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I use the term "abstract" quite loosely, and I don't want to start any definition wars, so if you have something that YOU want to call an "abstract" image, feel free to post it here.
For me, an "abstract" is something that doesn't fit neatly into other categories, like "street," "landscape," or "portrait." It may or may not be a photograph of a recognizable object, but if so, the subject isn't what is important. If it is an interesting pattern, suggests something other than what it is, is evocative of some mood, or whatever, it's OK.
So hear are a few of mine in black and white to start things off.
Eric
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And here are some in color, too.
If you really want to know, "what is it?" just ask.
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(http://ppcdn.500px.org/49140964/5d3075fe2d33d0b94773fc62a84b10ee329fc753/2048.jpg)
(http://ppcdn.500px.org/6782282/7fea8f2fef3b4abe84eea012ed0c64758972310c/5.jpg)
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A Crack in the Universe...
(http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l383/chauncey43/crack-in-universe-copy.jpg) (http://s329.photobucket.com/user/chauncey43/media/crack-in-universe-copy.jpg.html)
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Really like ::
ERIC >> RRAbstract -- a Brett Weston all the way
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ROBBIE -- your B&W architecture ~!
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abstract of a abstract -- WW II metal sculpture -- some projects of Poland I was walking .. A body blown apart in battle and shaped to metal (0);
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(http://richowens.smugmug.com/Art/Childs-Play/i-B3BfL3X/1/L/_DSC0110-L.jpg)
(http://richowens.smugmug.com/Art/Childs-Play/i-v6KWxct/0/L/_DSC0394-Edit-L.jpg)
Thanks Eric, this is fun.
Rich
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8395/8708017903_b82709d7d2_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/slobodan_blagojevic/8708017903/)
Moving Walkway (http://www.flickr.com/photos/slobodan_blagojevic/8708017903/) by Slobodan Blagojevic (http://www.flickr.com/people/slobodan_blagojevic/), on Flickr
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Good stuff, folks! Keep 'em coming!
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Two squashes
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Some very nice photographs everyone. Thanks for starting this Eric.
Michael
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Maybe not really a abstract -- but lends itself to be different ....Velvia -- long exposure -- roof top --
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Nice!
It fits my broad definition just fine.
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Hi Slobodan,
Funny, when I started reading this thread I thought I'd participate with this one, shot on my return from the Photokina:
(http://bvdwolf.home.xs4all.nl/temp/OPF/2137+39_Return-from-Photokina.jpg)
You just beat me to it with the posting of your version of the concept.
Cheers,
Bart
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Hi Bart,
Seems that your flight from Photokina was in first class (i.e., with unlimited servings of alcohol)? ;D
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I'll play
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P&S Olympus -- HP film -- '95
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From a recent trip to NZ.
(http://roryhill.zenfolio.com/img/s8/v83/p1443027868.jpg)
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Top of the Pass -- Washington State ---
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I have posted this here before in a thread devoted to "bubble" photographs
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/41811370@N02/5254037463/)(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5166/5254037463_e7d6f96173_b.jpg)
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bubble 2K (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41811370@N02/5254037463/) by povwest (http://www.flickr.com/people/41811370@N02/), on Flickr
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That's OK Michael, makes a beautiful abstract.
Rich
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Some great colour abstract/images here ... I'll find mine someday ...
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Interesting thread! I gladly show one which I am sort of proud of.
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Not too abstract but here's one
Edit: and a second one (more abstract)…
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Superb, Michael.
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My turn. Burned computer power supply case found at an illegal dump.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7362/12104921903_164c305b0b_o.jpg)
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I'm really delighted with the offerings so far in this thread. There is a nice playful attitude.
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Love that one, Peter!
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Thanks, Slobodan. I love it, too. It's a 40" square canvas on my living room wall.
You are FAST! Are you directly wired to Lula? :)
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Ice and water
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I like 1645-46-48QN, though I think it needs a catchier title.
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Interesting thread! I gladly show one which I am sort of proud of.
Boudewijn Swanenburg
That is certainly one to be proud of. A beautiful shot.
Thanks for showing it.
Michael
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I noticed this a few years ago but didn't make the shot until today. This is a quick first take in B&W.
Michael
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SouthWest --- roadside ruins ...
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You like abstracts? You got 'em! Just a few of my many, many favs in b&w.
Enjoy!
FWIW-caption info--Sevier Lake playa, Utah; Crumpled flivver in the Mojave, California; Wheelmove irrigation, Oregon; Roadside paddle marker, California.
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Beautiful ice shots muntanella.
We should start a separate ice shots thread.
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Love that sprinkler shot, Larry!
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Some great images on this thread ~!!
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Still running across a few -- 1984 -- Rollei SL 66
Three frames in row , off the roll --- the fourth image of a Danish photographer --started shooting in 1932
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Not sure if these are 'abstract' enough, but...
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6637423423_350c9f9e58_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/6637423423/)
2011 Lighted Ships Parade (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/6637423423/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6637410087_8b850061d1_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/6637410087/)
2011 IEOA Lighted Truck Parade (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/6637410087/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6565567259_58a3278434_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/6565567259/)
Clouds (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/6565567259/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3707/9891040394_a5dfbd6524_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/9891040394/)
Zygote (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/9891040394/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8430/7846465560_3ff3b211a2_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7846465560/)
Vents (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7846465560/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7278/7580494106_c1d1900f1c_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7580494106/)
Underlying Currents (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7580494106/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8012/7123366483_99263befca_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7123366483/)
Bubbles (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7123366483/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7200/6981151665_643c46e584_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/6981151665/)
Fun With Mirrors - Spider (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/6981151665/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
Mike.
Vents, Underlying Currents and Bubbles are Marcia's not mine. She uses her cell phone and I push them around in LR.
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I like 1645-46-48QN, though I think it needs a catchier title.
Thin ice on the flowing waters of the Roasco Creek, as seen from the small bridge near the Casera, West Grosina Valley. (I fear it's even less catchy to english speaking people than the alphanumeric one)
Not sure if these are 'abstract' enough, but...
... but in the zygote there are some signs of Kandinsky :o
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Great thread! I like your truck (?), Mike.
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Got another one.
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Ooh! I like that!
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Ooh! I like that!
Me too!
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I'll throw this one in under the sensu lato definition of abstract.
(http://churly.zenfolio.com/img/s10/v106/p402405456-4.jpg)
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That is definitely in the top ten so far, IMHO.
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Lots of good stuff. I used to poo poo "abstracts." But I finally learned that no matter what we shoot or paint or draw or sculpt, if people can relate to it and you like it, it is worth the look and effort. Here's a few from a series after a snow storm. I could not resist the red amid the snow:
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Winter-in-High-Park-2013/i-tVXdsXR/1/M/Dec%2015-%202013%20High%20Park%20106%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Winter-in-High-Park-2013/i-tVXdsXR/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Winter-in-High-Park-2013/i-hZPcGxN/1/M/Dec%2015-%202013%20High%20Park%20112%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Winter-in-High-Park-2013/i-hZPcGxN/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Winter-in-High-Park-2013/i-CmxbVRq/1/M/Dec%2015-%202013%20High%20Park%20108%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Winter-in-High-Park-2013/i-CmxbVRq/A)
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These two are as real as it gets, yet I hope qualify at least as semi-abstracts. From the Lake Superior:
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They're fine. Sometimes reality is abstract.
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I'll throw this one in under the sensu lato definition of abstract.
Well seen, and captured!
Mike.
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Another (the last) icy "abstract", some years ago: my favorite (loved) pool at the end of September. You can see reflected the sky and the "Visega" (Festuca scabriculmis, yellow, by that time). West Grosina Valley, near the Rusgiai...
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That is definitely in the top ten so far, IMHO.
Yup. Beautifully done, churly.
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That's OK Michael, makes a beautiful abstract.
Rich
Thank you. The unexpected play of the light made photographing these seemingly mundane soap bubbles quite the experience
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3377/5720536557_497f25229a_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41811370@N02/5720536557/)
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3476/5791985931_817cae94b9_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41811370@N02/5791985931/)
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Some great work here! Peter's 'wooden web' reminded me of this one, from a few years ago. Sort of an electrician's nightmare:
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5011/5490151647_d125187bdb_b.jpg) (http://flic.kr/p/9n9sP2)
Mike.
(And yes, that is a bush).
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Hey Mike, really like your abstracts. I lean more to the subtle ones, like your zygotes. I think Freeman Patterson called a lot of these, non-representational imagery rather than "abstract." Of course many are abstract. It doesn't matter, if done well, I still like them.
Here are three which I did using in-camera motion techniques.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-4TmNm4s/0/M/Sept%208-2013%20Oakville-RBG%20227%20copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-4TmNm4s/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-q2MGJdm/0/M/Sept%208-2013%20Oakville-RBG%20228%20copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-q2MGJdm/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-LgQXt8C/0/M/Sept%209-%202013%20James%20Gardens%20168%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-LgQXt8C/A)
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WOW !
This thread is exploding within no time - seems it was overdue.
And there's some stunning work in it !
Time to contribute:
Though I am not exactly sure which of these qualify as abstracts I posted them.
At least , I believe, they have some sort of abstraction of something in them.
Cheers
Chris
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This time one quite different from my previous one.
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Haven't posted in a while, so what the hey. Of all the shots I took at The Wave a few years back (most of them forgettable), this one stood out for me.
It was shot as you first climb up into the main wave segment.
John
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Though I am not exactly sure which of these qualify as abstracts I posted them.
Chris
They certainly fit my loose definition of abstract. Nice ones. Welcome to the playpen, Chris!
Eric
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They certainly fit my loose definition of abstract. Nice ones. Welcome to the playpen, Chris!
Eric
Yes, I thought about mentioning 'non-representational' vs. abstract at the beginning, but I thought, "Let's just have some fun!"
Mike.
P.S. I was at a presentation recently with Robert Bateman and he was talking a bit about his history in art and different styles of art. At one point he put up an abstract piece and he mentioned that people have asked him, "What is it?" The answer is, "It's a painting." Often the next question is, "A painting of what?" His reply is, "It's not a painting of anything. It's a painting. We don't ask, 'It's a butterfly wing... of what?' or it's a sandstone mosaic...of what?' It's a painting."
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Right! This thread is for Photographs! The ones that aren't "Photographs of ...," unless they're just photographs of fun.
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You like abstracts? You got 'em! Just a few of my many, many favs in b&w.
Enjoy!
FWIW-caption info--Sevier Lake playa, Utah; Crumpled flivver in the Mojave, California; Wheelmove irrigation, Oregon; Roadside paddle marker, California.
I like them all very much, "abstracts" with very dense meaning... (The first, "Hiroshima-like", is very eloquent in this respect) not only a play of forms.
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Washed up, just like myself. ;)
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These might fit in here:
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2442/3998665973_178fb05aa0_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/3998665973/)
Full Circle (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/3998665973/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3255/2882561591_b7cf389284_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/2882561591/)
IMG_1444 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/2882561591/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
Both made with an old Canon 6MP camera.
Mike.
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(http://richowens.smugmug.com/photos/i-LnRzx9m/0/L/i-LnRzx9m-L.jpg)
New Beginnng
(http://richowens.smugmug.com/photos/i-Bt7LQF2/0/L/i-Bt7LQF2-L.jpg)
Storm Surge
(http://richowens.smugmug.com/photos/i-Kfr6Cz4/0/L/i-Kfr6Cz4-L.jpg)
Here Today....
Rich
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Love the
leaves colour patterns in the third one!
Mike.
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Not to difficult to figure out.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-WL2sM94/0/M/Oct%208-%202013%20Burlington%20Pier%20142%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-WL2sM94/A)
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One more.
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5520/12184350964_fa29c7587a_o.jpg)
From Dante's View, Death Valley.
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(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6079/6054994100_74eddd4c82_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41811370@N02/6054994100/)
Emptying The Net (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41811370@N02/6054994100/) by povwest (http://www.flickr.com/people/41811370@N02/), on Flickr
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That's a bubble maker and a half!
Mike.
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My version of a wave.
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Neat!
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Both of the poles are graceful, but ….
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That's a bubble maker and a half!
Mike.
I do wish I could find where this guy is "practicing" for his piad performances these days..
For me..there has never been a "subject? so insanely varied and rife with new opportunities. From the multi bubble prodcuing net bubbles to the mammoth bubbles several feet long changing in whatever light is available.
Ive shot photographs of these things as early 6 AM in the summer,,and as late as 8 oclock on occasion and theres always something fresh to explore
Thank you.
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Rummaging in my box of lost shots ...
rumble .... rumble .... rumble .... rumble .... ???
::) Here it is:
Strato
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7307/12241612435_21bf64f955_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/feldhaim/12241612435/)
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I very much like Strato. Here are some more:
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-X4zPvVR/0/M/Mar%204-12%20Gastown%20184%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-X4zPvVR/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-g8ZGd4F/0/M/Mar%2011-12%20UofT%20008%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-g8ZGd4F/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-jHKNdjt/0/M/Sept%209-12%20Downtown%20TO%20012%20smug%20bwcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-jHKNdjt/A)
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A recent one
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I very much like Strato. Here are some more:
Number 2 is special IMHO.
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Number 2 is special IMHO.
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Agreed!
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After this one I am running low on abstracts I am afraid.
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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That's a fine one.
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somewhat abstract ....
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Somewhat abstract... is that like 'a little bit pregnant'? Sorry, couldn't resist. ;D
Mike.
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Marcia captured this with her phone. She was going to throw it out and I said no. Pushed around a little in LR...
Mike.
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Thank you, Marcia. Nice save, Mike.
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I like this thread more and more - really good stuff coming up with some occasional gems.
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Looks to be a ..
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A fabulous thread, and as Mike says, forget the definition, and lets see what you think is abstract, visually or conceptually.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-W5RxSC5/1/M/May%2019-12%20Rhodo%20pk%20142%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-W5RxSC5/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-FKH7857/1/M/Sept%202-12%20Milton%20tractors%20047%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-FKH7857/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-chLG65n/1/M/Aug%2026-12%20Evans-QEW%20bldg%20101%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-chLG65n/A)
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From the Rockies.
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Poland -- Kracow > abstract ::: Entrance to a Hotel ..
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Long exposure - Surf in Palm Beach, FL.
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Lago Turchino (Blue Lake) in september.
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(http://richowens.smugmug.com/photos/i-jd8gw4b/0/L/i-jd8gw4b-L.jpg)
Rain On My Window
2005
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Do these qualify?
BTW, the apparent face in the eucalyptus bark was found, not photoshopped.
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Took some today in downtown Toronto in the freezing cold- brrr! I missed the sun on the steps which would have given the image some real punch, but it works nicely as BW.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Q8brcCR/0/M/Feb%208-%202014%20Downtown%20Toronto%20115%20bw-smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Q8brcCR/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Lp9VW5Q/0/M/Feb%208-%202014%20Downtown%20Toronto%20119%20bwsmugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Lp9VW5Q/A)
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Loving the work in this thread. Keep 'em coming!
Mike.
P.S. A few more images from Marcia's cell phone (and LR)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8470/8390073023_dcbe3c7fa3_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/8390073023/)
Hydrangea Dream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/8390073023/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8456/7934715542_58d13d04ba_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7934715542/)
Sailboat (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7934715542/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8011/7580492210_ba8554f561_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7580492210/)
Night Patterns (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7580492210/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7278/7580494106_2c26030f0e_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7580494106/)
Underlying Currents (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7580494106/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7122/7580493128_f0f8e681f6_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7580493128/)
Bark (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7580493128/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8291/7580491678_801bc3efd3_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7580491678/)
Softly Smiling (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfnowl/7580491678/) by wolfnowl (http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfnowl/), on Flickr
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High Pollen Count
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Thanks, Peter.
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Quite a number of really nice ones since I last checked in.
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Well done, Chris, and I like Bruce's 'acid trip' too.
Mike.
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Well done, Chris, and I like Bruce's 'acid trip' too.
Mike.
I am glad you like it. I am retreading old ground here. However, I see it more as moderist stiyles from 1920's Paris than as "acid trip".
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Quite a number of really nice ones since I last checked in.
I missed this thread entirely. The 3rd images in your original first and second posts are beauties.
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The house was painted and I bought a new point and shoot camera at the same time. Here is one I took of a series of abstracts, more or less, of the walls and house.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-2mw3ppS/0/M/Jan%203-2014%20House%20003%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-2mw3ppS/A)
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Catching the tide
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Time to add more of my own. Three very recent ones, all of ice from Plum Island a week ago.
1. Bubbles in very thin ice.
2. Ice pastels.
3. "Rhein III" ;)
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Time to add more of my own. Three very recent ones, all of ice from Plum Island a week ago.
Eric - #1 is particularly fine.
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I had a bit of a layover so I went for a walk around the T4 in Madrid's airport.
(http://www.andaremos.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/madrid-barajas-t4-blinds.jpg)
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Abstract One A and Abstract Two B off my back porch.
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Abstract One A and Abstract Two B off my back porch.
Is that not the Green Hand of Man in Abstract Two B ?
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Naw, it's my fly swatter.
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Naw, it's my fly swatter.
Like Michael, I thought it was Russ's hand. ;)
Both nice. I like the fact that folks are being playful in this thread, and stretching the definition of "abstract" in any way they feel like it.
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by virtue of function....an extension of the hand of man ;D
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Like Michael, I thought it was Russ's hand. ;)
Both nice. I like the fact that folks are being playful in this thread, and stretching the definition of "abstract" in any way they feel like it.
ho hand of man here..expect those on my camera
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5258/5415178180_e1a3a36275_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41811370@N02/5415178180/)
Flying Carpet (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41811370@N02/5415178180/) by povwest (http://www.flickr.com/people/41811370@N02/), on Flickr
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5246/5242925544_017f43334a_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41811370@N02/5242925544/)
Industrial strength (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41811370@N02/5242925544/) by povwest (http://www.flickr.com/people/41811370@N02/), on Flickr
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I am going to find some new ones, bt for now here are a few.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-JFrXcc7/1/M/June%2021-10%20Stratford%20021%20LScopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-JFrXcc7/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Guelph/i-5gJV35c/0/M/Dec%202-%202013%20Guelph%20outing%20084%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Guelph/i-5gJV35c/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-ZJHvcZw/0/M/Sept%2016-12%20Downtown%20TO%20133%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-ZJHvcZw/A)
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An Abridged Pictionary
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An Abridged Pictionary
The over all image works well and I like your dramatic separation of the reflections. A little more space in there and you could rent it.
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I am going to find some new ones, bt for now here are a few.
JR
You may have heard this a thousnad times, but: the ones you chose fit together so well that they could do so tightly.
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Blue* Star
[Modified in the afternoon so that it is less blue [not blue at all, really].]
[Re-modified 2/19/2014 I'll get it right yet. Anyway, it's blue again.]
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Can't use a cell phone while driving, but, can photograph thru the windshield at a traffic light.
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Blue* Star
[Modified in the afternoon so that it is less blue.]
I'm having cataract surgery on my left eye, Wednesday so I will chalk up the missing color to a bum eye...well, not completely as the other eye still works marginally.
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I'm having cataract surgery on my left eye, Wednesday so I will chalk up the missing color to a bum eye...well, not completely as the other eye still works marginally.
I posted the first version immediately after finishing it in the morning. When it soured on me, as many would have predicted, I chose to preserve some continuity the earlier posting in the interest of those who had correctly [modified to include Eric] liked or disliked it.
I encouage you to trust and take care of your eyes. They are more true than my images, much less my captions.
Bruce
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I admit I, too, was startled to see that someone had walked off with the blue in the star.
It's nice either way, as are many of the recent ones.
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Found another one.
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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I am sure you can figure out what this really is.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-whGkrrq/0/M/Aug%2026-11%20RBG%20070%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-whGkrrq/A)
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I am sure you can figure out what this really is.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-whGkrrq/0/M/Aug%2026-11%20RBG%20070%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-whGkrrq/A)
Absolutely, John. It's an abstract! ;)
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Really beautiful stuff everyone. This is mine, underwater shot from somewhere in the Philippines, Sea Urchin
Hugo
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One more
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February Flowers...
Mike.
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Elevator Music #1: Tall and tan and young and lovely, the girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, each one she passes goes - ah
Elevator Abstract # 2: Going Down
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Nice Chris!
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I am sure you can figure out what this really is.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-whGkrrq/0/M/Aug%2026-11%20RBG%20070%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-whGkrrq/A)
Tulips and Iris?
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I just came across these
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Nice rhythms.
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By chance a few hours before I came across this thread, I rediscovered of sub folder of abstract images in my film scans folder.
[Though Tinsley Viaduct shot is digital].
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This set of images did start out as an unusual portrait but got abstracted a lot further. And then hacked around some more.
So not really sure they are photos anymore.
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Nice ones, jjj. My favorite is the triptych.
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I'm amazed again by this thread - so much interesting and beautiful stuff!
Cheers
~Chris
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jjj;
Dang. "Corrugated Green Fence" reminds me of something.
Ah. Here it is.
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Close Armand. But I don't really know. I was going to say "flowers!" The truth is I get so caught up in the colours, shapes and composition that I barely notice what kind of flowers they were. Of course if I were taking documentary style shots, then I would probably know the name of the flowers. It's been a few years now that I decided, even when the the weather is not that good, I will try some experimental technique to make it all worthwhile or interesting. Not to mention fun!
JR
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jjj;
Dang. "Corrugated Green Fence" reminds me of something.
Ah. Here it is.
Just needs a rivet! ;D
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Very interesting thread: Here's my contribution.
Graeme
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A new contribution "Around the Next Corner"
Chuck
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A couple more.
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Excellent work in this thread. Here's my (weak) simple addition, hopefully I'll have more to contribute soon. Picked this one out of the bin so I could play along.
I took this about 4.5 years ago and I don't agree with the choice of PP anymore.
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2668/3914236193_b45a74dcc3_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garagenoise/3914236193/)
Misaligned (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garagenoise/3914236193/) by power slave (http://www.flickr.com/people/garagenoise/), on Flickr
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I took this about 4.5 years ago and I don't agree with the choice of PP anymore.
I do that at times too. And at sometimes it's because the software has improved, so I can do a better job that I could then.
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I do that at times too. And at sometimes it's because the software has improved, so I can do a better job that I could then.
Me too. And often it's because I've finally learned how to use the software better.
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I don't know if this qualifies for this thread, but I quite like it.
Best viewed large (click through)! I love the overlapping ripples.
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3711/9492927138_a85bd8aa1d_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garagenoise/9492927138/lightbox/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garagenoise/9492927138/lightbox/) by power slave (http://www.flickr.com/people/garagenoise/), on Flickr
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reflections
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Another one…
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bench
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I continue to be amazed by the broad range of interpretations of the term 'abstract'. Some excellent work here!
Mike.
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I continue to be amazed by the broad range of interpretations of the term 'abstract'. Some excellent work here!
Mike.
Yes, abstract for some might not be abstract for the next person… But I like the images so far.
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I continue to be amazed by the broad range of interpretations of the term 'abstract'. Some excellent work here!
Mike.
Me too. And I'm delighted that this is one thread that hasn't bogged down in arguments over definitions.
Eric
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Another 'abstract'.
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Me too. And I'm delighted that this is one thread that hasn't bogged down in arguments over definitions.
I'm amazed by that to be honest.
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Anyway here's another…..
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In many ways this thread, is, and hopefully will remain similar to the "Without prejudice" thread.
One more:
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/AGO/i-G27DrBR/2/M/Nov%206-11%20AGO%20167%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/AGO/i-G27DrBR/A)
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Cars and hares.
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Anyway here's another…..
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That's bloody good!
Rob C
P.S. How come the image doesn't repeat here in this reply?
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That's bloody good!
Rob C
P.S. How come the image doesn't repeat here in this reply?
images being called from wen storage display
images that are attachments uploaded to the server here dont.
the image in the message you quoted was an attachment
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I wonder if this is abstract enough for this category.
Steven
http://www.friedmanphoto.com (http://www.friedmanphoto.com)
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images being called from wen storage display
images that are attachments uploaded to the server here dont.
the image in the message you quoted was an attachment
No wonder I'm always perplexed!
Rob C
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somewhat abstract..
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That's bloody good!
P.S. How come the image doesn't repeat here in this reply?
Only the t'interweb gremlins know.
And ta. :)
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No wonder I'm always perplexed!
Rob C
that "wen" technology is tricky stuff! :o
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From the land of cold:
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-a-winters-day/i-Tf436Wj/0/M/March%203-%202014%20Badlands%20in%20winter%20036%20bw-smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-a-winters-day/i-Tf436Wj/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-a-winters-day/i-MXQfZ4H/0/M/March%203-%202014%20Badlands%20in%20winter%20111%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-a-winters-day/i-MXQfZ4H/A)
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7318/9532708068_4652bebe77_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/9532708068/)
Hollywood August Morning, Stylized (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/9532708068/) by tanngrisnir3 (http://www.flickr.com/people/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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Time for another contribution to this wonderful thread:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7346/12882302143_6ccb74afa6_n.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/feldhaim/12882302143/in/set-72157641746785553)
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I'm quite pleased with this one.
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I'm quite pleased with this one.
From the thumbnail it looked like an office block through a window, but then it is kind of the opposite, which is quite interesting.
Have another...
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Practice Sheets
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a touch of abstract --how nature sees itself
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Imitation Cat Food. Will she be fooled?
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That's the funniest one yet in this thread.
I always appreciate a cat that likes abstract art.
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Collaboration
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Collaboration
Yes, two bugs are smarter than one.
At first I wanted to see more to the right and or left.
However, with a little study, I see the scale is right for the simi-inclosed "M" shape in the middle.
Not that I should, but I want to color it in.
Bruce
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The forest barber shaves everyone in the forest who does not shave himself...
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Rule of Thirds
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80's San Fransisco -- 250mm Rollei
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Mistaken -- double exposure ...
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Mistaken -- double exposure ...
It makes the close rock look animated.
Bruce
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Railing in a Pond
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Beautiful, Bruce. Is that ice?
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The Midges Dance to the Music of the Setting Sun
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It makes the close rock look animated.
Bruce
Just forgot to crank the shutter -- when changing a back ...
Looks very strange. Especially, since I took this shot in the early 80's and have just seen it. :-)
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Beautiful, Bruce. Is that ice?
It has been cold enough, though generally too dry for ice this winter. This is glare on wood.
Bruce
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Fissure
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Ken and Armand: Both photos fantastic!
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Thank you.
A couple abstracts that are a little more traditional (the first might be questioned as an abstract to start with)
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Pier
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Östermalm, Stockholm.
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Mosaic Rainbow
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2521/3852727822_41f32909a8_o.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/21247579@N04/3852727822/)
Hand Painted Detail (https://www.flickr.com/photos/21247579@N04/3852727822/)
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Walking the alleys -- Berkley in the 80's
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Rock sculpture, Hells Roaring Canyon, Utah
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Eastern Oregon
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spa
(http://mattlarsen.smugmug.com/Other/Mashup/i-pF4r8xL/0/M/P1063998_edit%20mod1-M.jpg)
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Extachrome -- softar 1 -- Nikkor 105
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That one is wild!
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That one is wild!
cleaned it up a little ...
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Good job of cleaning. The view of the moon lit trees reflecting in the still lake is so relaxing I see bits and pieces floating in the sky.
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Good job of cleaning. The view of the moon lite trees reflecting in the still lake is so relaxing I see bits and pieces floating in the sky.
Nice interpretation :-)
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Shadow Play
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Brno -- CZ Republic
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Love this, Arlen. Makes me happy and thirsty.
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A nearby ocean shore (as in about 300m from here).
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A nearby ocean shore (as in about 300m from here).
It seems the water has turned to stone. When will it go back to water again?
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Frozen in time perhaps?
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A nearby ocean shore (as in about 300m from here).
Very chaotic, I like that.
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Life in the Fast Lane
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In a Redbud Tree
Modified 5/5/2014
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Okay try this one.
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Works for me!
There have been lots of good ones lately.
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Okay try this one.
This last one is really abstract and very nice…
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I think making the top a little less bright helps.
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Maybe not that abstract --
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played with that Idea myself but it always seems to lose some purity to me. but that's me. Maybe if we met in the middle???
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Kind of abstract?
(http://mattlarsen.smugmug.com/MonochromeMagic/Light-and-Dark/i-RKqVn8z/0/L/DSC_8210mod1-L.jpg)
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Some really intriguing work here!
Mike.
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Are those ones, from Armand, from a science museum? I like them very much.
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Are those ones, from Armand, from a science museum? I like them very much.
Thank you.
Chicago Science Museum.
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(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-d2hCGvj/0/M/IMGP0064%20smugcopy2-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-d2hCGvj/A)
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"psychodelic flowers", at least that's how I named the corresponding Photoshop action
(which essentially preserves the most saturated colors while the rest is sent through some filters).
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Trentham Estate, Woods
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In the tall grass
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While photographing an old building with warped metal siding, I came across this face-like pattern.
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While photographing an old building with warped metal siding, I came across this face-like pattern.
I thought it could be a little more face like if it was a little less metal siding like.
Bruce
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Maybe not that abstract --
FRONT GRILL Paint BW.jpg is maybe not that original or rare either other than that you have done a better job of than almost anyone else. I enjoy it very much.
Bruce
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FRONT GRILL Paint BW.jpg is maybe not that original or rare either other than that you have done a better job of than almost anyone else. I enjoy it very much.
Bruce
Yes, nothing too original ... just had gotten a the new Canon 20 D with the B&W feature ,,,
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Abstract.
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No Buffalo
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OK. Here's another one with one or two elements out of the lens.
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I think you need to take one more element out. Its still way to sharp for my taste :)
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Maybe I could try just knocking the sensor out of alignment. That might be simpler.
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And another one this time of Chicago. All done in camera of course.
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Nicely done!
Mike.
P.S. Was in an art store last weekend and saw a book on painting 'Realistic Abstracts'. I thought, "Isn't that an oxymoron?"
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Nice, Armand. Especially the first.
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The third image is outsanding
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Palouse abstract
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Beautiful, Dave!
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Beautiful, Dave!
Yes!
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Abstract.
masterful (and very concrete, material)
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Well done, folks! Dave, have you tried adding a little blur to your palouse abstract to see if it becomes watercolour? Fine as is but might be fun.
Mike.
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Well done, folks! Dave, have you tried adding a little blur to your palouse abstract to see if it becomes watercolour? Fine as is but might be fun.
Mike.
My, but that would be impressionistic! ;)
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Superb!
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I think this is more where I was headed in terms of seeing. The colors were indeed absolutely wonderful, but the silky textures, contours, and shadows were fascinating and I think more emphasized by the monotone treatment and toning to bring them together. BTW, it's number 20 sepia in SEP2.
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Very nice monochromes!
But colour has the advantage of reminding me that this is indeed a landscape, a revelation I enjoy.
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These are terrific, David. The color ones, too.
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I figure it's about time for me to show some more of my own, so here are four of my own favorite sand abstracts.
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And a mystery shot in a different vein.
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Beautiful, Eric! They (sand shots) must look fabulous in print. I am imagining rich, juicy, warm, dark tones, and glowing highlights!
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Thanks, Slobodan. Yes, in my humble opinion they look great in prints.
I find I have better mastery of color balance in black and white than I do in color. ;)
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I figure it's about time for me to show some more of my own, so here are four of my own favorite sand abstracts.
Great, misterious and (PlumIsland2) sensual .
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Beautiful, Eric! They (sand shots) must look fabulous in print. I am imagining rich, juicy, warm, dark tones, and glowing highlights!
That about says it all.
I find I have better mastery of color balance in black and white than I do in color. ;)
I have the same experience; fancy that!
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Wow! Some great shots from David and Eric!
Here is something from another corner of the genre.
Chuck
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Very classy, Chuck!
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Eric,
Your four images above are top notch.
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Thank you, Rajan.
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Great images Eric.
Three from Lyme Park UK
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And B & W versions - I'm dithering.
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I'm a big fan of black and white, but I think the color actually does add something to these, Graeme.
Nice set.
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Compound
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Here's a little geological detail from Death Valley. Yes, another Zabrieski shot ;D
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Thanks for sharing, folks!
Mike.
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Läch de la Basa in June, Pedruna Valley, West Grosina Valley, Valtelline Valley.
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From a garden:
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-tKhvSJQ/0/M/June%2023-%202014%20James%20Gardens%20020%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-tKhvSJQ/A)
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Did you happen to see Dorothy or Toto in that twister, John? :)
Nicely done.
Mike.
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From a garden:
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Beautiful but I feel like sea sick. It's so mesmerizing!
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I have been told Mike, all I have to do is click my heels three times and I can make these abstracts a full time occupation- in other words, retire ;)
Thanks for the comments Francois and Mike.
JR
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scrapings
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Wow!
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A good example of "painting with light."
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Pattern abstracts
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-dvpHR2B/0/M/July%207-%202014%20James%20Gardens%20014%20copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-dvpHR2B/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-jGH7rcF/0/M/July%207-%202014%20James%20Gardens%20004%20copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-jGH7rcF/A)
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Dinner Barge.....
Peter
Nice one, Peter.
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From the colourful Garden.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-48VVjmw/0/M/July%2028-%202014%20James%20Gardens%20116%20copysmug4-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-48VVjmw/A)
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Nice to meet all of you. Great thread, with very positive vibe. I am new to photography, and this wonderful site, so I thought I might dip my toe in and make my first post in this thread.
Abstracts are some of my favorite images. Here is one of a rose bush, and some fronds I did using camera movement. Enjoy!
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Nice work. You have the hang of the technique.
JR
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Thanks John, I have enjoyed your images in this thread very much.
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Somewhat abstract, but definitely a bit surreal.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-DDQsDGH/0/M/Aug%203-%202014%20James%20Gardens%20008%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-DDQsDGH/A)
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Nice John!
Below are two of mine that may not be true abstracts, they are of birds. First the feathers of a Nicobar Pigeon, and second a B&W of the back side of a Peacock.
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Very nice. I like the fan-like composition and the complimentary colours. The bw is also well done. Love the luminescent quality.
JR
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Nice work, guys!
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Another...
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That's a real winner, Dave!
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Definitely. Looks like a great 'underwater with polarizer' image. Well done.
Mike.
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David,
Nice image. I love the images I have seen from the Palouse. Its on my list to photograph.
Steve
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A few more from my "Botonical" collection. Enjoy!
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'Light Rushing to Fill in the Void'
Wouldn't dare post this anywhere else on Lula but Eric is pretty broad with his definition of abstract.
Chuck
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It fits nicely, Chuck! Not just a water reflection, either. A metaphor.
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Antelope Canyon
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I like it Churly!
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Antelope Canyon is one of Natures finest abstracts. You did a nice job with it.
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Here is a Rose done Antelope Canyon style. LOL!
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Antelope Canyon is one of Natures finest abstracts. You did a nice job with it.
Yes, beautifully done! Congrats.
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One from home.
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From a walk along the San Diego waterfront.
