What’s Your Preference?

brianxlt · #1 (**permalink**) 11-24-2011, 02:08 AM

What images are you most proud of?

I'm sure many of you have taken pre pland shots that just simply worked everything fell in to place and the processing went great, but are you proud of what you made?

Myself I seem to be most proud of the images I made by accident (unintentional) or rather unplanned. Meaning not a studio shot with lights, camera action type shot but more the I have my camera and simply must get an image of this (whatever it may be) type shot.

IABoomer · #2 (**permalink**) 11-24-2011, 02:25 AM

I try to maintain a Top Ten set on Flickr. Of the things I've taken and uploaded, I feel like these are the ones I'm most happy with that represent the types of things I want/try to do.

Top Ten - a set on Flickr

Of that set, the frozen water at the falls in Sioux Falls, SD is probably my favorite, or at least it's the only one I've made a big print of.

Bruce A · #3 (**permalink**) 11-24-2011, 02:35 AM

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Originally Posted by IABoomer

I try to maintain a Top Ten set on Flickr. Of the things I've taken and uploaded, I feel like these are the ones I'm most happy with that represent the types of things I want/try to do.

Top Ten - a set on Flickr

Of that set, the frozen water at the falls in Sioux Falls, SD is probably my favorite, or at least it's the only one I've made a big print of.

Very nice images Boomer and I like that Top Ten idea - I may even steal it

Bruce A · #4 (**permalink**) 11-24-2011, 02:39 AM

I think the image I'm most proud of is one I took about 32 yrs ago of my in laws - it showed the love they had for each other. My mother-in-law passed away in October. I framed that photograph and we gave it to her husband and it is his favourite. That pleased me immensely.

ceremus · #5 (**permalink**) 11-24-2011, 03:00 AM

Probably my favorite picture is a capture I got from the latter description--unintentional, though I'm more likely to call it "lucky".

Golden Geese in the Field by ceremus, on Flickr

This was earlier in the spring of this year, and I was at a small lake in a botanical garden. I was wandering, trying to spot any wildlife close enough to nab, and I came across a little peninsula of land that jutted into the lake a bit. After just a couple of minutes this little family of geese, two parents and two very young goslings waded in from the water and started grazing not three meters from me, not a care in the world. This was a pretty small spit of land too mind you, couldn't have been more than ten meters across. Knowing the parents could have gotten aggressive with their young so close by, I made sure to give them as much room and freedom to roam around as I could while photographing them, and they never once hissed at me. I think they may have been fairly used to people, I know some of the geese in that park have been tagged. I got a few shots I was happy with, but this one stood out from the rest.

Phoenix_Jackson · #6 (**permalink**) 11-24-2011, 03:34 AM

Most of the times, the shots which I didn't have time to analyze and compose/recompose, are the ones that get more attention. It's over thinking that's usually killing me. The scenes I've successfully taken pictures of, at random and spontaneous moments are the most that I am proud of.

#7 (**permalink**) 11-24-2011, 01:23 PM

The ones I get paid for.

Zeke Menuar · #8 (**permalink**) 11-24-2011, 06:47 PM

This one is my favorite.

This one is the honorable mention. It's a candid shot of my Wife and MIL. They have had an acrimonious on/off relationship over the years. In the past five years they seemed to have mended their fences. I think this pic captures that.

milosh · #9 (**permalink**) 11-24-2011, 06:58 PM

While I somehow seem to get the most praise for this one:
Sleepy sunrise | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I'm actually more proud of this one:

because it was actually my first totally planned landscape shot, it was tricky to shoot and required more difficult processing than any other shot.

Krusty79 · #10 (**permalink**) 11-25-2011, 04:48 AM

I didn't know what to expect when I went down to the beach under the Cliff House in San Francisco with my DSLR for the first time. I ended up with a set that set a new higher standard for myself. I think this was the best one and I also like it because this is the first exposure blend I made (glad I shot RAW).