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SqueakingShoeless In reply to ??? [2005-07-11 19:27:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, I'm glad you like it- and double that for the fave. It wasn't supposed to be so dark, per se, but if it works, then hey I'm fine with that.

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suicidal-failure In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-07-15 04:00:32 +0000 UTC]

lol, ya.. i tend to like dark things... i hate sunlight... well not seirously.. i just am no a fan of bright colours and etc

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suicidal-failure In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-07-15 03:59:18 +0000 UTC]

lol, ya.. i tend to like dark things... i hate sunlight... well not seirously.. i just am no a fan of bright colours and etc

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mooboy In reply to ??? [2005-07-10 23:50:26 +0000 UTC]

An absolutely gorgeous picture! I can relate to this image in many ways.

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to mooboy [2005-07-11 03:39:57 +0000 UTC]

Aw thanks for the fave; I'm glad you like the piece and can relate to it.

Keep your chin up sweetie. You're going places.

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momochococaramel In reply to ??? [2005-07-09 14:17:18 +0000 UTC]

this is awesome,, nice shot!!

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to momochococaramel [2005-07-10 02:43:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, and thank you for the fave.

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rareattitude In reply to ??? [2005-07-07 23:48:17 +0000 UTC]

Wow. That is amazing. Really. I love the little hidden details. Like the building in the bridge. The lighting is some of the best i've seen lately. Amazing job.

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to rareattitude [2005-07-08 18:45:54 +0000 UTC]

Aww, thanks. I'm glad you like the lighting and all. You're awesome.

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Pentance In reply to ??? [2005-07-06 17:29:48 +0000 UTC]

This is an amazing shot. I was there 2 months ago visiting my sis. This picture just reminded of that happy time. Thanks hun.

Its a small world eh. you know those checker boards on the other side? we played checkers for an hour with pine cones. .

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to Pentance [2005-07-06 18:07:49 +0000 UTC]

Hehe thank you.

Yeah, Josh and I spent over an hour just walking the trails.

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Pentance In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-07-06 18:35:53 +0000 UTC]

Us too. its a nifty place. I carved in "Never that which is, shall die" on the railing there.

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keystone045 In reply to ??? [2005-07-06 02:19:25 +0000 UTC]

All of that yapping and I didn't hit the fav button... *sigh*

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taintedbroccoli In reply to ??? [2005-07-04 08:35:59 +0000 UTC]

Wow! Cool bridge!

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to taintedbroccoli [2005-07-04 08:37:08 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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Th3-Maartyr In reply to ??? [2005-07-04 03:55:35 +0000 UTC]

That truely is a beautiful photo as its well taken and may hold greater meaning (walk into the light?)

Keep it up.

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to Th3-Maartyr [2005-07-04 03:56:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Th3-Maartyr In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-07-04 03:57:45 +0000 UTC]

No problems ^.^

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keystone045 In reply to ??? [2005-07-03 23:25:11 +0000 UTC]

Caught this on your page! Not sure how I missed your stuff in my watch, but I love this. I'm heading to favorites right now, which means when I come to it chronoligically you'll be featured in my journal call Keystone's Ten.

Anyway, the prespective is awesome. I see alot of complaints about the brightness, but I don't think so. It would have been missing something if you cropped that out. I dunno, kind of a Stairway to Heaven/Jacob's Ladder thing. Which lends really well in my opinion to the contrast levels. I'm glad I caught this. Sometimes I need to venture out more!!!

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to keystone045 [2005-07-04 01:27:01 +0000 UTC]

Well hey, long time no talk! How have you been?

Aww, you're featuring me? Thank you, I'm flattered that you like this photo so much. I agree on the brightness- it wasn't intentional at the time, but the contrast definitely adds a stark quality to the atmosphere that would have been a shame to miss. Thank you again hon. Your comment brightened my day (and it was already pretty bright to begin with)!

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keystone045 In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-07-04 02:15:12 +0000 UTC]

I do that with all of my favorites because now that I have refined my criteria instead of just being a fav hound like I used to, I feel I can give some background as to why I chose it as a favorite. Hopefully, it will get me to doing more thorough critiques as I go along...

Your welcome sis! I'll have to stop by your gallery again sometime! Something seems to be wrong with my devwatch. When I get about 300 or so in my box, things start getting scrambled up. And I'm sure that's how I have missed several of my friends posts!

I guess I should comment more huh...

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to keystone045 [2005-07-04 02:19:09 +0000 UTC]

Hehe yeah, I found that out too, after a two month period of "laziness" (ie. I was working like crazy to get through school). What I ended up doing was just deleting all deviations except for one from each deviant. Then, when I had time to comment, I'd go to the deviants' galleries and just choose a few of their most recent pieces to comment/critique and possibly fave. It made things a lot more efficient, even if I didn't get to see every single deviation in my inbox.

