Comments on: Gulf Photo Plus :: Dubai :: March 1st – 6th

By: ali

ali — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:18:50 +0000

persian gulf is true

By: Muzna

Muzna — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:18:03 +0000

The One Light workshop was absolutely amazing! Cant wait to have you back here in November, im signing up for everything! Next time, pls let me take you out shooting.

By: Tareq

Tareq — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:45:33 +0000

Good luck for all!

I never attended any of the GPP workshops because i live far away from Dubai and it is expensive to pay for workshops when i am not practicing myself, also the time of those workshops are bad, i have work morning until afternoon, i can’t pay for workshops fully to attend part of it, at least i will attend that Friday Day even i attended last year and i didn’t see it any worthy.

Good luck again to all in Dubai GPP!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:15:24 +0000

Hey Zack – any chance this image could be used in a poster design I’m working on? I assume it’s not available, but thought I’d run it by you just in case. As always, keep up the amazing work!

By: zack

zack — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:29:11 +0000

You are correct Reza! Gotta remember that!

Cheers,
Zack

By: Alan Lougher

Alan Lougher — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:05:17 +0000

Z – I don’t know why but I keep coming back to this image, got it sort of stuck in my head. Simply awesome mate.

By: Adam Loewen

Adam Loewen — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:59:35 +0000

Such an awesome picture. I love the red dress. Wish I could go to Dubai. I grew up in the middle east and would love to go back. Maybe one day.

By: Mohammad Jassem Buyabes

Mohammad Jassem Buyabes — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:53:09 +0000

hey Zack,
At last i can say (SEE YA THERE).. i was so lucky to get the last seat for you one light workshop in GPP next month (although i really wanted the location workshop :s ) but been too busy with work that i totally forgot about GPP this year.
i’m really looking forward for the workshop. i haven’t been to any workshops before so do you have any advice for me?

By: Reza

Reza — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:26:04 +0000

Dear Zack

Remember to say the full name : Persian Gulf

Cheerz

Reza – Iran

By: zack

zack — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:43:35 +0000

Roger – A few things here on why this works for me. First, it is the turning moment in a larger photo story and the feeling of things just a bit off, lost, and overwhelming work with the angle being just off a bit. Second, the way she is framed and standing at the same angle as all of the rest of the buildings does not scream “OMG tilted camera!” like many images I comment on during critiques. Lastly, that’s the full frame as shot. We were standing in a driving rain storm. I’m talking an absolute downpour and I had to shoot blind, meaning I wasn’t looking through the viewfinder. Add to that my camera was going down and was barely capturing an image. I had to hold the lens half way unmounted to get this shot. Nothing more fun than watching water drip out of the mirror box of a D3. $400 later the camera is just fine!

I did try to crop the image to see if a straightened horizon helped the image at all but the crop completely killed the entire composition for me. The only thing I would really change about this image is going back in and removing the names off the buildings and street signs. I want the location to be a little more generic.

If you go back through the critiques you’ll find that the tilted horizons I comment on are there for no other reason than trying to be “artistic”. There are images I comment on with tilted horizons and I say that it works for that image more than it would work for another. It isn’t always a bad thing.

Had I been looking through the viewfinder for this image I probably would have shot it straight and leaning so I could have options later but we had just a brief moment of having that street clear of traffic that I would not have had much time to try a lot of things.

I don’t want you to think I’m just making excuses here but I just want you to know the nasty conditions combined with the very, very, very short time we had to get this shot pulled off.

Cheers,
Zack