Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 23, 2019, 07:22:02 pm
On a train you are much closer to what's outside the window than on an airplane, so there is very little time to choose a subject, compose, focus, and shoot. I am a pretty slow shooter most of the time, so I thought this might be a useful exercise in learning to make quick visual judgments.
Naturally, most of my shots were either quite blurry or missed the scene altogether. Anyway, here is a sample of the most appealing (least unappealing?) results. The first was on the way to NYC, and the other three were on the return trip four days later.
Comments invited (but don't call them Fine Art!)
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 23, 2019, 07:41:05 pm
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 23, 2019, 09:12:48 pm
Sorry, Eric, the first two are fine (art) :)Aw, shucks! :( ;D
Post by: John R on February 23, 2019, 09:34:58 pm
JR
Post by: KLaban on February 23, 2019, 10:28:08 pm
Good exercise.
Post by: Alan Klein on February 23, 2019, 10:38:12 pm
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 24, 2019, 12:35:28 am
I think it was a worthwhile experiment.
Post by: Ray on February 24, 2019, 04:04:17 am
Post by: Rob C on February 24, 2019, 06:47:33 am
Wish I could find some of those old industrial scenes. Even if I do make it back to the UK, I suspect that political whitewashing will have had most of them demolished or converted into dwellings. I believe that a huge cotton mill in central Paisley, Scotland, is now a block of apartments.
Rather than bore the knickers off the world with more images of indentity-challenged icebergs and interchangeable seals and penguins (not to mention privacy-invading pictures of the more personal moments of poor old lions, zebras and giraffes!) we could all get together and create a charity for the preservation of factories, to where we could direct groups of photographers with nothing better to do. We could arrange special insurance terms for them and, hey ho, before you know it, have a thriving online business that will make us all rich until the next best thing comes along. The seeds exist; they just need good promotion and husbanding.
God, my fingers are cold as I type and type yet again in an effort to hit one key at a time and get it right.
;-(
Rob
Post by: RSL on February 24, 2019, 07:14:24 am
Nope, three and four for me: remind me of bits of the The Sopranos titles from New Jersey. The first is too closely associated with ARAT art and the second encroaches onto Slobodan's copyrighted space.
+1
Post by: langier on February 24, 2019, 12:04:55 pm
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 24, 2019, 12:14:13 pm
... the second encroaches onto Slobodan's copyrighted space...
Yeah, Eric, how dare you!? ;)
(https://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/img/s/v-2/p1595970025-4.jpg) (https://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/p947292936/e5f2091e9)
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 24, 2019, 12:26:54 pm
And Slobodan: If I hadn't been brainwashed by your frequent architectural images on LuLa, I doubt if I would have even pressed the shutter on #2.
Post by: Arlen on February 24, 2019, 12:58:40 pm
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on February 26, 2019, 06:50:09 am
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 26, 2019, 09:15:00 am
My idea didn't seem to fit anywhere else, so I posted it in the Coffee Corner.
Post by: langier on February 28, 2019, 08:24:25 pm
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 28, 2019, 08:40:40 pm
And if you and Slobodan are ever in Boston at the same time, I'll buy you both a beer (or should it be Vodka?)
Eric
Post by: langier on February 28, 2019, 10:05:10 pm
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 01, 2019, 01:11:09 am
Pivo and slivo! :-) (beer and plum brandy!)Your order is in. :)
Post by: Ivophoto on March 01, 2019, 02:36:53 am
Pivo and slivo! :-) (beer and plum brandy!)
As Teetotaler I have to stipulate following:The fact that my name is part of both beverages is purely coincidental.
Ivo
Post by: Rob C on March 01, 2019, 07:51:08 am
As Teetotaler I have to stipulate following:The fact that my name is part of both beverages is purely coincidental.
Ivo
I feel your pain: I'm not a scion of the soup company either.
:-(
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 01, 2019, 10:21:47 am
Campbell's Tomato Soup for you, if you join our party.
Post by: Ivophoto on March 01, 2019, 03:28:49 pm
OK, Ivo.
Campbell's Tomato Soup for you, if you join our party.
Of I would be on the continent, you could count me in.
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 01, 2019, 06:32:18 pm
Of I would be on the continent, you could count me in.I always offer my most generous invitations to folks who are unlikely to show up. ;)