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Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« on: November 28, 2016, 08:13:17 pm »

Had some free time over the Thanksgiving weekend, went back to Chicago:


Lines and Lights
by Slobodan Blagojevic, on Flickr


Chicago Colors
by Slobodan Blagojevic, on Flickr

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Re: Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2016, 10:42:06 pm »

The first one!!
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« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2016, 11:42:15 pm »

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Re: Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2016, 12:31:31 am »

...and this makes three! Wish the right side of right tree hadn't slipped out but love it just the same.
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Re: Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2016, 12:45:14 am »

Tsk, tsk, you guys are very partial to BW images. I sometimes wonder why I like some BW images even more than their colour versions. I tend to feel guilty when this happens because we do live in a world of colour after all. The first has a strong graphic look. But the colour version is also strong and unusual even in a colour context. Nice work.

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« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2016, 12:54:49 am »

" But the colour version is also strong and unusual even in a colour context. Nice work." quote JR

...I'd jump all over the colour in a heartbeat if SB would consider working the lower left out of equation. Powerful and strong and graphic and almost emblematic.
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Re: Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2016, 04:34:13 am »

" But the colour version is also strong and unusual even in a colour context. Nice work." quote JR

...I'd jump all over the colour in a heartbeat if SB would consider working the lower left out of equation. Powerful and strong and graphic and almost emblematic.

Not sure if I get your drift, Patricia; did you mean him to remove the piece of red?

If so, I disagree strongly: for me, it makes the balance of weights, without which the entire image would be in perpetual motion and falling down to the right... The only way to avoid doing that, IMO, would be to raise the entire baseline right up into the right edge of the lower greenish/cyan strip of window, thus making a different image and losing much of the elegant legs trunks. And even then, it would lose most of its dynamic.

You can see the effect by slowly sliding the right-hand bar of your computer upwards... no way as strong a pic.

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Re: Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2016, 04:51:17 am »

Tsk, tsk, you guys are very partial to BW images. I sometimes wonder why I like some BW images even more than their colour versions. I tend to feel guilty when this happens because we do live in a world of colour after all. The first has a strong graphic look. But the colour version is also strong and unusual even in a colour context. Nice work.

JR

The extension to which would have to be: so why even bother to make an image when the reality has to exist already, totally independently of one's input?

That's one of my problems with most landscape, of course: it's just opportunism and having a vague idea of how to catch what's sitting in front of one.

Then another problem is getting oneself into a rut, and simply repeating the same technique ad nauseam. I'm very aware of the danger, even within my own oeuvre, and it sticks in my eye like a thorn when it's somebody else caught in that trap, because another's sin is always more vile than one's own.

Frankly, I think it's a danger we face when we try to keep photographically busy doing something without really having any firm idea of what; if anything, I suppose that street allows for a greater degree of diversity in an individual's approach to image making, if only because the snapper has less control. But even then, he's trapped within the width of his vision. There are few geniuses.

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Re: Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2016, 07:36:39 am »

Bravo Slobodan!
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Re: Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2016, 07:54:12 am »

Nice work. I find the second one 'Christmassy' in a clinical way.
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« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2016, 08:34:26 am »

" did you mean him to remove the piece of red? " quote Rob

To the contrary, It is the removal of the caterpillar-like darkness and the dark beneath its pods, allowing the the juicy red and cyans to work their magic there with the balance of the image. It's not mine to say, and perhaps I should not have, but selfishly wanted to clear the obscuring away...
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Re: Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2016, 06:03:06 pm »

Bit late to the game as I wanted to see them on large screen before commenting.  My first response was to the cleaness or crispness of both images, the lines in the first and the color in the second.  Still feels that way on the larger screen.  Well done!
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Re: Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2016, 07:17:07 pm »

Bit late to the game as I wanted to see them on large screen before commenting.  My first response was to the cleaness or crispness of both images, the lines in the first and the color in the second.  Still feels that way on the larger screen.  Well done!

Beyond Slobodan's impeccable technique, is a sophisticated and refined way of identifying and presenting pattern, rhythm, and play of light in architecture. The black and white photo is a fine example. I would have never guessed it was an image of a parking structure until looking at it for awhile. That is one hell of an abstract picture.
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Re: Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2016, 07:22:08 pm »

Beyond Slobodan's impeccable technique, is a sophisticated and refined way of identifying and presenting pattern, rhythm, and play of light in architecture. The black and white photo is a fine example. I would have never guessed it was an image of a parking structure until looking at it for awhile. That is one hell of an abstract picture.
Right on!
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Re: Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« Reply #14 on: November 30, 2016, 07:15:23 am »

Those are great images Slobodan. I like them both!

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Re: Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« Reply #15 on: November 30, 2016, 05:18:15 pm »

Btw, the first image was shot at ISO 10,000, hand-held. What a progress the digital has made in recent years!

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« Reply #16 on: November 30, 2016, 06:35:10 pm »

Btw, the first image was shot at ISO 10,000, hand-held. What a progress the digital has made in recent years!

The future is now.
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Re: Lines, Lights & Colors of Chicago
« Reply #17 on: November 30, 2016, 11:53:48 pm »

Btw, the first image was shot at ISO 10,000, hand-held. What a progress the digital has made in recent years!
What? Hand-held?? I have always used a tripod with ISO 10,000 shots.   8)

(None of my cameras have room for that many digits.   :'(  )
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« Reply #18 on: December 01, 2016, 10:37:20 am »

I regularly shoot ISO 8000-10000 and up to 25,6 all handheld when doing local concert shooting in the worst kind of light there is - big-assed Kleigs with colored gel filters. I use to some degree NIK's Define de-noising but it general just leave them the heck alone as I kind of like the grit.

This was shot with a Nikon D810 coupled to a Nikkor 80-400 at f/5.6, 1/100 ISO 10,000 handheld.
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« Reply #19 on: December 01, 2016, 11:52:29 am »

What possible difference does it make whether you're shooting at ISO 8 or ISO 800,000? The result is the result is the result, and it's the result that matters. Good pictures aren't made by a camera; they're made by a mind.
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