IJskonIJn's "art"

[IJskonIJn]

I do a little photography:


Let's start with my masterpiece:

http://a551.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/106/l_fbb51bcc25ae1f378c35615412b7c36e.jpg

Bruges, this is how i make a boring schooltrip fun:

http://a371.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/106/l_415aca6c615e9dbd30da27b7b59d6a02.jpg

http://a114.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/69/l_19b3fb6e0266568d1ee4c40f2a6b15e1.jpg

http://a317.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/95/l_89ef5d24bd36537189888e9f94876dbc.jpg

http://a367.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/91/l_6d8c5be22b03d61d6d03a08850b1500e.jpg


London (same story, but this trip wasn't boring):

http://a844.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/96/l_a541699ea0e97a815bbc5af2f183019b.jpg

http://a491.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/25/l_4a9ffd58ae2344e6e2aa6c962691ccfa.jpg

http://a705.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/34/l_dca7c05c7037979774b9043410948260.jpg

http://a515.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/92/l_a0b8428213a3c70d9d38f074211edf82.jpg

That's it for now, if you like them, i'll update some more

[Xobim]

Those BW-pictures are AWESOME. You've done a great job with the coffee mug, I love it. :)

[Stijn]

Those look very good. One small point: watch your horizon. Some church towers seem tilted to the right or left.

[Radium]

I second Xobim fully, though my personal favorite is the fourth. The contrast is amazing, especially how the people are visible as silhouettes against the reflective road. It implies their presence without making them obvious or central to the image.

I personally don't like the color ones as much; they might be good alone, but right next to your grayscale photos they look much less crisp, like maybe you used a different camera (except the statue, which looks very sharp). I think the main difference between the first photos and the latter ones is the lack of contrast; they are too busy and colorful, especially the cityscape ones, and the angles they are taken from are too generic. I think the shot of the bridge could've been great in terms of contrast (with the light colored building against a dark sky), but all the bursts of light are too distracting.

Of course, I'm hardly a photography critic. I wouldn't feel right saying "try less bursts of light next time" when it's really out of your control who has their lights on and who doesn't. There's an element of luck there I can only be in awe at; that you were able to capture these moments naturally rather than create them must take an unimaginable timing, and I'd feel bad saying "time better". But regardless, the best advice I can give is to keep contrast in mind.

Have you considered posting your work on stock photography sites? I know on some you can get paid by people using your images, while others are free, usually just with a term of use like "let me know anywhere you use it". There is definitely a demand, as few designers take their own photography for their products.

[Bboy Type7]

nice shots =D. i'd do some photoshop on it. the first ain't bad. the rest looks like just random photos being taken.

[Fawriel]

What Radium said. Fourth is amazing, I also like the yellow-ish one and the last one. I can't even explain why I like the last one, it's just something about the light and stuff that makes it look like it was just intended to be that way.

[IJskonIJn]

@ Radium

The Contrast between the colored (or coloured?) photos and the gray (grey?) photos are only there because i posted them together in one post. If i had posted the bruges photo's and the london photos not together, you may have liked them all.

[Xobim]

nice shots =D. i'd do some photoshop on it. the first ain't bad. the rest looks like just random photos being taken.Except not...:roll:

BTW, what camera did you use, Ijskonijn? The time-lapse came out nicely on the 7th picture, but it wasn't so visible in the last photo. You should've focussed more on the ferris wheel, since it gives a nice glow. The buildings on the background are very obstructive in some way. Parts of the picture are a swirl of motion, while the buildings aren't and just stand there... I don't like the contrast, because the buildings are too "powerful" in that contrast.
But that's just my thought on the last photo; Ignore it if you want to...

And why is Bruges so boring? I was there a few days ago and I loved it!

[IJskonIJn]

Bruges wasn't boring, the schooltrip was ;). It was horrible, it was freezing so our hands were frozen, but we had to write down everything the teacher said. And in the bus some guy started to puke because he was roadsick.

