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Alex, thank you so much for the effort you put into all of your videos and the time you spent on this one, I really appreciated the input to my photo (quirky barrel post box, South Africa suburbia). Thank you for being so engaged with your audience, it is truly what makes your channel so special. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for putting this together, Alex, along with your thoughts. Mine posted was the Coors Light box on the motel table early in the vid. Take care, sir. Looking forward to what’s next!!
Hi Alex, thank you so much for your input on my photo! Mine was the Italian town photo, and I think you gave me some very valid points to think about next time I go out and take some photos of my place. Thanks again for this video and for the really good work you put in this channel. Cheers!
Nice display of photos and discussion Alex. I really enjoyed the two video's, the introduction and the feed back from many skilled photographers. Thanks for the feedback. Highly appreciated and added a new idea for when I go out again
I like the old dump truck image best. Perhaps because there is an almost identical one less than a kilometer from me on another farm, parked beside a really old barn with similar character. I keep passing hoping for the right light. Those long horn are indeed steer. The composition would have been banger with the white steer and the dome in the background.
Thanks for the note about the Texas longhorns, appreciated. This is a typical ranch in the city, Texan style. Farms and ranches in Texas are not just in the rural areas but also in urban environment. I did not have full control and choice of the appoach to the composition as I was shooting over the fence of the ranch, standing on a busy street/road. As for the old dump truck - are you referring to my photo from the Chihuahua desert in Texas?
Thank you for sharing all these photos with us. Some of which I think are excellent, others - of course - speak less to me. But your thoughts make me understand better the "je ne sais quoi" I feel with some of them. And - of course - I do not deny a certain sense of vanity in having seen my humble contribution ;-).
Hi Alex Thanks for the positive comments on the 'Welcome' image. I probably should have titled it AA (Automobile Association) because that would have related to the theme and highlighted what the building was. You were spot on with your comment about willingness to seek images in any environment. I tend to photograph the mundane. You asked why I shot this, and it was in essence for the reason that you mentioned . . . the array of colours in the plants. I was also drawn to the fact that the plants were so carefully manicured and juxtaposed against the geometric yellow stripe, and the equally geometric brickwork that was in pristine condition. I got a sense you liked the image. If you would like to view more please feel free to visit my visual art photography blog under my name. Enjoy your architectural images too.
Really enjoyed this and great photos. What are your thoughts on adding watermarks to images? I don’t think it stops people from using images without permission (especially with such good removal tools at hand) and it distracts from enjoying the photo
If you’re posting photographs just for personal reasons as in you’re not promoting a business or anything like that then I really don’t see the point of putting a watermark on the image.
"It doesn't have to be *perfect* ." YES!! Far too many things nowadays are manipulated to the nth degree to make them "perfect," and it takes all the humanity out of it. As a classically trained musician, I'm appalled at how autotune is now the "standard" for all performances, live or otherwise. (Fil's channel Wings of Pegasus has numerous excellent examples of this, both horrid singers and excellent singers alike.) Photographs are all too often far too staged and/or Photoshopped to death, leaving the images lifeless. There's no soul. If everything is "perfect," then nothing is real. It's all fakery, and then what are we applauding?
99% of street photography is awful. People have to learn to get bold and get close. Sloppy photos of the backs or sides of people and chaotic noisy scenes are not interesting.
How on earth do you consider these "delivered"? 70% of these look like a print screen from Street View. I would immediately delete most of these even if I dared to take them. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with people learning and making mediocre photos in the process and giving them constructive feedback but when you title a video with "best photos delivered" I expect outstanding or at least actually good photos. These look like they were the result of the 1st assignment of a photo school. I feel cheated.
I asked people to send me their best photos and they did therefore they delivered whether or not they conform to your high standard is a matter for you to decide yourself
@@ThePhotographicEye Well, you are correct. Sorry if I sounded harsh. Maybe the overdriven content of this competitive YT space we consume nowadays raised my expectations so high, that when I see such a thumbnail/title and find everyday results it annoys me.
@@GaricsPeter There's a line from the cartoon Ratatouille that can be paraphrased as the subpar work of art has more value than the critic declaring it so for the critic risks nothing since the artist takes risk in actually making a work of art and submitting it for critique. Psuedoirv succinctly said you should put your money where your mouth is and point us to your work since you are so keen to criticize the work of others. Is this a case of a glass house you are living in as you toss rocks?
@@Anon54387 I disagree. When you put your work in public you accept the fact that it will be criticized. Criticism is just an opinion and I'm highly against our age's norm of not offending anybody or never expressing anything bad. We became too emotional and sensitive. Also saying that you only earn the right to criticize something when you did something better is nonsense. So you don't tell if a dish is bad until you cook better? Don't we have opinions about a lot of product even tho we never made one of them or don't even know how complex they are. I know what the market offers and I can compare them. I don't have a personal Instagram (yet) because of my very critic way of thinking. Even tho in my (subjective) opinion I made many photos better than 70% in this vid, I don't publish them because I don't think they are good enough. Also, my main reasoning wasn't against the pics, it was against the video's title which I found clickbaty because of an (assumed) suggested excellence, but I corrected myself in this matter.
