Comments on: 15 Creative Uses Of Overexposure

By: rarara

rarara — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:12:35 +0000

I really thought some on these were very well done. I especially liked the beach, the metro stop, the bus terminal and the African plain. I think I was more drawn to the ones where more detail was left as opposed to the ones that showed a lot of white. But that is just my opinion. I was looking for good samples of over exposed photos for inspiration for a project that I am doing and I may be thinking more within the work for the project I’m about to do.
As for all the hostility, this is something I find too often in the art world. Some people make no distinction between constructive criticism and just blasting someone’s work. Art can become so subjective, and people let their personal feelings show through much too often. If your going to critique stay objective and then draw subjective conclusions from there. I’ve often had art directors and clients love what I did and then had some hipster art school kid tear apart my work and say it suck and that I need to go back and learn the rules of design.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:52:37 +0000

These have definitely peaked my interest and I agree that too many previous commenters are quick to judge.

One the one hand you can of course say “these fools didn’t know how to use their camera’s” but what about the fools that do, and who then purposely set out to break the “rules” knowing darn well what the proper exposure is and then ignoring it. That takes technical ability too.

Melody Gate’s photo (which is absolutely fantastic) also illustrates a second aspect; ‘good’ photography is often not concerned with the technical or the perfect or the proper. Good photography makes you feel…

If you have to look at a photo and _analyze_ it before you even allow yourself to take it all in, you could be missing out. Making sure the subject is in the perfect left 3rd of the frame, the exposure is exactly how your eye sees it, and the composition with the background was just right is often not necessary at all, and in many ways, not what was required in the first place to tell the story you wanted to tell.

By: Patrícia

Patrícia — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:33:16 +0000

got to say…. did´nt like the examples very much

By: joseph

joseph — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:26:21 +0000

sorry i think the last word of my last comment was over exposed…………………………

By: COUZEY

COUZEY — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:56:38 +0000

These are great! Obviously some will like and some will not. That is no reason to criticize someone’s art. If you don’t like it, ‘put the needle on another song”.

By: Grace @ Sandier Pastures

Grace @ Sandier Pastures — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:26:46 +0000

Everytime I get an overexposed photo, I don’t delete it immediately and instead take time to upload to my PC to see any hidden beauty of it. These are great examples. Not every overexposed photo is trash. Great one!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:23:38 +0000

Wow, I think this is the 1st big controversial post I’ve seen in DPS. I like the driftwood, and #’s 11 & 12 are pretty cool. The others aren’t really my thing, but I think they do show all the different ways overexposure can change a photograph. And I agree with Jeffrey “No one ever said these were the best shots ever produced, only that this was a way of salvaging mistakes and still coming out with something visually satisfying.”

By: hurstle manuel

hurstle manuel — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:49:26 +0000

This will make alot of changes now with my photography. Overexposed photos where always deleted and for some reason i dislike them but now i can find myself using overexposed photos. thanks heaps Peter

By: Vickie

Vickie — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:42:14 +0000

As I first scrolled down through these images, several of them really caught my eye (in a good way), such as the guitar player, the bird legs, and the people walking in the field. Then, I began to read the comments (whew, you guys can be vicious!) and I started second-guessing my initial opinions. Went back, looked again and, yep, I still like them.

By: Ed Penano

Ed Penano — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:05:17 +0000

This is actually encouraging! Sometimes when I look at a photo I just took, some, Ok…sometimes MANY of my flicks come out overexposed and I end up trashing them. But after seeing this, my supposed “overexposed” shots might have just ended up that way serendipitously. Go figure… Now on to more shooting!!!