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Here are a couple.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-VV96vvD/0/M/Aug%2018-%202013%20Caledon%20Badlands%20136%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-VV96vvD/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-FfJJkRX/0/M/Aug%2018-%202013%20Caledon%20Badlands%20127%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-FfJJkRX/A)
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Here's one:
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/BL373.jpg)
For how it was done, see this (http://blog.kasson.com/?p=1736).
Jim
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I know that technically an abstract isn't a picture 'of' anything, but I was looking at this rock face in LR and noticed subtle colours in the stone, so I pushed Vibrance and Saturation both to 100...
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I know that technically an abstract isn't a picture 'of' anything, but I was looking at this rock face in LR and noticed subtle colours in the stone, so I pushed Vibrance and Saturation both to 100...
Just don't tell us that it's a rock face and it makes a perfectly good abstract. ;)
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Just don't tell us that it's a rock face and it makes a perfectly good abstract. ;)
I can see a fossilised tulip… Lovely - abstract or not!
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Ring around the rosy...
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-sJqVt3D/0/M/Sept%202-%202014%20RBG%20085%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-sJqVt3D/A)
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That would have been some challenge to plant!
Mike.
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Intriguing. Looks like star trails, but I'm not so sure.
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Intriguing. Looks like star trails, but I'm not so sure.
That's what it is. It's a failed shot on that respect but I played with it and by going up on the vibrance and saturation I discovered the stars were colored differently (maybe an astronomer here can explain) so not all was lost.
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Twisted strings
(http://mattlarsen.smugmug.com/Other/Mashup/i-W4zKrqZ/0/L/DSC_5418_edit_1mod1-L.jpg)
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Fiery grasses and somewhat abstract reflections on my car.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-bJpnpJp/0/M/Sept%2021-%202014%20High%20Park%20034%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-bJpnpJp/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-MM9M8qG/0/M/Sept%2020-%202014%20Rockwood%20046%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-MM9M8qG/A)
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Rising star
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Rising star
Intriguing!
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Intriguing!
Very!
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Ceiling:
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2947/15413223485_53e4ef5bfe_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pu1Nmv)
Ceiling (https://flic.kr/p/pu1Nmv) by Slobodan Blagojevic (https://www.flickr.com/people/20843597@N05/), on Flickr
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The last two are really fines shots Slobodan and Francisco D.
Here is mine. Not really an abstract, but I would rather place here than elsewhere.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Area-Autumn-2014/i-FbvPBdZ/0/M/Sept%2028-%202014%20Algonquin%20Area%20104%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Area-Autumn-2014/i-FbvPBdZ/A)
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Lights, with an unsteady hand holding the camera.
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/_E301826.jpg)
Jim
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This thread just keeps getting better.
Nice work, folks!
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This is truly abstract, clean and beautiful!
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That's what it is. It's a failed shot on that respect but I played with it and by going up on the vibrance and saturation I discovered the stars were colored differently (maybe an astronomer here can explain) so not all was lost.
Armand: We stars as white dots because our eyes can't accurately render colour in low light, but every star has its own colour based on, among other things, the size of the star, the distance from us and the age of the star.
Mike.
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Just don't tell us that it's a rock face and it makes a perfectly good abstract. ;)
Thanks, Eric!
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Strange Brew
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Hey Jim K. Had a look at your website. Really enjoyed the images. I would say you are doing motion and e-motion studies. Keep up the fine work!!
JMR
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Hey Jim K. Had a look at your website. Really enjoyed the images. I would say you are doing motion and e-motion studies. Keep up the fine work!!
<blush> I like the e-motion thought. I may use it.
Thanks,
Jim
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Here is one that I took because I was taken not only by the colours, but also by the subtle lighting.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Area-Autumn-2014/i-zfmKVtM/0/M/Oct%204-%202014%20Haliburton%20and%20Oxtongue%20Rapids%20369%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Area-Autumn-2014/i-zfmKVtM/A)
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Lovely, John.
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leaf
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Another botanical to follow armand.
Chuck
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May I join?
Little scorched urban deserts (single shots and tryptic)
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Of course, you're welcome!
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Good seeing, Diego!
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And thanks for posting!
Mike.
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Any feedback would be most welcome!
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dN1YE3z1_HY/UUR9ZjKbVrI/AAAAAAAAGDA/WUqOeT7UffY/w1016-h929-no/Ripples.jpg)
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Some of mine:
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dFE1PS8a-EU/UV6l7Q8dHmI/AAAAAAAAA00/tZQbv2L0I9Y/w987-h595-no/_8140041_DxO.jpg)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-si589AEQm3I/UV6l7GiAyYI/AAAAAAAAA0w/FF0YOzXyJjA/w612-h787-no/_8130007_DxO.jpg)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-t1aUyDtTwDc/U0g8nJYtNGI/AAAAAAAAA2w/6qVyna70ITk/w649-h839-no/_3280400_DxO.jpg)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-xH1VxQpuB-Y/U0g-0F9AtZI/AAAAAAAAA28/zJsy8oQkbHQ/w552-h648-no/_3280414_DxO.jpg)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rKBdyoNFJdM/U0g8mi365CI/AAAAAAAAA2g/-rTRBM8fj8s/w982-h588-no/_3280388_DxO.jpg)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-qcImEwrRNMY/U0g8nXQBA5I/AAAAAAAAA2s/JaTtVBGHYGA/w649-h839-no/_3280406_DxO.jpg)
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Hey, KMerv, these are really beautiful abstracts (and photographs in general). Well, maybe with the exception for #2 :)
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Yes, they are very fine.
Perhaps the second is only semi-abstract. After all, it's really about the pattern formed by the objects rather than the objects themselves,
so I'd still consider it (loosely) an abstract.
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I agree with Eric. Nice work KMerv. Even the "(loosely)" based abstract is good in my books.
JR
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One from today:
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Quite organic, Slobodan. ;)
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I thought so too!
Mike.
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Hey, KMerv, these are really beautiful abstracts (and photographs in general). Well, maybe with the exception for #2 :)
+1 ! and allthough technically #2 would/could be named a 'semi' it's certainly fully equally gorgeous, inspriring stuff, thank you for posting (and making) these beauties.
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Haven't posted for a while ( Computer Hell ).
Here are a couple of recent abstracts.
I'm very much enjoying this thread.
Graeme
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palm tree perspectives?
(http://mattlarsen.smugmug.com/Other/Mashup/i-477BZH5/0/L/P9161127-L.jpg)
(http://mattlarsen.smugmug.com/Other/Mashup/i-mxSqb9v/0/L/P9161123-L.jpg)
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(http://theintimatelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Impressions-1.jpg)
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(http://theintimatelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Sea-foam-Dream-I.jpg)
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Very nice, Stephen. Minimalist and beautiful!
JR
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Very nice, Stephen. Minimalist and beautiful!
JR
+1.
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+1.
Smooth lines, fantastic soft colors, it's a stunning image.
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Thanks everyone!
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Experiment in post processing
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Willow leaf floating under an willow tree.
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child's play
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3939/15008015394_25a31cec55_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oSd177)
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Would you consider this an abstract?
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-L_VpIRFVa4Y/VE4oM7ouCPI/AAAAAAAASIY/Z42NoOIbP_4/w1566-h998-no/Large_The-creation-of-life.jpg)
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in that the image was abstracted from "the whole" of the "subject" it is an abstract.
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in that the image was abstracted from "the whole" of the "subject" it is an abstract.
Thanks Michael.
My simplistic understanding was if a photograph or painting is not readily identifiable or classifiable into a specific subject, then it would be considered an abstract.
Should an abstract always be a derived from a "whole"? Cannot "the whole" be considered an abstract in its entirety?
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5613/15652907095_af0db9bb41_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pRceWx)
Aqua Blue (https://flic.kr/p/pRceWx) by Slobodan Blagojevic (https://www.flickr.com/people/20843597@N05/), on Flickr
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Aqua Blue, Slobodan Blagojevic
Very nice.
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It's a beauty Slobodan. Of course I like the pattern and rhythm, but I particularly like the more subtle movement from dark blue to light.
JR
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I really like all the recent posts here.
My own (very loose) definition of an abstract is something like this: "Any image that is interesting or fun to look at, where the interest doesn't lie in what the 'subject' was but rather in the visual effect produced."
In one sense, every "straight" photo is abstracted (via cropping in camera) from the scene in front of the camera, so I don't bother with that formal definition.
But that may be just me.
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Don't visit here very often. I'm glad I did now - that's a stunning shot.
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Here's one from a series of local "folk art" made of found items and suspended from wire beneath Chicago RR bridges. Many of the homeless who reside there under the RR bridges wanted to dress up their abode.
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Thanks all. In case anyone is interested in what the "whole" is in my abstract, it is a detail of the Aqua building in Chicago, known for its wavy balconies. Here is another view:
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Oh, sweet. I think I'm on the wrong thread. Some stunning images here.
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I really like all the recent posts here.
My own (very loose) definition of an abstract is something like this: "Any image that is interesting or fun to look at, where the interest doesn't lie in what the 'subject' was but rather in the visual effect produced."
In one sense, every "straight" photo is abstracted (via cropping in camera) from the scene in front of the camera, so I don't bother with that formal definition.
But that may be just me.
That was an excellent explanation! Thanks a lot.
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both
the entire image could be "abstract" in one sense...or abstracted in another..strictly speaking
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Great work, folks - keep 'em coming!
Mike.
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Stockholm.
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Stockholm.
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Eerie. Haunting. Good work.
Jim
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Las Vegas fountain.
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/_21_3989-Edit.jpg)
Jim
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Eerie. Haunting. Good work.
Ta.
I like your Staccato stuff by the way. I used to do similar on slide film some years back where I had to hold camera in a really weird grip to prevent film from winding on as I took multiple shots and stalked my subject. Occasionally revisit that technique with digital. But although similar in concept, layered digital files don't quite have the same feel as bodged slides. ;D
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Mexico Beach, FL lighthouse....Major Tom to Ground Control
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creek bed
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(https://gp1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/806614/photos/photos.500px.net/80575125/4084135417e5a51ff75df3688324530270db8d45/2048.jpg)
(https://gp1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/806614/photos/photos.500px.net/74040373/bededed7b7c498ca6f383ded887d7cccdd29a2d2/2048.jpg)
(https://gp1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/806614/photos/photos.500px.net/74040367/3487874c0ab9245c2c4e4128c6ae60659fd4d075/5.jpg)
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at home
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First one is fairly abstract and nice. The other 2 seem to be out of focus fireworks. How about the moon shot after a "couple" of whiskys over San Francisco bay with an 8 second exposure?
(http://tonysx.zenfolio.com/img/s2/v1/p788297556.jpg)
Oh! And since he started the thread, maybe Eric would comment on the entries?
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First one is fairly abstract and nice. The other 2 seem to be out of focus fireworks. How about the moon shot after a "couple" of whiskys over San Francisco bay with an 8 second exposure?
(http://tonysx.zenfolio.com/img/s2/v1/p788297556.jpg)
Oh! And since he started the thread, maybe Eric would comment on the entries?
Can't get more abstract than that ;D
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Took advantage of a flooded James River earlier this year...
(http://theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/Rushing_Waters_at_Sunrise.jpg)
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I love the variety that you folks are bringing to the idea of "abstracts." Even "Content Protected by..."
I find the "out of focus fireworks" very appealing; more so than most sharp fireworks shots I've seen.
And Bruce's "At Home" is really far out: dreamlike.
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New candy store on Michigan Avenue, Chicago:
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I feel Candy Store may be too much fun.
I think it could be made more serious.
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Since I'm more addicted to chocolate than to hard candies, I think Bruce's version may be an improvement.
But there's just a tiny chance that I'm being a bit subjective.
Question: Is either version more or less abstract than "Content Protected by...?"
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(First post of mine on LuLa! :))
Here are some of my abstracts. Any/all comments appreciated.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC6594.jpg (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC6594.jpg)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC6217.jpg (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC6217.jpg)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC6066.jpg (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC6066.jpg)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC5247.jpg (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC5247.jpg)
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(First post of mine on LuLa! :))
Here are some of my abstracts. Any/all comments appreciated.
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC6594.jpg)
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC6217.jpg)
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC6066.jpg)
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC5247.jpg)
Nothing showing. Try *url* tags not *img* tags for the links to see if that helps. At least you can then click on link [like below] to take you to image as image linking doesn't seem to work with your urls. ???
I can see the links when I quote your reply, but nothing when it's posted. ?!?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC6594.jpg (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10724484/MDPC/_DSC6594.jpg)
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I deliberately framed the image this way and took two shots: one in focus, the second out of focus.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-DnTKCGM/0/M/Dec%202-%202013%20Guelph%20outing%20070%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-DnTKCGM/A)
This is simple camera movement:
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-Th9Cgwh/0/M/Sept%2015-%202014%20High%20Park%20068%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-Th9Cgwh/A)
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today
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its has a distinctly DADA tone about it.
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reflections
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Nice, Armand. And congratulations on making our 400th post in this thread!
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Thank you, I didn't even notice the number.
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Building reflection:
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Nice one, Slobodan.
I find it much more appealing than either Rhein II or Lik's Phantom. ;)
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Nice one, Slobodan.
I find it much more appealing than either Rhein II or Lik's Phantom. ;)
Thanks! Ready to put your money where your mouth is? ;D
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I like the zebra image, good eye.
My brother just go a new Nikon 7100, which he doesn't know how to use, so he asked me to take it out and help him learn the features. But I don't shoot Nikon, so I have to learn it too. Anyway, here are two from today which I think look better as BW abstracts. Especially since the light combined with the snow, was very harsh.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-S3nqcJv/0/M/Dec%2012%202014%20Badlands%20212%20bw-copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-S3nqcJv/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-kWv5NzF/0/M/Dec%2012%202014%20Badlands%20215%20bw-smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-kWv5NzF/A)
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I like the zebra image, good eye.
My brother just go a new Nikon 7100, which he doesn't know how to use, so he asked me to take it out and help him learn the features. But I don't shoot Nikon, so I have to learn it too. Anyway, here are two from today which I think look better as BW abstracts. Especially since the light combined with the snow, was very harsh.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-S3nqcJv/0/M/Dec%2012%202014%20Badlands%20212%20bw-copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-S3nqcJv/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-kWv5NzF/0/M/Dec%2012%202014%20Badlands%20215%20bw-smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-kWv5NzF/A)
They look very good!
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Thanks! Ready to put your money where your mouth is? ;D
If I had $6.5 million in my checking account, I'd definitely offer to buy one of yours, SB.
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John R,
Both very nice indeed!
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If I had $6.5 million in my checking account, I'd definitely offer to buy one of yours, SB.
So you would give all your money?
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Building reflection:
It felt so familiar that I spent half an hour looking for it but gave up; this evening I found it by chance.
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So you would give all your money?
I very carefully did not suggest how much of that $6.5 million I would offer. ;)
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in the park
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in the park
I like it, don't know why but I do
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in the park
Best abstract selfie I've seen.
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One more to carry me through to the next snow storm.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-k7XnzQr/0/M/Dec%2012%202014%20Badlands%20220%20bw-copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-k7XnzQr/A)
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Breakwater.
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Cavities or protuberances? I find my perception changes frequently in this image. If I look at the bottom left then I see cavities, when I look at bottom right it changes to protuberances
Regards
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in the park
I like it, don't know why but I do
Me too.
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Chasing Bacon.
Shot on slide 12-13 years back just after visiting a Francis Bacon Exhibition.
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Sick weather yesterday in italian Alps.
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Sick weather yesterday in italian Alps.
But good for photography, judging by this nice photo!
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But good for photography, judging by this nice photo!
Agreed!
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Nice minimalist scene, Armand.
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I agree.
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Patterns
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Nice! Suggests birds in flight.
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Patterns
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Nicely done. A lot of room for interpretation.
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Nicely done. A lot of room for interpretation.
I'd like to chime in, really nice.
I will be taking people on an outing this week to this wonderful place, where snow abstracts have no bounds.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-hxWjmZS/0/M/Dec%2012%202014%20Badlands%20076%20copycrop2-smug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-hxWjmZS/A)
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Do show us the fruits of your outing, John.
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Do show us the fruits of your outing, John.
I'm eager to see the results…
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Here's a couple of mine:
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Got snow
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Not much going on today, so I decided to experiment with time and motion...
(http://www.theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/Time_and_Motion.jpg)
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Here's a couple of mine:
Nice to see you shooting again, Jonathan.
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Some really nice work from Stephen and Jonathan. this thread is great.
Went out this morning, but my fingers froze within one minute, so back in the pocket they would go. Went for a ride and jumped out once in a while and managed to grab something like this.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-gjFH8FP/0/M/Jan%2010-%2020115%20Caledon%20Badlands%20167%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-gjFH8FP/A)
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Fabulous!
Tony Jay
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Got snow
Snow 10 is lovely.
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I went to the Badlands yesterday, but the light was very harsh and there were a lot of footprints to contend with. But I did get a few and here is one:
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-NrqdRmv/0/M/Jan%2014-%202015-%20Badlands%20bwsample2-smug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-NrqdRmv/A)
JR
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Nice one, John.
I'm reminded of one of my favorite shots from Stovepipe Dunes in Death Valley, in which I had to spend an hour or more cloning out footprints.
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Very fine, Armand!
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Very fine, Armand!
Puzzling but very nice!
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Thank you!
This is how it's done. I had the idea but it was more difficult than I thought to get a decent shot.
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Hi all. Another shot for the abstracts thread.
Chuck
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Nice.
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Yummy!!
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7551/16125492168_3c60078952_o.jpg)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7566/16127181907_3615360e0d_o.jpg)
Cheers,
Bernard
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Bernard, those are lovely!
Jim
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(http://www.kasson.com/ll/_D309315.jpg)
Jim
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Nice work, Bernard and Jim.
JR
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Thanks John and Jim!
Not really a domain I know well, but it's fun! ;)
cheers,
Bernard
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I like TG Distorted Mirror...
It has good use of grungy artifacts and black & white as colors.
It is pretty elegant for something so bedazzled. Her good posture and the big red spot likely help that.
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TA for the CC. It's also part of a larger work.
Taken on a 2.1mp Canon Ixus II some year back.
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Goose prints in bubbles embedded beneath the surface of the ice with lots of fracturing.
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Here's one I took while hiking at Mt. Baldy in California
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ice rocks
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Nice!
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So, there I am, 2 shots into a 5 shot bracket and this 10-12 pointer startles both himself and me as he comes around a clump of palmettos. He jumped, first toward me, then rapidly away though by then, I had not just ruined the bracketed exposures, I couldn't get any reasonable shot on him...though I tried anyway
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Essence of whitetail. I rather like it.
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He makes a very nice abstract.
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Dynamic and abstract at the same time… I like it.
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Went out today and noticed the camera had a hard time focusing in the snow. But my eyes were not much better. I took this shot and notices that it is not all in focus, but I like it and can live with it.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-s4wHLcL/0/M/Feb%203-%202015%20Bellfountain%20111%20bw-smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-s4wHLcL/A)
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Sweet curves!
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Very classy, John!
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tide
(http://mattlarsen.smugmug.com/Other/Mashup/i-nVvQ8gG/0/L/P2011487_edit-L.jpg)
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In the same vein as the splendid water movement of MattNQ, I have another kind of implied movement in the snow. My snow images are coming out really soft. So I think it is the inability of sensor to handle white of snow combined with so much bouncing spectral light. I think I will try a polarizer to see if there is difference.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-HzCKGvb/0/M/Feb%206-%202015%20St%20Georges%20Golf%20Course%20074%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-HzCKGvb/A)
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The softness doesn't spoil it at all for me, John. It's lovely.
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It has a nice feel to it John. If anything, the softness enhances the subdued tones.
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This is smooth and I like the "flow" of those curves; there's a sense of speed!
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Thanks for the comments. I developed one more, this time with a more graphic representation.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-r3FqJM7/0/M/Feb%206-%202015%20St%20Georges%20Golf%20Course%20082%20smug-bwcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-r3FqJM7/A)
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That's excellent, too.
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Some years ago I was hiking along the still young Danube in southern Germany. Weather was great as well as the light. I enjoyed an hour of rest and photography along the shore. Especially the colors, reflected in the river, caught my eye.
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Nice colors, nicely composed.
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Maybe you see a panther's head too. I like tree bark.
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One of my recent favorites.
Chuck
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This is more like a landscape, as you can see the wind whipping the snow around. It was great to watch.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-qg2LzcH/0/M/Feb%2012-%202015%20Badlands%20Caledon%20039%20bw-copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-qg2LzcH/A)
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Nice one, John!
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Yes another nice shot John. You seem to have an endless supply of of nice snow dunes. Well done.
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Frost on a window.
Dan
www.danbrownphotography.com
(http://www.danbrownphotography.com/galleries/albums/userpics/4928.jpg)
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Another frost image.
Dan
www.danbrownphotography.com
(http://www.danbrownphotography.com/galleries/albums/userpics/February_Frost.jpg)
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Thanks for the comments Eric and Chuck. I try to take advantage of every new snowfall before people trod on the hills. Dan here seems to have an endless supply of excellent frost patterns. I believe last year he also showed us some wonderful samples.
JR
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Dan here seems to have an endless supply of excellent frost patterns. I believe last year he also showed us some wonderful samples.
JR
Amen! We've had some frosty windows lately, but none in Dan's league.
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The last one is unbelievable!
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Another frost image.
Wow!
Jim
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Thanks guys. I took some last year but nothing turn out well. The b&w image was taken in my shed back in 2007. It is a small pattern, about an inch across. The shed hasn't produced such patterns since.
I thought the frost images would be good sellers but they turned out not to be. The few people that did show interest in them were very enthusiastic though.
Dan
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I'm late to the game as usual but, these are indeed extraordinary shots Dan!
Chuck
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It's nice to see that pictures are now visible again! :)
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I'm trying to learn how to do effective bw conversions, and maybe I will try split toning as well. The effects I have seen can be quite good.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-bWdj2vc/0/M/Feb%2012-%202015%20Badlands%20Caledon%20099%20bwcopy-smugsize-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-bWdj2vc/A)
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"I Changed My Mind"
I'm not sure this one qualifies as an abstract. Perhaps an abstracted story? Anyway I find it amusing.
Chuck
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I'd call it abstract, with just a nod toward "Street."
Nice.
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…I'm not sure this one qualifies as an abstract.
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Well, it depends on your imagination. For me, it works and I like it.
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While I am enjoying looking at the recent posts of snow scenes and ice sculptures, I decided that I needed to spend sometime catching up on my own personal work. These are a few taken last summer at a spot NW of Toronto and a short drive from my home in SW Ontario.
Overall, I like how the red limestone (it's not been super-saturated) is shown in these, I also like the B&W versions of some of the images.
Taken with:
D3x using a 17-35mm @f11
No filters used
Processed with CaptureONE v8.1
3rd party B&W styles.
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'Thought bubbles'
One of those days you just can't quiet the internal dialogue'
Chuck
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Very nice, Chuck!
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How about abstract with some landscape:
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-B3MMSGm/0/M/Feb%2012-%202015%20Badlands%20Caledon%20082%20smugcopy-bw-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-B3MMSGm/A)
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Fun Bush. OK, it's a crappy title :P
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Nice shot Dave. I rather like the title as well.
Chuck
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'Whirlpools of Time'
Just a bit of fun.
Chuck
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'Whirlpools of Time'
Just a bit of fun.
Chuck
Actually that is a very fine shot - I like it very much!
Tony Jay
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Actually that is a very fine shot - I like it very much!
Tony Jay
Thanks Tony.
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(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8601/16666997835_23783ac44c_c.jpg)
City lights
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(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8601/16666997835_23783ac44c_c.jpg)
City lights
Beautiful!
Tony Jay
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I like it, Tom!
And I'm delighted that this thread has passed the 500 posts mark.
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It is coincidence that one of these photos, taken today, is very similar to Tom's image. These were taken in a place called Graffiti Alley. You can elect to photograph the artwork or graffiti, as it appears, or, like I have done, have some fun and give it an abstract bent.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Graffiti-Alley/i-FpNmjmn/1/M/March%201-%202015%20Graffiti%20Alley%20045%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Graffiti-Alley/i-FpNmjmn/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Graffiti-Alley/i-363LXvr/1/M/March%201-%202015%20Graffiti%20Alley%20241%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Graffiti-Alley/i-363LXvr/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Graffiti-Alley/i-ppxwf22/1/M/March%201-%202015%20Graffiti%20Alley%20244%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Graffiti-Alley/i-ppxwf22/A)
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This is getting wild!
Bravo
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Artificial granite pattern ;) ;)
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(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Graffiti-Alley/i-ppxwf22/1/M/March%201-%202015%20Graffiti%20Alley%20244%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Graffiti-Alley/i-ppxwf22/A)
Love this one!
Jim
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Thanks Jim. That's actually the same shot as N0 2, but with a downward pan - for want of better term.
JR
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misc
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rebop
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Thanks Jim. That's actually the same shot as N0 2, but with a downward pan - for want of better term.
I know what you are doing, and I like it a lot. I'm a big fan of shaking the camera.
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/lv1.jpg)
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/lv2.jpg)
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/lv3.jpg)
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/lv4.jpg)
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/lv5.jpg)
Jim
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Here is wow, right back at you, Jim. And unlike you, I am not sure what you photographed or how. Although one looks like a taillight from a car. I have to say, I like them all!
JR
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Here is wow, right back at you, Jim. And unlike you, I am not sure what you photographed or how. Although one looks like a taillight from a car. I have to say, I like them all!
JR
Thanks. They're all neon lights, except for the last one, which was an LED display. A characteristic of all those things is that they turn on and off rapidly.
Jim
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Really great stuff, both John and Jim.
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Fun things posted lately ;D
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That is a fun one, Armand.
I also like very much "abs3" in your recent set. A perfect minimalist composition, nicely balanced.
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A Bridge Too Far Out
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A Bridge Too Far Out
Excellent!
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Excellent!
+1.
(And not a heron in sight.) ;)
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Oregon rivers are running unusually low and clear this winter.
From this afternoon.
River Rocks
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Oregon rivers are running unusually low and clear this winter.
From this afternoon.
River Rocks
Yes!
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Yes!
+1.
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Makes me want to take my shoes off and soak! Very nice indeed.
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Makes me want to take my shoes off and soak! Very nice indeed.
I would bet that water was quite cold ;D
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How about 46 degrees F? :)
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How about 46 degrees F? :)
A touch warmer than what I would have expected (I was thinking up to 40 for a mountain river in late winter). I did go barefeet through rivers that were below 40 in the winter many times when I was younger and let's say I'm not looking to repeat the experience.
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In a normal winter you would be right, The middle McKenzie River usually gets down to about 36-38 degrees in February, and then starts warming gradually to about 58 in late summer. But this winter in Oregon has been the warmest that I remember. Nevertheless, even at 46 degrees your bare toes would go numb very quickly.
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Oregon rivers are running unusually low and clear this winter.
From this afternoon.
River Rocks
Very nice!
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This is really an impressionist photo made to look more abstract because despite enjoying those snow dunes, I really am looking forward to Spring!
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-DPkXjzt/0/M/Sept%2019-11%20JG%20059%20smug-incopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-DPkXjzt/A)
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John, I'm very fond of this impressionist image and the similar one you posted on March 1. They are good examples showing that impressive impressionism thrives within photographs, not just in paintings. ;D
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from a 35mm HP5+ original
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8668/16557317817_f5d7eecbb7_z.jpg)
by lynnb (https://www.flickr.com/photos/91846820@N00/) on Flickr
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Nice one Lynn.
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Nice one Lynn.
thanks Graeme
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from a 35mm HP5+ original
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8668/16557317817_f5d7eecbb7_z.jpg)
by lynnb (https://www.flickr.com/photos/91846820@N00/) on Flickr
Almost an Escher!. Nice.
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Lynn's photo certainly made me think. Nice way to compose these elements. What is HP5+ ?
JR
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Lynn's photo certainly made me think. Nice way to compose these elements. What is HP5+ ?
JR
HP5+ is (or was) an Ilford B&W film with an ISO speed of 400 I believe.
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I haven't posted new images for a while, so here are a couple. These are from a new series I'm working on which I'm thinking of calling "Salt of the Earth." They are all patterns of road salt on pavement. There has been a lot of that this winter in the Northeast U.S.
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I haven't posted new images for a while, so here are a couple. These are from a new series I'm working on which I'm thinking of calling "Salt of the Earth." They are all patterns of road salt on pavement. There has been a lot of that this winter in the Northeast U.S.
First one is really nice, like a bw satellite view of a delta.
Couple more of mine.
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Nice.
In the first one I like the way your signature becomes another part of the image.
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This is as abstract as I get.
Ken
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This is as abstract as I get.
Ken
Getting abstract seems to be working well for you.
You could tell people you were abstracting time?
Bruce
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I haven't posted new images for a while, so here are a couple. These are from a new series I'm working on which I'm thinking of calling "Salt of the Earth." They are all patterns of road salt on pavement. There has been a lot of that this winter in the Northeast U.S.
First one is really nice, like a bw satellite view of a delta.
I totally agree. And it reminds me of some of the Mars photos, evidence that ancient river deltas once existed there.
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You know folks, even if they are not abstracts, it is really nice to so many 'offbeat' representations of subjects in this forum. Eric has been shooting from helicopters again. Anyone ever that popular show on fractals from a few years ago. Eric's images remind me of fractals, like things we have seen before, but have similarities to other things either smaller or larger. Like the suggestion of looking like a delta.
And that brook is fine with subtle lighting that threatens to go brighter but remains restrained.
JR
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Went out yesterday with friends on pre-spring outing to photograph deer and birds. When I showed my friends this image they asked where is the deer? I said these are fleeting deer. They looked incredulous.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-XXzhv5M/0/M/March%2018-%202015%20Humber%20Arboretum%20056%20copysmugsize-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-XXzhv5M/A)
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Went out yesterday with friends on pre-spring outing to photograph deer and birds. When I showed my friends this image they asked where is the deer? I said these are fleeting deer. They looked incredulous.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-XXzhv5M/0/M/March%2018-%202015%20Humber%20Arboretum%20056%20copysmugsize-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-XXzhv5M/A)
Channeling Paul Caponigro...
Jim
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John, I have to admit that it takes a lot of imagination for me to see the deer connection, too. But notwithstanding that difficulty, I still like it. And many of the other images in your Camera Impressions gallery on SmugMug are just superb. Anyone interested in this sort of thing should really take a look at them.
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John, I have to admit that it takes a lot of imagination for me to see the deer connection, too. But notwithstanding that difficulty, I still like it. And many of the other images in your Camera Impressions gallery on SmugMug are just superb. Anyone interested in this sort of thing should really take a look at them.
Here's the Caponigro image. You need less imagination for it.
(http://www.afterimagegallery.com/caponigrorunningdeer.jpg)
Jim
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Channeling Paul Caponigro...
Jim
I got it from your comment, Jim. I immediately thought of Paul's White Deer, which John's image strongly echoes.
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Thanks Jim and Arlen. Especially to Jim, very much appreciate your comments. Of course it was tongue in cheek- the image is really backlit remains of goldenrod. I am sure you suspected the image is not really about deer. But I had to tell them something. I do like the Caponigro image, very cool. And I admit, never heard of him until I joined this site.
You know I was out of photography for a long time. When I got back into it, I decided that although I really like landscapes and scenics, and sunrises and sunsets, I liked the artistic, impressionist look, much more. and that's how I got back into it.
JR
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Ah, I see the relationship now. Without having seen the Caponigro image before, the connection eluded me.
John, I'm with you on the impressionistic look. Whatever muse you are following, I hope you stay on the trail.
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Den blå planet (Copenhagen)
(http://harlempix.com/wp-content/gallery/den-bla-planet/DST17944.jpg)
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Den blå planet (Copenhagen)
Love those curves and geometric lines.
Edit: removed the image from my reply.
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Very cool!
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A matter of perspective
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That's a nifty pairing, Armand.
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author=Harlem22 link=topic=86369.msg808276#msg808276 date=1426840232]
Den blå planet (Copenhagen)
Love this shot. been there last summer.
David
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This is as abstract as I get.
Ken
Beautiful shot Ken. Dreamy.
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Here's the Caponigro image. You need less imagination for it.
Jim
Fabulous shot Jim.
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Here is my take on abstracts. It´s from the Danish Radios concert hall designed by Jean Nouvel.
David
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8523/8486899268_a4955dc15e_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/dVXzts)
Designed by Jean Nouvel (https://flic.kr/p/dVXzts) by David Cartagena (https://www.flickr.com/people/71183143@N05/), on Flickr
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View from my armchair on a grey, rainy late afternoon.
Chuck
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A bit of fun to keep the abstracts thread going.
Chuck
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Abstract enough?
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/_DSC0438-Edit.jpg)
Jim
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Intriguing image Jim.
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It works nicely and doesn't matter what it is. Wonderful play of light, shadow, tones and shapes. But as Churly said, it is quite intriguing and we cannot help trying to imagine what it really is. You hit the sweet spot of mixing abstract with reality. What Is that damn thing!
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I am usually drawn to Colour and only secondarily think of Black and White. Someone suggested I convert this image to bw, and I have to admit, the shapes and their interaction becomes more the focus.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-ZmvHH6P/0/M/Sept%2024-%202014%20East%20Mall%20bldgs%20016%20smug-bwcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-ZmvHH6P/A)
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It works nicely and doesn't matter what it is. Wonderful play of light, shadow, tones and shapes. But as Churly said, it is quite intriguing and we cannot help trying to imagine what it really is. You hit the sweet spot of mixing abstract with reality. What Is that damn thing!
It's a teapot upside down on a drain board, lit by direct sunlight.
Jim
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Been getting into a lot of water abstracts... this one from Acadia National Park a couple years ago.
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New here, have always enjoyed the articles but have never previously participated in the forum. Fun so far, looking forward to the experience.
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Here's another ;)
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New here, have always enjoyed the articles but have never previously participated in the forum. Fun so far, looking forward to the experience.
Welcome Wizardwig. Really like this B&W one.
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(http://mattlarsen.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Colours-of-Townsville/i-4MmLZzD/0/L/D3N_1377_edit3-L.jpg)
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@ wizardwig:
Very nice!
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Went for a stroll yesterday and spotted some interesting shapes.
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Very nice contributions, Wizardwig! And welcome to the LuLa forums.
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Bokeh of a distant tree
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Bokeh of a distant tree
Neat!
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Bokeh of a distant tree
Nice and reticulate. I like the soft colors…
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colors
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I like the second one. I wonder if rotating it so it's horizontal will work better.
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I got a new lens which I now have to return because everything looks 'soft.' I decided to have fun with the soft images and produced this 'abstract.'
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-5zMJkRV/0/M/april%2018-%202015%20Badlands%20Caledon%20065%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-5zMJkRV/A)
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John,
That lens might be perfect for some of your move-the-camera-during-exposure shots. ;)
This shot resembles the ridges at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. Where was it, out of curiosity?
