KillRamsey
Hall of Famer
- Location
- Hood River, OR
- Name
- Kyle
My question: Do any of these make you want to go see these places?
Background: The wife is starting a website that curates city bike routes, starting where we live (Boston) and eventually moving on to 8 or 9 other cities. The idea is to have maps and routes with write-ups and a photo of each stop. I'll be doing all the photography and writing. So that means for now, it's all about the X100, unless I happen to have a suitable older shot from a film camera. I made the decision to only use b&w images for the site, because I think it shows you enough to (potentially) get you to want to go do that, but not so much that when you get there, you've "already seen it." If that makes sense... anyway, I'm decided on that part. No color for this. And I am watermarking the images with her logo, so that when they get used all over the web (4Square, Google Maps, Instagram, etc), people can figure out where it came from.
Saturday was my first trial run... we rode the whole 10 or 12 mile "Charles River" route, which goes from Mt Auburn Cemetery in western cambridge all the way to the Science Museum, more or less, and around and back. I hit each stop and have a minute or two to figure out a shot or three, so whatever time of day it was, that's the light I had. I shot raw + fine, with the jpg's set to b&w (Green or Red filter), and so far I actually got the exposures the way I wanted them often enough literally do no post whatsoever on more than half. That saved a lot of time.
I created a flickr account and dumped them all there. Here are the ones I liked the best. This is a lot harder even than I thought it would be. I would REALLY like constructive criticism. So far friends have explained that having people in the shots sometimes helps viewers identify with the scene and "want" to be there, which is great... I was avoiding people and creating what they called "nice architectural photos," as opposed to my actual goal, "nice travel photos" that sorta sell the idea.
In no particular order, some of the ones I like:
<iframe src="15 - Revere Park 2" height="531" width="800" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe src="19 - North Bank Bridge" height="531" width="800" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe src="35 - Cardullos" height="531" width="800" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe src="30 - Simmons 2" height="531" width="800" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
Background: The wife is starting a website that curates city bike routes, starting where we live (Boston) and eventually moving on to 8 or 9 other cities. The idea is to have maps and routes with write-ups and a photo of each stop. I'll be doing all the photography and writing. So that means for now, it's all about the X100, unless I happen to have a suitable older shot from a film camera. I made the decision to only use b&w images for the site, because I think it shows you enough to (potentially) get you to want to go do that, but not so much that when you get there, you've "already seen it." If that makes sense... anyway, I'm decided on that part. No color for this. And I am watermarking the images with her logo, so that when they get used all over the web (4Square, Google Maps, Instagram, etc), people can figure out where it came from.
Saturday was my first trial run... we rode the whole 10 or 12 mile "Charles River" route, which goes from Mt Auburn Cemetery in western cambridge all the way to the Science Museum, more or less, and around and back. I hit each stop and have a minute or two to figure out a shot or three, so whatever time of day it was, that's the light I had. I shot raw + fine, with the jpg's set to b&w (Green or Red filter), and so far I actually got the exposures the way I wanted them often enough literally do no post whatsoever on more than half. That saved a lot of time.
I created a flickr account and dumped them all there. Here are the ones I liked the best. This is a lot harder even than I thought it would be. I would REALLY like constructive criticism. So far friends have explained that having people in the shots sometimes helps viewers identify with the scene and "want" to be there, which is great... I was avoiding people and creating what they called "nice architectural photos," as opposed to my actual goal, "nice travel photos" that sorta sell the idea.
In no particular order, some of the ones I like:
<iframe src="15 - Revere Park 2" height="531" width="800" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe src="19 - North Bank Bridge" height="531" width="800" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe src="35 - Cardullos" height="531" width="800" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe src="30 - Simmons 2" height="531" width="800" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>