For some reason the omission of its reflection seems more and more disadvantageous to me, but it might also be that it wouldn't do as good as I only can imagine now.
So, you received some kind of heavenly revelation about true "beauty", and just because *you* find something "beautiful" it has of course to be the truth, ey? ;-) And who revealed to you what is "beautiful", if I may ask? Was that somekind of deity or something? I ask you because you seem to be so sure about what is "beautiful" and what makes up a good image.
Take a look at some of the best images of the best photographers ever, and then tell me, didn't they also made many great images which do not show any kind of bourgeois "beauty" at all?
The photographer doesn't need the limited version of "beauty" that is handed out to the world through... magazines and "generally accepted ideas". Actually most of the world doesn't have a single clue about what the photographer does, but that's another story.
In the whole history of photography the best photographers *made* things visible in the sense that they were able to take something, be it "beautiful" or "ugly" for somebody, and capture it in its best possible light. And we try to do the same.
As an example, look at the images of Paul Lara here - http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/30611.html . Do you really think that all the girls there are "beautiful" for themselves? Or perhaps it is more Paul's extremely well developed technique and his sense of how to enhance the best sides of those models?
I don't see any special "beauty by my side", excuse me. Those swans are exactly as nice or ugly to me as anything else too. They offer to me the advantage of exercising lighting balance. And I try to improve on such things - I don't have any wish to show "beauty", though I do have my own ideas about that, which certainly is not "swans" and the like. Beautiful is... a library and the learning humans in it. Or a sleazy bar in which I can have a beer with my buddies, people like you and me. Swans are to me just birds well suited for photography and nothing more.
BTW, how can you find these images already "excellent", Aziz? Is the mere appearance of a swan enough? Aren't there overexposures and failures of framing here and there? They may be just good, but an excellent image needs much more than some swan on it. And it is not the swan that makes it excellent but rather the way the photographer conceived its appearance on the image - *before* the shot!
I like this one with the sharp focus and composition, Nick! You could have included the reflection, but I think the composition is OK without it. Dave.
Hi Nick. Swans are one of the best models for photographers. They are like beautiful girls of fashion photographers. I believe that half of the beauty of the photo or even more, belongs to their beauty ! All the photographer need is to follow techniques and have a good camera . ... With this beauty by your side and your knowledge and experience in photography, what result do you expect ? Of course EXCELLENT ! > 7 Be well Aziz
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