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John,
That lens might be perfect for some of your move-the-camera-during-exposure shots. ;)
This shot resembles the ridges at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. Where was it, out of curiosity?
That is is very small area of denuded farmland just north of Toronto, called the 'Badlands of Cheltenham.' A lot of professionals do fashion work there, and it is often used as a backdrop for movies and ads, because it has martian-looking landscape. Because I isolate the small ridges and always try to leave out the hand of man, they come out looking like like real badlands. In the winter, you can create beautiful snowscapes that look for all the world, like real sand dunes.
Thanks for the comments interest, Eric.
JR
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Melting snow puddle.
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Ca...ca... Cool Bob. Love the blue of the snow and ice.
JR
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Nice! Beautiful color.
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This began as a lo-res cell phone pic taken several years ago from my daughter's fifth story apartment window on the upper west side NYC, looking west.
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Small, it looks good. But as soon as I click on it, it becomes pixelated and out of focus. was that you intent?
JR
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A little patience- actually a lot of patience- observing ripples and water movement.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-CNj7FVS/0/M/Oct%2011-09%20Glen%20Haffy%20102%20darkcopy-smug1050-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-CNj7FVS/A)
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becomes pixelated and out of focus. was that you intent?
Yes, it started out very small and pixelated with jpeg artifacts as well. I changed color temp and made some localized exposure changes to keep it from blowing out whites and blacks, then I resized it so it wouldn't be so small, but it definitely looks better smaller.
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(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-CNj7FVS/0/M/Oct%2011-09%20Glen%20Haffy%20102%20darkcopy-smug1050-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-CNj7FVS/A)
That's beautiful!
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Melting snow puddle.
Very very nice!
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I love the gentleness of the colours and the image John. I got some tree reflections but they were in the winter when we still had open water.
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Kiteboard at 1/6th sec.
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Kiteboarder at 1/10th sec
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... I got some tree reflections but they were in the winter when we still had open water.
Nice image, but a tad too dark for me.
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Kiteboard at 1/6th sec.
I like this!
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Two weeks ago I visited Warsaw for some days. In the wonderful POLIN museum, I photographed interesting views of the architecture.
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Very nice, Mike.
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Our channel into the bay is being dredged and the sand from the dredging is being coughed up on or beaches as a part of a sand renourishment program. I call this:
Conflict and Resolution
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Our channel into the bay is being dredged and the sand from the dredging is being coughed up on or beaches as a part of a sand renourishment program. I call this:
Conflict and Resolution
Cut the lower third and you'll have some menacing without a scale.
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Good suggestion...I'll give it a try.
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Perhaps, yes?
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Perhaps, yes?
Yes!!!
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Abstract ?
Taken with the Canon EF 11-24mm on a 5D Mark III
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Perhaps, yes?
Now you are talking, it's a great image. You could try to sell it to the next apocalyptic movie ;)
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Perhaps, yes?
Do it in b&w to lose the dirt color and it will be even more abstract and ominous.
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Backyard Whirlygigs
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I noticed an opportunity to mix a little man-made colour with my usual blur images.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-sPrRq8R/0/M/May%203-%202015%20St%20Johns%20028%20copysmug-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-sPrRq8R/A)
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From the spring garden.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-FXSb4Dg/0/M/May%2010-%202015%20backyard%20007%20copy2-1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-FXSb4Dg/A)
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(http://www.kasson.com/ll/mushroom.jpg)
Jim
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Ode to the Morning Light
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Some interesting images, to be sure. Jim, need I say what you pattern looks like- I think not. Good eye.
Maybe I should have posted mine in the tree section.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/St-Johns-and-Niagara/i-NCCTsgx/0/M/May%2011-%202015%20High%20Park%20036%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/St-Johns-and-Niagara/i-NCCTsgx/A)
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Perhaps, yes?
Perhaps, nothing. ABSOLUTELY!
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It looks like the bark of some kind of wood. But on the other hand it also looks like a piece of art framed with nothing more than paint that was allowed to run and form patterns.
JR
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It looks like the bark of some kind of wood. But on the other hand it also looks like a piece of art framed with nothing more than paint that was allowed to run and form patterns.
If you are referring to my last post, your second guess is close. It is a detail from the Water Wall park, a 64-feet high sculptural fountain in Houston, where 78,500 gallons of water runs across 80,000 square feet of interior and exterior horseshoe-shaped walls.
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Two weeks ago I visited Warsaw for some days. In the wonderful POLIN museum, I photographed interesting views of the architecture.
Just noticed this image. Love the subtle shapes and the equally subtle tonal gradations.
JR
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Just noticed this image. Love the subtle shapes and the equally subtle tonal gradations.
JR
Thanks John.
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A couple more from inspiring spring time.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-hVTJVfg/0/M/May%2010-%202015%20backyard%20030%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/St-Johns-and-Niagara/i-hVTJVfg/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-mnS3jT3/0/M/May%2012-%202015%20RBG%20127%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-mnS3jT3/A)
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Very inspiring, John. You are a master at this sort of thing.
I'll add this one to the thread's collection:
Shapes Glimpsed in the Garden
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Very inspiring, John. You are a master at this sort of thing.
I'll add this one to the thread's collection:
Shapes Glimpsed in the Garden
Thanks for the comments, Arlen. Very nice macro. I find macro very hard work. Shift your focus or position only slightly and everything changes, especially the focal point. Something will be in focus, alright, but not what you want. What focal length did you use for this? I want to by a macro for my Pentax, but have to consider the 1.5 crop factor.
JR
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(http://roryhill.zenfolio.com/img/s6/v141/p1136929207-5.jpg)
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I'm loving the springtime photos--beautiful!
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I find macro very hard work. Shift your focus or position only slightly and everything changes, especially the focal point. Something will be in focus, alright, but not what you want. What focal length did you use for this? I want to by a macro for my Pentax, but have to consider the 1.5 crop factor.
JR
John, you're right, macro work has some unique issues. But some unique pleasures as well. The creamy smooth out-of-focus backgrounds that can be had are one of my favorite things about it, and I love playing around with those. The other side of it--getting something sharp where you want it to be--can be challenging, but still rewarding. For many years I have used a Canon 100mm macro lens, first on a cropped sensor, and then on a full-size sensor camera. Particularly for insect photography, one of my "specialties"; including all the insect photos in my book BugWater (http://www.amazon.com/BugWater-fishers-through-seasons-aquatic/dp/0811705056). But I'm experimenting now with an Olympus 60mm Macro lens that I just bought to go with my Olympus E-M1 system--e.g., the image I posted above. I'm liking the lens a lot, but with the 2:1 crop factor, when focused at 1:1 macro ratio it has a shorter minimum working distance than I am accustomed to--and a very narrow depth of field at that distance. On the other hand, at 1:1 it fills the frame with an insect half the size of what it takes to do the same with the Canon system. It takes some getting used to.
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More springtime inspirational, somewhat abstract imagery.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-hDVPFvp/0/M/May%2015-%202015%20James%20Gardens%20023%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-hDVPFvp/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-nTmCTJK/0/M/May%2016-%202015%20Bruekner%20Gardens%20043%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-nTmCTJK/A)
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More springtime inspirational, somewhat abstract imagery
Beautiful, John R. Are you using Painter?
Here's a recent one from my stash of abstracts.
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8764/17570421558_74a583be20_c.jpg)
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Haven't been here in about forever - life keeps getting in the way (I know, I know - 168 hours in a week...) and this was the first thread I picked. TEN pages of new images!
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for sharing your work!!
Mike.
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Mike: quite intriguing. algae in stream or river?
Peter: Most of my work is in-camera motion movement, unless otherwise stated. The firs is a simple circular motion; the second is a double exposure with two downward motion shots, slight offset. Depending on how fast the shutter speed you may need a little sharpening. Excessive blur, timing and placement of subject are the biggest issues in this kind of Photography.
Early spring is one of the best times because you get both colour and simpler designs in natural subjects, like trees, flowers, shrubs, etc, oft against a simple green background.
JR
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More Spring delights, somewhat abstract.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-vpQ9hWH/0/M/IMGP3787%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-vpQ9hWH/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-n4ZMwrH/0/M/IMGP3727%20copy3-1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-n4ZMwrH/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-XPCRX5k/0/M/IMGP3755%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-XPCRX5k/A)
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One Door, Four Windows
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One Door, Four Windows
Nice job.
Jim
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John, I really like the third one in that last series.
Chris, you got a really good mix of abstract and structure. It makes me look at it a long time, trying to figure out what is what; and interesting shapes regardless.
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Chris, that is gorgeous! Fine.
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I think I've posted a version of this before as part of a group, but I would appreciate any thoughts you might share about this one. I keep coming back to it and pondering whether it has merit.
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If it were a painting it would sell for millions.
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Very nice, Arlen.
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Taken in the bluebell wood in Cumbria that I have been visiting for the last week.
Ken
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A fresh take on bluebells, nice.
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Another bluebell shot. My only concern with all of my ICM shots is that I found it impossible to smoothly drop the camera. This gives small bright horizontal areas of bright leaves and I am wondering whether to clone them out. Are the small bright areas a distraction? What do people think?
Ken
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Another bluebell shot. My only concern with all of my ICM shots is that I found it impossible to smoothly drop the camera. This gives small bright horizontal areas of bright leaves and I am wondering whether to clone them out. Are the small bright areas a distraction? What do people think?
Ken
This is an interesting combination of motion blur and relative sharpness. I like it. I wouldn't clone out anything.
Jim
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I think I've posted a version of this before as part of a group, but I would appreciate any thoughts you might share about this one. I keep coming back to it and pondering whether it has merit.
It does indeed.
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I think I've posted a version of this before as part of a group, but I would appreciate any thoughts you might share about this one. I keep coming back to it and pondering whether it has merit.
Already said, very nice. Lovely blue-gray tones. And it has a three dimensional quality that makes it mysterious.
JR
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Every shot has to be considered differently. To me, the most important thing is to achieve overall balance. If you look at those light areas they are well distributed, and almost form a circle or oval within the picture space. You have dynamic movement of vertical lines from top to bottom or vice versa, and then a resting point of purple, which is interesting in form and colour, and then on through the whole. Really nice, if you ask me.
JR
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The second bluebell photo is very tasty. Nice.
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Thanks for the feedback, guys. Sometimes it helps to get other opinions when you're on the fence.
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Thanks for the comments. All are helpful.
Ken
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Phlox on the run...
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-GfGmfbC/0/M/May%2027-%202015%20Phlox%20Hwy%2027%20257%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-GfGmfbC/A)
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Looking for Kingfishers!
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Wow!
I've been out of the country (and away from the Web) for three weeks vacationing with my wife in southern France.
There are so many great and imaginative images in this thread since I last peeked! Thank you all for the riches!
It will take me quite a while to whittle down and work through the almost 1500 raw files I have from the trip, but I hope to post a few abstracts from Medieval Bastides some time next week.
Glad to be back,
Eric
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Nice to have you back stateside, Eric.
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Nice to have you back stateside, Eric.
Thanks, Bob.
Once I've had some more sleep, I'll start processing some pix.
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Here are the first semi-abstract fruits of my recent trip to southern France. The first two are different sections of the "main street" through the Medieval village of Daglan. The third was in some village or other.
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Here are the first semi-abstract fruits of my recent trip to southern France.…
With enough french wine, everything becomes abstract :D
I like those two shots, somewhat reminiscent of your beautiful road tar photos.
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That's a true dedication to arts! Traveling all the way across the ocean to find tar with a French bouquet ;)
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With enough french wine, everything becomes abstract :D
I like those two shots, somewhat reminiscent of your beautiful road tar photos.
Merci, Francois.
Indeed, I do seem to spend much of my time looking down instead of up. I'll have some looking in other direction soon, I hope.
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That's a true dedication to arts! Traveling all the way across the ocean to find tar with a French bouquet ;)
When accompanied by a nice pate de foie gras and sauced to perfection with truffe, French tar can be quite delicious, especially if accompanied by a bottle of Chateau LaTour 1959. ;)
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I posted these earlier, now post processed more into abstract territory
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(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Dowtown-TO/i-rjr3xjB/0/M/June%202-%202015%20Downtown-Centre%20Island%20007%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Dowtown-TO/i-rjr3xjB/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Dowtown-TO/i-FMGwCvh/0/M/June%202-%202015%20Downtown-Centre%20Island%20125%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Dowtown-TO/i-FMGwCvh/A)
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(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-9M9XqT7/0/M/IMGP4946%20invertcopy-1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-9M9XqT7/A)
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(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-9M9XqT7/0/M/IMGP4946%20invertcopy-1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-9M9XqT7/A)
Superb!
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Three examples in different styles. Bridge, jet and streetview respectively.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Hey Boudewijn, welcome to the forum. Excellent work. I especially like the middle one- good eye. And I like how you exposed the water shot for the highlights and allowed the dark areas to go black.
JR
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Superb!
Indeed, my thoughts exactly.
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Boudewijn, I like your first and second images a lot.
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Indeed, my thoughts exactly.
Mine, too.
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Hi John R and Arlen,
Thanks for your comments. Actually I am not quite new to this forum, but ran out of abstracts for a while. You may want to check pages 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 for earlier contributions.
Cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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The rougher, metallic side of water lilies.
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The rougher, metallic side of water lilies.
Neat effect. Looks a bit like a solarized wet print.
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Playing in the garden- but not mine!
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Breukner-Gardens-2015/i-634fSx8/0/M/June%2014-%202015%20Breuckner%20Gardens%20170%20cropcopy-1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Breukner-Gardens-2015/i-634fSx8/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Breukner-Gardens-2015/i-GMfBHhV/0/M/June%2014-%202015%20Breuckner%20Gardens%20183%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Breukner-Gardens-2015/i-GMfBHhV/A)
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(http://www.kasson.com/ll/outR2e.jpg)
Enjoy!
Jim
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Jim, the last one is really nice.
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Jim, the last one is really nice.
+1. Stunning.
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Not as colorful as John's and Jim's masterpieces but still fun along the beach.
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... fun along the beach.
I like abstracts like this which are still recognizable, and this one is really nice.
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Not as colorful as John's and Jim's masterpieces but still fun along the beach.
I like it!
Jim
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Quote from: BobDavid on June 14, 2015, 09:47:44 PM
Jim, the last one is really nice.
+1. Stunning.
I completely agree, it jumps off the page. And all of the last few images in this thread are very compelling.
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I like abstracts like this which are still recognizable, and this one is really nice.
Me too.
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Nice work, Jim and Mike. Jim kind of drives me crazy because I am always wondering what and how he did that. Mike's work is subtle and minimalist but striking at the same time.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Breukner-Gardens-2015/i-JP9KBtT/0/M/June%2015-%202015%20Breuckner%20Gardens%20159%20adjustcolour-cropcopy4-1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Breukner-Gardens-2015/i-JP9KBtT/A)
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Nice work, Jim and Mike. Jim kind of drives me crazy because I am always wondering what and how he did that. Mike's work is subtle and minimalist but striking at the same time.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Breukner-Gardens-2015/i-JP9KBtT/0/M/June%2015-%202015%20Breuckner%20Gardens%20159%20adjustcolour-cropcopy4-1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Breukner-Gardens-2015/i-JP9KBtT/A)
I always wonder that same question about your beautiful work, John.
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smoke on the water
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OK, here are some more of mine.
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good glare on those cobblestones
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bent detail
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Warp Speed
(http://i780.photobucket.com/albums/yy87/edandhazel/_DSC1867_zps26bd3a0a.jpg) (http://s780.photobucket.com/user/edandhazel/media/_DSC1867_zps26bd3a0a.jpg.html)
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OK, here are some more of mine.
I think #3 is particularly engaging. I like the way it suggests a human form in the sand. From a distance, it looks like a painting.
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Wow Bruce! Bent detail is lovely.
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spot
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I like abstracts like this which are still recognizable, and this one is really nice.
Is it really an abstract then though?
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Is it really an abstract then though?
In my rather open-ended definition it is an abstract, as long as the image isn't just about what the subject is, but rather about a visual effect or pattern.
YMMV.
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Don't know if this is abstract enough, but I like it
(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201506/i-qXB3hQc/0/O/PEG_A850_3_00505_20150628-L.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201506/i-qXB3hQc/A)
Sony A850 + Sigma 180/3.5
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Don't know if this is abstract enough, but I like it
(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201506/i-qXB3hQc/0/O/PEG_A850_3_00505_20150628-L.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201506/i-qXB3hQc/A)
Sony A850 + Sigma 180/3.5
Letting people guess part of it may help get them in the game. There is still plenty here we don't know.
The figure being two part is to some degree it's own foil, though I tend to feel a buffalo would make a better background.
Bruce
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I like it too, and I have no idea what the object in the photo is.
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Choucher de Soleil Flou
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Something to revive the Abtracts thread.
Chuck
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I see that Eric has been busy studying light and churning out silver and light. Here are a few from my trip.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Sao-Miguel-Azores/i-8d8KFJh/0/M/IMGP7756%20Sao%20Miguel%20June-2015%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Sao-Miguel-Azores/i-8d8KFJh/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Sao-Miguel-Azores/i-VqbdMQF/0/M/IMGP7761%20Sao%20Miguel%20June%202015%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Sao-Miguel-Azores/i-VqbdMQF/A)
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Good stuff, folks.
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One more, with colour play.
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Sao-Miguel-Azores/i-DXSg5N5/0/M/IMGP7736%20sao%20miguel%202015%20copy3%201000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Sao-Miguel-Azores/i-DXSg5N5/A)
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Another explosion
(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201507/i-HhLDM79/0/O/PEG_A850_3_00620_20150702-L.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201507/i-HhLDM79/A)
(virtually no photoshop, all in-camera)
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Another explosion
(virtually no photoshop, all in-camera)
Excellent zoom. Isn't it wonderful to try all these in-camera techniques and come up with something different. If you have double exposure capability, give it a try also.
JR
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This is double exposure with auto-contrast adjustment. Amazing how the colours shift. Liked it so left it there. Second is a pan of leaves:
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Sao-Miguel-Azores/i-fS4ckM3/0/M/June%2020-July%2010-%202015%20Sao%20Miguel%206%20358%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Sao-Miguel-Azores/i-fS4ckM3/A)
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Sao-Miguel-Azores/i-99RjNff/0/M/June%2020-July%2010-%202015%20Sao%20Miguel%206%20412%20copy1000-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Sao-Miguel-Azores/i-99RjNff/A)
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Something a little bluer from me.
(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/07/16/6f3daa871c75b81fdbeb8b5ac6c0d6b3.jpg)
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Excellent zoom. Isn't it wonderful to try all these in-camera techniques and come up with something different. If you have double exposure capability, give it a try also.
Thanks John, glad it got noticed among the many great efforts in this thread. This is not my usual style but this month I'm taking part in a challenge on another website to try out stuff you've never done before and I find it both stimulating as well as frustrating (the amount of failed attempts is probably two orders of magnitude higher then the keepers).
Unfortunately my camera doesn't do multiple exposures on one frame, so I f I want to do that it's going to be a Photoshop layer job.
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Colour play.
JR
(http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-RmPfpCX/0/M/June%2020-July%209-2015%20Sao%20Miguel%20414%20copy1000-2-M.jpg) (http://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-RmPfpCX/A)
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Sometimes everything comes together in the dance of flowers.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-6V4433s/0/M/July%2020-%202015%20James%20Gardens%20040%20copycrop-1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-6V4433s/A)
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Lovely dance John!
Some wave patterns in the sand
(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201507/i-nfDQCT8/0/O/PEG_NEX6_2_02566_20150720-L.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201507/i-nfDQCT8/A)
NEX6 + OM Zuiko 85/2 + Metabones speedbooster
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a flower for her hair
modified 7/25/2015
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Colour is what moves me at the moment.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-wV233T7/0/M/July%2025-%202015%20Riverwood%20Conservancy%20261%20invertcopy-1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-wV233T7/A)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-52z6hSn/0/M/July%2025-%202015%20Riverwood%20Conservancy%20249%20copy1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-52z6hSn/A)
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I liked this frozen lake.
Paul
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2872/10412247644_f93edc0944_b.jpg) (http://[url=https://flic.kr/p/gS6ut7)
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I liked this frozen lake.
Paul
Fantastic. And to think its only a hop, skip and jump away.
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Just can't stop playing with colour, at least for now.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-W5xg6L2/0/M/IMGP1826%20copy17b-1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-W5xg6L2/A)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-rqxNqn8/0/M/IMGP1827%20copy1-1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-rqxNqn8/A)
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I love the photo of the frozen lake! Well done, Paul.
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Wow! :o Absolutely stunning images posted recently!!
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Wow! :o Absolutely stunning images posted recently!!
+1.
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+1.
The summer heat is a perfect incubator for superb photos!
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Visited an art museum in Cologne last year and found this interesting sphere.
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Continuing the series...
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-WxWN3qM/0/M/Aug%201-5-%202015%20JG%20abstracts%20996%20copy1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-WxWN3qM/A)
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NY Botanical Garden pool
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At the shoreline
(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201508/i-V68mwvk/1/O/PEG_NEX6_2_03004_20150806-L.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201508/i-V68mwvk/A)
NEX6 + MC Rokkor 58/1.4
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At the shoreline
Superb Pegelli.
JR
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(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-fCKXJvG/0/M/July%2025-%202015%20Riverwood%20Conservancy%20259%20copy1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-fCKXJvG/A)
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Superb Pegelli.
Thanks a lot for the compliment John.
I must say it's not the fastest moving thread but a very good one. The mix on different approaches to abstracts is eye opening. Your shots have inspired me to to try some more "movement" but nothing post worthy yet. I'm still producing more images I like with finding abstract subjects with a "classical" photo, but I am enjoying your movement studies a lot. There's something intriguing in all the ones you posted here.
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Superb Pegelli.
JR
+1.
And yours are, too, John.
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+1.
And yours are, too, John.
Thanks Eric, and also +1 on your comment on John's shot.
Also credit where credit is due, I was inspired to take my shore line shot after seeing these shots (http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=102581.msg841652#msg841652) from Rajan Parrikar. I doubt I would have tried mine without having seen those first.
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Thanks for the comments guys, appreciate it. Now for something different. I said to myself, I may as well crop it and really make it abstract and surreal. I cloned out at least one hundred tiny little specs of dust from the car's surface.
JR
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-TqPTJB2/0/M/Sept%2024-%202013%20Ottawa%20243%20cropcopy-1200-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-TqPTJB2/A)
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Nice one, John. And it is different!
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Thanks Eric. I'm on a roll, so I am trying to stay with momentum. It was brutal winter in Toronto. Have to make up for it!
This one makes a nice black and white, too.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-M9k4PPq/0/M/Sept%2024-%202013%20Ottawa%20393%20copygoldrail-1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-M9k4PPq/A)
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If, like me, you don't have a dedicated macro, and want to use one of the innumerable close focus adapters, you end up in a position like me. This is a Raynox DCR-250 mounted on one the Olympus 75mm 1.8, shot up close and wide open, in a slight breeze.
The effect is far more abstract and indicative of what the shortcomings of the combination are: you're kind of stuck with dream-world imagery until EVERYTHING is completely still, even at speeds approaching 1/8000. Still, I dig the colors, if nothing else. It just reminds me of how much I actually need a true macro lens.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5764/20433993358_8cafa1f6a6_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/x8Fyjj)Abstract macro #1 (1 of 1) (https://flic.kr/p/x8Fyjj) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5640/20656884295_d15ae8d0cf_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xtnW2v)Abstract macro #4 (1 of 1) (https://flic.kr/p/xtnW2v) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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If, like me, you don't have a dedicated macro, and want to use one of the innumerable close focus adapters, you end up in a position like me. This is a Raynox DCR-250 mounted on one the Olympus 75mm 1.8, shot up close and wide open, in a slight breeze.
The effect is far more abstract and indicative of what the shortcomings of the combination are: you're kind of stuck with dream-world imagery until EVERYTHING is completely still, even at speeds approaching 1/8000. Still, I dig the colors, if nothing else. It just reminds me of how much I actually need a true macro lens.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5764/20433993358_8cafa1f6a6_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/x8Fyjj)Abstract macro #1 (1 of 1) (https://flic.kr/p/x8Fyjj) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5640/20656884295_d15ae8d0cf_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xtnW2v)Abstract macro #4 (1 of 1) (https://flic.kr/p/xtnW2v) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
Both are very fine. I think the results of your "shortcomings" are much more interesting than are most clear, well-defined macro photos.
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Thanks, Eric.
Macro has always fascinated me, and I actually DO have a hand-me-down Minolta Rokkor MD 50mm 3.5 macro from my mom from her shooting days in the 80s, but it's a real chore to use, so I keep resorting to these MacGuyver sort of 'fixes'.
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To steal a phrase - "Light is the left hand of darkness"
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At the shoreline
(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201508/i-V68mwvk/1/O/PEG_NEX6_2_03004_20150806-L.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201508/i-V68mwvk/A)
NEX6 + MC Rokkor 58/1.4
Exquisite.
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tunnel view
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Sun
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Interesting rocks at Zion Nat. Park.
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Under a wave - Lake Tahoe.
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Birders' Legs
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Love the "birders' legs" Bob!
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Great work again by all, I love the diversity in this thread :)
Order and Chaos
(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201204/i-DRgHvCt/0/O/PEG_A850_07240_20120426-L.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201204/i-DRgHvCt/A)
A850 + Min 85/1.4 RS
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Nice, Pieter.
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(https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlp1/v/t1.0-9/12037956_10153683621094066_7584539128134204224_n.jpg?oh=aeeb61e3f1f66945bc9c19e2726bd5f5&oe=565FAF94)
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I like it but I an't help thinking that the right handle bears some resemblance with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie)!
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As with 'art' there's a problem of definition: when is something abstract and when simply a close-up?
Does abstract mean that it remains a mystery until the originator explains - should he explain, ever? I think he should not. Somebody, some years ago, posted an image here that was great, then he went on to state how it was shot, instantly ruining the entire effect. Guess that's why the slightest bit of chiffon or Indian cheesecloth, even a deep shadow, changes a nude from meat into attractive.
Rob C
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As Rob says when is something really abstract? Don't think it matters, as long people can feel free to contribute to this thread.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-vr9vLs2/0/M/Sept%2027-28-2015%20Algonquin%20area%20017%20copy1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-vr9vLs2/A)
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"As Rob says when is something really abstract? Don't think it matters, as long people can feel free to contribute to this thread."
Agree 100%, John; the question wasn't about what's permissible, but what we actually mean when we bandy about these easy definitions.
The longer I stay with this site the broader I see definitions become. If I stay long enough, perhaps I will reach a moment when no definitions exist, and everthing is everything to all people. Moment of (or for?) instantaneous combustion?
;-)
Rob C
P.S. I like your picture, by the way, Feels sort of pastoral in the sense of wheat, but no idea what I am really seeing, and that's the best way!
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Time to man up and contribute I guess. Not sure how abstract this is but I think it sort of fits here
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5822/21195363134_de709df743_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/yhXM2q)
Mike
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Mike, I like the subtle shadow play. And it reminds me of hallway. But the top portion says hold on, think again.
JR
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Thank you, it was taken in our local but very modern public library.
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Nice idea; I am thinking about a shot in a video I saw somewhere - I think it was an interview with either Bailey or Duffy - where one or the other of them tells the interviewer (and camera) to look at the twin plugs on the wall - MKs - and tells the guy that they are art, if you want them to be. He might just have been making an easy point, I can't be sure, but the more I look at things like that the more seriously I take that statement. I incorporate it a lot of my current photographic mind; perhaps I lack the literal belief, but certainly feel that by the time I play around with the basic shapes, I have got somewhere that I enjoy being at, which of course, is all that matters now.
Nobody needs to travel to make pictures; I believe this more sincerely every day.
Rob C
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old dream
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Armand
I see your two lights and raise you 4.
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/322/20369018615_b89b5417b0_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/x2WxA8)
Mikr
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Nice one Rob. I assume that's digitally manipulated to get the mirror image in B&W - or not?
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Nice one Rob. I assume that's digitally manipulated to get the mirror image in B&W - or not?
Yep, some passing fun to while away the hours...
It was something I started to do a while ago when I realised that you don't have to leave the house to find images. It's not so easy, because familiarity breeds etc. etc. However, if you let yourself get into it, you can be surprised. I suppose it all comes down to what tickles your fancy about pictures. I'm currently doing my best to aoid the literal, something aided by failing eyesight!
Thanks,
Rob
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Who was the photographer who got ill and was confined to his house for 12 months and just did tulips for a year? I understand it produced some excellent shots.
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Who was the photographer who got ill and was confined to his house for 12 months and just did tulips for a year? I understand it produced some excellent shots.
Don't know of him, but I do know something about this chap: locked away with Marilyn for a while instead of tulips...
Can't link directly to the 'movie' but it's easy to find on the site under 'trailer'. One of the 50s pioneers.
http://www.bertsternmadman.com/
Rob C
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Really like the lights series of shots. The bw format suits them well, including the half-bw shot. Last time I pointed my camera at elevator, I got kicked out of building!
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-CxhhD2C/0/M/Sept%2027-28-2015%20Algonquin%20area%20493%20copy1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-CxhhD2C/A)
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@Rob C I have seen many of these wonderful images and other photographs of a woman who must rank amongst the most beautiful ever. I have even seen some bad photographs of her, but not many.
I was totally blown away by a 4 foot square shot by Stern of Twiggy (in front of modern art) in Dublin Art gallery. I learned from that image. There were imperfections - which really didn't matter and sheer quality and size count. Should we sweat the last stray hair? The last highlight near the edge? Even perhaps slightly imperfect makeup?
Made me think that sometimes it just doesn't matter, the image can carry the load. Other times, especially commercially it does matter. But it made me think and that was good.
PS the tulips guy was John Blakemore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blakemore and https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=john+blakemore+tulips&biw=1356&bih=815&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CB8QsARqFQoTCN3RpKefqMgCFQI9FAodbZ8PPw&dpr=1
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@ Rob C, not so many lights this time but they're bigger
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3818/12410176115_a7e8de8287_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/jUDoZH)
Mike
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Nice one.
Fully on theme here though
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5516/12211545233_cae7c73485_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/jB6mXk)
Mike
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That's really nice stuff, Mike. Puts me in mind of a classic futuristic movie whose name I can't recall. It also reminds me of lying on a stetcher and watching the ceiling drift past as I went through hospital corridors.
I wonder if there exists a genre name for this kind of material - I suppose abstract covers it, but I think there must be/should be something more accurately focussed than that. It's not as if one doesn't know what one sees, but that it's done in a way that gives a fresh look at it. Enjoy those sorts of images that hold your attention and make you look more deeply at what is in front of you.
Rob C
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They do seem to occupy the hinterland between abstract and record.
Just taking what's there and adjusting the reality a bit.
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8187/8137816940_b1c5988053_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/dp7rsC)
But I think I have now run out of lights that aren't just lights.
Mike
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Simply beautiful.
Thank you Keith, trouble is, I was thinking back trying to remember what I did - and can't! Well, I know what I shot, but not exactly what I did to the poor thing.
However, it falls into my 'found at home' period ;-) (An excuse for being lazy or saving diesel...)
Rob
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@Rob C I have seen many of these wonderful images and other photographs of a woman who must rank amongst the most beautiful ever. I have even seen some bad photographs of her, but not many.
I was totally blown away by a 4 foot square shot by Stern of Twiggy (in front of modern art) in Dublin Art gallery. I learned from that image. There were imperfections - which really didn't matter and sheer quality and size count. Should we sweat the last stray hair? The last highlight near the edge? Even perhaps slightly imperfect makeup?
Made me think that sometimes it just doesn't matter, the image can carry the load. Other times, especially commercially it does matter. But it made me think and that was good.
PS the tulips guy was John Blakemore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blakemore and https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=john+blakemore+tulips&biw=1356&bih=815&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CB8QsARqFQoTCN3RpKefqMgCFQI9FAodbZ8PPw&dpr=1
Yes, Stern was something else!
As with so many other amazing photographers, I discovered him in the pages of the two Pop. Phot. annuals: Photography Annual and Color Annual both put out by the magazine. I remember his series there on the Heublein Vodka campaigns; I also discovered Saul Leiter in those pages and many more; anyone worth knowing you found there at one time or another. Trouble was finding the annuals in Glasgow!
His (Stern's) Jazz on a Summer's Day was one of those movies I saw at least five or even more times, not counting years later on the Internet. Click on the image to watch. Watch Chuck steal the show despite snobbish jazz musos doing their 'creative' distance... ;-)
https://vimeo.com/35807953
Happy days; all still in front of one, if one ever gave that a passing thought.
Rob C
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Yes, Stern was something else!
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His (Stern's) Jazz on a Summer's Day was one of those movies I saw at least five or even more times, not counting years later on the Internet. Click on the image to watch. Watch Chuck steal the show despite snobbish jazz musos doing their 'creative' distance... ;-)
https://vimeo.com/35807953
Happy days; all still in front of one, if one ever gave that a passing thought.
Rob C
There is a very nicely restored copy of this film on Netflix. Beautiful stuff.
Shows what a good film maker can do with much less than 13 stops of DR. ;-)
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There is a very nicely restored copy of this film on Netflix. Beautiful stuff.
Shows what a good film maker can do with much less than 13 stops of DR. ;-)
Man, you'll get lynched! That's Digital Heresy!
;-)
Rob C
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/760/21960055811_01cc0310cd_b.jpg)
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Man, you'll get lynched! That's Digital Heresy!
;-)
Rob C
LOL! yeah, I know. But really, sometimes it's good to have to make e choices.
If you can't see everything, what do you really want them to see?
OK, now I'm going back to hiding under my rock...
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Nicely done and I was bored at the garden centre on Sunday. How long does it take to but some seeds?
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5649/21758835200_31a6395761_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/z9KHD3)
Mike
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Oly 75mm 1.8 Wide open with a Raynox DC250, at 1/8000 in a slight breeze.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5742/21983066642_53ce081dca_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zuyXQo)Abstract macro #2 (1 of 1) (https://flic.kr/p/zuyXQo) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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Wow, guys!
All I have to do is go away for a week and you all have produced several pages of really great stuff in this thread!
Maybe I should go away more often. ;)
I'll have some more contributions of my own after I've had a chance to sort and process the best of my new 500+ images.
Thanks for keeping this thread very much alive!
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Most attractive and confusing, Armand.
Rob C
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Most attractive and confusing, Armand.
Rob C
Thank you, this is what happens when you don't focus properly ;)
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(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201412/i-44Ttp3n/0/O/PEG_A850_2_07969_20141212-L.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201412/i-44Ttp3n/A)
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Tree Candy...
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Tree Candy...
PhotoShop has revealed to me that the cheerleader going through her routine beyond the sun-lit stream through the trees cannot easily be improved upon.
But I can't help trying.
The over all composition is something I given up trying to improve upon, it's too good.
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Tree Candy...
PhotoShop has revealed to me that the cheerleader going through her routine beyond the sun-lit stream through the trees cannot easily be improved upon.
But I can't help trying.
