Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: JNB_Rare on September 25, 2017, 01:59:39 pm
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I've been really under the weather for 5 weeks, now, but today has been slightly better. Perhaps the docs have gotten a fix on the problem.
7-day B&W Challenge: Personally I kind of hate these things, but a good friend challenged me back in August, and I've never before attempted to do the 1-picture-a-day thing (never mind B&W). Quality of pictures aside, I actually learned something from the pursuit, including how difficult it is to be consistently "productive". Anyway, here are the pics.
DAY 1: A half-day, really, as I started the challenge about 2pm. Took some mediocre pics around the house and a series of blurry, mistimed shots of the granddaughter in the pool. This was the best of the lot. At 6 years of age, she has the energy that one can only envy.
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DAY 2: Gilles. A trip to one of Nova Scotia's busiest fishing wharfs in Pubnico. This massive piece of metal is part of the mechanism on a "seiner".
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DAY 3: Tools of the Trade. Really rainy, crappy weather all day.
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DAY 4: The River Pub. A decent place to eat in my home town.
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DAY 5: The Neighbour's Yard. A natural wave and some man-made curves.
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DAY 6: The House on the Hill. A friend got a better pic of this abandoned house, but she had to traverse a deep ditch, squeeze through barbed wire, and stand in tic-infested weeds. I was reluctant to do so, as the week before (photographing with the same friend) I lost my footing and tumbled down a river bank onto some rocks. I washed the dried blood off my Billingham for the Day 3 picture. :)
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DAY 7: In the back yard garden. Close to home once again. Challenge over.
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Well, you seem to have had a better visual week than many have a year. But that's because you have it inside of you already; all you had to do was follow through.
Nice going.
Rob
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+1. You came through that challenge with flying colors. Oops. Bravo!
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Pffff, no good at all.
You need to allow us to follow along, for inspirational purposes at the very least.
and also WTF @ challenge?
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+1. You came through that challenge with flying colors. Oops. Bravo!
+2. (Russ means "with flying blacks and whites.")
Very impressive seven days!
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Well done. I have thought of doing a similar challenge.....What get off my butt and do it you say. Soon, but not just yet.
JR
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excellent series and story (sorry about your health)
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Thank-you for the comments, everyone.
Pffff, no good at all.
You need to allow us to follow along, for inspirational purposes at the very least.
and also WTF @ challenge?
:) If you ever find yourself in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, we'll definitely have to give that a go!
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Thank-you for the comments, everyone.
:) If you ever find yourself in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, we'll definitely have to give that a go!
Take him up on it, Oscar. I can attest that Lunenburg County in Nova Scotia has a wealth of great photographic opportunities.
Eric
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Changing environment every now and then is definitely inspirational, but short of that, next time he should tell us in advance he is starting a challenge, then post a result each day.
But challenge is stretching it here. I'm thinking of a different challenge, say: post a portrait of a random person you meet on the street using at most 85mm. (In other words no cheating with a long tele). Humans of NY (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans_of_New_York)
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Well done, I find the challenge of one a week hard at times let alone one every day for 7 days. You also changed things up day to day. Your day 3 "Tools of the Trade" is my favorite of the 7. It is very well posed, captured and processed and it grabs my attention. It has a story and that story can be different for anyone which I think makes a great image. Thank you for sharing and hope you are feeling better soon.
Cheers,
Josh