but this is Norfolk not Afghanistan
- No s*** Sherlock,
I guess that explains why I couldn't find any Burkha's in M&S or Top Shop today!
The lack of AK47's and Apache gunships was noticable as well - though we did have a couple of them fly over the golf course last week.
The point I was trying to make, but appears to have been missed, was that (in my opinion
a Photograph doesn't have to have a "pretty" content for it to work, (and quite often Reportage style is far from pretty) but it needs to have something interesting to draw your attention to it. My opinion was that this picture did nothing for me from a pictorial point of view. Sorry. I did also give my reasons for not liking it. But I am sure others will like it. It's good we all have different preferences and likes.
Surely whether it is paid work or an amateur is irrelevant.
One thing you may be willing to help with though, as I have tried a few times, (admittedly with different subjects) is photographing from within a moving car. I always seem to get a bit of blur both camera shake and motion blur (even with fast shutter speeds) and inevitably reflection from the windscreen. The middle picture of yours,
appears to be taking from within a moving car, :shrug: and unless you have a LHD - the drivers side???, the sun is high and to the right, judging by the shadows, yet no motion blur, razor sharp and no windscreen reflections.
Go on, tell me your secrets.
Also where is it? Have we got nasty SPECS cameras round here now as well????
As requested, I shall now move on............