The over all composition is something I given up trying to improve upon, it's too good.
I worked on that image, back and forth all morning...I feel your pain.
Peter
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Ridgway, Colorado. Phase One IQ180, 150mm D lens
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This happens when you try to get off a quick shot of a Heron striking a fish with your shutter still set for the previous evening's milky way photo. I kind of like it.
(http://airstreampictures.com/pics/Fishing-9976.jpg)
Sony s7s, Mitakon 50mm f.95
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I haven't been on the forums much, and not for a long time. I took these at Pedernales Falls State Park in Texas.
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ABS-2 JPG, very nice, Armand! Two circles and an amorphous form leave a lot to the imagination.
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Oil Slick On the Parking Lot
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Not the most abstract but it like it. Darth Vader's space module.
PS. it's amazing how on the Fuji I can get sharp at minus 2.5 stops without stabilization and yet on the Nikon I can have issues with 1/FL with VR on
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/715/22109908096_9aba8e6f61_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zFM4o1)Abstract #14 (https://flic.kr/p/zFM4o1) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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I'm back on the lights but it's not very abstract although it is not intended to be taken literally :)
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5741/21947484920_808f40cb77_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zrqACq)
Mike
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Amazing how white can dominate in all colour scene.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-JjrQRLM/0/M/Oct%206-9-%202015%20Agonquin%20Highlands%20area%20065%20copy1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-JjrQRLM/A)
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/715/22109908096_9aba8e6f61_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zFM4o1)Abstract #14 (https://flic.kr/p/zFM4o1) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
This is very nice, could think of space if the DOF would have covered more of the disk.
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John R - I really like this type of shot and they are surprisingly difficult to make as good as this. Seems to me you have to choose the plant carefully and then also avoid the sky unless it's very clear blue otherwise it blows out readily. Then you need some other colours like your green and gold.
Mike
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This is very nice, could think of space if the DOF would have covered more of the disk.
Thanks! It was shot at 5.6, and with that lens, I could have gone up as high as F11, but I'm so used to shooting it at either 4 or 5.6 that I didn't think to try that.
I did try some at 1.8, and they pretty much sucked.
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John R - I really like this type of shot and they are surprisingly difficult to make as good as this. Seems to me you have to choose the plant carefully and then also avoid the sky unless it's very clear blue otherwise it blows out readily. Then you need some other colours like your green and gold.
Mike
Thank you Mike. Quite right, the technique is easy enough, but it takes practice to get it right and to deveop an eye for seeing how the shapes will turn out.
Like this one, where I included the sky because I could not resist the composition-
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-dFncWFv/0/M/Oct%201-2013%20Haliburton%20trip%20396%20copysmug-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-dFncWFv/A)
Or this one, which as you have noted, avoids the sky and white streaks, and allows the verticals and colours to create my composition-
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-vFxtPsz/0/M/Sept%2028-%202014%20Algonquin%20Area%20530%20smugcopy-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-vFxtPsz/A)
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/746/22153213002_7bfae6254d_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zKB1qj)Abstract #15 (https://flic.kr/p/zKB1qj) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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Very nice and I bet it looks good printed large.
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5716/22207370382_3e9db14391_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zQozwf)Abstract #17 (https://flic.kr/p/zQozwf) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5716/22207370382_3e9db14391_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zQozwf)Abstract #17 (https://flic.kr/p/zQozwf) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
I like it
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Very cool abstract, Mjollnir.
JR
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Very cool abstract, Mjollnir.
JR
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Thanks, everyone.
I never shoot shots like these, so I'm glad you like them.
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/746/22153213002_7bfae6254d_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zKB1qj)Abstract #15 (https://flic.kr/p/zKB1qj) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
Startling! Hope these don't fly...
Rob C
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Startling! Hope these don't fly...
Rob C
Not to worry; it's a flowering bud of a plant.
I did a color version that hints at that more, but the b&w one just seemed more foreboding.
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Not to worry; it's a flowering bud of a plant.
I did a color version that hints at that more, but the b&w one just seemed more foreboding.
It sure does! Well done.
Rob
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(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201412/i-44Ttp3n/0/O/PEG_A850_2_07969_20141212-L.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201412/i-44Ttp3n/A)
Very nice, Pegelli. I like the subject as well as the image.
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Very nice, Pegelli. I like the subject as well as the image.
Thanks, appreciate the comment.
Here's another one, very recognizable but still abstract in my mind.
(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201510/i-LtVSStP/0/O/PEG_A850_3_01696_20151010-L.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201510/i-LtVSStP/A)
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Something to wake up the ABSTRACTS thread.
I don't comment a lot but I always enjoy this thread. Keep them coming.
Chuck
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Deep woods.
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They are both interesting Chuck, but I find Deep Woods very appealing. With that one you may be giving John R a run for his money. :)
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They are both interesting Chuck, but I find Deep Woods very appealing. With that one you may be giving John R a run for his money. :)
Yes! I immediately thought of John R, too. Both very nice.
The first is reminiscent (slightly) of an image of peeling paint by Minor White.
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I see three nice shots from Arlen and Chuck. I knew I should have taken money and ran while I could. Only one thing to do, add another shot to thread and hope for more money!
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-Bf29mR8/0/M/Aug%2026-%202013%20James%20Gardens%20200%20copy1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-Bf29mR8/A)
JR
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I guess you were running faster than usual when you shot that, John. ;)
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I guess you were running faster than usual when you shot that, John. ;)
:)
It looks like money to me, John.
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This quirky image qualifies as at least semi-abstract, no?
(http://www.pbase.com/art1/image/161695792/original.jpg)
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" This quirky image qualifies as at least semi-abstract, no?"
Very cool, really like it Arlen. Both the bird and the tree remind me of doing pans on jackpine trees. A vertical pan leaves behind a similar look and pattern to the woodpecker in motion. It creates a texture which most camera motion images do not have.
JR
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Thanks, John. I have to come clean and admit that this one was a happy accident. I had set the camera for aperture priority, and failed to notice than in the shade of the tree, the shutter speed had fallen dangerously low. It was on a monopod so that helped steady the camera, but not the bird.
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I went out today and took a few at creek near Hamilton. Used my brother's Nikon camera hand held and the all in one 35-200 equivalent. It was quite liberating to use one lens. Forgot how to use everything. I use Pentax. So got a few underexposed images, which I had to brighten up quite a bit. Here are three; Arlen, notice the one with the texture in the bark. Not a great shot, but shows what I was talking about.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-3JZMf5Q/0/M/Oct%2026-%202015%20Grindstone%20Creek%20258%20copysharpen-1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-3JZMf5Q/A)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-nnsnpLX/0/M/Oct%2026-%202015%20Grindstone%20Creek%20213%20copy1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-nnsnpLX/A)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-rRNppdS/0/M/Oct%2026-%202015%20Grindstone%20Creek%20128%20copy1000-M.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-rRNppdS/A)
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Thanks, John. I have to come clean and admit that this one was a happy accident. I had set the camera for aperture priority, and failed to notice than in the shade of the tree, the shutter speed had fallen dangerously low. It was on a monopod so that helped steady the camera, but not the bird.
Arlen, speaking of happy accidents, that's how I got started in Camera movement photography. Had a few happy accidents and saw some on internet and realized I could do those and learn how to make them in a conscious way. That's how I took this one today- a real abstract using the colours of autumn that all result in shapes and lines- and a happy flare!
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-L3RBXWk/0/L/Oct%2026-%202015%20Grindstone%20Creek%20355%20copy1000-L.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-L3RBXWk/A)
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More real treats, Arlen and John R. Thanks!
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I never seem to get tired of those movement photos… Fantastic stuff!
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I see what you mean about the bark, John. Very interesting. All of those shots are really compelling. As I've said before, you are the master of this sort of thing, and I always enjoy seeing more of them.
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This quirky image qualifies as at least semi-abstract, no?
I like!
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Something to wake up the ABSTRACTS thread.
I don't comment a lot but I always enjoy this thread. Keep them coming.
Chuck
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I like to play from time time with images because we have a "creative" competition in club. So I stripped this image of the very noisy background of dark grasses. While I work on trying to create something, it occurred to me this is fine abstract style image in its own right.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-7wZ5gtm/0/L/May%2023-12%20Rhodo%20Pk%20242%20paintedcopy-1000-L.jpg) (https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-7wZ5gtm/A)
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It's very nice, John.
But I wouldn't have identified it as yours, since everything visible is sharp and stationary. But it works!
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I have best looking car door handle in all of Toronto.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-NxptJ5b/0/L/DSC_0262%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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John, you should have sanded off the bodywork rust...
;-)
Rob
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/578/21573440992_e3ed84539a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ySnwpb)IMGP0951-Edit (https://flic.kr/p/ySnwpb) by Matt Burt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbnet/), on Flickr
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/578/21573440992_e3ed84539a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ySnwpb)IMGP0951-Edit (https://flic.kr/p/ySnwpb) by Matt Burt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbnet/), on Flickr
I like gritty; also very reminiscent of the 30s journalistic fashion... so Russian!
Rob C
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I like gritty; also very reminiscent of the 30s journalistic fashion... so Russian!
Rob C
Thanks! Not really familiar with 30s journalistic fashion or how this seems Russian. I just liked the visual impact of those shapes rising from the darkness. This is from a hotel room window overlooking a rooftop with skylights.
Off to Google to find 30s journalistic fashion references...
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I have best looking car door handle in all of Toronto.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-NxptJ5b/0/L/DSC_0262%20copy1000-L.jpg)
not to detract from your fine photograph but theres something about the image aside from the posrtion occupied by the door handle that bears an eerie similarity a certain painting By Expressionist artist Edvard Munch entitled "The Scream".
Its truly uncanny
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not to detract from your fine photograph but theres something about the image aside from the posrtion occupied by the door handle that bears an eerie similarity a certain painting By Expressionist artist Edvard Munch entitled "The Scream".
Its truly uncanny
Well spoted:
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Nice abstract, Michael.
And nice catch, Slobodan. I thought something looked a little familiar about the shot, but I didn't catch on until you pointed it out.
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Well spoted:
the visual reference literally leaped off the page...screen at me.
Although I havent checked the colors by the numbers.. the relative values are almost frighteningly close to each other.
Serendipity Squared!
It just strick me that the doorhandle ..echoes the geometry of the mouth in the painting as well
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It just strick me that the doorhandle ..echoes the geometry of the mouth in the painting as well
Yes!
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... must be a screaming fast automobile
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... must be a screaming fast automobile
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/575/22865137962_aa3b6b437c_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/AQvNUA)Abstract Macro #5 (1 of 1) (https://flic.kr/p/AQvNUA) by tanngrisnir3 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
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the visual reference literally leaped off the page...screen at me.
Although I havent checked the colors by the numbers.. the relative values are almost frighteningly close to each other.
Serendipity Squared!
It just strick me that the doorhandle ..echoes the geometry of the mouth in the painting as well
As Slobodan said, well spotted.
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Chasing Bacon
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Pondering
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Nice, David.
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I like the last two from Dave and JJJ.
I love High Park in Toronto. November, but it still has colour I can play with.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-VHXkkNH/0/L/Nov%209-%202015%20High%20Park%20062%20copy-1000-L.jpg)
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I'd say you're branching out, John. Nice one,
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5721/22926100075_a4ab5de8a2_o.jpg)
as "seen"
yes,,,a crop of 1 or more inches from the bottom of the image is in order
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Down low in the grass.
Chuck
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The images on the last couple of pages are quite a collection, and a real pleasure to view. Well done all of you.
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The images on the last couple of pages are quite a collection, and a real pleasure to view. Well done all of you.
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Down low in the grass.
Chuck
All good, but the second one really grabs me.
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The second one catches my eye too. There's an alien in it.
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Is this abstract enough?
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/591/22963491571_53ed64fc52_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/AZcU1t)
Mike
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Is this abstract enough?
Mike
I really like this one. The orange is a striking counterpoint to the white and helps to accentuate the texture in the image. Despite the verticals, the diagonal interaction of the shadows and light make the image dynamic.
JR
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Thanks JR, I appreciate the thoughtful comments.
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I really like this one. The orange is a striking counterpoint to the white and helps to accentuate the texture in the image. Despite the verticals, the diagonal interaction of the shadows and light make the image dynamic.
JR
What John said.
So your answer is "Yes!"
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Always a tricky judgement if the literal has somehow become abstract :)
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Always a tricky judgement if the literal has somehow become abstract :)
Often it's a matter of asking what the picture is about. Here, is it about a section of wall and another of a curtain, both happening to have shadows on them? I don't think so. It's more about balance (spatial and color), and straight lines versus irregular shapes (the shadows), and the moods and tension that these create.
IMHO, I believe that the fact that it is literal makes it easier for us not to have to ask the "What is it?" question, so we can play with the visual elements more easily.
Eric
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Quote Eric:
"IMHO, I believe that the fact that it is literal makes it easier for us not to have to ask the "What is it?" question, so we can play with the visual elements more easily."
...hmm, interesting...
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I hate that 'what is it question', who cares if it's a play on light and texture. But I know that's a simplistic view and not the norm. Throw off the shackles of the accepted reality and breathe! :)
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May be I should put this in the Tree section. But at least I have options.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-THKx9sm/0/L/Nov%2022-%202015%20High%20Park%20163%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Beautiful, John!
While I can certainly guess how you got the tree, how was the monochrome background achieved?
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Beautiful, John!
While I can certainly guess how you got the tree, how was the monochrome background achieved?
Good question.
I love it, John.
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Thanks Slobodan and Eric. I used selection tool on green dark areas and then desaturated. Compared result to original, then refined selection until most of colour and tree was included. Sharpened tree and left surroundings untouched like when processing a sky. Actually converting to BW is hit and miss, and feathering looks more natural when desaturated as opposed to converting. But for me, it's just trial and error.
JR
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What's confusing me (and maybe Slobodan) is that the motion blur patterns in the tree don't match those in the background. Especially in the upper LHS.
Or was there wind involved?
In any case, it's lovely.
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It appears that way, but I can assure you the pattern is the same. I think what happened, is, the area in question has more trees and bushes and their pattern is mixing and interfering with the pattern I created in camera movement. Sometimes a camera movement is not conducive to pre-existing patterns, or you can be pleasantly surprised! Here is another, which I like better for it's more free flowing movement and abstract look, but I miscalculated and did not trip shutter early enough or include enough of the tree in the picture space. Thanks for the feedback.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-4CxcPdL/0/L/Nov%2022-%202015%20High%20Park%20160%20800copy-L.jpg)
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Yes, that one is even better, John.
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Yes, that one is even better, John.
Thanks Eric. No point in doing these if you don't have fun. At the camera club my friends keep threatening to buy me a tripod for xmas.
Here is one which is an actual building, but I decided to have some fun with it and maybe disorient a few judges. An abstract even without the alterations.
JR
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-Ch67ZWG/0/L/June%205-%20201%20Matheson%20St%20Bldgs%20009%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
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You are now encroaching on my territory 😊 Beautifu shot!
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Thanks Eric. No point in doing these if you don't have fun. At the camera club my friends keep threatening to buy me a tripod for xmas.
Here is one which is an actual building, but I decided to have some fun with it and maybe disorient a few judges. An abstract even without the alterations.
JR
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-p7cm3h6/0/L/June%205-%20201%20Matheson%20St%20Bldgs%20009%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
Very nice. This would be a tough one to print--but well worth the effort.
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Really fine, John.
I have one suggestion, though. I would be tempted to make your watermark a little smaller, move it to the right a bit, and slant it so that it looks like a logo that's part of the building.
Eric
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Thanks Slobodan, Eric and Bob. Yes Eric, the watermark does in this case draw too much attention. So I did alter it as you suggested. Much better. Didn't even know you can change direction of watermark until I tried different tools.
JR
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Now, of course, all you need to do is retake it while swinging the camera around deftly. And make the watermark match. :D
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Forgot camera was on self timer. So I cursed and moved the camera anyway. This result was my good fortune. I'm pretty sure if this was film, I would have double cursed!
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-xFVjNGM/0/L/Algonquin%20Island%202-%20017%20copy1000%20copy-L.jpg)
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Neon colors - √
Interesting patterns - √
Oversized watermark - √
Successful overall - √
As you can see, the image elicits plenty of checkmarks ;)
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Neon colors - √
Interesting patterns - √
Oversized watermark - √
Successful overall - √
As you can see, the image elicits plenty of checkmarks ;)
Check!
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Check!
You guys just ticked me off. I think it would have been even better had they not switched to LED lights. So many intermitten lights.
JR
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From the local library
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5639/21630498439_e833a288c9_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/yXpXAg)
Mike
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I find that I photograph trees rather a lot - one of my favourite subjects.
I have been working on a project for a little while trying to show some of the characteristics of trees - colour, movement, patterns etc. - without the distractions of precise depiction but retaining a recognizable character and staying short of full abstraction. After all trees are rarely seen in total static state by us - either they or we are moving when we see them and an attempt to show the features as moving impressions may be as valid as a perfect still image.
There are images on this thread which are not dissimilar and I would be very interested in any response,comment and criticism on these sample images , please.
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These are very interesting. Your technique seems to be similar to John R's, but the results have a very different mood. I like all of these, but the first seems especially fine.
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For me the last one seems most effective as the colours seem strongest. This is not an easy technique and your shots seem good but maybe some suffer from too much bright cloud/sky?
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Ice in Malghera.
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Ice in Malghera.
Very nice, I prefer the second. Still waiting for snow or freeze to get something similar.
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Ice in Malghera.
Yes, the second one for me, too. I love that kind of stuff.
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These are very interesting. Your technique seems to be similar to John R's, but the results have a very different mood. I like all of these, but the first seems especially fine.
For me the last one seems most effective as the colours seem strongest. This is not an easy technique and your shots seem good but maybe some suffer from too much bright cloud/sky?
Thank you very much for the comments.
Eric - Yes i have seen John R's work and find it interesting - personally I am wanting to retain more of the subject matter and be a little less 'abstract' than he ... but it is,of course, all a matter of taste. I agree with your choice - it is one that I feel is more successful than some.
drmike - i can see your point about the brightness but in a print it seems to distract less and even add to the complexity of the image - but a point to weigh for the future, thanks.
More generally i am not too sure what legs this little project has against my more usual 'tree fetish' images.
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Like armand, I find 4943QN more absorbing.
I can imagen patching highlights sort of like that. However, I wonder if you had it pressed against a glass or removed from a glass so that the high points looked patched, or are you telling?
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Like armand, I find 4943QN more absorbing.
I can imagen patching highlights sort of like that. However, I wonder if you had it pressed against a glass or removed from a glass so that the high points looked patched, or are you telling?
Bruce, I'm sorry, but my poor english doesn't let me understand well what do you mean with "patching the highlights" :(.
Anyway, the photo is a crop of a shot taken in Western Grosina Valley, near the "Brata hut", the alpine hut of my father in law. The aspect of the ice is a natural phenomenon, under the ice flows water.
This is the original, not post produced photo.
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Bruce, I'm sorry, but my poor english doesn't let me understand well what do you mean with "patching the highlights" :(.
Anyway, the photo is a crop of a shot taken in Western Grosina Valley, near the "Brata hut", the alpine hut of my father in law. The aspect of the ice is a natural phenomenon, under the ice flows water.
This is the original, not post produced photo.
Thanks, it was just my delusion. Every thing is starting to look like PhotoShop to me. The relatively flat areas with sharp borders fooled me.
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This one is true minimalist abstract. Nice!
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Compared to the previous photograph this doesn't seem very minimal now :)
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/710/23397317466_9144942d6f_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/BDxnkh)
Mike
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That's a very nice one, Mike.
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Thanks Slobodan. Nicely gentle was the intention.
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Thanks, it was just my delusion. Every thing is starting to look like PhotoShop to me. The relatively flat areas with shrap borders fooled me.
Now I understand, they seem really patched, but they aren't, they are only holes in the ice with the grey flowing water underneath. (The heavy pp was made of levels, curves and an indecent use of the color boost slider (50) in Nikon Capture NX2)
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Nice image Mike.
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Nice image Mike.
I agree.
A good image doesn't necessarily have to have a lot of varied content. Yours has just what it needs, and no more.
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Thank you Eric. I do like simplicity.
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Here is the last one and 3 more (I think they are more interesting as a set).
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OK, folks. I haven't put any u in a while, so here goes. Two B&W and two Color (or Colour for those on the other side of the pond.
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I am partial to the colour images, especially the first image. For me it's the white surrounding the orange-brown that gives it a dynamic quality. It allows the cracks and black dimple areas to be more noticeable.
JR
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Thanks, John.
I have quite a few of these "satins on walls" images, but most don't have enough color to make the color versions work.
I'll dig up another one or two that I think do work in color.
Eric
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I took a couple yesterday, when it was dull gray. We stopped at a restaurant to have breakfast. On the way out we complained about the light. But I cheered up when I espied these elements on the wall opposite the restaurant.
converted to BW
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-FxJ44B9/0/L/IMGP6492%20bwcopy2%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Played with colours to make this one pop a little more:
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-kmMJHfc/0/L/IMGP6491%20alteredcopy2%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Almost Went Unnoticed
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John
Nice subject and I think the B&W composition works better but possibly needs some harsher processing? Or is my lack subtlety showing :)
Colour one doesn't work for me.
Mike
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OK, folks. I haven't put any u in a while, so here goes. Two B&W and two Color (or Colour for those on the other side of the pond.
For me: the bottom one. Love the mental playground it provides.
Rob C
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For me: the bottom one. Love the mental playground it provides.
Rob C
Now that you mention it< I do really like Eric's bottom bw image. It grew on me, I think because of the play between dark and light elements and because of an overall circle of light (white area) that appears to envelope the whole scene.
JR
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John
Nice subject and I think the B&W composition works better but possibly needs some harsher processing? Or is my lack subtlety showing :)
Colour one doesn't work for me.
Mike
Thanks everyone for the feedback. Mike, I was over at Leica monochrome thread looking at images of Allan Bourgeois. Great stuff, with excellent smooth, natural looking bw images, especially the high contrast ones. He stated in one post that if he can't make the image look natural, and unprocessed, it was not well done. I feel the same way. I have seen too many bw images that are pushed to extremes and they just don't look good or natural. I wanted more light to bring out and better delineate the elements and give them a more 3D look, but it was not to be. I don't think I can manage more with this low contrast image. Besides, it's a jpeg. Thanks again.
JR
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I suspect I am guilty of pushing B&W conversions too hard. I find it very hard to get the elegance of tones I managed with 6x6 on Pan-F 40 years go :) So, maybe I misunderstood your intent.
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I suspect I am guilty of pushing B&W conversions too hard. I find it very hard to get the elegance of tones I managed with 6x6 on Pan-F 40 years go :) So, maybe I misunderstood your intent.
AAMOF I found that the more elegant tones came not from slow film, but TXP 120 rated 320 ASA, processed D76 1+1. Slow, for me, was one film faster: FP3 at 125 ASA. I never got it together with that film (FP3) on 120, but magically so on the Nikon, for some reason that I never could discover.
All I can guess is the difference in lens manufacture. I must confess that I tried bloody hard, both with Pan F as well as Pan X, but in the end I concluded that imaginary grain, as in not visible, wasn't as expressive as some real, visible grain. I used any crutch I could find to advance whatever I thought I wanted to achieve!
Ironically, now there's no grain, I often create it.
Such the perversity of man.
Rob C
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I used FP4 in the Leica (or sometimes Tri-X) and the slower Pan F in the Rollei always on a tripod. Before anyone thinks moneybags, the Rollei cost £15 in 1972 but the Leica an M3 double stroke was a bit more maybe £100+ I cannot now recall.
I'm a bit baffled by the recent discussion about how silver halide was either black or not, I didn't think that was the case and it could be shades of grey but I'm no chemist. I do know that very slow (25 ASA) film gave me no visible grain and beautiful tones. One of the very few photographs I ever got published was another pretty unique thing for me a nude on Pan-F and Rollei. I still have the print and it looks as good as it did then, 40 years ago.
Mike
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I used FP4 in the Leica (or sometimes Tri-X) and the slower Pan F in the Rollei always on a tripod. Before anyone thinks moneybags, the Rollei cost £15 in 1972 but the Leica an M3 double stroke was a bit more maybe £100+ I cannot now recall.
I'm a bit baffled by the recent discussion about how silver halide was either black or not, I didn't think that was the case and it could be shades of grey but I'm no chemist. I do know that very slow (25 ASA) film gave me no visible grain and beautiful tones. One of the very few photographs I ever got published was another pretty unique thing for me a nude on Pan-F and Rollei. I still have the print and it looks as good as it did then, 40 years ago.
Mike
That's my opinion too; it's matter of strength of light striking the film, or everything would look like it had been shot on line film. But there's no point in arguing with digi pundits - they see everything as an extreme: I don't have a terribly good magnifying glass and so I must rest my case on memory of old lectures!
I'll bet it looks better today than the model! When I think of mine, they are probably grannies now; but back then...
;-)
Rob
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The model was quite a pretty girl bur her main attribute was that she was 'trim' not too big anywhere and was able to take direction. It was a university Photo Society evening so there were about 12 of us shooting. I was the only one to get anything useable as I kept it very simple and non glamorous. I couldn't do what you did :)
As for silver halide I went to Wiki which isn't always wise but it did reinforce what my PhD chemist buddy told me all those years ago;
When a silver halide crystal is exposed to light, a sensitivity speck on the surface of the crystal is turned into a small speck of metallic silver (these comprise the invisible or latent image). If the speck of silver contains approximately four or more atoms, it is rendered developable - meaning that it can undergo development which turns the entire crystal into metallic silver. Areas of the emulsion receiving larger amounts of light (reflected from a subject being photographed, for example) undergo the greatest development and therefore results in the highest optical density.
My reading of this is that one crystal could have many dark areas or not so that a crystal which I assume is extremely small could in effect be grey because of the limited areas of black. So everyone is right!
Mike
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3 totally different abstracts
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3 totally different abstracts
Minimalist, and very fine ones!
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Minimalist, and very fine ones!
Agreed. I am really drawn to the third image, but like them all. Nice work Armand.
JR
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I think this is abstract
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/720/21574977248_0bd946e4c3_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ySvp5m)
Mike
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I think this is abstract
It might be abstract but it's certainly not ambiguous.
The deathly British , traffic-warden jackpot, instant culpability - 'don't-bother-to-even-whisper-an-excuse', ubiquitous double yellow line !
I like it - (the shot, not the lines ..)
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In another thread Rob C prompted me to look up a photo taken some time ago in Vienna and I saw this which at teh time I had dismissed. Now I'm not so sure
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5630/23562658026_e271b7f64b_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/BU9MjA)
Mike
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I think this is abstract
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/720/21574977248_0bd946e4c3_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ySvp5m)
Mike
Yes, it's certainly abstract.
But it also appears to be what I call the "pure" form of "Street" photography, namely a photograph of a Street. No?
Admittedly, it may not have the kind of ambiguity that Russ Lewis and Henri CB like in their "Street" shots.
NA here is one of my own Abstract "Pure" Street shots:
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Eric that was a good find. How could any photographer resist that. I am teased at the club for this type of shot but to me it shows there is beauty all around us, just pause and look at the view.
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As already noted, not street shot as Russ means, but certainly a fine BW abstract, whose elements have just the right amount shimmer to make it work.
JR
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Took this an outing at Toronto Islands. Didn't get a great sunset, but enough light to capture these undulating waves of gold light and blue water.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Island-outing/i-c4C8PhX/0/L/Dec%206-%202015%20Algonquin%20Island%20065%20cropcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Well, John, I don't think that quite qualifies as "Street" as Russ defines it, or even as "Pure Street" as I define it. So maybe it is "Pure Liquid Street." :D
Anyway, it's lovely.
And abstract.
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This is what happens to John's H2O when it cools off a bit.
Chuck
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This is what happens to John's H2O when it cools off a bit.
Yes, new ice is always good for abstracts.
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Scott,
Yours looks like the ice skaters dance pattern. Nice.
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OK, here's a new one from me, taken just yesterday. (It usually takes me weeks from shooting to processing.)
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/8842581_orig.jpg)
Hi Rob,
Levels. Lots a levels...lovely.
Peter
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OK, here's a new one from me, taken just yesterday. (It usually takes me weeks from shooting to processing.)
Love this one, Eric. Simple and effective. Primary lines and shadows, secondary lines, reinforcing the pattern and rhythm.
JR
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Hi Rob,
Levels. Lots a levels...lovely.
Peter
LOL!
;-)
Rob
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More nice shots on this thread. I'm enjoying the variety.
Chuck
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What is this I said to myself when I got home and looked at it. If I hadn't tried, I never would have got the shot.
JR
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Island-outing/i-cNmHwNp/0/L/June%202-%202015%20Downtown-Centre%20Island%20170%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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That appears John, to be the maze of flame on my last acknowledged birthday cake... ;)
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@Rob,
RE: Globular, could that also be "Matin" ? Has my brain running...never a controlled activity...loving your "poking in the overlooked and underappreciated" !
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@Rob,
RE: Globular, could that also be "Matin" ? Has my brain running...never a controlled activity...loving your "poking in the overlooked and underappreciated" !
You got me wonderin'.... stairs, indoors or out, but if not, then a reflection of same on some chrome? All this stuff excites me no end: a real mental exercise in place of the obvious confrontation with the established norms. And thinking of them, perhaps that's why landscape assumes a greater beauty when it's done in black and white and removed from the way it usually looks; fake colours just look what they are. But either way, I think they must remain small images. For me, an enormous photograph on a domestic wall is a breach of sensitivity - but a nod to the consumer within us. Enormous photographs on office walls (or in galleries, of course) ring more true, but still, I think, require a sense of proportion to work.
Rob C
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Here are four more from last Monday at Plum Island.
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Eric, can I vote for Robinson Crusoe?
Rob C
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http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=86369.0;attach=135449;image
(the third image, 5476)
Eric,
I must be exhausted, or close to near sleep, here the rolling through Jupiter descending, a secret entry to Other world, and Michael R's provocative blurred bull fights... Have you been to the Snaefells Glacier? Pin this to your bag and go...you have a book waiting your release there at the entry to the center of the earth... tell me when...
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All this natural stuff - let's have some man made subjects
(https://drmcw.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/yellowbenchdscf9148.jpg)
Mike
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Dog hair with dew.
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Nice!
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Dog hair with dew, never would think to photograph that. I think Mike's image is interesting and might be even better if the grid pattern in background was in focus. So you want some man-made abstracts...
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Island-outing/i-gqzjd7c/0/L/Nov%2028-%202015%20Algonquin%20Island%20094%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Island-outing/i-RkVB933/0/L/Nov%2028-%202015%20Algonquin%20Island%20126%20alteredcopy-bw1000-L.jpg)
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Nice, but I am drawn to a square crop in both cases :) But then I often am. The yellow shot above mutated to a square crop which I couldn't find although I have a print on the wall.
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I very much like Erik's first one of his recent set, 5463.
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Let's try again... LR is being painful.
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Or an old favourite
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Beach scenes
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I welcome the return of the phantom.
And preceding it, I preferred the third of Chris's sand pictures. The framing is excellent.
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http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=86369.0;attach=135449;image
(the third image, 5476)
Eric,
I must be exhausted, or close to near sleep, here the rolling through Jupiter descending, a secret entry to Other world, and Michael R's provocative blurred bull fights... Have you been to the Snaefells Glacier? Pin this to your bag and go...you have a book waiting your release there at the entry to the center of the earth... tell me when...
Not Snaefellsjökull, but I find all sorts of suggestive images at Plum Island, and I'm always delighted when one of them sparks a viewers imagination in ways I couldn't predict.
The closest I ever got to the Sanefells Glacier was in 1974, briefly on Snaefellsnes peninsula (which is of course redundant, since "nes" means "peninsula" as in my own last name.) Iceland is full of magic, as Rajan and others demonstrate here on LuLa so often.
Thanks all, for helping to liven this thread up!
Eric
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I have to say, some of these bw images don't look like much in thumbnail view, but come to life once you click and enlarge.
Rob, very intriguing. How are you getting that soft mysterious look. Should I guess?
JR
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I have to say, some of these bw images don't like like much in thumbnail view, but come to life once you click and enlarge.
Rob, very intriguing. How are you getting that soft mysterious look. Should I guess?
JR
Vaseline, lightly smeared on parts of a tiny piece of scrap glass that a local glazier cut for me to fit a cheap Cokin filter holder. Almost never used it after I saw the first roll of Kodachrome that I'd ruined with the effects of a part-tobacco filter! Glad, now, that I didn't toss Cokin away. I'd never treat a photographic filter in that manner!
P.S. Are you seeing these images of mine as thumbnails first? I had imagined that they appear at full size right away. Some other poster's images appear, to me, as thumbnails first and others not. No wonder I have little love for things digital: they spook me!
Rob C
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Rob, your images are perfect size for most monitors. But I have large 25 inch HP monitor and the thumbnails are very small indeed and quite frankly don't look that good. This is especially true of the more subtle bw-images.
JR
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Raindrops on shallow water at the edge of a lake. It almost looks like a colour blindness test.
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Raindrops on shallow water at the edge of a lake. It almost looks like a colour blindness test.
The second one is brilliant
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Rob, your images are perfect size for most monitors. But I have large 25 inch HP monitor and the thumbnails are very small indeed and quite frankly don't look that good. This is especially true of the more subtle bw-images.
JR
Ah, so they do appear to you initially as thumbnails; for me they open up at full size right away, and are not thumbnails (my own pics here, in LuLa) but some other poster's images do show initially as thumbnails, and I have to click 'em to blow them up to size. My monitor is a LaCie 319; that's a 19" diagonal.
My thumbs, you say don't look good: how are the full images of same on your monitor? Sometimes, when I upload to here from my website, if I switch back rapidly to my website, the shots look slightly different, but then that requires memory, even if over a brief period, so without side-by-side at once, I could be mistaken, and just working on expectations of differences... I think I did open up two windows to do that before, but doing it again still wouldn't solve anything if there is indeed a problem.
No wonder I loved the world of film! I understood it way better.
Rob C
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The second one is brilliant
+1
Chuck
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Quote from: Patricia Sheley on December 09, 2015, 11:15:48 PM
That appears John, to be the maze of flame on my last acknowledged birthday cake... ;)
Patricia, beware: I think our stars are about to collide - in reverse!
http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=86369.0;attach=135398;image
Rob
;), :)
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Old shot, new eyes.
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Nice, Diego.
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Interruptous...
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Interruptous...
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Interruptous...
Really cool!
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Indeed; ???
Rob C
How does one stop these irritating 'faces' from popping up unbid? I wanted to write three of these: ? but it won't fly that way.
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Rob, either put spaces in between ? ? ? or tick "Do not use smileys" in "Attachments and other options." On the other hand, if you have to ask a question three times, it is either time to go back to school or visit an ear doctor :P :P :P
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Rob, either put spaces in between ? ? ? or tick "Do not use smileys" in "Attachments and other options." On the other hand, if you have to ask a question three times, it is either time to go back to school or visit an ear doctor :P :P :P
A no doubt useful response, but I'm not sure whether it is sufficiently abstract for this thread. :D ? ? ?
