Thanks, Ken. I appreciate your comments. I totally agree that the longer
I have to spend with a scene, the better photos I get. If I can hang
around until people forget that I'm taking photos, I can get closer and
more intimate photos. That's the kind of photography I love. A lot of
the hurried ones will sell just fine as stock, though. ;-)
TIna
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tina wrote:
> > Very helpful, Bob! Exactly the kind of advice I was hoping for!
> > Thanks! I will look at cropping more.
>
> I agree with Bob, but the problem is that your photography is both
> "art" and "stock". The stock photography is what pays the bills. The
> art photography is what fills the portfolios and pleases other
> photographers who don't actually buy anything.
>
> It seems like most of the comments are in relation to the art side of
> things, but as a stock photographer, I'm thinking about what is going
> to sell. For this, I think that you have a better handle on it than we
> do.
>
> My comment on the style change is one that I still hold to, but I will
> say that the later sets of images show a return to the Tina Manley
> School of Photography that I love. Not entirely, but I sense a shift.
> It looks to me like you were rushed for a lot of the trip and was just
> trying to capture everything as quickly as possible. It also looks to
> me like you didn't so much have those "golden moments" where you were
> able to work a scene and pay for the trip with 20 minutes of work. A
> comparative would be your Vietnam trip, where it appears that your
> best work from the trip occured within a few minutes.
>
> Still, even on a bad day, your photography makes my good days pretty much
> stink.
>
> :)
>
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