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Michael West

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« on: August 24, 2009, 03:17:55 pm »



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Jeremy Payne

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« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2009, 05:56:55 pm »

What does it mean to you?  Working late?  Riding at night?

I'm trying to figure out what connects the moon and the bike.
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« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2009, 11:57:16 pm »

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What does it mean to you?  Working late?  Riding at night?

I'm trying to figure out what connects the moon and the bike.

Any of the dozen or so circles and half circles I would think.  I wish it was just the one wheel.  My eyes zap straight to the 'ek' (presumably a trek?) on the one frame.
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« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2009, 02:52:49 am »

I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem that the moon appears as a subject or a light source in this photograph.
No moon. A bicycle shop at midnight.
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Jeremy Payne

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« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2009, 05:43:03 am »

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I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem that the moon appears as a subject or a light source in this photograph.
No moon. A bicycle shop at midnight.
Hah ... indeed ... my bad.  'Midnight' must have had me on the lookout ...

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John R

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« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2009, 10:05:43 am »

I think we should give the maker a little more credit for this image. I think he was trying to show the relationship between the round yellow-cast wheel and the moon- a juxtaposition of elements. And quite often, what we see with the human eye does not translate well into photograph for many reasons. Such as perspective, relative size of the elements, but we are still drawn to what we saw. So we still take a photo. Later we may realize it does not work. Or maybe it does. It probably would have worked better if the relative size of the moon was larger in relation to the wheel. It still may not work, but that is what I think the maker was trying to do.

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Jeremy Payne

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« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2009, 10:16:10 am »

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I think we should give the maker a little more credit for this image .... moon ....

A )  There ain't no moon ... I was mistaken

B )  Who is not giving him credit?
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John R

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« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2009, 10:54:14 am »

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A )  There ain't no moon ... I was mistaken

B )  Who is not giving him credit?
I was only trying to suggest we should give the maker a little more credit for his efforts. I don't want to be polemical or argumentative about this. And I think we would all do better if try to look at images from the point of view of the maker. This is what most of the pros say in any seminar you care to attend. But I agree with your original comments and simply put forward what I thought the maker was trying to do.

John R
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