I pinged Chris, the leader from our walk, and asked if we would be able to see others' photos once she finished judging the submissions and she said she wasn't sure. She also said several people never submitted a photo.
Here's the one I submitted. I went back and forth between this, an IR and the couple shot. It's posted above in color, and my brother, after seeing my other two candidates, encouraged me to try a black and white edit of this shot since (for some odd reason) I never shot an IR of this building. I guess it helps to have spent more than half your life envisioning things in shades of grey to see something I didn't as I so much prefer this one. So if I somehow win the walk, I'm tearing the book you win in half and sharing it with my brother. LOL
After I saw this image of Jake's, I went back to Princeton University a week after the walk trying to replicate it. Mine didn't turn out quite so perfectly as Jake's did. I *thought* I was standing directly in front of the corner, but my perspective is off slightly so the right and left sides aren't exactly even.
For those who are newer to photography, wide angle lenses can distort perspective (such as when someone takes a photo of a dog's face and the nose is grossly exaggerated. Although I didn't have as wide an angle lens to use like Jake used here (plus I used a DX camera while Jake's was taken with FX), my perspective was off. It's a much more difficult shot to nail than it looks.
And for the record, there was a shot jdeg took which I liked so much I tried to replicate it, too. It's one of the same building where the shadows and light come through the pillars. His shot turned out much nicer.
That day I went back to Princeton, I was in search of a building I wasn't able to find during our Photo Walk. When I finished, I packed my camera away and asked for directions to get back to Nassau Street. I emerged onto the street at a different place and immediately recognized the scene as being quite similar to the one Jake shot with the couple underneath a canopy of trees (a photo above where I asked Jake if he used HDR). There was a guy sitting on a bench with a dog, so I took out my camera and got a shot. I still have to edit it. When I finish editing the photos of my second trip to Princeton, I will post a new thread and compare their 3 photos with mine (don't worry, theirs are all better than mine!) :applause: It makes me appreciate the talents of others all the more because isn't always easy to replicate what someone else has done. I definitely prefer their 3 photos over what I took, but it was a learning experience. In fact, I liked the perspective of this corner shot so much that I applied the same technique to a different building. I wound up with a shot I absolutely love.
Thanks Jake!!!
Sorry Eduard, I didn't see any hammock.
lol!
