Your 3 best images of 2010?

[klovibond]

Thanks Geoff, that's my favourite too although I found the snow scene the hardest, and ultimately the most satisfying. The blue sky, reflected blue in the water, took me a while to get a shot keeping the snow white!

Kev

[[Geoff Slocock]]

John, your shots are all rather good.

The last one is particularly noteworthy. The falling snow is illuminated by light from the flash. Likewise, that light source picks out the grooves in the nearby compressed snow. This was a full-on blizzard and we would expect a lack of visibility in the distance. There even appears to be a swirl of moisture on the top left hand of the lens.

The second shot (Orford Castle) is crisp in every respect. The fz45 evidently is very effective out of the box.

The first shot (of the dog) is an impressive character study. I personally would not subscribe to the criticism that the background should be more exposed. I think the background does not need to be seen by the beholder; and the gradation of light from the paws up to the face leads the eye toward that endearing expression... more exposure would have detracted from that effect!

I suspect the first shot is your favourite. I like it too, but the I find the last shot very impressive.

Quote:It's been a long year one way and another, I've tried to learn more but feel that overall I've failed. However I think I've gained some basic understanding of images and photography.

Clearly you have a good eye for composition. There maybe is more that you could do with post-processing.

I was surprised by Kev's lead post and the way that it got me into evaluating. I would say, too, that in my first couple of years of getting more serious, I was unhappy or self-conscious about my work. The other extreme, as we know, is those who have made progress and then go on the rampage in deprecating the work of others.

Photography is personal work and saying mindless platitudes about other people's work is not very intelligent... phrases like "awesome", "fantastic" spring to mind. It is also true to say that you learn to assess your own work and encourage yourself; you then are able to do some of that in helping others too.

As a footnote, I cam mention the mutual self-appreciation society that we were most fortunate in being able to lose from this site. That is not what one wants to develop into, either.