golden Quill

Maybe you could have set this against a black background to give a more dramatic feel.

Juniper wrote: Green eyes snapped open, wide and scared, -- Kyla/Marie

Maybe you could make the green in his eyes a little subtler, the bright yellow-green just seems to pop out.

Juniper wrote:Lily of the Valley

These last two are abosultley beautiful! I'm speechless, June!