what do you consider a great photo??

[themadness]

what is the criteria for you to say....."wow that is a GREAT shot!" also, what magazine publications would you say have the best images and turn to for inspiration?

[windrider86]

As far as magazines go, that's impossible to answer. Only because there are tens of thousands of magazines out there and each one would want/need something different.

[Murtasma]

National Geographic has very good landscape and people interest images. Lens work has very good "art" images.

As for criteria it really depends on the type of image we are talking about here as well as the photographers intentions on what the image should convey to the viewer. If the photographer was able to get the viewer to see what they saw then I guess in the simplest form I would consider it a good image.

[themadness]

magazines i usually hit up...

cmyk
juxtapoz
photoshop user
computer arts
beautiful decay
how

these mags are about a 30 min trek from where i live, since we have NO bookstores. i am looking for more readily available subject specific mags that i can pick up most anywhere. i prefer art oriented publications since i am a traditional artist. other than nat geo, etc.....what do you browse when you are in walgreens waiting for a prescription? or in walmart waiting for your significant other to finish shopping?

[RLucas]

Originally Posted by themadness

magazines i usually hit up...

cmyk
juxtapoz
photoshop user
computer arts
beautiful decay
how

these mags are about a 30 min trek from where i live, since we have NO bookstores. i am looking for more readily available subject specific mags that i can pick up most anywhere. i prefer art oriented publications since i am a traditional artist. other than nat geo, etc.....what do you browse when you are in walgreens waiting for a prescription? or in walmart waiting for your significant other to finish shopping?

I look at mostly tattoo and car rags, only if I am in a store. That is just about the only time I pick up a mag. Most of my inspiration comes from people here, and their blogs, if they have one, or flickr.

[themadness]

blogs and such are cool but there is something about holding a mag in your hand and flipping the pages. just seems to stimulate the brain a little more for me.

on another note: r lucas, where is LA north carolina??

[WadeCourtney]

To me a good photo elicits some kind of emotional response--anger, happiness, fear, sorrow, awe. If it doesn't do that for me, then I don't think it's a good shot. I am kind of a beginner. I shoot pictures for me, if everyone else likes it, that's a bonus. But if I don't like it, no matter what anyone else says, I will think it's crap.

[RLucas]

Originally Posted by themadness

on another note: r lucas, where is LA north carolina??

Ha Ha! LA= Lower Asheboro!

[Jim Bryant]

A great photograph...one that makes me want to return time after time to study.

[themadness]

Originally Posted by RLucas

Ha Ha! LA= Lower Asheboro!

half hour south of ft bragg.....this place sucks. used to live in boone. one of the best places in the country, imo.