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keystone045 In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-07-04 02:30:20 +0000 UTC]

same here, only more over work related...

Sometimes that's all I have time for anyway... I haven't totally organized my watch list yet...

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to keystone045 [2005-07-04 02:31:37 +0000 UTC]

Hehe I came up with a category system just a few weeks ago. Almost everyone was "re-watched."

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keystone045 In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-07-04 03:32:15 +0000 UTC]

I'm working on one too. But I have too many in the "varied" category!

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to keystone045 [2005-07-04 03:37:00 +0000 UTC]

I actually ended up having to create umbrella groups- I have Photo pros (because almost everyone I watch is a photographer), "Developing," Commenters, Journalers, Admins, etc. With the exception of Admins, they all revolve around the ways in which I interact with each deviant most.

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keystone045 In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-07-06 01:15:10 +0000 UTC]

Just out of curiosity, how do you chose who to watch?

I have a very bad habit of touching that bad little button too much... In fact, I'm even thinking of moving my stock watches over to another account that I have, because I have so many watches that I slow the script down to almost a crash. (Probably would crash if I wasn't using Firefox!)

My usual criteria, is whether or not I am inspired, whether or not I can help them, whether or not they have a stock account I could use at some point.

And alot also depends on how bad I need to put my featured deviants together. Which due to hopeless work load, I haven't done in almost two months....

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to keystone045 [2005-07-06 04:17:33 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I guess I do watch admins for the ways in which I interact with them.

And I don't seem to be watching you, do I? You definitely fit into category three there. Sigh. Bad Jess.

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keystone045 In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-07-07 03:59:38 +0000 UTC]

I should check and make sure I have you in there too!

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to keystone045 [2005-07-07 06:11:40 +0000 UTC]

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to keystone045 [2005-07-06 04:14:35 +0000 UTC]

I have to refrain from using it too much, I'll admit. I don't watch any stock because my focus as an artist is photography rather than photomanipulation so I don't need it. Besides, a lot of stock photography (no offense to anyone! ) looks very unprofessional to me- it looks like the photographer is just taking snapshots left and right, and I just have neither use for nor interest in it.

Instead, my watches are chosen for 1) the fact that the artist is really looking to better him- or herself and I can help him/her, 2) the fact that I truly enjoy their work to the extent that I just have to see every new thing, or 3) the fact that I honestly like the deviant and watch him/her just so that we can talk (usually in journals) and keep track of one another. Group one is the largest, and is mainly comprised of photographers, though there are a few traditional artists and digital landscape artists thrown in there as well (I'm good at anatomy and lightplay, etc.). Group two is very small- I think it's possible that only =kittynn , =Whippeh , and (up until now) =G0rdy are the only ones in that group. Maybe a few other great photographers that just aren't coming to mind. Group three is comprised of a few writers (=demonlight prominent among them), a few admins, and a few Commenters. Oh, and I also watch all of the friends that I know IRL.

You know, I actually met a few deviants in the forums the other day that prefer IE to Firefox and didn't even want to read the browser comparison charts. I near keeled over dead with shock.

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keystone045 In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-07-07 02:50:42 +0000 UTC]

Very similar to the way I'm trying to arrange mine... I'm just real slow...

*shakes head* hmm, I guess there are just going to be those who can't change, no matter how good the software is on the other side of the fence!

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to keystone045 [2005-07-07 06:11:19 +0000 UTC]

Hehe cool. My watch groups are really very simple.

I have the Admins group, in case I ever need to contact them as a whole or simply be able to see them all together at a glance.
Then I have the Commenters, who are deviants who don't seem to be artists intent on improving themselves, but rather people who've come to deviantART to comment on others' work. They are my better commenters and I don't know why I've sectioned them off, but I have; this group is less important than other groups that the deviant might fit into.
After that I have the Developing Artists- almost all photographers whom I watch specifically for the purpose of leaving them constructive critiques, whether or not they critique back, whether or not their work is great.
My real-life friends are in their own group because they're special.
Next is the group that I watch, but rarely ever do anything on deviantART. This group is by itself so that I can look at it and go, "Oh, I really haven't heard from that person in a long time. Let's go check in on him/her and leave a sort of 'miss you/where are you' message."
Then I have the Journalers whose work I'm not as interested in as I am in the things they have to say. They don't always comment well, so they don't fit in the Commenters category, but I like reading their journals and commenting more than any other interaction that I might perform with them.
The Photo Pros are the ones I watch both for the true aesthetic quality of their work, though I almost always critique their stuff too. They differ from the Developing artists in that if I'm out of time to comment, I'll be okay with leaving them til later because they don't need critique as badly as the other group. The three I watch purely for love of their work all belong in this group.
And finally, I have the Writers and Poets. I watch very few of them, but I do watch a few because I truly enjoy their work and keeping track of them. They don't differ much from Journalers, but for the fact that I enjoy their work on basically the same level as their journals.