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Ice and a blade of grass. Not abstract indeed, but macro images of natural objects are often much more concrete than abstract, in the hegelian sense of the two terms (more or less).
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Ice and a blade of grass. Not abstract indeed, but macro images of natural objects are often much more concrete than abstract, in the hegelian sense of the two terms (more or less).
I like it, especially the central part.
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A couple from a recent trip to Sicily
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Great Egret
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Eric, Diego, Rob... I find myself musing if time passing while poking around in the abstract, isn't (for me at least), seeking to see outside an old skin waiting too long to slough off...taking a chance on a (life) line to no certain destination seems to whisper "just jump!"
Thank you.
And Diego, I am still enjoying watching you stay open enough to experiment with that which you find yourself near...keep it up! Almost child like unconditional curiosity and experiment is indeed to be celebrated.
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Rob, either put spaces in between ? ? ? or tick "Do not use smileys" in "Attachments and other options." On the other hand, if you have to ask a question three times, it is either time to go back to school or visit an ear doctor :P :P :P
Thanks - hadn't realised about spacing the characters. Neither, about ticking in Attachments as I wasn't making any. Guess my logic fails, too. ;-(
Regression to school: no thanks! It's taken my decades to slip gingerly (if tentatively) away from being a teen; just this morning, in the shower, I was mumbling couplets in an attempt to write the next Neil Sedaka hit; I got as far as this:
I'm not a whore, anymore
Not like before;
this, followed with a rhyme about teen and clean and freedom, but I've forgotten it now. Perhaps in the morning, when the conditions (with luck) are the same, it'll come back to me. This always works: I often find myself standing in the kitchen and wondering what the hell I went there to do. The answer, I found, is to go back where I started, and then I almost instantly discover why I went to the kitchen. It generally involves another cup of coffee.
But regarding my paean to teen: I remember realising that it was possibly applicable to photography, too. That made me laugh aloud.
Yep, a hearing specialist might come in helpful too; I have noticed that watching the rare tv show that I do, the scripts often sound confusing. This could be the result of everything people say, today, starting with 'so' or 'like' but I can't be certain.
Troubled times indeed.
Rob C
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This always works: I often find myself standing in the kitchen and wondering what the hell I went there to do. The answer, I found, is to go back where I started, and then I almost instantly discover why I went to the kitchen
That only works about half the time for me. :(
Sometimes I can't even remember where I started, so I don't know where to go back to.
Eric
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Anyway, jumping isn't a game plan: I am anything but a religious person, having been estranged from that by early forced exposure to missionary zealotry. But, and this is key: I believe firmly that life is a gift. Consequently, to throw that gift back into the face of whence it came is an insult, the very thing that will negate the possibility of reunition (neologism?) with my wife. I won't run that risk, ever! If I'm mistaken I shall never know, but if I am correct... hallelujah!
;-)
Rob
Amen to that, Rob!
Eric
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/2211645_orig.jpg)
Another gem.
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Quote Rob:I won't run that risk, ever!
If she were Jasper Johns she would be able to notate well enough that her intent of Take that Risk, as in "it is not a cloud", as in "just take the leap!" though the destination be not promised or clear...I did entire heartedly intend life affirming...should have tipped one to you first before the attempt to elucidate...
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Patricia,
Love the shot; love, too, the interpretation that I was reading doom where none existed.
There's something in a cup. This is not a prelude to burlesque.
Rob C
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I liked it better than the non reflection
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Eric, Diego, Rob... I find myself musing if time passing while poking around in the abstract, isn't (for me at least), seeking to see outside an old skin waiting too long to slough off...taking a chance on a (life) line to no certain destination seems to whisper "just jump!"
Thank you.
And Diego, I am still enjoying watching you stay open enough to experiment with that which you find yourself near...keep it up! Almost child like unconditional curiosity and experiment is indeed to be celebrated.
Well, for me personally is more a matter of enjoying the feeling of being amazed by the train of thought that an abstract image gives me, no matter how irrational or useless those thoughts may be.
Something like "...it looks like and horse. I wonder what's the smell of an horse. Maybe it's something like eating a carob. I ate a carob as a child, when I went to sicily..." and so on.
On "child like unconditional curiosity and experiment" I agree with you 100%: I hope to stay childishly curious all my life. :)
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/2211645_orig.jpg)
Really cool, I like it.
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I hope to stay childishly curious all my life. :)
Well said, Diego. As far as I'm concerned, that's what this thread is all about.
Eric
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Water and Glass
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Really cool, I like it.
Thank you, it's one of the reasons that I envy the film world: that transition from one thing to another that you get when you focus a long lens at different extremes of distance is always lost in stills - you just can't express motion in a single frame, and it isn't about blur lines.
Was a time, on our terrace, that I'd point a lens over the hedge and at something a few hundred yards away - or even at a small tree just fifty yards away, and the feeling as the top of the hedge went from crisp to blur, the sunlit leaves changing shape like that, was magical. The solid world turned liquid without having altered at all.
Rob C
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Chatting pods.
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Chatting pods.
And all three giving birth to snails!
Rob C
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Well, for me personally is more a matter of enjoying the feeling of being amazed by the train of thought that an abstract image gives me, no matter how irrational or useless those thoughts may be.
Something like "...it looks like and horse. I wonder what's the smell of an horse. Maybe it's something like eating a carob. I ate a carob as a child, when I went to sicily..." and so on.
There's another thing happens: I often find myself with the caption well before I see the picture lying somewhere waiting for me.
There's a mixture of opinion regarding captions, and whether they help or hinder the enjoyment of the 'viewer' and I have to admit, my opinion is that the picture belongs to the photographer, and it's up to him/her to indicate what it means to him or to her. Equally, the shooter has the right to refrain from writing anything. I'm not certain there's necessarily credit in casting one's creation out into the world without a birth certificate.
Rob C
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My congratulations to Mike D. B. for bringing this thread to 1000 posts, with his "Chatting pods!"
Nice photo, and definitely not a cliché.
Eric
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Rob, snails is what most see. But they ain't.
Eric, I wasn't counting. Maybe I should play the lottery this week!
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Late night, longish exposure, sodium vapour lighting...
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My turn
(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-CSb79MP/0/X2/i-CSb79MP-X2.jpg)
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I can find all sorts of faces and creatures above the dark stripe. I interpret the stripe as representing the River Styx, perhaps.
Nice.
Eric
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(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-4qtz6Lr/0/X2/i-4qtz6Lr-X2.jpg)
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(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-4qtz6Lr/0/X2/i-4qtz6Lr-X2.jpg)
Beautiful!
Tony Jay
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Thank you.
Glad you liked it ! :)
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(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201512/i-NPT6VBD/0/O/PEG_NEX6_2_3568_20151213.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201512/i-NPT6VBD/A)
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Antonio: bravo, I like very much :-)
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Thank you Gram... :)
(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-sb6532g/0/XL/i-sb6532g-XL.jpg)
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(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201512/i-NPT6VBD/0/O/PEG_NEX6_2_3568_20151213.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201512/i-NPT6VBD/A)
Very nice, but I bet it itches...
;-)
Rob C
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(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-vTgRHvH/0/X2/i-vTgRHvH-X2.jpg)
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Dense, punchy colors, complex but really nice in the end!
Bravo
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Sometimes when I make a work like this, at the end I find the images too dense, too red... whatever !
Another one.
(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-9SSdZbt/0/X2/i-9SSdZbt-X2.jpg)
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Quote Antonio:Sometimes when I make a work like this, at the end I find the images too dense, too red...
Never!!! Thinking an excellent espresso maker (Pantone red copyrighted) and a devastating pair of stilettos the soles of which make me smile although only I remember their "jump! and the net will appear red"!!!!!
do very much like this one...becoming curious about the process... did see your first as a self-portrait, but kept that tilted opinion to myself at the time...
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Patricia... I am sorry but I do not understand your point.
Please, be more simple so I can understand.
English is not my native language you know...
Thank you for the comment anyway :)
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Mi piace il tuo rosso~ ;)
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Patricia... I am Portuguese.
I understood you message. Thank you ! :)
E questo, piace?
(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-WspTLsN/0/X2/i-WspTLsN-X2.jpg)
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Desculpas! Adoro o seu vermelhos!!
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Lovely abstracts, Antonio!
I have a photographer friend who makes a killing (meaning: sells a lot) at art fairs with his abstract series. Some of which are simply macro shots of cracks in his linoleum flooring :) You can see his work here. (http://NATGAL.zenfolio.com/p88810338)
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Lovely abstracts, Antonio!
I have a photographer friend who makes a killing (meaning: sells a lot) at art fairs with his abstract series. Some of which are simply macro shots of cracks in his linoleum flooring :) You can see his work here. (http://NATGAL.zenfolio.com/p88810338)
No dice; wants me to register to look. Crazy.
Rob C
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Thank you Patricia ! :)
Let's resume back to English ! :)
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I had some time in Nottingham. Not much and boy was it a grey day.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5780/23479205459_632a557743_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/BLM4Me)Rails-Doubled-DSCF0422 (https://flic.kr/p/BLM4Me)
and
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5650/23761461921_a9cb4832db_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CcHGMX)Rail-DSCF0430 (https://flic.kr/p/CcHGMX)
Mike
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Like the square-ish one more. Great colors in both.
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Something on the more simple side.
Chuck
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Something on the more simple side.
Chuck
Love that!
Rob C
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Thanks Slobodan.
The red droplet is very red but I like the composition - at least I think I do :)
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5650/23761461921_a9cb4832db_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CcHGMX) (https://flic.kr/p/CcHGMX)
Mike
I do like this one Mike !
Very balanced. Thank you for posting ! :)
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Thank you Antonio, it was a very grey day with a little rain which didn't help. An odd building as well. Some sort of art gallery I think.
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The window
(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-k437k6N/0/X2/i-k437k6N-X2.jpg)
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I have seen this series on Flickr and while this is good I think there is a better one. I'm curious to know what post processing you applied.
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Tank you. I am afraid but I do not know anymore.
I have done certain images published now and shown here a long time ago.
Years even. What I have done now - since I have evolved a bit since then - is a level adjustment followed by a detection of "Out of Gamut" and correction with "Brightness and Contrast" in CS
In this last command I adjusted the Lightness, avoiding out of gamut areas and visually getting the most pleasant settings.
Perhaps you this a better one. The three of them make a tryptic.
:)
(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-HVjTdZX/0/X2/i-HVjTdZX-X2.jpg)
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Ok, Rob, how did you get that one? Love it, btw.
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Ok, Rob, how did you get that one? Love it, btw.
I am shaking my head. In a good and admiring way!
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Antonio, it's interesting the way your pictures have a painterly look. It seems you are drawn to walls that look like collages.
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Improvisation.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Ok, Rob, how did you get that one? Love it, btw.
;-)
Rob
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My guess is that Rob used his mouth and two colored brushes on a black layer.
:)
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I have a photographer friend... You can see his work here. (http://NATGAL.zenfolio.com/p88810338)
No dice; wants me to register to look. Crazy.
+1
Hint: If you are trying to entice people to look at your photos, requiring them to give their email address before they can view is an immediate turn off.
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(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-WspTLsN/0/X2/i-WspTLsN-X2.jpg)
I like this!
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The window
(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-k437k6N/0/X2/i-k437k6N-X2.jpg)
And this!
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Thank you Paul !
I am glad you liked them ! :)
Health to you ! :)
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Some very nice work lately, especially like Antonio and Mike's posts. Here is one I took today.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Port-Dalhousie/i-C6GKSQb/1/L/Dec%2022-%202015%20Port%20Dalhousie%20021%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Here is one I took today.
Ha! Clever lamp positioning - levitating!
I think I have the same lamp(s), just different color:
(http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/img/s8/v75/p1609272115-4.jpg) (http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/p631768190/e5feb8b33)
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Improvisation.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
I like this a lot. Very subtle.
Chuck
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And it's very cool Slobadan, the juxtaposition of red and blue colours and shapes. I often think, these type of images don't do very well in BW because they depend on colour for their magic.
From the same place, but far more busy and complex.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Port-Dalhousie/i-q6NBKxC/0/L/Dec%2022-%202015%20Port%20Dalhousie%20074%20halfbw-2-665%20high-L.jpg)
JR
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Clever lamps John as Slobodan said - levitating.
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Good work guys !!!! :D
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Wow, some really great stuff here.
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This image was produced years ago. Then, I was making 30/40 in landscape/horizontal. Not anymore. Now this size/proportion is only vertical.
I do like it very much, don't you ? If you think I know how I did it... just forget. :)
I still remember that it was with a portrait I took in India in which we couldn't see her face.
(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-TNSrM8s/0/X2/i-TNSrM8s-X2.jpg)
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This image was produced years ago. Then, I was making 30/40 in landscape/horizontal. Not anymore. Now this size/proportion is only vertical.
I do like it very much, don't you ? If you think I know how I did it... just forget. :)
I still remember that it was with a portrait I took in India in which we couldn't see her face.
(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-TNSrM8s/0/X2/i-TNSrM8s-X2.jpg)
That's amazing!
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Thank you Armand :)
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Quite spectacular, Antonio. It reminds me of dream-like sequence in which people and animals pass each other and blend into each other in fleeting moments. Very nice indeed.
JR
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Thank you John ! :)
Sometimes when composing, merging, melting down, hiding etc with images one falls in amazing images... this is one of them.
Shall I ever, be able to repeat ? ::)
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I like this one a lot and hoping the bw version gives it a little more mystery.
JR
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-zFKWrMR/0/L/Sept%2024-%202013%20Ottawa%20541%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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Very nice although perhaps I would like a little more space near those lovely curves near the edge. Lovely tones, B&W just right for this.
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Nicely done John !
How about this one ?
(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-ZnrLjWq/0/X2/i-ZnrLjWq-X2.jpg)
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Hi all,
My PC had a stroke and is in the hospital, which is why I haven't checked in in about a week and a half. But WOW! What a flurry of great images, from Antonio, John R, Churly, Mike, Patricia, Slobodan, Bob, Rob C, and probably some others I've forgotten. These recent ones are quite stunning: beautiful, elegant, complex (especially from Antonio) or minimalist (Rob C).
It's really a treat to come back to all this good stuff.
-Eric
P.S. No more images from me until my PC is back, maybe early next week. :(
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(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-LGpjLJK/0/XL/i-LGpjLJK-XL.jpg)
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Antonio, you are getting very subtle with your sand and wall images. The wall has a pinhole look. Nice work.
Rob, quite intriguing. I have an idea of how you did it, but that is is beside the point. It works- a high key look, from obvious to blur and unreality. Nice...
Two different approaches: one is finding and composing the shot, the other is to find and use your creativity to render a more stylized look. Not as easy as people think. You have to free your mind to see something in the everyday.
JR
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Thank you John. That is not sand, in fact. It is a roof in an abandoned building ...
The surface is quite degraded and the grain in the image helps that perception.
Thank you for commenting
Here, there was hole in the ground and the light was coming from there. The stucco is peeling because of the humidity.
(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-Q9H6N4J/0/XL/i-Q9H6N4J-XL.jpg)
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Allow me to post another photographed in another area of the same building.
(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-TWcRnv3/0/XL/i-TWcRnv3-XL.jpg)
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(http://www.antoniocorreia.com/photos/i-LGpjLJK/0/XL/i-LGpjLJK-XL.jpg)
This one, Antonio, until I took my glasses off, made me think of those cursed pantihose things in the other thread. I only had my glasses on because I'm trying to train my eyes to work in conjunction with them. The glasses. Without them, I have a perfect pair of natural Softars 1, but I read as perfectly without them.
Until I was forty-four I had to use Softars to get the look...
Happy New Year to you, too.
;-)
Rob C
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Health is only - mark my word please - "thing" I wish to all !
Is out there, anything better than that ? You tell me ! !
:)
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I am putting together a slide show and came across some of these. I like the play of light and shadow.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-ZmvHH6P/0/L/Sept%2024-%202014%20East%20Mall%20bldgs%20016%20smug-bwcopy-L.jpg)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-Bd4JqHJ/0/L/Sept%2024-%202013%20Ottawa%20375%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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Some fresh ice on a log with a low sun shining through.
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(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201512/i-CN3DKbK/0/O/PEG_A6000_1_4823_20151230.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201512/i-CN3DKbK/A)
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Just having a little fun on these cold dreary days.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-tK95MkC/0/M/July%2020-%202015%20James%20Gardens%20033%20cropcopy-1000-M.jpg)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-xpTRkSw/0/M/July%2020-%202015%20James%20Gardens%20174%20liquify3-1000-M.jpg)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-S2fp42t/0/M/July%2020-%202015%20James%20Gardens%20048%20copy20-1000-M.jpg)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-5gDZ4tC/0/M/July%2020-%202015%20James%20Gardens%20040%20copycrop-liquify7crop-1000-M.jpg)
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I go for the last of the four.
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Man, what you been smokin', John? Them is real wild!
Eric
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Thanks Eric and Bruce. I was going to call the post, take a walk on the wild side. Eric, if truth be told I have "creative" competition coming up and decided I should try something new and different. Your suggestion is good, I will tell them I was smoking something!
JR
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Perhaps a bit more subtle than John ;)
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Perhaps a bit more subtle than John ;)
No less mysterious however 8)
Very nice
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A Seagull Flyby.
(http://i.imgur.com/E4zsxlO.jpg)
I "animated" the exposures following the image above
(http://i.imgur.com/4C6w8Mx.gif)
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If abstract is about intent then these might qualify as I don't intend that the viewer thinks about what they are but the shapes within them.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1653/23860370053_230eefec22_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CmsCJz)[
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1517/24119419899_c5d910bb4f_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CKmkee)
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1540/24191609300_769db38269_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CRJjC5)
Mike
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Nice! I particularly like the flyby and the shadow flower.
Chuck
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"Flyby" for me. Nice.
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"Flyby" for me. Nice.
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Thanks, sometimes those "mistakes" are a delight!
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NIce work DRMIke. I think the first one with railing, in particular is really fine and subtle. Mike W. the seagull is intriguing. If only you tried harder, you could have frozen him ;)
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NIce work DRMIke. I think the first one with railing, in particular is really fine and subtle. Mike W. the seagull is intriguing. If only you tried harder, you could have frozen him ;)
Thank you.
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vaguely reminiscent of some city planning maps
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1550/24569098196_7b06a818e6_o.jpg])
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cow path road design ca. 1640
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Patterns in nature
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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cow path road design ca. 1640
courtesy of Google Earth 1640
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Nice one bns
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If abstract is about intent then these might qualify as I don't intend that the viewer thinks about what they are but the shapes within them.
I like your eye for shapes and forms, Mike.
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Thank you.
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I've finally got a few new ones (and one from 3 years ago):
-Eric
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Beautiful, Eric.
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Thanks, Slobodan.
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Where you been lately... there's a new kid in town... can't say more than Slobodan has. You make BW and the important parts sing with texture and lines.
JR
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Thanks, John.
I have driven past this small reservoir in Brookline, MA, hundreds of times and for a long time have intended some day to check it out for photographic possibilities. So I finally got to do it just a few days ago, after just enough below freezing weather for most of the pond to have iced over, but before the first real snow of the season. The second and third images I posted are from that day, and there are several more. The first of this set is at a pond nearer my house that I have photographed many times, this one within the last two weeks, and the fourth one is that same pond but back in 2013.
Eric
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Beautiful, Eric.
Particularly 2 and 3, particularly 3.
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Thanks, Muntanela. 3 is my wife's favorite, too.
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3 is my wife's favorite, too.
Mine too, great seeing.
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Fun with snow drifts.
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Nice ones, Bob. I really like the second.
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infernal cataracts
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Wild! Nice.
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Imagination Dunes at Dusk
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Trees on the bank of a lake.
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Palm pattern
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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swing bars (there, not abstract anymore)
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Three shots of new ice with soft light, taken a few days ago.
-Eric
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Nice shots, Eric. I like the lines in number 2 the best.
Cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Love the subtlety and simplicity of the lines Eric.
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I found this one. My cellphone took it and Google uploaded it to Photos. I fiddled with it in LR Develop, but ended up coming back to something close to the original. It occurred to me that if it were rendered in acrylic and massively upsized it would not look at all out of place on the wall of my local gallery, in an exhibition they are currently running of work influenced by Kazimir Malevich's iconic painting "Black Square" (https://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Malevich.black-square.jpg&imgrefurl=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimir_Malevich&h=812&w=820&tbnid=HfzKgFUMfuH9kM:&tbnh=186&tbnw=187&docid=uyqIfQ317NLTcM&itg=1&usg=__XPhn_G2BIeK5gDOWR3KfjsyzSAQ=).
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Very abstract, Ken. But maybe you should crop it square to fit with the gallery's theme. ;)
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...work influenced by Kazimir Malevich's iconic painting "Black Square" (https://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Malevich.black-square.jpg&imgrefurl=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimir_Malevich&h=812&w=820&tbnid=HfzKgFUMfuH9kM:&tbnh=186&tbnw=187&docid=uyqIfQ317NLTcM&itg=1&usg=__XPhn_G2BIeK5gDOWR3KfjsyzSAQ=).
There is a better version of that black square:
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Very abstract, Ken. But maybe you should crop it square to fit with the gallery's theme. ;)
I did think about that, Eric. Not all the images in the exhibition were square, and I also wanted to pay my respects both to the "found object" tradition in modern art (I found a rectangle) and to those in LuLa who think it unethical to excessively post-process. But on further reflection, you are right, and I will add in a square version (which I actually like better). ::)
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There is a better version of that black square:
Brilliant. Credits? Yours?
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Three shots of new ice with soft light, taken a few days ago.
-Eric
I really like these, especially the first two. I wonder how you guys up north tolerate the weather. Taking and processing elegant images probably helps.
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I really like these, especially the first two. I wonder how you guys up north tolerate the weather. Taking and processing elegant images probably helps.
I don't have any nice, warm beaches with glorious sunrises like Florida, but I hope you have noticed that I'm getting some inspiration from your minimalist beach shots.
It did hit 14 below zero the night before I took these, after many days of weather in the 40s and 50s. So taking was quick and cold, but processing was nice and warm.
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the soap bubble burst
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1508/24494974063_2e2d4c8f7a_c.jpg)
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Nice one, Michael!
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the soap bubble burst
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1508/24494974063_2e2d4c8f7a_c.jpg)
I love the softness of the colours Michael.
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Long shadows from a low sun.
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I really take to your second one, Bob; it feels 'complete', to me, where the first doesn't (again, to me).
Rob C
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I love the softness of the colours Michael.
With the light changing as location of the rapidly moving bubbles did, catching that burst in that light was a rare occurrence.
Thank you
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I really take to your second one, Bob; it feels 'complete', to me, where the first doesn't (again, to me).
Rob C
Thanks for the comment Rob. The first is more about the shadows effect rather than the subject of the picture.
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Taken at sunrise, where I decided the water patterns were more interesting that day. I should have raised the ISO even more to increase shutter speed and better freeze the patterns, which look a little murky. The noise is quite acceptable on Pentax even at ISO 1600. Next time, as they say.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Fifty-Points-outing/i-3sKXZbN/0/L/Feb%2019-%202016%20Fifty%20Points%20166%20cropcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Went for a walk. It was beautiful but the light was harsh, so took took patterns and shadows.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-K45vCKh/0/L/IMGP8058%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-WSSZw5q/0/L/IMGP7965%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Down by the boats
Rob C
Rob, very painterly of you...
Peter
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Down by the boats.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1412400_orig.jpg)
Rob C
I love it!
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Thank you guys; it's just one of those 'presents' that we, as photographers, are sometimes given. And as I've said before, until they arrive they aren't even a distant idea in my mind. Well, they almost never are, except the times when I start with a caption that sticks in my subconscious, and then the image comes knocking some time later.
I did start out with a love of paint: that was due to my mother, who took me - not dragged - to places within wartime Britain that still had open doors with treasures beyond.
So I suppose those experiences remain for life, even when the original love - paint - turns out not to possible for you later on. But the mind doesn't really care that much - there are always alternative ways to live those feelings through your life.
Rob
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Below Great Falls in Virginia...
(http://theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/Turbulance.jpg)
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Or is it kaleidoscope?
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Worm Trails
(http://theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/Worm%20Trails.jpg)
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Worm Trails
(http://theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/Worm%20Trails.jpg)
Nice, I have a couple but didn't get them as good as yours
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Rob C: Both of your abstracts are arresting. The blue patch is sumptuous and painterly. The "planetary" one is cool too,
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Every once in a while I stop working on my computer and spot something interesting in the house. Here is one I took of light coming through and hitting door. For me whether some highlight or other element is over-exposed can be a matter of aesthetic choice and not always strictly a blown highlight.
Taken with Canon G1X 'point and shoot', which I now intend to keep in the car at all times. Slow to work, but ah, the image quality! I was rather dismayed to learn that Canon has started using Sony's smaller sensors on the newer versions. Love the large sensor, almost APS size.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-vX9dVBC/0/L/House%20colourcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Nice one. Always good to find something in the home.
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Rob C: Both of your abstracts are arresting. The blue patch is sumptuous and painterly. The "planetary" one is cool too,
Thank you Bob; the first came as most my stuff does these days, during a random wander - that time, along the rows of boats up on the hard in the local yacht club.
The 'planet' was hitched onto during lunch one day when I gazed upwards to Heaven in disbelief at what I was eating. Boy, does one miss all the attributes of a great, late (and extremely competent) wife!
;-)
Rob
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Street abstracts taken today near Kensington Market while visiting at the hospital. After visiting hospital, although grateful for the care, I felt like I needed some therapy. What better way than walking around with camera, all while the patient was sleeping. Taken with G1X.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Kensington-Market/i-NXgvRgB/0/M/IMG_0013%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Kensington-Market/i-zWdFf8r/0/M/IMG_0046%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Kensington-Market/i-w5SFzv3/0/M/IMG_0028%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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More Street abstracts; lots of therapy!
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Kensington-Market/i-TG2x96L/0/M/IMG_0068%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Kensington-Market/i-6pjG9Db/1/M/IMG_0002%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Kensington-Market/i-6vtSKK7/0/M/IMG_0064%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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(http://m4.i.pbase.com/o5/18/613318/1/67809064.sNKkVuFw.cucurucho800.jpg)
(http://m8.i.pbase.com/o5/18/613318/1/67730978.HFzXVSyG.azules2.jpg)
(http://m6.i.pbase.com/o6/18/613318/1/73843586.hGtkmIZd.lamina02.jpg)
(http://m1.i.pbase.com/o5/18/613318/1/67728141.0OnyGOFN.freedom2.jpg)
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Very good photography, Guillermo.
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Was just about to say the same, excellent work Guillermo. But the second blue image will not pop up and remains small, so I cannot quite see what I am looking at.
JR
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But the second blue image will not pop up and remains small, so I cannot quite see what I am looking at.
Fixed! it's my mom's pool. Thanks for your comments. Four extra pictures.
(http://m4.i.pbase.com/o5/18/613318/1/69974134.BSGmywTU.fugitive2.jpg)
(http://m0.i.pbase.com/o6/18/613318/1/76037510.LTGc0nDP.audi.jpg)
(http://m5.i.pbase.com/o6/18/613318/1/76036415.Aq78R7HG.battersea.jpg)
(http://m3.i.pbase.com/o6/18/613318/1/70123583.1Yncm5u3.europa08bisQ.jpg)
Regards
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Excellent work, both sets, Guillermo!
It's nice to see some of your non-technical posts.
-Eric
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Damn, Guillermo, you just shattered my preconception that techies are mediocre photographers ;)
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I'm glad you fixed the blue one - lovely work.
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Seen in a Brummie car park
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1565/25053195873_a308d537dc_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/EaSbhZ)
Mike
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Back to nature.
Chuck
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Nice ones, Mike, Rob C, and Chuck!
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Best thread on LuLa!
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Lena
(http://v3.harlempix.com/wp-content/gallery/thalia-backstage/DSC11829.jpg)
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Good one...where you've been, Harald?
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Good one...where you've been, Harald?
Do you mean during the last months or taking this picture? In case the latter: Backstage of a theatre.
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The former :)
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The former :)
Suffered serious illness, experienced recovery and new orientation, bought a hundred years old house to live together with daughter and grandsons, renovated that house from the very bottom...
... Decided to enjoy photography again, bought a X-Pro2, try to regain creativity.
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Welcome back and glad to hear you are doing better.
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Welcome back and glad to hear you are doing better.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate!
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You've made a great comeback photographically. I hope your health keeps improving, too.
Glad to have you back.
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You've made a great comeback photographically. I hope your health keeps improving, too.
Glad to have you back.
As the man said!
Photography can be a great form of therapy - I know, not guess.
Rob C
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Really enjoy following this thread, hope you don't mind if I also participate :)
Some street abstracts made in Guarda, Portugal, a city founded officially in 1199.
(http://s20.postimg.org/rszslk3fx/DSC06383_Dx_O.jpg)
(http://s20.postimg.org/twa7t838t/DSC06385_Dx_O.jpg)
(http://s20.postimg.org/e0ldpxcod/DSC06382_Dx_O.jpg)
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Very nice ones, Jose.
Welcome to the thread and to LuLa!
-Eric
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Very nice ones, Jose.
Welcome to the thread and to LuLa!
-Eric
Thank you for the welcome Eric!
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Thank you very much, I really appreciate!
Yes, glad to see you recovering and doing. I always liked your moderate but intelligent in the may posting you have made over the years.
One day you will have tell us why Harlem22. Also would really appreciate your thoughts on the Fuji Pro 2, as I am seriously considering switching over.
JR
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Plenty deep enough for me. Very fine, Rob.
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I like it Rob. Not sure what it is, but kind of like when looking at clouds, I can see what I want to see.
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Eric, Arlen; thanks - that's what is rewarding sometimes.
Rob
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Two hoar frost studies
(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201412/i-LGDDXNT/0/O/PEG_A850_2_07743_20141208.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201412/i-LGDDXNT/A)
(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201412/i-RsdLMVj/0/O/PEG_A850_2_07744_20141208.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201412/i-RsdLMVj/A)
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Pegelli: nice frost :)
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/2095627_orig.jpg)
Rob C
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Boccioni?
Peter
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Boccioni?
Peter
Hot damn! How I regret not being allowed a formal art education! I had to look 'im up!
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Rob
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In Marcel's tripod holes:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/1377532_orig.jpg)
Rob C
Man, you've got a good eye!
Eric
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Nice shots Rob. I like what you are doing with this series. Here are a couple that kind of recall your fish but without the colors.
Chuck
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Yes, Eric, that's the left one: the right one, the camera one, isn't that brilliant anymore...
However, since the glaucoma came visiting, whereas I needed specs to read with after hitting forty-four, I now don't, but where I once had exceptional distance sight - confirmed by a disbeliever with binoculars one day when I could read the logo on a distant ship's funnel - my distance vision now sucks. I think I was better off with the original disablity. In fact, the best monitor specs I ever had were ones that I inherited from my mother... perfect! Now they are hopeless for anything except sentiment.
;-(
Rob
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Nice shots Rob. I like what you are doing with this series. Here are a couple that kind of recall your fish but without the colors.
Chuck
Very attractive! Makes me think of Japanese or Chinese art! (I am ready to duck should anyone think that a non-PC comment.)
For my part, I do enjoy the blur - perhaps because it frees me from having to find legitimate subjects: after living in the same "village" since '81 I know it just a tiny bit too well to see it afresh!
I truly believe that you (as in one!) can become quite blind to what you have. Some many years ago I found myself sitting up late one night in my mother's house in Scotland, watching tv alone, she and my wife having no interest in the show, and long departed to their beds. We'd just driven over from Spain (where I still live) and the thing on the box was a travel item which took in the Tramuntana mountains of Mallorca. I was stunned at their beauty, despite having driven along them so often as not to notice anymore. I supose I have some excuse in that driving narrow mountain roads does require you look more at the road than anything else... But the surprising thing was, I felt terribly homesick for them! The same thing hit me another night when I stayed up to watch American Graffiti for the umpteenth time: I ended up moist-eyed for a youth that was only slightly a m¡rror of my own. So much for the power of music, and for how it marks periods of your life you sometimes wish you never had to leave behind. I'll always remember my last day in school... we broke up in the morning with a service at the local abbey, and a few of us friends left early and walked away together, peeling off as our ways parted. How sad it was to realise, years later, we were never to meet again.
Rob
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Found Light - Found this walking down a hallway in my home.
Chuck
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Another nice one Chuck; supports what I have said a few times here: you can find beautiful material right under your photographic nose if you but seek it out.
Rob
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Found Light - Found this walking down a hallway in my home.
Chuck
Nice... I betcha it's there all the time.
Peter
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For my part, I do enjoy the blur - perhaps because it frees me from having to find legitimate subjects: after living in the same "village" since '81 I know it just a tiny bit too well to see it afresh!
Rob
Rob - I see this as a follow-on of your series. In this case the blur is an alternative that frees me from finding enough light to shoot at 1/5000 s. Lesser technique? - maybe, some would certainly say so. I don't think that makes the subject less legitimate but accept that it won't suite everyone's taste.
Best,
Chuck
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Nice... I betcha it's there all the time.
Peter
Peter - Not there - but somewhere, which is I expect what you mean.
Best,
Chuck
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Peter - Not there - but somewhere, which is I expect what you mean.
Best,
Chuck
Yes sir...
Peter
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Dune Ridge Abstract. From my recent trip to Death Valley. FWIW, the softness is deliberate; at least it's not tack sharp, front to back ;)
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Another Dune Ridge Abstract
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What's up with that deliberate blurring!?
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Rob, I like many of the latest images in this series very much indeed.
Are you post processing as large images and then reducing for the web? In other words, is there any hope that these will one day be printed?
Keith
Hi Keith,
I work on them as they come, full-format, TIF, as far as the point where I decide to add 'noise' and sharpen or not. Then, I Save As and reduce the size to the standard one to fit my website page, and do that 'noise'/sharpen bit then, not on the full-size file. Once there, I add a title and make a jpeg at 72. However, I've taken to adding yet a further, final Layer: once I have the titled jpeg I go into Curves, click on the eyedropper for 'white' and apply it to the white border. This seems a bit more than one needs, but it's been my experience that the white border can become contaminated with a very tiny colour cast at times - I think I discovered this when I was working on the 'Olde Worlde' set of pictures where I was adding heavy black or dark brown edges to the pictures. It may be a bit OTT but takes no time, so may as well!
Regarding printing: I've thought of it a few times - not just since I got into this blurr kick - but before. However, the now-dead HP printer I had was never much good for colour but excellent for black/white.
Funny thing: I love black/white more for realistic images, but absolutely love working with blobs of colour! My wife would not have been surprised: she always figured I had problems of one kind or another. I think that's why I'm such a Vincent fan - it's a form of visual expression that doesn't appear to be too challenging - to me, at any rate - whereas clever, sophisticated work would defeat me at the very start. I could never have imagined myself a Caravaggio!
