Blue Runner

[Garry Lee]

I posted this some time ago on Dpreview. Many of the chaps there do not see images but only see technical quality. This is a shot of my youngest daughter who is a very good runner, shot with 300 f2.8 lens on a monopod in apallingly poor light on a floodlit track. While technically this is poor, maybe, I rate it as one of my best images of the last year. There's no accounting for taste! I manipulated to only have blue and black and white.


Blue by gearoidmuar, on Flickr

 

[Pete Askew]

I like it. Very intense and quite compelling. Not too keen on the blue on the coat though.

 

[adrian jordin]

Technically, you caught the image you wanted...can't see how anyone can fault that.

I'd have to agree with Pete about the blue on the coat, I think I'd probably leave it plain.
Don't suppose she has blue eyes...?

 

[Garry Lee]

She has blue eyes, but light blue.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Great capture! I'm sorry to have to agree with the last two comments about the blue on the coat, but it's a fantastic shot!! How those fools on DP don't see that I will not know.

 

[Garry Lee]

Great capture! I'm sorry to have to agree with the last two comments about the blue on the coat, but it's a fantastic shot!! How those fools on DP don't see that I will not know.

They don't look at "images" but at photographs. I learnt to look at images themselves from years of showing my photos to non-photographers and their appreciation of photos has little to do with technical quality. It has to do with the story the photo tells, emotion, facial expression and so on. I've had some of my wedding stuff slated by people on line, but I know my constituency. The people I shoot love it. I only do it for friends and relatives. Technical quality is nice when you get it, and mostly you do, but don't chuck out stuff ONLY because of imperfect results. They can be your best shots!

This shot below was really rated by the bride and by other people in a recent wedding I did. To a photographer this can be a bit of a mystery!!


Roly Poly by gearoidmuar, on Flickr

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Full of energy that photo Garry, it may not be the expected formal shot that the non photographer would appreciate, but to me these are the shots that make a photo a photo......., quirky, unexpected, fantastically composed, original, and full of good energy!!
The technicality doesn't have to be spot on at all.... The important thing is to get that shot there and then!!

 

[Brian Moore]

I think this is a really good shot. Your daughter's challenging gaze really speaks to the viewer as if he or she were intruding. Personally I'm not too bothered by the color of the jacket. I like the fingers and hand emerging from the darkness lower left, though. Well done, Garry.

 

[Garry Lee]

thanks Brian. Her hand makes it as a composition for me

 

[Hamish Gill]

It's a great shot!
Most folks on DPR have lost thier way... Or never found it...

I am going to go one step further than the others and say I don't like the blue full stop ... But then I'm not often to fond of selective colour...

That's just me though, and I think the shot it's self - compositional and content is spot on!
She has a great expression on her face!

That wedding shot is great too! Although I would def go b&w ... But then I'm not sure I have taken a colour photo for a while now...