But anyway

My (well, my dad's) camera is a Olympus C-310 Zoom:
http://resource.wide10.com/uploaded_images/Olympus-c310-zoom.jpg
It's horrible to work with it, it does everything automatically. The only way i can take those Time-lapse photo's is to take the Flitser* off, and hope the ISO stays low

*(I don't know what the English word is, it's the flashing white light when you take photo)

[Radium]

@ Radium

The Contrast between the colored (or coloured?) photos and the gray (grey?) photos are only there because i posted them together in one post. If i had posted the bruges photo's and the london photos not together, you may have liked them all.I specifically mentioned that =P. I wouldn't say I'd've liked them all the same, but having them so close together really emphasizes their differences. First ones show you are capable of taking much more interesting photos than the last bunch.

*(I don't know what the English word is, it's the flashing white light when you take photo)"Flash". Though I have to admit I like the sound of "flitser" more.

[Fawriel]

"Flash". Though I have to admit I like the sound of "flitser" more.

Wait till you hear their word for riding a bike.

[Xobim]

Bruges wasn't boring, the schooltrip was ;). It was horrible, it was freezing so our hands were frozen, but we had to write down everything the teacher said. And in the bus some guy started to puke because he was roadsick.

But anyway

My (well, my dad's) camera is a Olympus C-310 Zoom:
http://resource.wide10.com/uploaded_images/Olympus-c310-zoom.jpg
It's horrible to work with it, it does everything automatically. The only way i can take those Time-lapse photo's is to take the Flitser* off, and hope the ISO stays low

*(I don't know what the English word is, it's the flashing white light when you take photo)Taking those kind of pictures with an auto-camera is pretty awesome. The quality of my pictures taken with my dads Canon Powershot A85 on manual mode doesn't even come close at all. ;)

[Sacrush]

fietsen?

[Fawriel]

YES!<o>

[IJskonIJn]

Here are some pics from denmark i made last year

http://a281.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/56/l_7c6e27082bb6e370c892b0b694258b00.jpg

http://a694.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/43/l_57b0ecf9595956c8d2ed1b5b99d57b5d.jpg

http://a863.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/13/l_513b600ee844d846ed9d93c2d7c57056.jpg

http://a329.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/107/l_48aaa7850e58e4b693935f4c91e520b0.jpg

http://a115.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/100/l_f81148a7926fad848cdfebb8e09913f2.jpg

[Coppertop]

I really like the first and third shots in your latest post. The second one I think is bland, partly because the picture is cut nearly in half - half sky, half boat. Keep the rule of thirds in mind.
I don't like the last one. There's no real point of interest and again the horizon is in the middle of the picture.

[IJskonIJn]

PUKKELPOP 2008
(A Festival in belgium)
http://a893.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/93/l_b42aec81f4d43c2ac150ec66242c386c.jpg
http://a885.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/37/l_d1f6e8d7a9286b708278b879429a885c.jpg
http://a960.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/94/l_baf303f84e121345331142ba4a41711f.jpg
http://a874.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/68/l_65456bef41613c3ab3ae5c8241bc6139.jpg
http://a460.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/12/l_09eb979ac53fe428ebb52d19f1978dd3.jpg
http://a544.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/107/l_b2ebe0f53258ba2328cdfc349763e657.jpg
http://a77.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/43/l_c45484a6249cb93e14d8c6844afc881c.jpg

All photo's are made with an oldschool camera so sometimes the quality kinda sucks :\

[Nonomu198]

What's with the resolution?

The first one is not so interesting, the flags on the second looks cool, and the lasers with the hands are a bit creepy (in a cool way though).


Cameras are the one thing I don't like oldschool p:

[IJskonIJn]

Yeah, but the digital is my dads, and he didn't trusted me with that thing at a festival :P

[Xobim]

I'm totally digging the purple lights. Awesome job you did there!

[Lihualee]

thanks a lot , bump up up up!!