December Voting thread - Contre Jour

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

You can vote for as many as you like and have 7 days to vote

[John Steed]

Smoker,Robcal & One for me in that order.

[smoker]

Robcal and Steeeeed for me, both meet the remit, demonstrate a significant amount of planning and are well composed.

Tom Tom Macute - meets the remit, but I think the composition could be better/more interesting. (same would apply to my shot tbf)

One - suffers from being taken using a phone from the window of a moving aeroplane

Peachbum - like the way she has continued her abstract theme but it doesn't immediately speak 'contrejour' to me.

Amnorrageordie - love the idea but feels a little overcooked.

[peachbum]

Originally Posted by smoker

Peachbum - like the way she has continued her abstract theme but it doesn't immediately speak 'contrejour' to me.

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Thanks smoker, I thought people may think it wasn't contrejour. But, in my defence, it was taken in a dark room, the only source of light being behind the subject and the camera facing the light source. How much more contre-jour could it be?

[Heeeed the Ball]

I really do like the effort put into this comp, well done all

[TiredEyes]

tom tom macute - Perhaps you've been caught in two minds with trying to get lots of themes into one shot.

Steeeeed - Brilliant contre jour shot - VOTE

robcal - Another superb shot, can't choose a winner between you and Steeeed - VOTE


smoker - S'ok, the object isn't very interesting though.

one - sorry fella, I can't see your shot

peachbum - Not contre jour imo, tried too hard, looks like a xmas card in negative.

Amnorrageordie - Doesn't fit the theme for me.

[peachbum]

Not many entries this month, guess it was a "duplicate" theme and Christmas that put people off. I'll just say why I have/haven't voted, and as there is a new entrant, please as ever remember all comments are made in good faith.

TomTomMacute - pull you to pieces!
I like that you have pulled several themes into one and done it at the SOL etc, very good. I like the frame! However the picture doesn't quite grab. The left hand side is spoiled with too much light? And I''m not sure what I am meant to be looking at really. I think possibly there was a picture there if you had walked to the right and got down low and worked with the cyclist (and the statue too) perhaps?

Steed - Photo of the month for me and looks like you possibly will win. It isn't my favourite picture of yours but I think you have missed out on votes you should have got in previous months, so hopefully you will win. ( I personally am not a fan of the sun shining through and "burning" out your silouhette (sp?), whether this is a fault of digital photography or not I'm not sure. ) VOTE

Robcal Going to call this as I see it, hope you don't mind. I think this was all too easy, you stood and waited for the sun to be in the right position and snapped and got your photo. Everything else about taking photos was forgotten, it looks like the sky was under exposed, if the sun was in that position I guess the sky was much brighter. If you shoot into the light the lens closes down and you get under exposed photos. You need to open up. Or, face away from the light, expose and fix the exposure, then turn round and take the photo. I think the rule of thirds can be ignored and the central positioning of main subject isn't too bad? I think I would have placed it off centre maybe? There is a bit too much dark and uninteresting foreground. The horizon slopes. The clouds are lovely. Sorry if I sound harsh! Cue robcal saying he underexposed the sky on purpose and wanted a centrally placed subject!

Smoker - I don't think this is contre-jour? I'll listen to anyone who says it is though. I'm a fan of your star photography Smoker but I'm not a fan of fish eye lens/photography, so no vote from me. Would it have been better if you had made more of the sky and less of the (lit) house windows?

One - Like it. This is one photo that a tad of post production could be good (just to remove the little bit of window frame at bottom right) - ? I won't say anything about the curved horizon. VOTE

Mine - I really wanted to do an outdoor photograph as I did an indoor one for contre-jour 1. Went to the coast hoping to get some kind of silouhette/sunset with some good scenery or shapes but grey clouds and rain put paid to that. Only had a few days that were free to go out and about and it has just been a constant grey this month. So as I wanted to enter I did an indoor one again.

Amnorrageordie - timed exposure/night photography or contre-jour? The photo is a bit too busy, and not very well composed for me.

H A P P Y N E W Y E A R ALL!

[smoker]

Originally Posted by peachbum

Not many entries this month, guess it was a "duplicate" theme and Christmas that put people off. I'll just say why I have/haven't voted, and as there is a new entrant, please as ever remember all comments are made in good faith.

TomTomMacute - pull you to pieces!
I like that you have pulled several themes into one and done it at the SOL etc, very good. I like the frame! However the picture doesn't quite grab. The left hand side is spoiled with too much light? And I''m not sure what I am meant to be looking at really. I think possibly there was a picture there if you had walked to the right and got down low and worked with the cyclist (and the statue too) perhaps?

Steed - Photo of the month for me and looks like you possibly will win. It isn't my favourite picture of yours but I think you have missed out on votes you should have got in previous months, so hopefully you will win. ( I personally am not a fan of the sun shining through and "burning" out your silouhette (sp?), whether this is a fault of digital photography or not I'm not sure. ) VOTE

Robcal Going to call this as I see it, hope you don't mind. I think this was all too easy, you stood and waited for the sun to be in the right position and snapped and got your photo. Everything else about taking photos was forgotten, it looks like the sky was under exposed, if the sun was in that position I guess the sky was much brighter. If you shoot into the light the lens closes down and you get under exposed photos. You need to open up. Or, face away from the light, expose and fix the exposure, then turn round and take the photo. I think the rule of thirds can be ignored and the central positioning of main subject isn't too bad? I think I would have placed it off centre maybe? There is a bit too much dark and uninteresting foreground. The horizon slopes. The clouds are lovely. Sorry if I sound harsh! Cue robcal saying he underexposed the sky on purpose and wanted a centrally placed subject!

Smoker - I don't think this is contre-jour? I'll listen to anyone who says it is though. I'm a fan of your star photography Smoker but I'm not a fan of fish eye lens/photography, so no vote from me. Would it have been better if you had made more of the sky and less of the (lit) house windows?

One - Like it. This is one photo that a tad of post production could be good (just to remove the little bit of window frame at bottom right) - ? I won't say anything about the curved horizon. VOTE

Mine - I really wanted to do an outdoor photograph as I did an indoor one for contre-jour 1. Went to the coast hoping to get some kind of silouhette/sunset with some good scenery or shapes but grey clouds and rain put paid to that. Only had a few days that were free to go out and about and it has just been a constant grey this month. So as I wanted to enter I did an indoor one again.

Amnorrageordie - timed exposure/night photography or contre-jour? The photo is a bit too busy, and not very well composed for me.

H A P P Y N E W Y E A R ALL!

It's backlit by the full moon, hence the title. I accept it's harder to get the same effect with the moon as the sun like.

[ThankHeavenForShed 7]

Excellent work all round. I've voted for Steeeed...must've been pretty difficult to get the starbust in exactly the right spot. It shows a good combination of composition, planning, and technical knowledge. I had a shot that I was going to put in but I saw yours and thought "that's basically what I was trying to do but 10 times better"!

[Amnorrageordie]

Steeeeed and Smoker for me. Two great shots.