Oh - there's the second part of the Art of Scandinavia on tonight on BBC 4 at 9pm (your time). Enjoyed the first one very much!
But back to print: if I ever do sell this place (might have to revise price, seeing the new average house price in the UK tonight on Sky is shown as well over 300,000 quid. Estate agents here expect 5% now, which is better for sellers than they used to grab!) In Britain, I would certainly buy another printer and make prints, then have a go at gallery dreams. Not a snowballs here.
Thank you for the kind comments, too: nice to know another artist likes!
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Rob
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What's up with that deliberate blurring!?
Just trying to be trendy! ;D
PS One man's blurring is another man's lack of clarity ;D ;D
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Indeed... they look much better without my reading glasses. Something about "two wrongs..." ;)
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I guess I'm just old-fashioned, David. I would like to see these dunes sharp.
On the other hand, the look of substantial blur, like the recent stuff by Rob C and earlier by John R works just fine for me.
-Eric
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Despite Slobodan's protestations to the contrary ;) these were not blurred purposefully. Clarity was not pumped up and aggressive sharpening was not applied although I did apply a significant amount of NR). They are fairly severe crops (horrors! :o ) just because I liked the lines and when I snapped them, I knew I didn't have enough reach so thought in the moment about cropping :-[ (hoping for forgiveness by RSL ;) ). Inspired by Rob and others, I thought a little blurring would be tolerated. My biggest challenge, IMHO, was taking relatively low contrast images and trying to find a modicum of contrast without blowing (as in defeating the purpose of or destroying) the mood. I chose B&W renderings because these seemed to be about line, darks and lights, not color. Anyway, I am comfortable if the overall conclusion is that they are not successful re other folks' taste. I appreciate the comments nonetheless.
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Hi Rob, try as I might I can't get past Andrew Graham Dixon.
Oh, how I mourn the passing of Robert Hughes!
How do you fare with the guy who used to/does? write for the Sunday Times - the one with the unpronounceable Polish name? Waldemar Janus-Something, I think? He did a recent one on the Renaissance as Wasn't...
I think Andrew is a bit pompous, but I'm prepared to look past that; the first episode of the Scandinavian thing was far better than last night's which ended up being a bit of a bore. I hope for better next Monday!
Rob
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Hi Rob,
I read his column regularly and have recorded the Renaissance series but have yet to watch it.
The very fact I read and watch him, has in my estimation, put him above AGD ;-)
Stopped buying the ST a few years ago - pretty much when Ann died; she always loved it even when we lived in the UK. Last time I bought it it cost €5 and made a helluva mess of the furniture: ink smudges. Printed here, it lost a lot of the content... a shadow of the UK version.
Rob
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Ephemeral edges.
(http://www.pbase.com/art1/image/139530731/original.jpg)
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Cracking shot - absolutely beautiful!
Tony Jay
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OooooooooooooHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, schweeeeeeeeeeet!
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Rather red
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1709/25987410411_6b62cceba8_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FAqgJc)
Mike
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Perfect, Mike!
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You wouldn't lose the lines in the whiter area?
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Not really. If they were askew relative to other lines, maybe, but they are in harmony actually. I might lose what appears to be vignetting, though, or minimize it (particularly in the lower right corner).
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I did apply a vignette. I shall lose it and see how it looks. I never know if they help or not.
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Love the lines, love the vignette, love the image, love this thread.
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It is a great thread, varied and interesting.
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Stripes...
Peter
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Amazing image, Patricia; the sense of scale is utterly confusing, which makes it delightful - even if the colour also makes my fingers feel even more frozen than ever!
;-)
Rob C
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Amazing image, Patricia; the sense of scale is utterly confusing, which makes it delightful - even if the colour also makes my fingers feel even more frozen than ever!
;-)
Rob C
Indeed. Brava, Patricia!
Eric
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Indeed. Brava, Patricia!
Eric
Kinda like Ansel in microcosm, or Ansel finds a cellphone!
Rob
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Fire!
Chuck
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Been sick most of the winter. So couldn't wait to go out. In this case to the Conservatory. But next stop will hopefully be a real large outdoor garden. Hope the spring flowers and blossoms are as good ever.
JR
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-KRrjWxh/0/L/IMGP8243%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Hey John,
Hope you will remain in good health from now on. Of our concerns, health should top the bill.
Rob C
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Hey John,
Hope you will remain in good health from now on. Of our concerns, health should top the bill.
Rob C
I second the motion. Do keep well.
Eric
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Thank you Rob and Eric, much appreciated. A few more:
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Landscape-Impressions/i-nLpKxTq/0/M/April%208-%202016%20Centennial%20Conservatory%20075%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Landscape-Impressions/i-S3VQgLM/0/M/April%208-%202016%20Centennial%20Conservatory%20065%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Landscape-Impressions/i-c36ZNmz/0/M/April%208-%202016%20Centennial%20Conservatory%20086%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Nice ones, John. You're back in the groove.
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Thnaks again, Eric!
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Landscape-Impressions/i-qDQsZpx/0/M/IMGP8332%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Glad to see you back in the saddle, John, and that you haven't lost your touch. Intriguing images, as always.
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One of my favorite museums for photography is Mass MOCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) located in a complex of old mill buildings in North Adams. They have some fascinating exhibits including huge works that couldn't fit inside any ordinary museum. But I often find that details of the museum building itself are quite interesting as well. Here are a few from a recent visit:
-Eric
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And a few more:
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Very cool finds, Eric. The first ones in each set are my favorites. The second one in the second set reminds me of a planarian (http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/16454/title/Planarians-enter-the-genomic-era/).
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Very cool finds, Eric. The first ones in each set are my favorites. The second one in the second set reminds me of a planarian (http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/16454/title/Planarians-enter-the-genomic-era/).
+1 ;-)
Rob C
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Thanks Arlen and Rob.
If mine is a planarian, it's been squashed pretty flat and probably not very useful for genetic research.
Eric
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Nice one, Rob.
I get your drift. ;)
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Nice one, Rob.
I get your drift. ;)
Thanks, Eric.
For me, the attraction with this type of image (the making of) is that you can do it amost anywhere. All you have to do is think a moment. I suppose the strange thing about it all is that it requires pre-visualisation of something you (I) can't honestly define down to the last detail at all. It's a surprise when it works and a deep disappointment when it fails - which happens, too, even with such apparently random ideas where one could be forgiven for believing that since there's no precise plan, then how on Earth can there be failure? And no, I don't think it's anything like 'street' where you also never really know what you've achieved until you see it later on the screen.
Rob
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Not quite a "real" abstract, but I often think when subjects are isolated in this way, they are a kind of abstract. I was helping someone learn about rhythm and patterns this morning.
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-kLRDWxt/0/M/April%2014-%202016%20Burlington%20Pier%20069%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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I'll add this one from 7 years ago
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Great minds etc.
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/2542941_orig.jpg)
Rob C
Heavy lifting chess...not tried that as of yet.
Peter
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Heavy lifting chess...not tried that as of yet.
Peter
Peter, I'm as bad at chess (worse!) than I am at computer skills. I suspect that the mindset for excellence in both is fairly similar. However, visual connections are easy for me to spot and apply, but mental strategies are too complex and painful.
In a sense, my love/hate relationship with PS is similar: I know how to do what I have to know how to do, but have zero interest in the next step until it becomes unavoidable, which means I then either unavoid it or dodge hard to the side and let it miss.
Rob
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In a sense, my love/hate relationship with PS is similar: I know how to do what I have to know how to do, but have zero interest in the next step until it becomes unavoidable, which means I then either unavoid it or dodge hard to the side and let it miss.
Rob
Rob, I've worked with computers for over fifty years, and quite some time ago I decided that when approaching any new piece of software, I should make a list of ten things that would be useful to know how to do in that program. My list typically includes "How to start the program, how to save work done in it, how to print what I've created, and how to exit."
Once I'm comfortable with my Top Ten, I may learn additional bits as needed.
I've been using PS for over ten years now, and I suspect my PS list has grown to as many as maybe twelve or thirteen. In Lightroom I may be up to over twenty!
So you have my sympathy.
Eric
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This one drew a chuckle from me when I first saw it. Come to think of it, that has happened with all of your recent ones, Rob!
Eric
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From the conservatory. I can barely wait for the tulips to come out.
JR
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Landscape-Impressions/i-ZM2mgcC/0/M/April%2013-%202016%20031%20Centennial%20conservatory%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Landscape-Impressions/i-kggt46T/0/M/April%2013-%202016%20034%20Centennial%20conservatory%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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(https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201604/i-JnRxRT9/0/O/PEG_A6000_1_5520_20160408.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201604/i-JnRxRT9/A)
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Nice, wild stuff, John and Pieter.
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I think I have to go out and shoot some Grabstracts.
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I think I have to go out and shoot some Grabstracts.
Wear your guns slung low! Gives you a psychological edge over them (the Grabs).
;-)
Rob
P.S. This one was 'shot' as I was paying for my menu del dia lunch in the local (one of many) bar.
I think the owner thinks I'm a bit strange, but he feeds me nonetheless. Actually, there are some oddballs here: one hums and half-sings to himself a lot. He's also a superfast eater - gets through his refuelling stop much faster than can I. Having said which, how different life becomes on one's own: eating out used to be done for pleasure (read: a change from the kitchen for my wife) - now it's pretty much necessity, and the type of place frequented has fallen by several notches. Which raises the interesting question: is it better to eat out, expensively well, once a week and suffer self-insult from my own kitchen over six days, or, alternatively, eat out "okayish" for six and treat myself to a very good paella I have developed to my personal satisfaction over seven years, on the seventh day? I don't want it twice a week.
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I definitely feel that your recent images arquite interesting and entertaining. ;)
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Yes Rob, some very intriguing images, is the word I would use. Although I have a pretty good idea how my images will turn out, it is seldom exactly as I expect. Like this one, which is quite intriguing in BW format.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-pQxdWW9/1/M/Sept%202-%202013%20Oakville%20091%20bw-smugcopy-M.jpg)
JR
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Hi John,
That's a nice contrast between blur and crisp components - like it!
I think that part of the pressure to do this sort of imagery is derived from boredom, and a wish to produce something different, a break from the traditional, representational stuff that has become all so easy to do well (technically) as to no longer provide either challenge or any sat¡sfaction in achievement.
Your remark that one can't be sure of getting exactly what one wants from these experiments is telling: that's the new buzz, the place where the interest is to be found, mirroring the extended thrill of waiting for the Kodachrome to come back home, not in terms of time but of anticipation of whether we pulled it off or not. I think I've already said somewhere that disappointment in this kind of shot, when it fails, is quite intense in its own way, despite providing a wider scope for the faking of success, for self-delusion, for who can tell you you failed, other than yourself?
Taking that a mite further, I think that black/white is even more critical in measuring success or otherwise: it strips away several layers of possible camouflage from a bad idea. Which is not to say that colour, of itself, isn't often the whole idea. Which simply goes to illustrate the possible complexity of this genre.
Not an easy road to satisfaction, but few of them ever turns out to be.
Rob
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Temple Newsam, Leeds, UK.
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Graeme, excellent play of colour, shapes and light. High impact with three dimensional quality.
Well seen.
JR
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Yes Rob, some very intriguing images, is the word I would use. Although I have a pretty good idea how my images will turn out, it is seldom exactly as I expect. Like this one, which is quite intriguing in BW format.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-pQxdWW9/1/M/Sept%202-%202013%20Oakville%20091%20bw-smugcopy-M.jpg)
JR
I really like this one, John. A departure from your excellent color abstracts, but just as compelling.
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Graeme, excellent play of colour, shapes and light. High impact with three dimensional quality.
Well seen.
JR
Thanks John
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Out on a hike on a nice day recently I pulled out my pocket camera for some snaps at a small pond.
I felt somewhat inspired by some of the folks who post here, including John R and Rob C, as well as C. Monet, who is not currently a LuLa member.
Here are three..
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Very well seen, Eric. I love the first one.
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Nice, Eric!
That Monet guy you mentioned has a problem: he's not Internet-connected, and so he can't post here. I think it's something to do with French labour laws.
Trouble is, after a while in the genre - of Monet photo-pictures, not French labour laws - you might find it difficult becoming attracted to doing anything else: the surprises you can get are pretty appealing. And you don't face the inevitable battle against the odds that anything to do with humans almost always presents.
;-(
Rob
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Hey Eric, just had a peek at your images and the interesting comments that came after. It prompted me to look at Wikipedia and read up on Monet. It seems he was most interested on the effects of light on subjects and gradually moved from realistic painting to painting those effects as colours and shapes. From the Wikipedia article: "He began to think in terms of colours and shapes rather than scenes and objects." and "Monet repeatedly painted the same subject in different lights, at different hours of the day, and through the changes of weather and season." So as fine as these images are, you have no choice but to go back and do it again;)
JR
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Thanks, guys.
If C.M. would simply send me some of his images, I'd be happy to post them on his behalf.
Here are three more. All six were shot during a ten-minute break after an hour of hiking.
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...of interest to me Eric, being aware of your personal color awareness filter, is that while on the surface you have sensed C.M., the palette is unquestionably borrowed from Georgia O'Keeffe in her later years. Nice food for thought today. Thank you
p.
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Out on a hike on a nice day recently I pulled out my pocket camera for some snaps at a small pond.
I felt somewhat inspired by some of the folks who post here, including John R and Rob C, as well as C. Monet, who is not currently a LuLa member.
Here are three..
Very nice, Eric. They're very Monetey.
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Thanks, Patricia and Russ.
I have left the colors alone, so that pool must be a fan of O'Keeffe, as I am (but my wife isn't).
No water lilies in the pool, however.
Eric
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Cool, Armand.
JR
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Sometimes an impression is just illusion. Where does the real come in. Reflections and the play of light in nature is awesome and inspiring.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Algonquin-Area-Autumn-2014/i-qRdv6Zp/0/M/Oct%206-9-%202015%20Agonquin%20Highlands%20area%20470%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Out on a hike on a nice day recently I pulled out my pocket camera for some snaps at a small pond.
2 very enjoyable series Eric. :)
Here is something from last weekend after an overnight fog. Unfortunately it lost some sharpness on the jpeg compression.
Chuck
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Chuck, it looks fairly sharp to me. This is an excellent water droplet image. The larger droplets, which of course gives the image the overall structure, remind me of hot air balloons.
JR
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While waiting for the flowers to come out, I decided to process some autumn images and really like this one. Used a high pass technique that I just learned last night to give the image a blend of sharpness and blur.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-z6B39G7/0/M/Oct%206-9-%202015%20Agonquin%20Highlands%20area%20290%20copy1000-M.jpg)
JR
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Chuck: Wonderful shot! To me it looks like an army of zillions of ladybugs, of different sizes, on the march.
John R: I love both of your new ones.
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John I really like this one too, and one love to see it larger. Also, any chance you could share the sharpness/blur blend technique?
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Eric and John - Wow - lady bugs and hot and balloons and here I was caught up in trying to figure out the whys of the size distribution. Got to loosen up a bit . :)
You can't see it in the low resolution images but some of the full resolutions shots in the group from which this shot came show small domains of of oriented droplets which remind me of a lot of oriented lamellae in crystals. :P
A lot of really enjoyable shots in this thread from a number of different contributors. Keep them coming.
Chuck
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John I really like this one too, and one love to see it larger. Also, any chance you could share the sharpness/blur blend technique?
Hi Arlen. I am not really that good with PS. I usually do basic stuff. As you probably know, excessive blur can also ruin an image and be very disconcerting for viewers, if not done just right. I almost always sharpen my ICM images. Then I learned to simply select areas within an image to sharpen, leaving the remainder soft and blurry. I got the more global technique from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOeZD8ZKCjQ
Scroll to the 3/4 mark and look for High Pass techniques.
From what I gather, it will sharpen around edges of elements leaving the remainder almost untouched. You can use the opacity tool to reduce sharpening. If I find it unsuitable for my other images, ie, sharpening where I don't want it, I will go back to selecting areas and then apply this high pass technique to the selected areas. It looks especially useful for soft, almost flat light images. Thank you for the feedback. Here is a larger image:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-z6B39G7/2/L/Oct%206-9-%202015%20Agonquin%20Highlands%20area%20290%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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I've settled on high-pass filtering for ICM shots as well but the real trick that John has mastered so well is the amount of movement and contrast control.
Chuck
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Thanks for showing this one bigger, John. It's one of your very best, IMHO (and you have very many winners).
I plan to study the high-pass part of the video, and, with luck, I may have something worth showing in about another five years.
Eric
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Thanks for showing this one bigger, John. It's one of your very best, IMHO (and you have very many winners).
Eric
Indeed, it's absolutely wonderful. I would even dare say the word masterpiece. If it were mine, I would surely print it large.
And thanks for the description of the finishing technique and the link; I'll check it out as soon as I have a chance.
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I've settled on high-pass filtering for ICM shots as well but the real trick that John has mastered so well is the amount of movement and contrast control.
Chuck
Thank you Chuck. As a matter of fact, the author of this technique mentions that high-pass is inherently contrasty. So he creates two layers, and reduces the contrast to zero in the top layer, as far as it will go. Then after applying sharpness to said layer, he will choose a blend mode for the two layers. He explains each blend mode in turn. I used the overlay and that was good to go. But you can use the others and then alter the opacity if you find it too much. Of course if not enough, you can go back and increase the sharpness.
JR
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Not in the same league IMO as the previous contribution, but I rather liked this recent capture, so I'll throw it into the pot.
(http://www.pbase.com/art1/image/163111739/original.jpg)
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It looks superb to me, Arlen. It draws you in right away. Love the colour contrast between the violet-blue background and the orange-red net. The irregular shape of the blue area positioned as a diagonal in the picture space gives an otherwise calm image a dynamic quality. And the small lines of red are wonderful accents that make you rest and explore the blue space, before continuing on. You can even see this as one lattice work juxtaposed against another- the small net lattice vs the large blue window lattice. First rate abstract IMO!
JR
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Yes - I agree with John. It works very well.
Chuck
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Me too.
Very fine.
Eric
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Thanks guys, your feedback is much appreciated.
John, yesterday I spent a couple of hours experimenting for the first time with Intentional Camera Movement. I see that getting the images to come out how you want is very challenging, to say the least. It gives me even more appreciation for the stellar results you have presented in this thread.
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Nice and bubbly, Armand.
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I'll stick with cords and strings for one more image.
(http://www.pbase.com/art1/image/163141333/original.jpg)
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Very suave, Arlen.
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Why, thank you, Eric. That's a term I have not seen applied in the context of an image, but I will add it to my photographic lexicon.
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Just stumbled upon this, shot on a compact some years ago
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Space Flotsam
Apologies for the size.
Chuck
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Imagine despoiling this beauty with a bicycle!
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-mHP8mjW/0/L/Dec%2028-%202015%20City%20Hall%20Downtown%20147%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Imagine despoiling this beauty with a bicycle!
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-mHP8mjW/0/L/Dec%2028-%202015%20City%20Hall%20Downtown%20147%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
Great shot!
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I've been playing with ICM for the last week. Although I'm starting to get a somewhat better feel for what to expect with different camera settings and movements, the results have been pretty disappointing. This is the only one so far that I would even consider letting anyone see.
Beamed Blooms
(http://www.pbase.com/art1/image/163184494/original.jpg)
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That's definitely a keeper, Arlen.
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Looks pretty good, Arlen. This looks like about 1/15-1/8, panned rapidly? Though I like it, I think as you get experienced, you can try for slightly slower down/up, pan-movement. That would have shortened your flower lines, and I think would be slightly more pleasing. Easier said than done, I know! You want to get that composition in the final image, and not just the right blur. Less cropping, no matter which kind of photography is always desirable.
Are you using an Olympus? And is there any noticeable lag when you press the shutter?
JR
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Went out today to RBG, in Burlington, Ontario. Great place for trees and flowers. But what did I bring back?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-CnVxw7v/0/L/IMGP9206%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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But what did I bring back?
You brought back something pretty darned interesting, that's what. I like it.
Concerning the image that I posted, yes it was shot with an Oly E-M1 and Oly 40-150mm f/2.8 lens at 85 mm (170 mm equivalent). The E-M1 has very little shutter lag, less than most DSLRs, including my Canon 5D. The shutter speed for this shot was 1/4 sec. I think you are right about the panning speed. I find it very tricky to get the right speed and direction, and to press the shutter at just the right time. It seems that you have to start panning before you press the shutter, and to continue panning after it closes, to avoid some artifacts. Getting all this down correctly within a fraction of a second will definitely take some practice. How long have you been using this technique?
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About 5 or more years. I was kind of reluctant to waste too much time on it until I started seeing some good results. Then it took me a while longer to realize that I could get a higher percentage of successful images with practice. You seem to have hit the nail on the head as far as basic technique is concerned. One more tip. You can use your tripod as brace for more controlled and shorter blur streaks. So with camera unmounted, place arms or hands atop tripod head. Then make you motions. If you find it uncomfortable just place something on top of head. The free hand technique, as you describe it is good for that clean linear look and this is what most people strive for. Take note that results of panning up vs down may look similar but they are not. If you include trunks of trees for example, you will readily see the differences. One drags part of the top of the image toward the bottom, while the other drags the bottom upwards. Look for ghosting at bottom or top of image and decide if that is what you like.
JR
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One from the RBG gardens.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-dB5V89w/0/L/IMGP8926%20LowQcopy-L.jpg)
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That's another winner, John. But I'm trying to figure out how you managed to get most of the flowers only modestly blurred, while others are rendered as streaks. Multiple exposure?
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Yes, two exposures. More than two everything gets murky. Multiple exposures works good when you make micromovements.
JR
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Outside the National Gallery of Art, Ottawa, Canada. Then, of course, I have to try out the seats.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-9frCxQp/0/L/IMGP9535%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-jGFgQ98/0/L/IMGP9543%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-fFPHDhf/0/L/IMGP9655%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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More subtle, more light blue with a hint of yellow.
JMR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-xdwz6NN/0/L/IMGP9785%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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(https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/32254_122866474399693_7293032_n.jpg?oh=1498de885f21c5b9d6cb812d13286503&oe=57D83578)
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(https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/32254_122866474399693_7293032_n.jpg?oh=1498de885f21c5b9d6cb812d13286503&oe=57D83578)
So whose (maker's) hood is it?
;-)
Rob C
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Rob C.
I have no idea as to what sort of auto it was other than "olde". I was too shocked by the lovely naturally occurring stripping to even look...beyond that.
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Rob C.
I have no idea as to what sort of auto it was other than "olde". I was too shocked by the lovely naturally occurring stripping to even look...beyond that.
Are you kidding? That probably represents hours of polishing and mind-bending effort!
;-)
Rob
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Since the image was soft to begin with, I decided to play around with it.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-KgsBmwv/0/L/May%2013-%202016%20Ottawa%20jpegs%20317%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Must be the way I live: I see a bar and foot-rail...
;-)
Rob C
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Must be the way I live: I see a bar and foot-rail...
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder ;)
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Must be the way I live: I see a bar and foot-rail...
;-)
Rob C
Close Rob. But thank you for the feedback Slobodan and Rob. It's a museum railing set against a corner installation. The internal architecture and design of the building is quite fine combining modern and native inspired elements.
JR
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Possibly a bit literal for an abstract but the intention is there.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7346/27018647901_f3bab0600d_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/HaxCGV)
Mike
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City Girls?
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/8354415_orig.jpg)
Rob
I prefer woodland nymphs...much less frightening.
Peter
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I prefer woodland nymphs...much less frightening.
Peter
Living by the sea, I'm quite partial to the charms of water sprites (not to be confused, of course, with those totally useless mermaids).
Rob C
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I know it looks like Christmas, but it's just me experimenting with the refreshing colours of springtime. And as Rob said, it is hard to resist the siren song of the unexpected.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-VT9pN9M/0/L/IMGP0074%20copy1000-L.jpg)
JR
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...totally useless mermaids.
Rob C
And unicorns...don't forget unicorns.
:~ )
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And unicorns...don't forget unicorns.
:~ )
Ah, unicorns.
I'm reluctant to say much about them, other than that, so far, they are far more fortunate than either elephants of rhinos: they have managed to avoid medical status even in the further reaches of the planet.
Rob
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Serenity of green and overcast light.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-ZbGdZ4P/0/L/IMGP0328%20May%2019-%202016%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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OK, back to another "classic" JMR. Nice.
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Lovely colours John. Clever work.
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An apparition that briefly visited us a few days ago....
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And a couple of colour ones...
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Found this tonight
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And a couple of colour ones...
The last one, of the window shadows, has really got me scratching my head trying to work out what's reflection, what's shadow and what's what: very good indeed! No, don't spoil it with any explanations!
Rob C
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Not a rainbow.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-4fmHxC5/0/XL/IMGP0892%20copy1000small-XL.jpg)
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An A Wake ning - More at 1/20 ISO 400 F:/8 From a Moving Boat moments before sunrise.
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An A Wake ning - More at 1/20 ISO 400 F:/8 From a Moving Boat moments before sunrise.
Cool shot Chris. I have some shots like this. Can't say I really notice the splashing water until after I saw the processed shot.
JR
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I'm always surprised I can see individual water points at that low of a shutter speed.
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Why not Chris? They are always poised at zero in their move from up to down - the decisive moment.
;-)
Rob C
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They are always poised at zero in their move from up to down - the decisive moment
Rob C
This the way I would photograph basketball jump balls. Lots of practice and you get good...stays with you as well.
Peter
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This the way I would photograph basketball jump balls. Lots of practice and you get good...stays with you as well.
Peter
Better yet, you don't have to be a yoof any longer to make the shot!
Rob
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And a couple of colour ones...
I like these, even if I wouldn't call them abstract in anyway.
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I like these, even if I wouldn't call them abstract in anyway.
Thanks
You're probably right. :)
Graeme
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On the colourful side...
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-8m8VTv3/0/L/June%2019-%202016%20RBG%20110%20copy3%20abstract2-1000-L.jpg)
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Given the intent was not to record just what was there this might be abstract :)
(https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7284/27927244556_9367a6851b_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JxQqQu)
It has been suggested the line at the top is redundant. I don't agree.
Mike
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Can't believe I just found this thread!
(https://photos.smugmug.com/All/2013/July2013/i-LtsMRkg/0/X3/_DSC9292-X3.jpg)
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That's a tough shot to assess. I seem to say this too often but I'd want to see it printed large and I suspect it would gain strength as part of a set.
I like the colours, I like the treatment but then I am left wondering about the composition if that means anything in this context?
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That's a tough shot to assess. I seem to say this too often but I'd want to see it printed large and I suspect it would gain strength as part of a set.
I like the colours, I like the treatment but then I am left wondering about the composition if that means anything in this context?
Agreed, a lot of my shots need to be very large to work, for me anyway. Almost everything I shoot is stitched/stacked to get me up in the 60-100MP range. I can't wait for huge 8K+ displays, because I don't have enough wall space!
Yes, a set would be cool, too!
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This one is surely not stitched? Kudos to you if it is :)
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Agreed, a lot of my shots need to be very large to work, for me anyway. Almost everything I shoot is stitched/stacked to get me up in the 60-100MP range. I can't wait for huge 8K+ displays, because I don't have enough wall space!
Yes, a set would be cool, too!
I'm sure this one would make a great print.
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You weren't looking closely enough!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-339-a3_orig.jpg)
;-)
Rob C
Hey Rob, such tongue in cheek titles,"Watching paint dry." Why did you take it? Must be you like to watch the paint dry ;)
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Hey Rob, such tongue in cheek titles,"Watching paint dry." Why did you take it? Must be you like to watch the paint dry ;)
Hi John,
It was an early one in a series I organized for myself.
I bought a piece of board and some cans of spray paint, and then, along with some really really old paint in semi-dried tins, I made the artwork and shot it with the camera.
Once done, I repainted the board with different colours and 'designs' and made fresh photographs of the results.
Kept me going interest-wise for a while, but as with so many things, one eventually realises that they are only substitutes for something else, and just stops... But it was fun whilst it lasted.
Rob
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As suggested by Eric
Chasing Egrets
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(http://www.guillermoluijk.com/misc/paseolite.jpg)
www.guillermoluijk.com
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A nice bunch of very varied new ones.
Thanks BBrantley, Drmike, and Guillermo, as well as old regulars JohnR and Rob C.
And to DRMike: I agree: The line is needed to balance the dark grate near the bottom.
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Guillermo, very nice work. Not only does it have an abstract feel, but it is natural in tone.
This is supposed to be a castle, but it looks more like a mansion. I noticed the shadows which brought out the relief in the facade. Without shadows it would have very little appeal.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-pVtkGTC/0/M/July%203-%202016%20RBG%20%26%20Dundurn%20Castle%20204%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-2nhwDkc/0/M/July%203-%202016%20RBG%20%26%20Dundurn%20Castle%20136%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Light play.
JMR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-zfWDDsc/0/M/July%203-%202016%20RBG%20%26%20Dundurn%20Castle%20118%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Is it abstract? I don't know but it wasn't taken as a picture of a door :)
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7472/27115804415_8c7f09efbc_o.jpg)
Mike (https://flic.kr/p/Hj8zXe)
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Is it abstract? I don't know but it wasn't taken as a picture of a door :)
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7472/27115804415_8c7f09efbc_o.jpg)
Mike
(https://flic.kr/p/Hj8zXe)
It works for me.
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Dreaming My Life Away-ay-ay
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Nice, Chris.
With a hint of JohnR, and not an egret in sight. ;)
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Yes, Chris, that last impressionist image was an egret-ious oversight on your part.
Here is one taken about 20 minutes ago in the house.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Qj9rjfg/0/M/July%205-%202016%20house%20images-M.jpg)
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I can't find the egrets in that one either, John. ;)
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Yes, Chris, that last impressionist image was an egret-ious oversight on your part.
Here is one taken about 20 minutes ago in the house.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Qj9rjfg/0/M/July%205-%202016%20house%20images-M.jpg)
They're both on his shoulder à Long John Silver, Eric.
;-)
Rob
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Someone is bound to have asked this before but, can an image be classified as an abstract if you can recognise what it is?
Roger
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Good question. In my view it is greatly about intent - is the above a photograph of a lamp or one that plays on shape, light and form which happens to be recognisable as a lamp.
My door above is a door but I don't care that it's a door, I like the shape etc.
I'd also add - who cares :)
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Following on the above question - is this abstract? I'd happily enter it in arhitecture in a club competition but equally it's so obviously a play on light, colour and geometry it has lost its original being.
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/2/1623/25924632414_659ff7730f_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FuSw1W)
Mike
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Someone is bound to have asked this before but, can an image be classified as an abstract if you can recognise what it is?
Roger
No, Roger, I don't think that it can. I think that people confuse a graphic with an abstract.
My dictionary defines it as such: relating to or denoting art that does not attempt to represent external, recognizable reality.
That seems perfectly clear-cut to me, but of course, I'm not a lawyer.
Rob
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Key word attempt, I wasn't interested in the door but it happened to be represented well. I didn't attempt to do so :) Stretching it a bit I agree :)
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Yes the dictionary is correct. But we have discussed this before. We could have just easily called this thread, semi-abstract, or non representational imagery. In my experience, whether in art or photography few if any works appeal to people if they do not have something that people can relate to. When in an art venue or gallery, you sometimes hear comments like, I could have done that piece of garbage. If you do abstract work, you walk a fine line.
JR
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As I have suggested before, my own quasi-definition of "abstract," at least for this thread, is that if the poster sort of, kind of, thinks of an image as "abstract," then it is. If the intention is to show a visual effect rather than to show the identity of the object(s) in front of the camera, than it is OK in my book.
So what I wonder now is: Is this post of mine sufficiently abstract??? ;)
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I attempted to answer that question before, in this thread:
http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=100317.msg821965#msg821965.
The gist of which is there are 14 different dictionary meanings, plus two idioms, of the term "abstract." Especially pertinent is #5, related to fine arts.
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I attempted to answer that question before, in this thread:
http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=100317.msg821965#msg821965.
The gist of which is there are 14 different dictionary meanings, plus two idioms, of the term "abstract." Especially pertinent is #5, related to fine arts.
And you did it very well there.
Thanks for the link.
Much to my amazement, I had completely missed that thread, which spun out while I was traipsing through the Dordogne last year.
Your images there are not about buildings as man-made structures in which people live or work, they are clearly about the patterns and light effects, which makes them abstract (#5) in my book.
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Is this the silly season? If it is, I shall refrain from commenting because my problem will be that I won't know when said season has ended.
On less abstract matters: two or so years ago I worked out the selling price for my apartment on a pound/euro conversion rate of €1,32 to the pound. Today, I discovered the pound is now worth €1,17. Of course leaving the EU won't have any effect on the pound in your pocket, just as Mr Wilson said some decades ago on another fiscal matter!
I just hope as a last desperate hope, that the matter will be thrown around in Parliament, that it finally accepts the need to take responsibility and actually govern and take at least one important decision, and that bloody clause never activated.
Watching Blair's interview post the C. Report, I felt kinda sorry for him. How wonderfully savvy these journos are today; how few of them ever had to make any decisions that made any difference at all. Oh, the strength of the wolf pack, or even, in this case, the jackals.
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the multiverse
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Green honeycomb…
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For some reason this one reminds me of surveillance, peeping eyes and sensors.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-m657BGV/0/M/Feb%2021-%202016%20Fifty%20Points%20jpg%20206%20copy1000-M.jpg)
And this one is more like light trying to envelope a space.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-RTNBFbr/0/M/Feb%2021-%202016%20Fifty%20Points%20jpg%20238%20invertcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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The first one reminds me of meerkats.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/bf/c7/a7/bfc7a703fcf502ba1d2dc504593b8ee0.jpg)
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/All/June-2016/i-Spf2n8W/1/X2/_DS27274-X2.jpg)
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Kroatia-2016-05/i-PHqgXtv/0/O/PEG_A6000_1_7639_20160529.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Kroatia-2016-05/i-PHqgXtv/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Kroatia-2016-05/i-tCmMdH6/0/O/PEG_A6000_1_7644_20160529.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Kroatia-2016-05/i-tCmMdH6/A)
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Very nice, brantley. The orange-yellow speckles are complimentary to the blue and really tie things together nicely. Sometimes when I see such subtle arrangement and distribution of colours I want to increase the contrast to bring out the contrasting colours even more. It may be difficult because you have soft, almost flat light. Just a thought, anyway.
I see Pegelli is trying to become Scots, what with all that plaid. Nice work gentlemen.
JR
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Sometimes when I see such subtle arrangement and distribution of colours I want to increase the contrast to bring out the contrasting colours even more.
Absolutely, a great point.
This image in particular is a confounding example, because it has two things going on: first, over time I have learned to moderate away from just cranking the contrast on everything. I find I enjoy a lot of softer palettes in narrower gamuts just as much. (And one of the nice side benefits of that approach is that, since I am always shooting for printed output, they tend to stay in gamut!)
