Best shots of the week #5
Here are the best of my shots this week. All were taken with my Iphone and processed using Instagram. Check them out, and let me know what you think! There’s a poll below, vote for your fave! Hopefully it’s getting more difficult to choose (-;
Yokohama, from the roof of my school
Yokohama Shopping Street
Yellow Jeep
The Bunny's back
My Barber
Maid Cafe in Akihabara
Flowers and Kids
B-boy and B-girl in Yokohama
Loco in Shinjuku
Mom and Son on train
Office lady on Mamachari
Pruned trees and Stone
Mom and Son at the barbershop
Well, that’s about it for this week. Cast your vote in the poll below! And drop me a line, let me know why you dug it. Any tips would be appreciated as well…all you pros out there, show an amateur some love!
(BTW the winner of last week’s poll was “Those eyes“)
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PS: Did you dig them? Check out my previous shots…some are pretty damn good. The rest are magnificent (-;
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Raw Like Sushi
It is getting hard to pick one. This week I have to go with the sky. Those clouds were crazy the other day! And I loved them.
Thanks CJ!
B-Boy and B-girl. And… what are you smoking?
In general or in that pic? lol In the pic it’s a Black & Mild
You forgot the star on the maids face…Ashley the bitch from Hell is coming….I can smell her stench through my monitor
Let her come back! Just let her…lol
I voted for Yellow Jeep – it’s my favorite shot this week.
I do have a certain fondness for that shot myself. Thanks for voting!
again, too many good images to have to just select one. although no one has voted for it, yet, i like pruned trees and stone as well.
thanks kp. IYeah, I feel like I’m starting to find my voice a little. Technique still has a loooong way to go though.
I voted for Yokohama Shopping Street the sky in the Shopping Street caught me, as well as my general fondness for Kanagawa’s skies and the way that such a generic locale is really made to pop. The Yellow Jeep is also good for how you got this whole modernist abstract art thing going on with the sense of lines and composition. The Bunny’s Back has the same thing going on for similar reasons but the color is a tad too flat and the subject not large enough for it to work for me. Same with the Flower and Kids, which could use a photoshop saturation of pinks.
The other shots are all generally good in their own right except maybe that the Akihabara Maids has too much digital noise for it’s own good while I’m not sure what’s the moment being captured. In any case, keep it up.
Wow, thanks Fernando! I feel like I’ve been professionally critiqued!! I have to admit that I don’t think about composition and color saturation and such when I take pics (and I’m sure it shows) I just shoot what catches my eye, choose a filter from instagram that “feels” good, and any composition that results is coincidental. Pathetic, right? I need to focus more on these things if i want to improve though so i thank you for taking the time out to point out my strengths and shortcomings. Big ups to you!!
loco
That’s great. Shooting what catches your eye is step one of the process. It’s funny. I was doing a class with Japanorama (check out Alfie Goodrich, he’s a fantastic teacher and his blog entries are full of gold) and he was lecturing on one of the great early photographers who was nothing more than a little boy with an itchy trigger finger. That’s where it all starts.
I’ve only seen your recent photography so I don’t know what gear you have besides the iPhone but I’d recommend seeing if you can free yourself a bit from the Instagram shake-and-bake process and see what you can do with just the bare iPhone and some assistance from Photoshop Express. As I said, don’t take any criticism I have as discouraging, but just another set of ideas to think upon and take or leave as you please.
Thanks again Yo! Actually I don’t always use the filters at instagram…sometimes i feel like the pic us better without filtering, but again it’s not a professional assessment by any means. Just my “feeling”. So i’m on that already. i realized that instagram, while a very cool app, has it’s limitations. Thanks again for the advice!
Dig your work! Some of your pics are slammminnnn!
Mom and Son on Train is my absolute favorite of every photograph you’ve taken. It belongs in an exhibition just the way it is.