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05/20/2006 07:39:31 AM · #1 |
We fall in love with an image of our own from time to time and it doesn't matter how it scores, it has something in it that makes it special to us. Share your love of the image and why it is so personally special.
It's not in any way my most successful DPC image, it scored only 74% at 5.71 yet to me it is the best picture I have taken
I've tried many things amd really stretched my skills in the 10 months I've had a digital camera and amongst the most imortant is learning to paint with light.
This was a very short shoot of only an hour but the effect that I was able to get with just one desk lamp and and a piece of polystyrene out of a computer box really pleased me. The shape and form of the individual leaves captivates me. I still open it up full screen and study the detail and beauty of the shape of the leaves and the subtlety of the colours.
I don't take much credit for this, nature did all the work, what does please me is that I was able to capture it. To me, my best work so far. Share yours.
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05/20/2006 07:52:30 AM · #2 |
While I do not think it is the best in my portfolio, this is one of the images I LOVE the most. For me, it just immortalizes my little boy and that moment. For some reason, looking at this image just brings a rush of feelings over me and makes me want to keep my little ones small forever. *sniff*
Message edited by author 2006-05-20 07:53:35.
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05/20/2006 08:05:00 AM · #3 |
Mine happens to be my highest scoring photo on DPC. The score has nothing to do with why it's my favorite though. There are many factors that make this my favorite which include the 1) location - one I have found myself dran to repeatedly since I moved to the area just 2 years ago. 2) the post-processing as it turned out just as I had envisioned when I took the shot 3) I just love the mood it conveys.
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05/20/2006 08:08:56 AM · #4 |
one of my favs.
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05/20/2006 10:53:14 AM · #5 |
This is probably my favorite photo that I have taken because it represents another life for me (previous and/or fututre?) I used to live on my sailboat before Hurricane Andrew and this uninhabited island with a small harbor, about seven miles southeast of Miami was my favorite weekend destination.
This is the only print that I have sold (not that I have tried yet). A friend of mine wanted one of these prints which led to twelve more 12x18's sold at $65.00 each.
That led me to explore photography more, which is what brought me to DPC. Now, I am taking the steps to transition into photography as a career. This photo seems to have been the catalyst. |
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05/20/2006 11:10:33 AM · #6 |
This is my favorite photo i have ever taken.
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05/20/2006 11:32:31 AM · #7 |
My current favourite shot. This is such a peaceful spot and the ducks and geese were just starting to arrive on their migration further north. As they are building a major road not too far from where I took this shot, this could be the last spring that it is such a quiet getaway spot. |
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05/20/2006 11:36:13 AM · #8 |
Elegance
Taken for the "light on white2" challenge. First time I had ever worked with any white like this and I learned alot making this shot. Comments were great, learned a bit there too. I like that the glass is almost like a ghost, almost gone when u look right at it but you actually see it better when u dont. |
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05/20/2006 11:41:16 AM · #9 |
Jutilda loves it, so it's not just me ;-)
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05/20/2006 11:45:19 AM · #10 |
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05/20/2006 11:47:55 AM · #11 |
My favourite is constantly changing, but for now it's this
It is my favourite because when it was done, it turned out exactly how that setting felt. |
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05/20/2006 11:48:46 AM · #12 |
This is my most recent favorite, because the final product came out to be so much more than I thought possible when I took it. I wanted to do something with a 40's kind of look, but wound up with this instead and I was kind of glad about it. :)
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05/20/2006 11:53:18 AM · #13 |
It´s like asking to say which of your child you like the most. Impossible. Today looking at the portfolio it is this image, the tribute to Irving Penn´s portrait of Picasso.
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05/20/2006 11:53:44 AM · #14 |
Nice work all... I like this one:
One of my first shots with a new macro lens, at a place I always like go to. It's a bit soft, but I think it's kind of unique, and it was a find as opposed to a setup. |
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05/20/2006 11:54:02 AM · #15 |
It has gotta probably be this one because it resonates to me as metaphors between life/death, joy/stale, solo/vastness.
But also because it was a very difficult shot to pull off.
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05/20/2006 12:05:36 PM · #16 |
I think it's my "Aura" picture. It is the one that took the most time to get the right shot, it was my first and only ribbon here on DPC, and it was also a featured Daily Deviation on Deviant Art. Plus, it's different. I am very proud of this photo.
I have others I really like, but this is one I am just so proud of! :)
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05/20/2006 12:30:24 PM · #17 |
I have, so far, taken about half a dozen photographs that satisfy my appetite for the medium. This is one of them. The arcane motivation for taking it was miraculously matched by the editing process, which appeared to command some sort of ritual obeisance I could only note but not explain.
This is another one. The original was a mess of all kinds of light and shadow excesses, I thought I was never going to be able to use, never mind to control. There's no other shot I've thrown more post-processing at than at this one. Considering my limited PS skills, this one's gotta be a masterpiece done by the apprentice.
I like this photo best, because I honestly do not think anyone could do more with so little.
-I chose these two images also, because they pretty much represent my photographic ambition, which appears to be a somewhat obsessive style bent on raising the dead.
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05/20/2006 12:34:31 PM · #18 |
This is my favorite photo that I've taken. It has nothing to do with photographic greatness and everything to do with the moment it captured for me. This, unfortunately, is a poorly scanned and poorly resized version of the (film) original which is currently in storage. |
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05/20/2006 12:36:06 PM · #19 |
It's very hard for me to pick an all time favourite, but this is one of my favourites. I went to the park to take pictures, it was a nice sunny day. By the time I got there the clouds started moving in and I was upset that I wouldn't get to take the pictures I wanted to. But when I looked up and saw how cool the clouds looked, I ended up taking tons of pics of them. There has been very little post processing done to this picture (I'm not very good at post processing, most of my pics are straight from the camera and I like it that way).
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05/20/2006 03:36:03 PM · #20 |
It is hard to pick .. but ... it is the first shoot where I feel that I really pulled something off at all. It took a long time, and kiwipix was so patient holding the spoon at that 'just right' angle. That we worked together so that we could achieve my vision is also what really makes this shot for me. What is funny is I did not see the star on the spoon.
Even funnier .. is that when Kiwipix saw my score he was on my computer and entered a comment, which he had to change to something I would say ... he was soooo very excited :) Memories about this shot are great! |
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05/20/2006 03:41:30 PM · #21 |
Like Joey, my favorites change frequently, but lately it's this one. Taken in Piedras Negras, Mexico ..it's totally candid - the way I prefer to catch shots.
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05/20/2006 03:42:06 PM · #22 |
Probably this candid shot:
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05/20/2006 03:47:00 PM · #23 |
This is my favourite photo and will probably remain so for a long time to come.
My brother died in March of this year. Two days after his death, this rainbow appeared. It was a double rainbow, without even one break in it. It gave me a sense of peace that my brother was ok.
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05/20/2006 03:48:41 PM · #24 |
| Awesome pic Brad. Edit and post the narrative, it's brilliant. (oops too late) |
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05/20/2006 03:52:19 PM · #25 |
for today..
because I had a vision of what I wanted to achieve and I did it..
and because the shot evokes in me the feelings I was trying to express.. |
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