A bit of help

I've been working on a project for the past while but due to a hard drive crash I lost all the pics but a few. Just curious about peoples opinions on the ones I saved, I need 5-8 pics and would value any suggestions on which if any pics to use.

The project is supposed to be influenced by Martin Parr and I hope it

Here they are.

Here are the ones I'm considering using

Zillah

You realise that you can get some/most/all of that data back for a small fee from a lot of places, right?

Zillah

Zillah wrote: »

You realise that you can get some/most/all of that data back for a small fee from a lot of places, right?

I've all ready reused the memory card a few times and when I brought my lap top in they told me that they couldn't get the photos back. I've gone from a few hundred pics to just 35, really annoying but all I need is 5-8 pictures so it's not that bad.

Here are the pics with a bit of tweaking, think they look much better now.

DaireQuinlan

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Here are the pics with a bit of tweaking, think they look much better now.

Irrespective of the quality of the pictures themselves, which don't really do anything for me, I don't think you're doing them any favours with the editing. Anything even remotely white in the images has been blown out completely, it looks very jarring.

AnCatDubh

Parr is a really interesting guy. I'm no Martin Parr historian or biographer but in my minds eye, Martin Parr tends to have clearly defined subjects in his compositions - the girl in the chip shop, the socialite with the stained dress (i'm sure there are proper names on these), the lady on the Brighton beach, etc... Again my minds eye tells me that Martin Parr would have been up much closer than 1, 5 and 6 in your first post. Also, Parr's work tends to have lots of colour (sometimes slightly muted) of an era which gives a dated impression to the resulting image - or - at least the colour aids and assists the isolation of the subject within the composition.

But I can't really say the above with any degree of authority.

Does your particular project call for all landscape formats to the images?

Not sure if any of that helps, but my twopence worth anyhow.

AnCatDubh

AnCatDubh wrote: »

Parr is a really interesting guy. I'm no Martin Parr historian or biographer but in my minds eye, Martin Parr tends to have clearly defined subjects in his compositions - the girl in the chip shop, the socialite with the stained dress (i'm sure there are proper names on these), the lady on the Brighton beach, etc... Again my minds eye tells me that Martin Parr would have been up much closer than 1, 5 and 6 in your first post. Also, Parr's work tends to have lots of colour (sometimes slightly muted) of an era which gives a dated impression to the resulting image - or - at least the colour aids and assists the isolation of the subject within the composition.

But I can't really say the above with any degree of authority.

Does your particular project call for all landscape formats to the images?

Not sure if any of that helps, but my twopence worth anyhow.

The brief was somewhat underwritten and doesn't contain much in the way of detail. Our project has to show some influence by the a photographer we studied and I chose Parr. I know one lad went out and just re staged pictures of Parr's and while it looked good it was completely unoriginal and original composition is underlined twice in the brief.

The pictures I'm using are not the ones I originally planned but I have to make the most of what I have. I would go out and re-shoot it again or change the subject but once we submit our proposal we cannot change it.

I played around with the pictures in photo-shop and think that they now look much better the link is in my post above yours. Keep your fingers crossed he likes them, though given that he gives 60% of the mark to a portfolio the photos really aren't that important. One lad passed last year and didn't take a single photo. He just did the paper work.