The other thing going on with this one is that there is a ton of "microcontrast" that is getting lost in this low-resolution version. I really should have a dedicate pipeline for sharpening at each resolution, but even then I would not be able to make this particular image look the same. I'm afraid it really has to be seen at at 8MP or greater for the local contrast to pop out correctly. I didn't realize that when I posted it here. :(
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Yes, nice work, folks.
I rather like the pastel effect of Bbrantley's image. I t looks to me as if it wants to be printed as a large mural.
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Absolutely, a great point.
[snip]... I really should have a dedicate pipeline for sharpening at each resolution, but even then I would not be able to make this particular image look the same. I'm afraid it really has to be seen at at 8MP or greater for the local contrast to pop out correctly. I didn't realize that when I posted it here. :(
Actually, I agree with your comments on contrast, and moreover, with Eric's point as well. Nothing wrong with soft pastel images if it suits the subject. And your image does. But on line such images can appear to look soft due to poor focus or camera shake. I find I always have to walk a fine line with pastel-like images. Want the soft look, but not the out of focus look. Fine image, all the same.
JR
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From the museum of civilization in Ottawa. The place is a sea of opportunity for Architecture and abstracts.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-LBNWWpr/0/M/May%2013-%202016%20Ottawa%20jpegs%20601%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-4n7nwm2/0/M/May%2013-%202016%20Ottawa%20jpegs%20292%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Very civilized, John. Also, gently pastel (except for the lower left, but that's to obscure the watermark slightly). ;)
Nice,
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Thanks, Eric. Maybe that is what I should call my series from there- civilized!
JR
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Very civilized, John. Also, gently pastel (except for the lower left, but that's to obscure the watermark slightly). ;)
Nice,
+1. I really like these two.
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/8199419_orig.jpg)
Rob C
Nice one :)
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Nice one :)
I agree, very nice!
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I agree, very nice!
+1.
But we expect that from Rob. ;)
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Soft Lavender.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-vPTzjwR/0/M/JMRO1406%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Sometimes the colour shifts when I do in-camera motion work. If I like, I leave it. Impossible greens!
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-WmqzMV3/0/M/July%2013-2016%20Weirs%20Lavender%20farm%20071%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-xsQQTkH/0/M/July%2013-2016%20Weirs%20Lavender%20farm%20076%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-KwJKRqQ/0/M/July%2013-2016%20Weirs%20Lavender%20farm%20055%20sharpcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Tracks
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More nice ones. Thanks, guys.
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Part abstract, part architecture, with busy ornate patterns. A legacy from the past. Lots of noise due to high ISO, but hopefully not that noticeable.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-WWKBW6x/0/M/May%2030-%202016%20Doors%20Open%20092%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-HvjBpjH/0/M/May%2030-%202016%20Doors%20Open%20059%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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A couple from Thursday.
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I did simplify the background to render the arch shape more dominant, yet simpler.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-LV88Ggn/0/M/Dec%2028-%202015%20City%20Hall%20Downtown%20194%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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A question: I really don't put much weight on labels, so it's not meant to be a challenge or attack... but what do the various readers of this thread consider to be "abstract"?
-I'd certainly put Rob C's blobs and streaks of colour in that category, even if I can work out that at some point a car tail-light was involved.
-Reflections in water can so break up the original image that it becomes an unidentifiable colour collage, or a just-slightly distorted reflection, or somewhere in between. For you personally, how far along that scale does the image remain abstract?
-John R's image above could be taken as a classical piece of architectural photography. We all know it's a stair case, all the details are present and undistorted. However they also have compositional arrangement that would allow them to still form an interesting image if one hit one's head hard enough to forget about the existence of staircases. Is that sufficient?
-Would the same be true of, for eg, one of Bill Brandt's nudes?
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Graham,
For me, it has to be something that's not obviously/instantly identifiable; the more difficult to interpret the better.
I was originally put into the way of this stuff years ago, looking at Keith's found artwork:
http://www.keithlaban.com/foundpaintings.html
and also from looking at this fellow's work:
http://www.peterdefty.com/Site/ABSTRACTS.html
If you just do close-ups of details that are clearly representational, then that's something else.
I brought this up some time ago, and suggested a lot of material currently filed here under Abstracts is really Graphics, but apparently people didn't want to discern differences. That's up to them; I simply think it's careless, and does the site no favours, not least of all because it confuses newer photographers interested in understanding genre.
Rob
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On the found image/failing paint/rust theme, you might also want to look at Tom O Scott's work:
https://500px.com/tomoscott
It's not as sustained, and it's mixed up with some B&W seal portraits and so on, but there is nice work...
Of course in many cases you can identify that it's a rusty piece of steel with paint falling off. The critical factor seems to be that its real life identity has no relationship to its aesthetic value: an architect might give some thought to the appearance of his stairs, but I doubt a commercial ship-builder gives a thought to the eventual decay of painted metal work... other than trying to avoid it. I guess the same is true of eg Lucien Clergue's shot of patchwork repairs on an American road.
Then what if they are naturally occurring, like Scott's birefringence patterns in oily water... is it a miniature landscape? In fact, there is a gallery full of Clergue images that could be called "abstracts" classified under "landscapes":
http://www.anneclergue.com/lucien-clergue-portfolio-paysages
All good mind-broadening stuff, anyway.
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How about if the thread were called Abstracts and Patterns, or Abstracts and Such? ;)
The looser "definition" might fit the kinds of images that members like to post here, without eliciting confusion or consternation in some.
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Actually, on my own web site, I use this menu title: Graphics & Abstracts (http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/p631768190). Covers all, overlaps and gray areas too.
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Some interesting work on those sites. Thanks for the links guys. I think the original intent was to create a thread for abstract, or semi abstract, or unusual hard-to-classify images, free from critique, and that was inclusive. Don't misconstrue, I do like and appreciate the comments. But I am just looking to share my work and see other people's work. Arlen's idea of Abstracts and Patterns sounds like a good idea to me, but it's all water under the bridge now. I do like Grahamby's point that although one can easily recognize some subjects, or parts thereof, many images have an abstract quality because they focus on shapes, colours or implied motion, or some other quality that is not easy to categorize.
So you want pure abstracts, take this ;)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-cSF8gBB/0/L/Jan%209-11%20badlands%20126%20-900%20LLcopy-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-25rMnhN/0/L/Jan%209-11%20badlands%20128%20ss%20LLcopy-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-B4G6BNs/0/L/Jan%209-11%20badlands%20116%20LLcopy-L.jpg)
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Or how about on-the-border, minimalism combined with abstraction?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-BLRRFnz/0/M/Feb%2024-13%20Badlands%20100%20copy1050%20LLcopy-M.jpg)
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I'll echo John's thanks for those links, Rob and Graham. I had seen Keith Laban's work, but not the others. Rob, to me some of the abstracts that you've posted here rank right up there with those.
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I'll echo John's thanks for those links, Rob and Graham. I had seen Keith Laban's work, but not the others. Rob, to me some of the abstracts that you've posted here rank right up there with those.
Why thank you, Arlen, I'm glad you found some enjoyable! It's quite interesting to do them - partly because I'm never really sure how they are going to turn out, even though I obviously have an educated guess at where I want to go. It's a little like waiting for the Kodachromes to come back! The basic file is always pretty flat, so then it's a new departure yet again from what I was actually dealing with in the first instance. Best thing is, no people involved to have as a 'standard' for comparison, so anything goes.
Thanks again,
Rob
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I think I know just what you mean, Rob. I feel pretty much the same way about extreme close-up abstracts that I do from time to time. It's really hard to tell exactly what I got from viewing the camera screen, so I'm often anxious to get them on the computer to take a good look. Most go in the trash, but a few nuggets pop up now and then.
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This one's from a few days ago.
(http://www.pbase.com/art1/image/163766096/original.jpg)
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Excellent Arlen. It somehow invites you in to explore the mystery. Did you use extension tubes?
JR
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Excellent Arlen. It somehow invites you in to explore the mystery. Did you use extension tubes?
JR
Nah, silk sheets come more to mind, but YMMD.
;-)
Rob
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;D
They're kind of like clouds, what you see in them reflects the mind of the beholder.
John, it was just my Olympus macro lens at closest focus, 1:1; and a slight crop for the sake of composition.
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When I played around with the colour slider on this one, it started to look like the flames from hell, so I left the it alone. More pastel-like.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-5Q2Rgfr/0/M/JMRO1517%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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More graphic then abstract, then...
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When I played around with the colour slider on this one, it started to look like the flames from hell, so I left the it alone. More pastel-like.
Flames from hell might be exciting, but I think it looks very good as is. Pastel seems to fit these kinds of images quite well.
Graham, nice catch. But realize that when you delve into pavement, you are playing on Eric M.'s turf. :)
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I shot this at an oblique angle and despite using f16 or f22, I was not able to get the whole subject in focus. Thus part of my nebulous image is as is as soft as my understanding of the universe.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-X9K4nWS/0/M/JMRO1544%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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From the length of this thread it appears abstracts are more popular than I thought. Some really nice work here.
I find hunting for them with a wondering eye as much fun as making them.
Macro shots of soda lime glass Pyrex lit under a combination of kitchen window daylight and fluorescent tubes can create some unexpected color combinations and distorted shapes and tones.
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Welcome to the club Tim. I am going to try some of those techniques that you mention. I always wanted to try photographing light through glass.
In the meantime, it's back to the fantasy garden.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-XNd4wJP/0/M/July%2029-%202016%20James%20Gardens%20jpegs%20011%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Now that I see it, I think I prefer the saturated version.
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Had a good day yesterday. So here is one more.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-VTQTF6T/0/L/Aug%201-%202016%20RBG%20067%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Not one of mine, "The view from Jupiter's south pole from the Juno spacecraft has just been released. Amazing".
Jupiter (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209711521603161&set=a.4400917899460.2181631.1183923795&type=3&theater)
Cheers,
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Playing with fire.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-676cKCs/0/L/JMRO1890%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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John, many of your images really get me to thinking. Like, now just how the heck did he do that?
This one was shot during the same session as the last one I contributed.
(http://www.pbase.com/art1/image/163807252/original.jpg)
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Reflection of a building in a nearby river
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I've been away for a week and a half, and some very nice images have shown up in my absence.
Thanks, folks!
Notice of coming attractions:
As soon as I have some new images ready to post, I plan to close this thread and open another thread with a new title that I hope will satisfy those who object to my own fuzzy definition of "Abstracts." ;)
Watch this space...
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Looking forward to your new images, Eric.
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Welcome home Eric~
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Welcome home Eric~
Such hard, unloving lips...
Rob
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This one was shot during the same session as the last one I contributed.
I like... thanks :)
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I worked on this one a bit because I like the raw abstract look so much I could not let it go.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-bCpxhRv/0/M/Aug%203-%202016%20James%20Gardens%20049%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-Bv5VFQC/0/M/Aug%201-%202016%20RBG%20026%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Patricia, that's gorgeous! It must qualify as an abstract because it took me several minutes to figure out what it was. :)
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Decided to try a sort of bw version of this multiple-exposure shot.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-XpxFsHm/0/M/Oct%2022-%202012%20High%20Park%20043%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Here we go
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I went on guided walk of a neighbourhood in the city and couldn't help transforming some of what I saw.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-qfHdmLW/0/M/Aug%2014-%202016%20Annex%20Walk-%20Toronto%20058%20copy1000-2-M.jpg)
Or just plain changing the perspective.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-SBs7jpk/0/M/Aug%2014-%202016%20Annex%20Walk-%20Toronto%20130%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Awesome shots, John!
Do you exhibit prints of your abstracts?
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Ponder a universe that cracked
(http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l383/chauncey43/crack-in-universe-copy.jpg) (http://s329.photobucket.com/user/chauncey43/media/crack-in-universe-copy.jpg.html)
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A while ago I said I was going to close this thread and open a new one with a title that might be less offensive to those that feel that my quasi-definition of "Abstracts" is too loose. But so much good stuff keeps being posted here that I have changed my mind.
Since I can't find a way to change the title of the entire thread, I have changed the title of this post to show what I was intending.
Cheers,
Eric
;D
P.S. I love your universe, William!
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To continue
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Awesome shots, John!
Do you exhibit prints of your abstracts?
Thanks for the comments Eric. Not really, but I do slide shows in club settings and have been asked to do an exhibition. I am working on it.
Here is one, that believe it or not was taken in camera with about 40 in-camera exposures. More expressionist than abstract.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-dHTGpth/0/L/RBG%20Aug%2017-2016%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-qmwdsXt/0/L/JMRO2017%20Aug%2017-2017%20RBG%20copy1000smug-L.jpg)
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/All/July/i-zzPf4hj/0/X2/_DS27733-Pano-X2.jpg)
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A broken pattern
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A broken pattern
This is a glass, half full or half empty, kind of picture...down or up. I go with the staircase up. Either way I like it.
Peter
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Familiar places, new design.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/ROM-Annex-Walk-August-2016/i-H258PD9/0/L/Aug%2014-%202016%20Annex%20Walk-%20Toronto%20177%20copy20299-L.jpg)
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It's been a while since I checked in on this thread, and some fine contributions have been added in the meantime. I particularly like Pegelli's broken pattern, Bbrantley's red specks on blue green, John R's black and white multi-exposure, and Patricia's B-I-L-lumine.
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~from Little Island.
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~from Little Island.
Beautiful! It really draws me into its depths.
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Greetings Eric. Greetings Arlen. As one of you knows, it has been a long and somewhat traumatic road to return to the sea, and at long last with no need to leave these islands. I am fortunate beyond words to be on an island directly on a reach linking the islands of Penobscot Bay. Pre glacial history is visible in places of eruption at surface and my time, whenever the pressing severing process from my former life allows, is spent familiarizing myself with the tides and ledge locations and accessibility for this winter's explorations. Did finally start to unpack a crate containing some gear, which I have been unable to justify even touching for a good while now. The moment I am behind a lens, or extended onto parallels by them, I am ripped away from the responsibilities I must yet complete to breathe this luxury of age. I am so appreciative of this LULA community. It has kept me feeling alive with hope as I navigated here to see the richness of possibility among such diverse members. I promise to attempt not to overstay the welcome always extended, but I now never leave for the most trivial reason without a camera or sketch notebook of some sort close at hand.
Thankyou, and Lumine!
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Patricia,
Do keep that camera and sketch pad handy, and share more with us as you merge with your island!
Arlen,
Those last two images make a fine visual response to Patricia's post.
-Eric
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I would love to see Patricia's bw, other-worldly image. But so many people are posting huge images that will not fit on my screen- and I have 25 inch screen! Maybe I have some setting turned off. Every image used to resize automatically. But since I upgraded my computer, only images smaller than 1200pix will fit on the monitor.
Anyway, like most of what I see, but would love to see the silver movement from Patricia without having to download the whole image!
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/ROM-Annex-Walk-August-2016/i-xf9KjmK/0/L/Aug%2014-%202016%20Annex%20Walk-%20Toronto%20007%20bwcopy0009-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/ROM-Annex-Walk-August-2016/i-3jrM6cL/0/L/Aug%2014-%202016%20Annex%20Walk-%20Toronto%20017%20smugcopy0025-L.jpg)
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I would love to see Patricia's bw, other-worldly image. But so many people are posting huge images that will not fit on my screen- and I have 25 inch screen! Maybe I have some setting turned off. Every image used to resize automatically. But since I upgraded my computer, only images smaller than 1200pix will fit on the monitor.
Anyway, like most of what I see, but would love to see the silver movement from Patricia without having to download the whole image!
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/ROM-Annex-Walk-August-2016/i-xf9KjmK/0/L/Aug%2014-%202016%20Annex%20Walk-%20Toronto%20007%20bwcopy0009-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/ROM-Annex-Walk-August-2016/i-3jrM6cL/0/L/Aug%2014-%202016%20Annex%20Walk-%20Toronto%20017%20smugcopy0025-L.jpg)
John,
What browser are you using? I find Firefox is best for LuLa for me. I click on a thumbnail and a new page opens with the image just fitting my screen.
I used to use Internet Explorer, but in Win 10 now it messes up many things.
P.S. Nice buildings. Did you have them custom built for you to photograph? ;)
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I use Chrome. Maybe I will try Firefox. I figured out the problem. I had Chrome set at 125%, so the image would not auto fill. Now it does. I simply reverted to 100% and then selected 125% form text only.
Here are some images of abstracts that I spotted at my local grocer. You can see part of the sign, which I did not want. But a couple of days before, there was no sign, so I envisioned a fine abstract but was too late!! The sign went up.
Here is the first with sign.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-nmwDzjV/0/M/IMG_0006%20copy1000-2-M.jpg)
Here is second, cropped to what I envisioned before sign went up. In fact I wanted the
shadows to project in the white area.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-NXCqfW9/0/M/IMG_0006%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Here is one with longer shadows, but again waited about one hour too long. Lost oblique
shadows which are are much more dynamic. Still looks cool, I think.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-5BfRVdn/0/M/Aug%2029-%202016%20grocer%20abstract%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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From the surreal garden.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-w86vpbX/0/M/JMRO2191%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Shot this during a photo walk a few weeks back.
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Shot this during a photo walk a few weeks back.
Andrew, lovely streamer effect :) Thanks for posting that.
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By window light.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-rfqDgVm/0/M/JMRO2401%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Outdoor light. Hit auto contrast and everything went berserk, way too saturated. Had to tone it down to more realistic levels.
JMR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-2mZQ6fL/0/M/Oct-12-07-highpark%20001%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Shot this during a photo walk a few weeks back.
I like that a lot Andrew.
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I like that a lot Andrew.
I do too.
And John R is always reliable.
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Thanks Eric, Phil and Graham! Was surprised I got the shot to be honest, we began the hour long challenge for the photowalk (light and shadow) with about 20 minutes of light left, before the clouds rolled in. I guess it just goes to show that it ain't over till it's over! This was the other shot I took the same day, I used the Velvia profile on my X-Pro 2 to enhance the dreary conditions.
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I think I'll contribute a couple.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Vacation/Bodega-Bay-10-07/i-kD486pq/0/O/_DSC1877.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Vacation/Bodega-Bay-10-07/i-RhLczRj/0/O/_DSC1883.jpg)
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Two beautiful images, Rich; simple and (probably) straight is usually best, as you illustrate here.
Rob C
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Bold and colourful.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-dc5BPWK/0/M/IMG_0016%20copy1000-2-M.jpg)
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Bold and colourful.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-dc5BPWK/0/M/IMG_0016%20copy1000-2-M.jpg)
Gripping graphic (pace Eric!) that does what it does very nicely.
Rob C
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Two beautiful images, Rich; simple and (probably) straight is usually best, as you illustrate here.
Rob C
Thank you for the kind words. Yes, pretty much as shot, no crop, little development.
Rich
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Very nice ones, Rich and John.
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Thanks Eric.
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Don't ask :)
(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8454/29635032362_67d84a6d84_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/M9KhDQ)[
Mike
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Cyborg's runny nose?
Rob
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Cyborg's runny nose?
Rob
I can come up with several other interpretations, too.
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Excellent Mike!
Let the colours roll.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Bygone-Days/i-QcfXbbv/1/M/Sept%2018-%202015%20Bygone%20Days%20001%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Very nice, John. Great palette, neat reflections, and shapes.
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Loving these abstracts, folks. Keep them coming!
(https://photos.smugmug.com/All/2013/May2013/i-Q3dZcBg/0/XL/_DSC0494-XL.jpg)
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Loving these abstracts, folks. Keep them coming!
(https://photos.smugmug.com/All/2013/May2013/i-Q3dZcBg/0/XL/_DSC0494-XL.jpg)
Wonderful colours bbrantley, the flowing lines make the shot appear more like an abstract painting :)
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Wonderful images in this thread!
Ghosts
(http://www.frankdisilvestro.com.au/img/s3/v43/p524802666-5.jpg)
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Nicely spooky.
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Shifty shadow play at work.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-ggBZmtH/0/M/IMG_0001%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Very cool, Rob.
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I don't see any blue, but it is still pretty cool and full of energy.
JR
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John, please report to the colour management and screen calibration thread... ;)
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I don't see any blue, but it is till pretty cool and full of energy.
JR
John -
I took my cue from the Red Sea: sailed it end-to-end four times (steamer, not dainty sails!) and nary a glimpse of red over the rail! Perhaps if I'd travelled on the other side... guess I was only half-posh.
Interesting about the energy: physically, I have practically none left. This makes me feel more secure in my beliefs of forms of immortality post-death.
;-)
Rob C
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My, my, Rob, but you have have been around the world. I only I will have such memories...
I confess that this image has been somewhat manipulated, to give it RBG look. However, this is allowed in my camera club, and I wanted to show you can have exotic images without going to exotic places.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-KKrGbpQ/0/M/IMG_0009%20copy3%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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My, my, Rob, but you have have been around the world. I only I will have such memories...
I confess that this image has been somewhat manipulated, to give it RBG look. However, this is allowed in my camera club, and I wanted to show you can have exotic images without going to exotic places.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-KKrGbpQ/0/M/IMG_0009%20copy3%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Hi John,
Early travel. Well, it was all beyond anything over which I had a say at the time, but I did enjoy it as much as anybody under sixteen does. ;-)
I know the truth in what you say about the need to move or not to move elsewhere in order to find pix. The real need is to open one's eyes, and look, and then see.
I think that part of the problem is found in trying to make one's current location fit into another set of circumstances. For example: I love Saul Leiter's work, but the parts of it I admire mostly involved a small area of New York. I live between two villages - pretty much - with the closest thing to a city being Palma, some sixty klicks away, a long drive only to find parking problems and expensive coffee with absolutely no yellow cabs! So what to do? Can't really ape that genre -maybe it's already vanished within New York - so I ended up looking for the micro detail which, through its own mannerisms, exists everywhere will you but look for it.
But that's personal work. For professional, it's almost completely the other way around: you have to travel to find the locations that suit the job. However, if you have the personal circustances that allow you to travel just for fun, then it certainly will offer you the shock of the new which, of itself, opens the eyes and thus the photographic chances of something different.
Rob
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Backwater
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I think I'm allowed to say that this is a nicely composed shot with great colours. I forget where it's OK to comment and where not :)
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I think I'm allowed to say that this is a nicely composed shot with great colours. I forget where it's OK to comment and where not :)
;-) x 2
If a little dig in the direction of Without Prejudice, the only section with some requested, non-format specific restrictions, then let me reconfirm:
the idea behind Prejudice is simple - just a place to post images when you really don't want or need 'how to' advice. There's no policy regarding other comments, in the sense that you can like or hate with equal freedom; just don't suggest processing and/or cropping changes please.
Let the photographer's decisions stand, and base opinions - if any - on the image as it is, not how you'd like to alter it. You can't do much about any art gallery image, so think of these submitted pictures in the same way: they are as they are, for better or for worse.
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Not at all a dig at without prejudice which I now understand, rather at least one other topic where it was suggested I was not qualified to comment so I am now much more reluctant to post but this image struck me as particularly bold.
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Mike, there are only two types of threads on LuLa when it comes to restricted comments:
- Without Prejudice and
- With Prima Donnas
;)
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Mike, there are only two types of threads on LuLa when it comes to restricted comments:
- Without Prejudice and
- With Prima Donnas
;)
Why can't I find Prima Donnas, Slobodan? I'd love to contribute!
;-)
Rob
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Mike, there are only two types of threads on LuLa when it comes to restricted comments:
- Without Prejudice and
- With Prima Donnas
;)
:)
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:)
+1. ;D
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A couple of very different images but they are both about playing with light.
Keep the abstracts coming!
Chuck
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Flying saucer with clouds in background? ;)
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Excellent shadows :)
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Flying saucer with clouds in background? ;)
Low-flying saucer with clouds in b/ground!
;-)
Rob
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Excellent shadows :)
Not quite: I think you may be confusing time warp with shadow. It's easily done.
Rob
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Two From a Series on the Dichotomies of Yellowstone - the gentle reminders you're shooting in the basin of an active volcano that's overdue for a primal show.
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HI,
I think the lower one has caught something quite powerful.
I watched a nature docu. once about the Yellowstone area where a bison wanders across the picture whilst the voice remarks that that bison hasn't got the slightest idea what could happen at any moment. For some reason that had me falling off the sofa with laughter. In retrospect, perhaps the mirth wasn't really about the animal at all, but a reflection of every one of us all the time and everywhere!
Rob
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Not quite as abstract but the same kind of feeling exists as it did with the Buffalo.
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Stunning work Chris, although I do prefer the more abstract version of the above landscape. It's a great example of symmetry in nature, and I like the subtle tones and clarity of the ground texture.
This image is one from the "I can't believe I forgot I shot that" archive, took this sometime last year from my front door as the sun rose on a foggy morning.
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Our group did an architecture walk in downtown Toronto. I always tell people when the light gets harsh and creates deep shadows, why not look for graphic-type images. They are everywhere.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/ROM-Annex-Walk-August-2016/i-qZvSXvN/0/L/Sept%2025-%202016%20Annex%20outing%20104%20copybw-1000-L.jpg)
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Good stuff, folks!
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(http://www.frankdisilvestro.com.au/img/s7/v158/p873363599-5.jpg)
Regards
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Very nice, Francisco.
Assuming you shot non-Leica-mono-digital ( ;-) ) did you work it in colour too?
Rob
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Like it :)
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Thanks for your comments, Rob & Graham
Very nice, Francisco.
Assuming you shot non-Leica-mono-digital ( ;-) ) did you work it in colour too?
Rob
No, the original was not too colorful, I might experiment with it
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Flirt~
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Flirt~
Very close to your new home, I bet.
Nice.
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beautiful tones and colours Patricia, love it :)
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Opposing Forces
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Rob: perfect title for a perfect abstract.
Chris: pleasing colors...well seen.
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I really like that one, Rob. It makes you study it to see the subtlety of the differentiation between dark blue and black.
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Like them both, Rob and Chris. Rob's in particular, is very abstract and makes you study the image, as Arlen said.
JR
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Thank you, folks!
Rob
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I really like that one, Rob. It makes you study it to see the subtlety of the differentiation between dark blue and black.
It's nice to see people pick up on the blue - apart from anything to do with art, it's encouraging to know my monitor is still working!
;-)
Rob
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Rob,
If you do a book of your whimsical abstracts, I'll buy a copy.
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Rob,
If you do a book of your whimsical abstracts, I'll buy a copy.
Eric, if you buy twenty thousand, then I'll be able to afford to make one!
Thanks for the sentiment, though; I really do enjoy playing around like this - the one real blessing of digital for me.
Rob
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I was travelling through Algonquin Park area and these are a few from there:
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-dQGVfGW/0/L/JMRO3156%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-dbzkXL2/0/L/JMRO3440%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-5PJP2rL/0/L/JMRO2773%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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That's a very appealing set, John. Very painterly.
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That's a very appealing set, John. Very painterly.
Yes indeed.
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We certainly don't get the kind of fall colors John previously posted, but we do get enough to have some fun with exposures.
Fall Colors I, II, III
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Well done, Chris.
I think there was a heron at the top of the central tree in #1, but he flew off before you shot it because he didn't want to be blurred. :D
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Well done, Chris.
I think there was a heron at the top of the central tree in #1, but he flew off before you shot it because he didn't want to be blurred. :D
No, it was a Great Egret he was on another branch cleaning his beak. See!
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Many of my multiple exposure attempts came out less than pleasing. So it always leads to more experimentation. And here is one.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-9F5NW8W/0/L/Oct%205-%202016%20Algonquin%20area%20174%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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home and abroad
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Took a second, Bruce...but pretty dang slick!
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immy Buffet
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Autumn Palette.
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~Ebb.
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~Ebb.
If you painted like that, I believe you'd be onto a good thing.
Rob
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~Ebb.
You are onto a good thing.
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Autumn Palette.
Very good, simple and evocative image.
Rob
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Shot this one a while back, reminds me of lost souls swirling in the darkness.
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With everybody presenting different camera movements here is my little attempt from few days ago
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I like your little attempt, Armand.
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I like your little attempt, Armand.
I do too.
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The Cypress Stand
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Many forecasters predicted the autumn colours would not be so good this year, at least in Ontario, Canada. Forecasters said because of the extraordinarily dry hot summer, many trees would shed their leaves without turning colour. But as far as I can tell, these are the best colours I have seen in over five years. But one thing is true, the trees have a very high drop rate. So if you want to photograph autumn, get going!
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Rockwood-Conservation-Scotts/i-JKKsrsT/0/L/Oct%2016-%202016%20Rockwood%20Conservation%20237%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Rockwood-Conservation-Scotts/i-FWdCNMn/0/L/Oct%2016-%202016%20Rockwood%20Conservation%20173%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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The Cypress Stand
Nice one; reminds me of Riaan's oeuvre too. You both employ an 'organic' kind of image manipulation that I find honest.
Rob
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Thanks Rob. Top image is simple multiple exposure, abt. 12 in "bright mode"- retains highlights; second is camera motion. Now I have to look up "Riaan's ouvre."
JR
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Yours are nice too, but I think he was quoting my image. :o
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Nice one; reminds me of Riaan's ouvre too. You both employ an 'organic' kind of image manipulation that I find honest.
Rob
Actually, other than cropping and doing some curves adjustments, I didn't do any PP manipulation. I did do it in the camera by taking advantage of being in a moving boat to get a nice smooth blur on the surface.
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Actually, other than cropping and doing some curves adjustments, I didn't do any PP manipulation. I did do it in the camera by taking advantage of being in a moving boat to get a nice smooth blur on the surface.
I wasn't referring to Photoshop stuff... best manipulation is in-camera. I bought an ND filter just for that reason.
Rob
P.S.
(Problem with a Spanish computer system is that spellcheck doesn't work in English, and critical typos go unseen until too late; hence my personal version of oeuvre now "ouvre'ed" for ever and ever! Using it, the spelling device, underlines every English word in red. Thankfully, the T tool in PS can be used and checked without problems!)
P.S. 2
I think the frequency of my typos expands with the wearing of earphones.
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(Problem with a Spanish computer system is that spellcheck doesn't work in English,
Rob, you should be able to download extra dictionaries... I can swap between French (which I need) and English (which I'd like to think I don't, but as time goes on...) with a right-click in the text box. That's with Chrome. Same with Libre Office, where I can specify at each line which language it should work in (important also for spacing rules, quotation marks etc).
The worst experience is MS Outlook, which insists on guessing, usually gets it wrong for a few lines and then highlights the errors it created by "correcting" one language to another... I'm obliged to use it at work, unfortunately.
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Rob, you should be able to download extra dictionaries... I can swap between French (which I need) and English (which I'd like to think I don't, but as time goes on...) with a right-click in the text box. That's with Chrome. Same with Libre Office, where I can specify at each line which language it should work in (important also for spacing rules, quotation marks etc).
The worst experience is MS Outlook, which insists on guessing, usually gets it wrong for a few lines and then highlights the errors it created by "correcting" one language to another... I'm obliged to use it at work, unfortunately.
I have Libre Office; I also have the Concise Oxford (English), (just in case of LuLa challenges!) and I have Chrome as well as Firefox, but the Windows 8.1 that lives in the computer seems to look the other way - or doesn't activate when I write here, for example. Maybe I just don't know how to activate it to work automatically, which wouldn't surprise me in the least, and which reminds me that I should have asked my kid or her hubby, who have just gone home today! Damn; even the memory (mine) fails at the wrong moment. The dictionary works well when I double click it to open the thing up. Though I usually forget, it also speaks, but it's usually the spelling that catches me out, not pronunciation.
Rob
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It fits nicely, Rob.
I'm delighted that many posters in this thread have creatively stretched my quasi-definition of "abstract."
If it jolts the gut in some way, go for it!
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Pushing to fit 'abstraction', but I think it perhaps slips into the recently redefined paradigm. ;-)
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2671_orig.jpg)
Rob
I really like the tones and the composition. It's a very simple shot, yet I get a very uneasy feeling from viewing it, as if something will emerge from the fog at any moment. Nice work :)
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Three trees. This must be the nth time I have shot this.
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Parallelogram
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Nice. At first glance I thought it was from Slobodan.
(That's a compliment.)
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Very well done, Chris, especially the processing.
I like your doggy stick too, Rob. And in this one I can almost make out how you did it. Almost. ;)
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Very well done, Chris, especially the processing.
I like your doggy stick too, Rob. And in this one I can almost make out how you did it. Almost. ;)
Stick: it's straight, except for the usual Curves and some toning. Like most of these things, it's done the easy way: one shot, in camera.
;-)
Rob
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Sucked Into a Whirlpool of Color - just having fun.
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Makes me think Alfred Hitchcock.
Rob
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Makes me think Alfred Hitchcock.
Rob
...or perhaps David Lynch. Great shot David, really love the colour and light in this one!
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Stick: it's straight, except for the usual Curves and some toning.
How can you call it "straight?" I see a definite bend in it, part way up. :D
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Sucked Into a Whirlpool of Color - just having fun.
Alain and Andrew are really getting to you, aren't they?
That really is a "fun" shot.
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Alain and Andrew are really getting to you, aren't they?
Thanks for the comments! You know, Eric, they really have. My mother made her living (not much of one, but it was a living) as an oil painter; shows on the lawns of Golden Gate Park (SF) and the strip malls and boardwalks of California, gallery shows and even her own for awhile, and of course our small living room was her studio. She started with a blank canvas or masonite, which I had helped prepare. and something she saw inside her mind, often somewhat abstract (impressionistic?), often vivid colors and most often land and sea scapes. She created over a thousand pieces in her ~40 year career. Contrast that with my 40 years in science, living within a pretty strict set of rules, and now reaching for what I feel with an image is much different than expressing what I think with words. I know there is a bunch of similar folks here on the forum. Anyway, yes, Alain and Andrew did "get to me" and something, too, that Rob has said numerous times about being born with creativity (forgive the paraphrase Rob); it is buried so deep, but I sense something "there" and perhaps "coloring outside the lines" is a way to reach for it. Discovering it does not necessarily guarantee success, but if I am satisfied with the effort, well then, that is where what Andrew said resonated.
I know this thread is really not the place for a comment like this, but wanted to keep in context some of the things I learn here in this very special place.
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Keep it up, this fine whirlpool of colour is only a beginning. You will be surprised by what you can create or express if you are in a playful mood. Never before have we had the ability to photograph and have almost instant feedback.
JR
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Another one in the realm of color collages.
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A stained glass window that exists only in your mind?
Neat!
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Not stained, the glass is clear. But yes, the color exists only in my mind. (I will allow for the possible external existence of electromagnetic rays of varying wavelengths traversing the glass.)
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Is that sugar that you put in your coffee, Rob? ;D
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Is that sugar that you put in your coffee, Rob? ;D
"Negatory, good buddy." (Is that copyrighted somewhere?)
But I did spend some time on a tea plantation there; entertainment was shootuing birds (as in feathers) with an air gun and peeling them to get skins, which then got dried and collected. Delightfully, artistically barbaric. (What is art?) Today, it shames me, so this is obviuosly cathartic confession time. I never told my wife, not that she knew me at that age, of course; she lived in Scotland. I wonder if she knew I was on my way?