Welcome to my devWatch list. It's a lengthy explanation, but it's pretty simple in the end.

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keystone045 In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-07-08 12:16:44 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, that's not too bad. I've yet to simplify it that much.

I wish dA would make it where our individual links(categories) came up on a separate page... oh well...

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Quemaqua In reply to ??? [2005-07-02 18:07:51 +0000 UTC]

I just realized that last night I looked at your page and didn't really comment on anything. I was thinking that I *hadn't* looked at your page, but I recognized a bunch of things when I came back this morning, so I guess I must have!

Anyhow, this is a great shot. The white area seems just a bit too white to me, but the composition overall is fantastic and I think the way you deepened the blacks a little adds quite a bit to the picture. Great!

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to Quemaqua [2005-07-02 18:11:43 +0000 UTC]

Don't you love it when that happens? It's amusing.

Thanks so much. I actually find that the overexposure is helpful to the starkness of the contrast and the atmosphere of the photo. If it were greyer, or less white, then it wouldn't have quite the same punch. Thank you for the wonderful comment though. I'm glad you liked it.

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BludonutKing In reply to ??? [2005-07-01 03:22:08 +0000 UTC]

Just a fan of b&w photography and this is an amazing piece. I am very impressed with the lighting and deep contrast. The title fits well also.

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to BludonutKing [2005-07-01 20:51:10 +0000 UTC]

Wow, thank you so much, and thank you for the fave as well! I'm glad to see so many people like this piece.

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BludonutKing In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-07-02 03:16:10 +0000 UTC]

No problem, it is an amazing piece. Keep up the great work.

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G0rdy In reply to ??? [2005-06-28 18:19:50 +0000 UTC]

The whole image feels unnecessarily wide to me, but otherwise I love it, great location and Josh definitely adds to it

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to G0rdy [2005-06-28 18:32:33 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I was considering cutting off a little of the negative space, just because it was more "unoccupied" space than I usually have in my pieces. But I'm lazy, and it's kinda grown on me.

Thanks.

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indeathwefall In reply to ??? [2005-06-28 12:45:11 +0000 UTC]

i agree with ~atticus-CSH The top is a lil too bright for me...but...wow! what a powerful image! i love it to bits! really slever shooting, really clever image...and 'Josh' could almost be posing...its so amazinlgy shot! really...well done!

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to indeathwefall [2005-06-28 17:42:56 +0000 UTC]

To be honest, I've grown somewhat attached to the overexposure. There's something about it that enhances the atmosphere of the photo- its stark contrast just really hits the eye and gets the message across more powerfully. It's not often that I overexpose my shots, but I'm rather glad I did on this one.

Thanks again. When Josh saw all the faves on this one, he joked that obviously, he looks best in photos when he's both facing away from the camera and unaware that I'm taking the picture.

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indeathwefall In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-06-28 19:30:59 +0000 UTC]

hehe..for sure!

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Jag1 In reply to ??? [2005-06-27 23:35:57 +0000 UTC]

Esta foto me parece increíble, tienes un nivel muy alto!

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to Jag1 [2005-06-28 00:34:24 +0000 UTC]

¡Gracias! Como al contrario de la otra, este foto parece ser la más popular. Mi novio bromeaba que nunca se ve bien en fotos a menos que no vea a la cámara y no sepa que estoy tomandola.

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Jag1 In reply to SqueakingShoeless [2005-06-28 07:57:16 +0000 UTC]

Comprendo que sea la foto más popular, es muy buena. De todas formas, la gente suele visitar y añadir a sus favoritos la imagen que tenemos como "featured", tal vez sea por pereza.
Saludos.

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taoge In reply to ??? [2005-06-24 05:47:36 +0000 UTC]

The composition and the mood in this picture is awesome. The black and white tone really suits the pic. Great shot

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SqueakingShoeless In reply to taoge [2005-06-24 16:01:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, and thanks more for the fave! This one is really popular, I guess.

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karakinee In reply to ??? [2005-06-19 01:14:55 +0000 UTC]

This is just stunning...I love it more than anything...A DD worthy photo...its just breathtaking...I'm in awe. Wow....just wow...

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