Post Your Work(photo only)

**NHRB** · 15.08.2012, 19:07

Hey guys,

My name is Nick. Im putting on a group photography show in London, UK
at the end of September. I am looking for photographic submissions
from at least 10 photographers, artists, film makers or just guys that
are involved in rollerblading. The aim is not to showcase
rollerblading, but to bring together rollerbladers and their art work
in a single place, creating an open platform for everyones work to be
viewed by the public.

The theme of the show will loosely be Discarded. incase you don't know what that means.
To throw away, or reject.

the guide lines are simple and as follows

-you must be a rollerblader
-one image will be displayed at the show per person. send no more than
5 if you cant decide
-you must submit your image to me as JPG/jpeg/tif at 300dpi and be
able to print up to A3 (no raws - use dropbox for tiffs)
-submissions by the 20th september latest.
-you must make sure you check your images, anything black and white,
be aware that I am having these images C-type printed on archive
paper, blacks can look a little light, make sure your blacks are
black.
-NO ACTION SPORTS photos, this isn't a rollerblading exhibition, its
just strictly for rollerbladers only to enter. think 'FILM POR VIDA'
print exchange
-NO CATS. not tumblr either.
-you must be over 18 if you want to attend the event as it will be at
a bar (who am i kidding, there will be no bouncers and ill be too
stressed out to care)
-please give your name (as you wish it to be displayed) and title of
the image with your submission. links to any portfolios and contact
details.
-Your work will be printed in a limited edition zine that will be for
sale on the night. you will get a copy for free for being involved, if
you cant make it, add an address and ill mail one too you.
-if you want to sell your print (framed/unframed) let me know how much
and i will label it with a price.
-sponsers, if you want to attach your brand, clothing company, wheel
company, crew, blog, fashion house etc please do so, its totally free,
just email me a logo and promise to promote our event via a tweet, a
blog post or social networky things. im paying for everything,
printing, framing, zine printing, and will make my money back off of
the bar ill get 10% of the total of the nights takings. if we make
about 400 quid like last time, then that means i get 40 quid, so
printing will be covered.
-bring all your friends. group art shows are a great chance to
network, catch up with friends in real life and collaborate on
projects.

If you have met me you will know I like a drink and so Im talking to
Tiger beer and Kopparberg cider about sponsoring the show with some
free alcohol. either way the bar will throw us a free bottles and some
Tequilla and some Jagerbombs for the fact that Grifs blade video did
really well when it preimered there last month.

and again if you know me you'll know that i love free stuff, so please
bring t-shirts, zines, bussiness cards, prints, anything you can give
away, sell, donate.

Film makers, there is a big massive screen and projector, it would be
great to show blading movies and edits. however it must be on dvd
format.

please pass this out to other people who you may think are interested.
if this works it would be great to get it in a gallery next time. This
will be my 3rd group showing and Im really excited for this to be the
best so far.

please forward this email to your friends and thank you and I hope to
hear from and see you all soon.

[email protected]

**chris duke** · 16.08.2012, 09:07

Let me know what you guys think!

I tried to follow the rule of 1/3's, but not too sure if they appear that way now.

**jonathan** · 16.08.2012, 10:40

I would have shot it landscape or whatever it's called. But i'm not really a photographer. Just a boner.

**chris duke** · 16.08.2012, 10:57

I only wanted the squirrel and the sweater to be visible. The girl wearing it is rather skinny, so you would have gotten a lot more than I wanted to show, had I taken it in landscape.

Boner.... Tee hee hee

**jonathan** · 16.08.2012, 11:08

Could you have somehow included some boobs?

**gen2roller** · 16.08.2012, 14:06

critique mode

1. i cant tell what's going on, stuffed animal in a sweater? way too much dead space with the subject being hidden from view

2. better that you can see the face but selective color is what 14 year old girls do with their iphone to make it the uninteresting photo they took "interesting" it almost never works, and it doesn't work here.. it actually makes me think about how awful selective color is instead of the photo. but if it were in color or b&w the wrinkles are distracting and so is the sweater band at the bottom

3. probably the best composition but again, what am i looking at? I think you need to step back (mayber have her with her arms flat at her sides and include a little in a landscape orientation) or get in even closer. if you wanted to do something where it was all sweater, and the animal popping its head out at a 3rd I think it would be cool. the sweater here just doesn't work, the band on the bottom doesn't match the rest of the fabric and makes the idea not work. maybe she could have grabbed the bottom corners and stretched the sweater out to give you more of a flat surface. why are you watermarking these, just curious?

I don't know what the story is behind these pix but that's what I thought looking at them

**chris duke** · 16.08.2012, 14:22

Yikes.

