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Bruce Cox

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Re: Sella
« Reply #20 on: October 03, 2013, 12:29:38 pm »

Quote from:  link=topic=82700.msg668358#msg668358 date=1380811830
One of things I find remarkable about this image is at base level it has a very visceral power and shifting rhythm all throughout the image...fg, bg, sky...a striking qualities that to me capture and help tell the tale of the Dolomites and the landscape surrounding. It may be one of those images that over time gets tweaked...one time, ten times, one hundred times...I don't know...certainly wouldn't be the first time.  But whether it changes or not in varying degrees of contrast, sharpness, etc..at the end of the day... the essentials of a great image are here.

Like a disease with no cure, it may have many remedies.  I was wrong about you not being close enough, though.

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Re: Sella
« Reply #21 on: October 03, 2013, 12:59:06 pm »

... It seems to be obvious that that kind of over-processing attracts much more people in our world of visual-overkill...

The same people who's only (accidental) encounter with the word "art" is when they stumble upon it while fiddling with their phone's "art filters"? For whom Instagram = insta-art?

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... a worm has to delight the fish but not the angler;-)

And yet you are showing it to anglers ;)

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« Reply #22 on: October 03, 2013, 04:41:06 pm »

"a worm has to delight the fish but not the angler;-)"

I think rather it should delight both and, having eaten it, I think it's not haft bad.
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Harald L

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« Reply #23 on: October 04, 2013, 12:15:56 pm »

And yet you are showing it to anglers ;)

You're so right, sometimes I forget that.  ::)

Oh, wait ... I just imagine a pond without any fishes where lots of anglers are sitting around and everyone hopes that someone jumps in and tug at the floats. ;D

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« Reply #24 on: October 04, 2013, 01:02:37 pm »


Are you saying that only sales or the number of clicks matter?  Should critiques be written by those who are ignorant and indifferent?  Do you look at your pictures for any reason other than to guess their popularity?
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« Reply #25 on: October 04, 2013, 02:00:22 pm »

Maybe if I enjoyed fishing more this would worry me less.

 Also, to me, the subject is the bait, the camera is the pole, and the photograph is the fish.
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« Reply #26 on: October 04, 2013, 02:14:21 pm »

... Also, to me, the subject is the bait, the camera is the pole, and the photograph is the fish.

Say what!? I am now getting positively seasick  ;D

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« Reply #27 on: October 04, 2013, 02:42:07 pm »

Also, to me, the subject is the bait, the camera is the pole, and the photograph is the fish.

 ??? OK, I promise to don't talk in analogies anymore.

Harald
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« Reply #28 on: October 04, 2013, 02:43:58 pm »

Say what!? I am now getting positively seasick  ;D

Yeah, that's one of the problems with fishing.  

I understand Harlem to be saying with his imaginings that photographs are a means to an end [as bait is for most people].  I prefer to think that, assuming there is anyone to look at them, photographs are an end in them selves [more like fish].
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« Reply #29 on: October 04, 2013, 03:24:03 pm »

Mountain angler  ;D
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« Reply #30 on: October 04, 2013, 04:25:45 pm »

Thank you guys for the discussion. Isn't it funny that different ponds need different bait? With the first picture I've got a lot of wows from non-photographers. It seems to be obvious that that kind of over-processing attracts much more people in our world of visual-overkill. I don't want to start the Raberizing-Thread again but have a look at the colorful world of Flickr and 500 px...

Anyway - here's the forum which upholds the immortal values of St. Ansel. And back to the bait: a worm has to delight the fish but not the angler;-)

Harald

PS: The picture is only about to worship the overwhelming beauty of the Dolomites.

Could some effect I never use ==just looks out of focus in the foreground ..almost like camera shake  ???
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« Reply #31 on: October 04, 2013, 06:35:16 pm »

Could some effect I never use ==just looks out of focus in the foreground ..almost like camera shake  ???

So you mean a combination of out of focus and motion blur? Interesting, thank you for that helpful hint. I'll try my very best to develop that method to perfection.

Harald
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Re: Sella
« Reply #32 on: October 04, 2013, 07:36:29 pm »

Harald,

 You have it right in the first image. Leave it alone and enjoy!

Rich
I agree!

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