Least Favorite

Its very hard to pick one of your own pieces and tag it as your worst piece, not because you think they're all good, or all bad on the other hand but because you know them. YOU took the shot, you were there, you were responsible for every brush stroke on the canvas, you got you hands filthy with charcoal. The piece is yours and you don't see it, you feel it, IT IS A PART OF YOU. Well, at least that is how i feel about my work. Now back to the task at hand, picking my worst piece.

As a digital photographer you go out and shoot and shoot and shoot, there's not to much worrying about running out of film because there is none. If you run out of space on your cards you just flip through find the blurry ones and trash them so most of the worst work are gone before they even had a chance. Then you have the shots that are crystal clear, sharp and on point, the ones that make it to the computer and most likely the internet.

Here we have what, in my opinion is my worst photo. I think the shot doesn't work well because the subject is too centered in the frame, I Shot it with a short lens giving the illusion that the headstone narrows at the bottom, and there is really no motion in the image. the lines are all very square to one another and your eye does not really explore the image, it hits the nearest hard edge and stays there. I think in order to make this shot work better it needs to be shot with a longer lens and it needs more action in it, more to look at. If there was person in the background or another headstone like it about ten feet behind it would work.