April 10, 2008
Picture This
You're deep within the confines of a government-run camp of football fanatics, deep within the jungle without your camera. Suddenly, you find a block of wood with a small pin-sized hole in it, a roll of black tape, two pieces of black cardboard and a canister containing 1 roll of Kodak Tri-X ISO 400...
It doesn't look like the projects are that extreme, but Picture This sort of seems to work this way. They setup a weekly project, you read the brief summary, grab your camera and interpret it however you want and then upload your best shot. The Picture This community critiques your work and you continue to improve your shot building your portolio in the process.
Oh, and it's powered by Flickr, which makes it even easier to get involved with.
February 29, 2008
PictPicture
"PictPicture is a place for photographers to upload their work to be voted on by the community. Once an image receives enough votes it graduates from the upcoming page to the front page of the site. It's a great way for photographers to get their work seen and their sites exposure. Photographers just have to register and create a profile to start submitting images."
Basically, it's a photo centric reddit. Not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just not that innovative, at least at first glance. When you think deeper about what it is, it's really a different way to do critiques, but will it work? Obviously more people are going to vote on images that are popular, because they're put right in front of them. I'd love to see PictPicture, focus their attention on creating a great photo browser that changes the way we view online pictures. Something where, PictPicture becomes the definitive way to do community driven critiques.
December 18, 2006
Your Exposure Might Be Off
Photocritic's latest critique talks about exposing for the highlights and developing for the shadows. Aside from the critical points, the best advice from the article is that of the exposure. Given a really bright scene, or a bright portion of the scene you must make sure to not blow out the highlights, and therefore it is best to underexpose a bit (metering the highlights).
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