I'm guessing selective color is an application or something? I had to do that with a brush ha.

For me I loved the fact that the squirrel was hiding his face, that coupled with the sweater pocket made it seem like he was "hiding."

The band is the exact same as the band on the pocket, so it does go with the rest of the sweater as there are 2 pockets.

The final is the tail of the 2nd squirrel that was running around on her shoulders and what not, but came down for a quick second to see what was going on.

I do appreciate your opinion though. It is easy for me to enjoy the picture because I know the full story behind it and as you pointed out, it doesn't make sense to the viewer.

Finally, the watermarking is because we put them on all of our pictures that go on our facebook page.

**chris duke** · 16.08.2012, 14:26

Fucking fuck, keep trying to post a picture but photo bucket blows nuts.

**gen2roller** · 16.08.2012, 14:36

Originally Posted by chris duke

What about this photo?

This was edited with shitty windows before I got Lightroom.... Yes, lightroom.

haha sorry man I'm really not trying to be a dick, I've just been doing it for a while. In school you get some pretty harsh ones.

the background is not great, and I have trouble with this in my photos too. lately i've been trying to frame a nice picture and then bring in a subject. some photographer said once "everything in my background is meant to be there" or something of that nature. For that photo I'm not liking him in the middle of the frame. You don't have to do rule of thirds, but for something like that, maybe have some leading lines going up to him. The rail takes away some attention from him. t Why not use that hallway at the top of the stairs? if he were in the center and you used the fence and wall to lead up to him it could have been more powerful. He looks a bit soft but I can never trust that due to various compressions. it's a bit flat too

i probably sound overly harsh because i have no emotional investment into the photo and there is no reason to be soft haha. it's mostly subjective and just because i criticize it doesn't mean a client would.

**chris duke** · 16.08.2012, 14:47

Well with that photo I should tell the story.

I was taking pictures of my friends skating the ledge above, and this guy wondered over to see what was up. He hung around for a little bit and seemed to enjoy what we were doing.

I turned to snap a picture and he looked right into the camera. I walked over to ask if I could do another, and he said no.

So that was my one shot haha

I am fine with critisizing my photos, that is why I post them here. Always trying to get better and I know it might take a while!

**gen2roller** · 16.08.2012, 14:49

o word i thought it was a portrait thing

***crooked*** · 16.08.2012, 16:56

Originally Posted by gen2roller

haha sorry man I'm really not trying to be a dick, I've just been doing it for a while. In school you get some pretty harsh ones.

the background is not great, and I have trouble with this in my photos too. lately i've been trying to frame a nice picture and then bring in a subject. some photographer said once "everything in my background is meant to be there" or something of that nature. For that photo I'm not liking him in the middle of the frame. You don't have to do rule of thirds, but for something like that, maybe have some leading lines going up to him. The rail takes away some attention from him. t Why not use that hallway at the top of the stairs? if he were in the center and you used the fence and wall to lead up to him it could have been more powerful. He looks a bit soft but I can never trust that due to various compressions. it's a bit flat too

i probably sound overly harsh because i have no emotional investment into the photo and there is no reason to be soft haha. it's mostly subjective and just because i criticize it doesn't mean a client would.

in critiques its good to be harsh
only way to learn what you did wrong in the photo is to hear the bad and maybe its me but i feel when my teachers are more harsh during critiques i learn more.

**bobgross** · 16.08.2012, 17:34

Pssst...I could use some harsh critiques too guize.
But seriously.

**chris duke** · 16.08.2012, 21:03

Originally Posted by *crooked*

in critiques its good to be harsh
only way to learn what you did wrong in the photo is to hear the bad and maybe its me but i feel when my teachers are more harsh during critiques i learn more.

Well I'm a HUGE pussy, so don't be too harsh haha

**fast eddie** · 16.08.2012, 21:11

Originally Posted by chris duke

Well I'm a HUGE pussy, so don't be too harsh haha

My boss used to be really harsh for the first 3 months that I worked for him. Not to be mean, but to hep me learn what I was doing wrong. He wasn't nasty about it, he would just explain why the image didn't work and how it should have been shot given the circumstances. I never took any of it personally, I trust his judgement 100%. He's the pro, not me.

I edit every wedding that I am involved with be it as lead or 2nd shooter, so I don't make the same in-camera mistakes that I used to make when I was starting out.

Now, the only thing he really does when I hand him an edit is make a few adjustments to how I cropped something. The last wedding I edited he only slightly re-cropped 5 images out of 725, and didn't touch any of the others for any reason at all.

Feels good, man.