Joshua Middleton Photography

[Little stoned kiwi]

This guy has been getting a lot of acclaim, which I think he deserves. He demonstrates what an amateur can achieve with what's at hand and a lot of passion.
http://www.facebook.com/MiddletonJoshua

There was a story in a local paper about him recently. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hamilton-news ... d=11215190

[RiK]

Lots of overdone HDR and fake tilt-shift. He'd get ripped to shreds in most camera clubs..

[Little stoned kiwi]

That's sad to hear. You'd think a club would encourage someone to do better.

[RiK]

That's sad to hear. You'd think a club would encourage someone to do better.

They do, but there are certain clichéd techniques that are like a red rag to a bull these days, and dodgy HDR and faux tilt-shift are right up the top of the list.

Good effort to the guy for trying to be creative, but it's not doing it for me I'm afraid.

Just my tuppenth..

[(o)(o)]

Quite like Lee Jeffries stuff.

http://leejeffries.500px.com/homeless

[Xstreme]

Got to agree with Rik, I'm also not really feeling it for that first link. Not my style of thing at all but that's obviously just a personal feeling, photography being extremely subjective.

Like that Lee Jeffries work much better. Nice consistent series and style on some really powerful portraits. Personally I just wish he'd back off a touch on the post processing. For my tastes they're a little over cooked.

While we're at it this could be a nice thread to highlight photographers/photography who catch our eye couldn't it?

Someone who's work I admire greatly is Jan Scholz. To me it's photography at its absolute finest. Every single image in his portfolio is killer. Simple, beautifully lit, elegantly posed portraiture work. Stunning.
http://www.micmojo.com (NSFW)

[Little stoned kiwi]

I like that he's doing his own thing, building on what he's got and knows through exploration and experimentation with images of the city I live in. I'm sorry it didn't meet the expected level of pretentiousness to share here.

[Xstreme]

I like that he's doing his own thing, building on what he's got and knows through exploration and experimentation with images of the city I live in. I'm sorry it didn't meet the expected level of pretentiousness to share here.

Expected level of pretentiousness? Would you mind explaining what you mean by that comment? I was merely expressing my opinion that his style of photography (particularly his post processing) doesn't really do it for me. It's a personal thing. That's all. I do like the fact that the guys obviously passionate about what he's doing and putting his work out there. If you like it that's fine. I'm glad you shared it and as mentioned I think it would be a cool idea for us to a bit of what we feel to be interesting photography / photographers.