Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Riaan van Wyk on August 31, 2010, 01:28:58 pm
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Your thoughts please?
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Moooooo
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Moooooo
I should word my request for comment more carefully in future. Your reply makes perfect sense though :) :)
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I am not fluent in cow, but I think Russ may have swore at you.
;D
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I think Russ is referring to mooning.
Wikipedia: Mooning is the act of displaying one's bare buttocks...... used mostly in the English-speaking world to express protest, scorn, disrespect, or provocation but can also simply be done for shock value or fun. Hope the latter was the intention. Otherwise, one would be a horse's ass!
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Moooooo
Bovine is a tonal language that cannot be fully expressed with our limited alphabet... but I think the one on the left is thinking they had more important things to concern themselves with than the photographer, and the one on the right is thinking:
"If you are using 1/64th I had better stand still for you".
It is very much like a wedding picture - more contrast than the camera can handle.
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Unfortunately Google Translate doesn't do bovine language, so I was unable to get any clarification of Russ's comment.
Eric
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but I think the one on the left is thinking they had more important things to concern themselves with than the photographer, and the one on the right is thinking:
"If you are using 1/64th I had better stand still for you".
I doubt they could care less Dick. Cattle have an enviable ( for me) way of "just being." Oblivious to anything and everything around them.
If anyone is able to speak bovine I guess it should be me, having spent the last year with this herd at least two times a week. Problem is I can't even say hello yet. Damn difficult language to master..
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Moooo...
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Very mooooving!
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Au contraire. They are not mooooving much at all
The one above could be titled “at the mall” ………….it reminds me of the crowded shopping mall I was obligated to visit recently. An endless collection of fat cows and few were moooooving very much and definitely not very fast!
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udderly ridiculous if you ask me... ;D
Mike.
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Ground, hooves, and legs seemed the best part of both photos to me. Place, pattern, connection, and weight what more do you need? Bruce Cox
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I like the second better, more rhythm and the colour works well because it's still quite constrained. The first I find too dark and tightly cropped.
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I like the second better, more rhythm and the colour works well because it's still quite constrained. The first I find too dark and tightly cropped.
I agree. The second one is a winner!
Eric
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Thank you for looking and commenting. It is appreciated.
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Sparring.
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Now that's a lot of bull... Sorry, someone had to say it.
Mike.
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IMO the second one is the best. It would also be better in B&W, better than the other two - which might be better in color.
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Very old thread I know :)
Have some more of the Nguni cattle from the last few years which I can post here, instead of a new thread.
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Moovie pictures of cattle.
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/970/41087103295_503707d3b4_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/25AJ9mF)
Cattle on Open Range (video) (https://flic.kr/p/25AJ9mF) by Alan Klein (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanklein2000/), on Flickr
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Nguni cattle hiding away from the searing sun.