;-(
Rob
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Paint by numbers.
JMR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-rdTTLC6/0/L/Oct%2024-%202016%20Grindstone%20Creek%20175%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-b6CtwPt/0/L/Oct%2024-%202016%20Grindstone%20Creek%20110%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-Cv34BCC/0/L/Oct%2024-%202016%20Grindstone%20Creek%20119%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Peterborough Cathedral abstracts.
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And one more.
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I like it, Rob. But how about a little help with the title?
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I like it, Rob. But how about a little help with the title?
I like it too.
The title? Rob's just showing off that he knows Latin (or is it Greek? Farsi? Sanskrit?)
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When I try to translate it literally, it comes out to something like "staying green". ???
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You're very close!
But why ruin a funny story by telling the punchline first?
;-)
Rob
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Evergreen? Even though it's not?
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Evergreen? Even though it's not?
;-)
Rob
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More Shades of Gray
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Such mysterious images Rob creates, somewhat dark, but always interesting.
My leaves, somewhat inspired by Rob, are bidding goodby - but only for the season.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-ZTMDNbS/0/L/Oct%2031-%202016%20High%20Park%20096%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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That is a fine pseudo-Rob-ian image, John.
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John, Eric,
Not sure about 'creating' images, more about tripping over the damned things every day!
They beome irresistible to me, making me so grateful for digital because, had I to buy film, I'd probably need help by now, either from the bank for spending too much or a shrink to save me from myself. The latter may still not be out of the question.
Anyway, here's one from yesterday afternoon, though with the change in the clock, it could have been any time before sunset:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2793_orig.jpg)
Rob
P.S. Photograpy sure is a liberating medium.
Well spoken, Rob.
The trick is to notice them when you trip over them. Many of us just stumble on and don't give a thought to those images that pop up everywhere.
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Well spoken, Rob.
The trick is to notice them when you trip over them. Many of us just stumble on and don't give a thought to those images that pop up everywhere.
Interesting observation Eric. My fellow club members and others always ask how I can see what I see. Not easy to answer. But I point out that it takes me a while to get into the 'groove' or mode of 'seeing' as the camera and lens does, because it is like a learned skill or language that I have to work up to: first gear, second gear, and then a more natural drive mode. Can't always do it at all. Once I am in a "seeing' mode, images come much more easily and I often wonder why I didn't see those subjects right away in the first place. Perhaps regular practice combined with self review and analysis is the answer, so that what you learn becomes second nature, as much as possible.
JR
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I view that differently: as someone whose name escapes me right now (an ever-growing curse) said, the problem with being a photographer is that pictures haunt you. You can't escape seeing them; as with women: I can't look at one without running an imaginary test shoot. I find I'm not usually a very happy guy.
Yesterday, en route for a coffee and a takeaway York ham 'n' tomato bocadillo, just after shooting the snap above, I passed the town's little square where a festivity had been set up for the kids. I never shoot pics of them, under any circumstances outwith family. But, as I said, on my way for that coffee, a kid in costume came rushing round the corner about five feet ahead of me, followed instantly by its mother, a wonderful-looking woman whom I would love to have photographed, pursued just as rapidly by a gorilla-on-steroids who was, I suppose Papa to the child. It quite depressed me, the unfairness of it all.
So yeah, life in snaps is something else: a great substitute for the real thing.
Rob
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Elegant trees in the best park in Toronto.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-frc5mGp/0/L/Nov%202-%202016%20High%20Park%20118%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Now that's a "classic" John R, and one of your best.
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Now that's a "classic" John R, and one of your best.
Yes classic but always so good! I like the soft colors a lot.
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Thanks Francois! One more before all the colours disappear. Best colour I have seen in years.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-bGrtFS4/0/L/Nov%202-%202016%20High%20Park%20017%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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...One more before all the colours disappear...
Now I am in love with John's work (sans the logo)!
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Great renditions of the season, John. Opportunities are waning here, as the leaves leave the trees.
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Nice work JohnR, love those two tree images.
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A macro abstract.
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Experimenting. Didn't turn out the way I hoped but it looks unusual enough.
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Good experiments, Peter and Armand.
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This thread has become the most active place on the forum. Good work, folks. And thanks, Eric.
I'll add one that may look simple, but the process of getting there wasn't. Worth the effort, or not?
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Arlen, your image is very subtle. To me it needs to be seen large (really large like a gallery canvas) to appreciate the subtle pattern of greys, whites and light earthy browns. I can't make it large enough to test my supposition, but I can step back. It captured your imagination for some reason, as it does mine, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe symbolism for blending in?
JR
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Arlen, your image is very subtle. To me it needs to be seen large (really large like a gallery canvas) to appreciate the subtle pattern of greys, whites and light earthy browns. I can't make it large enough to test my supposition, but I can step back. It captured your imagination for some reason, as it does mine, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe symbolism for blending in?
JR
I agree with John. I'd love to see it really large.
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Thanks everyone for the comments on the tree impressions. I went out yesterday again, the light was so beautiful, diffuse and bright, and at a low angle. An unbeatable combination. I was photographing this scene when someone walked by. If I had been expecting someone, I probably would have waited until they were more away from the trees. But I will take it, all the same.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-6bCGZTw/0/L/Nov%203-%202016%20High%20Park%20051%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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I think you guys have grasped major parts of my intention and my dilemma. I wrestled with posting a bigger version, but was concerned it would blow out past the viewable dimensions of some browsers/monitors. Here is a section of the entire image, with dimensions about as a large as think I dare make it.
And John, that last image is very striking; the more so I think with the figure being present.
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Thanks everyone for the comments on the tree impressions. I went out yesterday again, the light was so beautiful, diffuse and bright, and at a low angle. An unbeatable combination. I was photographing this scene when someone walked by. If I had been expecting someone, I probably would have waited until they were more away from the trees. But I will take it, all the same.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-ZbCFFRz/0/L/Nov%203-%202016%20High%20Park%20051%20copy1000-L.jpg)
For me, that's your best one yet. The figure makes it real enough, yet also into the next space. Great colours, too.
Rob C
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Downstream from the Potoma Wayside waterfall outside Harper's Ferry, WV this weekend.
(http://www.theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/Autumn_Reflections.jpg)
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Nice one, Stephen.
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Yes, good eye Stephen!
Right beside the carved out Tree spirit are these trees who are happy not to be carved out.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-WgD5qZw/0/L/Oct%2031-%202016%20High%20Park%20158%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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"Smoke and mirrors"
Wow!
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"Smoke and mirrors"
Wow!
Thanks, Graham.
That's a reason I like the 180mm: I was out in the street that's visible in the circular mirror. Bothered nobody...
Rob
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corn field
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corn field
That, Bruce, explains why I managed only four out of five years of an engineering apprenticeship!
;-)
Rob
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"Smoke and mirrors"
Wow!
+1.
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corn field
Delightful.
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That, Bruce, explains why I managed only four out of five years of an engineering apprenticeship!
;-)
Rob
Ten years ago I spent a whole year studying watchmaking until I stopped short.
Bruce
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My own knowledge of watch-making is limited to the aphorism, "A broken clock is correct twive every day." ;)
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That's a good place to stop, though learning about the various watch manufacturers can make camera companies seem almost sensible.
Bruce
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That's a reason I like the 180mm: I was out in the street that's visible in the circular mirror. Bothered nobody...
Yep. I love the 70-200 on APC and I'm quite often at the 200 end. The thought of carrying a 300/2.8 with a FF really doesn't appeal.
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Yep. I love the 70-200 on APC and I'm quite often at the 200 end. The thought of carrying a 300/2.8 with a FF really doesn't appeal.
I think I did Smoke and Mirrors on the D200 - that makes it about 270mm equiv. I would love a real 2.8/300 Nikkor, but not in my current circumstances. I'm sometimes tempted to take the 500 reflex for a walk in town, but that definitely needs a support - even if only the two-legs-extended approach I sometimes use with my light tripod - the Slik. Very rigid little baby, and travelled a lot with me after BA broke my very pretty Rowi tripod either at Heathrow courtesy the handling staff or, possibly, in their hold en route to Nassau. Anyway, it was trying to use the 500mm there, with just two working legs available, that was the introduction for me to the technique. Slower than a unipod, but confines accidental movement to a single vetical plane instead of all directions.
That long lens weight issue is something that occassionally makes me think of going to a smaller format, but then small formats have their own problems too, one being too much apparent DOF.
Guess I'll just stay where I am unless Dame Fortune smiles upon this prodigal once again.
;-)
Rob
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Across from San Francisco Museum of Art before the refit.
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Very cool and well seen Brian!
JR
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Lots of really good shot here!
As I have been mostly looking and enjoying rather than contributing, here are two that perhaps push abstraction.
Chuck
1) The Sky Is Falling
2) A Haunting of Ghosts
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I was taken to a zoo and took one shot :) much to the amusement of my wife
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5647/30231466313_61b224d278_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/N4saFP)
Mike
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1) The Sky Is Falling
2) A Haunting of Ghosts
Really cool, Chuck.
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Really cool, Chuck.
Yes!!
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I haven't posted any pix here in a while, so I think I'd better get at it.
Here are four taken in a walk around the Brookline Reservoir the other day, including two variants of one location (the "cropped" version was done in camera, not in LightRoom). I'm curious which of these you discerning folks like better.
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Some of your shots remind me of fishing nets. You definitely chose to give these an abstract viewpoint.
JR
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Whenever I see a carpet of newly fallen leaves, I can't resist photographing what I call a "tapestry of riches." I think most of us feel the same way when it comes to autumn foliage. But it is not always easy to make a scene with so much colour into a reasonably successful composition. And when the light gets harsh, I experiment and try to weave the remaining shapes into my composition. This is one.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-jVhQbmm/0/L/Nov%209-%202016%20High%20Park%20027%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Eric, at first sight I thought that the cropped tangled veggie image was my clear favorite, but after more study I can see the charms of the uncropped version. I might have to look at them a few more times to come to a firm decision.
John, I think you succeeded in your fall color composition. I struggle with the same problem, and end up rejecting most fall foliage shots; as well as letting a few get by that probably should have been rejected. Letting them sit until winter before final judgement facilitates objectivity, but then who wants to see autumn colors in winter?
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Thank you, John and Arlen.
John, one thing I always enjoy about your "abstracts" is that while some might think they are in some sense "painterly," in fact your departures from literal reality make use of strictly photographic techniques, such as camera movement, etc., etc.
The recent ones succeed very much in emphasizing the essentials of the scene, quite beautifully.
-Eric
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I haven't posted any pix here in a while, so I think I'd better get at it.
Here are four taken in a walk around the Brookline Reservoir the other day, including two variants of one location (the "cropped" version was done in camera, not in LightRoom). I'm curious which of these you discerning folks like better.
Nice set Eric. I opt for #2 because I think the added context and color provide a bit more psychological depth (if that means anything).
Chuck
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Nice set Eric. I opt for #2 because I think the added context and color provide a bit more psychological depth (if that means anything).
Chuck
Thanks, Chuck.
I think I agree with you. I took that one first, and then zoomed in for the closer version.
Maybe Russ is right: Cropping doesn't work, even if done in camera (unless it's your first choice of view). ;)
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I tried cleaning them...
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Nice one, Graham!
We don't want no Dirty Abstracts here, or we might hafta censor them! :o
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or we might hafta censor them! :o (and then sensor them too)
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At the low and howling...
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Very fine. Goes great with the Tempranillo-Cabernet blend I just uncorked.
Chuck
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How long ago? Should be ready to go by now, the robust chili is ready to scoop into bowls just as my fingers thawed....WHAT?! You didn't set a glass aside? OK, to the cellar for something darkly luscious... Or maybe even a black and tan... thanks for the tasting anyway, sorry to miss the pairing ;)
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I don't know Rob, looks like Graham spiffed up that glass pretty well ahead of your arrival. I clearly see Q & A. ;)
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I don't know Rob, looks like Graham spiffed up that glass pretty well ahead of your arrival. I clearly see Q & A. ;)
That's just what I was thinking.
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Would you settle for Ç, as in bent cedilla? That's as far as I can allow myself to stretch reportage.
I can understand, though, why folks would only drink from a bottle they opened themselves...
;-)
Rob
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C'est bien, ça ~
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C'est bien, ça ~
+ Un (or is it une?)
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This lovely, antique-like lamp has been through the mill. When I first bought it 30 years ago, everyone wanted it. Especially when it would cast warm glow from the tungsten lights. In the last few years, most want to throw it out. But since I discovered it is a goldmine for helping me "see", I hope it will render more possibilities in the coming years.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-J9GFfHt/0/L/JMRO6296%20lampcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Now that should have been selected at the editorial meeting of the new architectural magazine with the lead article, "Old Friends become Bright and New" subbed "Minimal, Clean and Highly Sought"
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Now that should have been selected at the editorial meeting of the new architectural magazine with the lead article, "Old Friends become Bright and New" subbed "Minimal, Clean and Highly Sought"
+1.
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Different time of day, but still interesting.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-zRVzH3C/0/L/JMRO6328%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Interesting how the lampshade changes color at different times of day.
I wonder what kind of tricks it engages in when you aren't looking! ;)
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Thank you Eric. After I read your comments, I reexamined the first image and realized the light is not on. It is on in this second image, hence the warm cast from what must be an old tungsten bulb.
JR
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Different time of day, but still interesting.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-zRVzH3C/0/L/JMRO6328%20copy1000-L.jpg)
The lampshade/sunlight shining through the blinds is an intriguing concept. It presents a lot of opportunities for continuing with the theme.
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Ahhhh.. a blinding light.
Rich
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Ascot~
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Grids galore much to my horror
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London Facade - South of the river Thames
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Terrific stuff in this thread lately. You folks a re pushing the boundaries in very imaginative ways.
Thank you Patricia, BobDavid and BrianRybolt. And, of course, JohnR and RobC.
-Eric
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Thanks Eric! Here is one from a walk with a group in downtown Toronto. When you get hard light, it's like getting a lemon, so you try to make lemonade, of course.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-KPcsvvC/0/L/Nov%2013-%202016%20Front%20St%20walk%20344%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Tasty lemonade. Not too sweet, with a hint of tartness.
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Is it abstract? I don't know.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5757/22846416968_ffef9828a0_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ANRRNQ)
Mike
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Mike: Yes it is, by my fuzzy definition.
Rob: We have news reports of drivers of that sort every day around Boston.
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The Shard is the tallest building in the UK (London) and in the European Union.
Note the window cleaners about 4/5ths the way up the building.
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The Shard
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Well done there, Brian! I like the treatment, it suits the subject and the colours.
Mike: It may not be abstract, but is well seen. The shadows remind me of sun trying to get through trees and sit well together with the blue and orange wall.
Rob: As for you Rob, are you a ghost trying to transform into human form? Sure looks eerie.
JR
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Well done there, Brian! I like the treatment, it suits the subject and the colours.
Mike: It may not be abstract, but is well seen. The shadows remind me of sun trying to get through trees and sit well together with the blue and orange wall.
Rob: As for you Rob, are you a ghost trying to transform into human form? Sure looks eerie.
JR
JR, it's not a selfie! ;-)
I love the uncertain; I see myself therein, even if I'm not. Therein, I mean; uncertain is natural. Were I certain, there would no longer be a point in shooting. As some wag said: I like to photograph things in order to see how they'll look as photographs. I think said wag was Winogrand...
Rob
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I get another good belly laugh every time I see another of your new concoctions, Rob.
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I get another good belly laugh every time I see another of your new concoctions, Rob.
Eric, this is an example of the problems of af.
The damned lens (2.8/180 Nikkor) wouldn't focus on the statue at all - insisted on locking on the tiles on the building behind me. Unlike my other af lens, the 1.8/50 G, which allows manual override at any time, this ones doesn't. If only digi cameras hadn't abandoned split-image finders, there would be no problem; a pet peeve of mine. Yes, I could have slipped the entire focussing department into Manual, but I hadn't the patience at the time. If I get problems I just want to move on. At my age, no bother is worth the bother, if you see what I mean. It's a most liberating attitude. I can't honestly claim it's new to me, but at least now it doesn't cost me clients or anything like that. I suspect, from deep and measured research, that it's a family trait. The ancestors knew a thing or two.
Rob
P.S.
The window with statue is one floor up, and I'm shooting from the street. It's the D200 with the lens wide open at 2.8 and a 1/640 sec, FWIW. David's head is much softer in the original file... poor guy.
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"The damned lens (2.8/180 Nikkor) wouldn't focus on the statue at all..." Aha, so your blurry, mystical images are accidents? But then again no (like Elton John), "I suspect, from deep and measured research, that it's a family trait. The ancestors knew a thing or two." So back to a mystery. Might as well keep it that way.
JR
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Another from the downtown TO walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-tpphMBw/0/L/Nov%2013-%202016%20Front%20St%20walk%20091%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Doing the twist, now? Intriguing, John.
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Arlen, they are simple reflections on the hood of a car. It caught my eye, and the more I moved my head, the more interesting the contorted reflections became. When I pointed it out to fellow walkers, they immediately started looking for similar reflections. So from architecture to abstractions and then back again. It was a good day.
JR
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Maybe a bit literal for an abstract...
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2661_orig.jpg)
Rob
But what a beautiful commentary on abstraction as well as the surrealist movement!
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But what a beautiful commentary on abstraction as well as the surrealist movement!
I love a tuned in audience!
;-)
Rob
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For me, I m still trying to figure out why my watermark doesn't reflect in the water.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-m4q6vMN/0/L/Nov%2016-%202016%20Terra%20Cotta%20017%20desatcopy1000-L.jpg)
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I like this one a lot, John. Soft and subtle. But keep working on that watermark reflection.
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Patchwork.
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Nice, and probably looks better as a large print.
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Nice, and probably looks better as a large print.
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I like this one a lot, John. Soft and subtle. But keep working on that watermark reflection.
Easy enough to do in PhotoShop. Just copy the watermark onto a separate layer, flip it upside down, blur it a little, and position it in the water below. ;)
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Easy enough to do in PhotoShop. Just copy the watermark onto a separate layer, flip it upside down, blur it a little, and position it in the water below. ;)
Fabulous Arlen. That little orange square reminds me of a clever show I once saw. The creater used a window as portal to show other related images and to get inside the building. It was very clever and well done. Through that window, I can see a whole farm and the inside of the barn. That's what I see.
JR
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Fabulous Arlen. That little orange square reminds me of a clever show I once saw. The creater used a window as portal to show other related images and to get inside the building. It was very clever and well done. Through that window, I can see a whole farm and the inside of the barn. That's what I see.
JR
Thanks for that story, John. I have to admit that I have a soft spot for old barns, and love to wander around them with camera in hand.
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I like the shadow on the rock, Armand. Neato!
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Thanks, it does look a little weird.
Few from today.
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I don't think these pass Alain's definition but as my chief critic says 'well they are different'
Oh well.
Chuck
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In the spirit of the new column on "abstractions" by Alain Briot, I thought I would submit this one taken today. And by the way guys, how do you make those small images that expand when clicked? I would rather do that than tie up all this space with huge images.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-bxS3L33/0/L/JMRO6955%20abstract%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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But what a beautiful commentary on abstraction as well as the surrealist movement!
Strictly speaking, Dada preceded surrealism.
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Strictly speaking, Dada preceded surrealism.
and pretty much inspired/led to surrealism.
P.S. I hope it's obvious to all that the "working" definition of "abstract" used for this thread is much looser than the one Alain Briot is promoting in his current essay.
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I got it, Eric! funny how the image looks dimmer on the LuLa than on my monitor. Perhaps it is because my image is processed on a dark background.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-9ck9KdF/0/L/Nov%2024-%202016%20centennial%20arboretum%20006%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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I got it, Eric! funny how the image looks dimmer on the LuLa than on my monitor. Perhaps it is because my image is processed on a dark background.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-9ck9KdF/0/L/Nov%2024-%202016%20centennial%20arboretum%20006%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Abstract, Shmabstract! I love it. And it's bright enough on my monitor (I just calibrated it.)
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In the spirit of the new column on "abstractions" by Alain Briot, I thought I would submit this one taken today. And by the way guys, how do you make those small images that expand when clicked? I would rather do that than tie up all this space with huge images.
JR
Nice one, John.
Re image size: When you use the "Insert Image" icon above the text entry box, as you did here, the image will appear full size within the post; unless it is more than 1202 pixels in the longest dimension, in which case it wil be down-scaled to 1202. But if instead you click "Attachments and other options" below the text entry box, and navigate to the file on your computer, it will show up as a small image that will expand to full size when clicked on. In that case, if it is 1202 pixels (longest dimension) or less, it will expand within the post space. But if it's bigger than 1202, it will open in a new browser window.
Note that for the "Insert Image" approach, the file must be hosted somewhere else on the web, like SmugMug; but for the "Attachments" approach, the file must be on your computer.
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I seldom like white in my impressionist images. It often spoils an otherwise good image. But I can live with this one.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-STMTDTV/0/M/Nov%2027-%202016%20Allan%20Gdns%20037%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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And here is one I took which keeps attracting my attention until I could no longer ignore it. So I processed it and came up with this.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-4f5B9dB/0/M/April%2012-%202016%20Centennial%20Conservatory%20046%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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I got it, Eric! funny how the image looks dimmer on the LuLa than on my monitor. Perhaps it is because my image is processed on a dark background.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-9ck9KdF/0/L/Nov%2024-%202016%20centennial%20arboretum%20006%20copy1000-L.jpg)
This is quite awesome :) (Looks fine - nice and punchy - on my calibrated monitor, BTW)
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From the x-files.
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X-actly, Arlen. I knew that. Is it from the "rock files."
JR
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You may notice a fading circle in the red wall. This a place abandoned by "Target", who tried to compete in Canada with Walmart and Sears.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-6rWdQ3s/0/M/IMG_0006%20copy1000-2-M.jpg)
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You may notice a fading circle in the red wall. This a place abandoned by "Target", who tried to compete in Canada with Walmart and Sears.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-6rWdQ3s/0/M/IMG_0006%20copy1000-2-M.jpg)
Nice, ultra clean one, and even the huge personal logo has a perfect, relevant place!
;-)
Rob
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/201611/i-PtFgBtF/0/O/PEG_A850_3_05341_20161127.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201611/i-PtFgBtF/A)
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Nice, ultra clean one, and even the huge personal logo has a perfect, relevant place!
;-)
Rob
Right. And it shows us that John's blurry pix aren't from camera shake. :D
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X-actly, Arlen. I knew that. Is it from the "rock files."
JR
No, "it's alive, it's alive".
If there is life on Mars, it will most likely look similar to this. A mixed bacterial culture within or below the rusty regolith.
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No, "it's alive, it's alive".
If there is life on Mars, it will most likely look similar to this. A mixed bacterial culture within or below the rusty regolith.
Each time I look at it I expect to see parts of it moving, but I haven't caught it yet.
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/201611/i-PtFgBtF/0/O/PEG_A850_3_05341_20161127.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201611/i-PtFgBtF/A)
I like the absurdity. I realize it's not something a lot of viewers will appreciate, but I do.
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I like the absurdity. I realize it's not something a lot of viewers will appreciate, but I do.
Thanks Bob, appreciate the comment :)
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I like the absurdity. I realize it's not something a lot of viewers will appreciate, but I do.
I like it too, and I suspected Bob would like it.
Possible title: The non-conformist? ;)
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Pegelli image: it's obviously a growing tear in the fabric universe. We have to send a spacecraft and button it up before it sucks everything into itself.
JR
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Went to Ripley's Aquarium with some friends. Quite a place. The glass and moving water distorts everything, but not in good way. So I ended up photographing signs and banisters and the like. Believe me those are the real, albeit, gaudy colours, which are mostly reflections from other displays and lights.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-HTwtSHZ/0/M/JMRO7496%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Substation
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An interesting outside image of the very colourful inside of the Toronto Aquarium.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-425gzrb/0/M/JMRO7520%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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I'll ask permission - can I make a couple of positive observations?
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I'll ask permission - can I make a couple of positive observations?
Definitely not?
;-)
Rob
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I'll wait for John I think. I appreciate not everyone wants comments on their babies :)
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I'll wait for John I think. I appreciate not everyone wants comments on their babies :)
Oh dear, it was only meant as a play on words...
Rob
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I assumed it was but I'm still waiting :)
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If you think it is positive, go ahead. Except for trying to bring down the highlights, I posted image as is. But lack of critique is why I post on this thread. With obvious exceptions, I have long since given up doing critiques on other photographers on this site. It is seldom positive or productive. I always say, you can can crop an image seven ways to Sunday and still have a valid outcome, but obviously different.
JR
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If you think it is positive, go ahead. But lack of critique is why I post on this thread. With obvious exceptions, I have long since given up doing critiques on other photographers on this site. It is seldom positive or productive. I always say, you can can crop an image seven ways to Sunday and still have a valid outcome, but obviously different.
JR
Hey John,
I think you may have just invented a new art form. How about cropping critiques any way we like? ;D
Or, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, "My ... there is a ... picture."
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If you think it is positive, go ahead. Except for trying to bring down the highlights, I posted image as is. But lack of critique is why I post on this thread. With obvious exceptions, I have long since given up doing critiques on other photographers on this site. It is seldom positive or productive. I always say, you can can crop an image seven ways to Sunday and still have a valid outcome, but obviously different.
JR
I think I'll pass :)
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Hey Dave, I don't mind observations. Just want to try and stay positive on this thread.
I mentioned the inside of the aquarium was very colourful in contrast to the outside. Here are two samples. First is straight shot, second, a camera motion technique:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-DKJ3QNR/0/M/JMRO7271%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-rRPBSjP/0/M/Dec%201-%202016%20Ripleys%20Aquarium%20110%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Double Doors
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Slightly askew.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-LNdCBjF/0/M/Oct%2021-%202013%20Sumacs%20Hwy%2027%20076%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Lovely tones. Somehow the composition doesn't seem quite right, maybe the lamp needs to be more assertive?
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Lovely tones. Somehow the composition doesn't seem quite right, maybe the lamp needs to be more assertive?
No, the lamp always retains its character, but shifting the logo to the other side of its stalk balances the whole. That's the beauty of logos.
;-)
Rob
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It's possible.
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It's possible.
You see the beauty of photography? I've just finished breakfast (such as it is) and here, on the Internet, have now found enough glow for me to start the rest of the day!
;-)
Rob C
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You see the beauty of photography? I've just finished breakfast (such as it is) and here, on the Internet, have now found enough glow for me to start the rest of the day!
;-)
Rob C
Well spoken, Rob.
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Actually, Rob has a point. I try to place logo where it does least amount of damage. Sometimes I can't do anything about it, short of not placing any logo on image.
As to not "quite right", that is true. That is why I said it was slightly askew. When you shoot upwards and off centre, everything goes askew. Notice the top windows do not line up and are not symmetrical with bottom windows. So I straightened and balanced as best I could. Architecture is one of the few subjects that needs to be shot wide with lots of room on either side to make it easier to do perspective corrections. I forgot to shoot wide. Without perspective lens and correct standing position you make do. Very engaging shapes, colours and contrasting tones. See below where I did not leave enough room on either side of windows in this alternate composition:( And say hello to lamp that is obviously trying to have a conversation with viewers.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-2fp3d2b/0/M/Oct%2021-%202013%20Sumacs%20Hwy%2027%20073%20copy1000-M.jpg)
JR
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I like it, John.
But as for your logo, I would be tempted to put the three letters in three of the windows, probably 1, 2, and 4. ;)
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Rainy Night Traffic. Shot while stopped in traffic long enough for me to stop the wipers and focus.
(http://www.theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/RainyNightTraffic.jpg)
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Slightly askew.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-LNdCBjF/0/M/Oct%2021-%202013%20Sumacs%20Hwy%2027%20076%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
Your online presentations would be improved wit a barely visible transparent signature.
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Rainy Night Traffic. Shot while stopped in traffic long enough for me to stop the wipers and focus.
(http://www.theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/RainyNightTraffic.jpg)
Nice and lively, Stephen.
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Rainy Night Traffic. Shot while stopped in traffic long enough for me to stop the wipers and focus.
(http://www.theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/RainyNightTraffic.jpg)
Really like that sort of imagery; wish I had the energy to go out on rainy nights. Wish I had the energy to go out any nights! Once the computer's wound up, that's it until time for bed.
;-)
Rob
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Was it a rainy night in Georgia? You should develop this further. If I could get my wife to drive I would take lots of these kinds of photos. You can produce some interesting images, as you have done.
JR
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Some "freshly fallen silent shroud(s) of snow," with apologies to Paul Simon.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-a-winters-day/i-nMRnkXT/0/M/Dec%2031-12%20Bftn%20%26%20Caledon%20115%20cropcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Was it a rainy night in Georgia? You should develop this further. If I could get my wife to drive I would take lots of these kinds of photos. You can produce some interesting images, as you have done.
JR
It was a rainy night in Northern Virginia, which isn't nearly as melodic.
Thanks for the comments everyone!
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Rainy Night Traffic. Shot while stopped in traffic long enough for me to stop the wipers and focus.
(http://www.theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/RainyNightTraffic.jpg)
Very nice.
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Some "freshly fallen silent shroud(s) of snow," with apologies to Paul Simon.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-a-winters-day/i-nMRnkXT/0/M/Dec%2031-12%20Bftn%20%26%20Caledon%20115%20cropcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
Beautiful! (as usual)
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2911_orig.jpg)
Rob
Neat!
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Rob, you raised the standard of "abstract" to a new level with the dancers!
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Rob, you raised the standard of "abstract" to a new level with the dancers!
All in a morning's work, Slobodan...
No, that's a fib: all in the gifts we are sometimes offered. But yeah, no kidding, things come out to you and then again they don't. You have to take what you are given.
Thanks.
Rob
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2911_orig.jpg)
Rob
I don't know what it is but it's really nice!
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# 21
At my local car wash the "slappy things" (as my pal Susan calls 'em) are a dingy red/brown. :)
-Dave-
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At my local car wash the "slappy things" (as my pal Susan calls 'em) are a dingy red/brown. :)
-Dave-
When they saw Bob coming with his camera, they quickly dies the "slappy things."
Nice shot, Bob.
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I'd not seen such stunningly blue brushes before. They must be new. I'm slowly building an impressive collection of unmarketable esoteric "upside down" photos. When the picture is oriented correctly, the blue "slappy things" remind me too much of Cousin Itt from the Addams family.
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Your new "upside down" vision seems a little like a throwback to the view camera ground glass. ;)
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Your new "upside down" vision seems a little like a throwback to the view camera ground glass. ;)
True, but I'm only flipping them vertically. I have a nice camera obscura that I built in grad school. Whenever I get the itch to see the world upside down and flipped along the X axis, I pull it off the shelf and peer into it. Have you ever seen an upside down alligator? I'm sure Russ has.
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Some of my happiest photographic moments with my old 8x10 view camera were just peering at the ground glass with no film holders with me.
I would see these lovely scenes, full size (in those days, 8x10" wasa big print), and in glorious technicolor. When I used film it was always B&W.
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Some of my happiest photographic moments with my old 8x10 view camera were just peering at the ground glass with no film holders with me.
I would see these lovely scenes, full size (in those days, 8x10" wasa big print), and in glorious technicolor. When I used film it was always B&W.
As a young adult, I tried shooting color negative film with a Calumet 4X5 and a 210mm Commercial Ektar lens. I gave up after going through a 25-sheet box. The prints I got back from the lab were uninspiring. I couldn't afford to have anything custom printed. So, like most amateurs, I went back to black and white. ... I have strong and pleasant memories of covering up with a dark cloth and viewing topsy turvy scenes projected in living color onto the ground glass screen. And of course using a 7X loupe added to the enjoyment.
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Weston's Pepper, in color, and through a glass darkly?
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Rob, you raised the standard of "abstract" to a new level with the dancers!
Totally! Better than a Pirelli calender! :)
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2933_2_orig.jpg)
While your "strip dancers" were stark and naked, this is simply lovely colour.
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Jan,
Thank you for the comment; it's particularly pleasing to me because that search for colour, as almost apart from shape or substance, it really what attracts me about colour. Take colour too literally, and then I find that black/white offers me more. Thing about all photography that hit me after I stopped doing it commercially, was that everybody knows what something looks like, and thus, what's the point of making a straight picture of it since there's neither mystery nor question. In other words, where business needs accuarte information or even better fibs, the amateur side of the art is entirely open to the individual's personal quest of leaving reality aside, wherever that leads.
Peter,
Thanks for the compliment, and FWIW I have to agree about Pirelli insofar as they truly do seem to have lost the plot in the past few years. In fact, I would venture out on a limb and say that ever since they did the Hans Feurer one in the Seychelles, which opened a several-year gap in production, they have been hoist by their own petard of hubris, thinking, when they took up production again, that the honest route of letting a photographer do his thing was no longer enough: the pretentiousness of the art world crept (rushed?) into the things and they made that fatal mistake of embracing Concepts. Calendars are not about concepts, calendars are about people wanting something attractive and possibly useful on their wall. One usually gets to see a single page at a time; concepts require a time-continuity of visibility in order to make any sense: you have to be allowed to flick through the whole thing at once to get it. IMO, with calendars, all they (concepts) do is stifle the model and snapper on the ground. I've been through that one several times myself, and it ends up in tears and lost relationships.
Eric,
I don't think Weston would have approved; come to think of it, I don't think many of that era would have approved! Fortunately or otherwise, I have seldom fitted my times for very long: seems I arrive either too soon or too late, and the older I get the stronger the impression I have that yep, it is all far too late in the circle for personal synchrony with the zeitgeist! For this whirl, at least!
;-)
Rob
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As my Aunt Anna likely would've said, had she seen Rob's last three photos: "Those snaps are positively spiffing!"
Positively spiffing, always spoken with an affected posh accent, was among her favorite phrases. Whenever a photo of mine earned this verdict I knew I'd done very well.
-Dave-
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As my Aunt Anna likely would've said, had she seen Rob's last three photos: "Those snaps are positively spiffing!"
Positively spiffing, always spoken with an affected posh accent, was among her favorite phrases. Whenever a photo of mine earned this verdict I knew I'd done very well.
-Dave-
I think I love your Aunt Anna! Not so sure about them being my last photos, though; had high hopes on making more later on...
;-)
Rob
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Rob,
I would say your three most recent photos are positively spiffing, and I look forward to many more, as I expect Dave and Aunt Anna do too.
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Rob,
I would say your three most recent photos are positively spiffing, and I look forward to many more, as I expect Dave and Aunt Anna do too.
Eric,
Having wasted the morning in a badly-attended Community of Owners EGM, I take your post as a positive lifting of my soul! I'm so relieved that I refused to stand as pressy anymore a few years ago: the sense of community has changed so dramatically in the past thrirty-six years; most of the original people who bought wanted to be able to retire to the place or simply enjoy it themselves whenever the fancy took, whereas the newer lot see it only as a means to making rental (illegal without permits, which you can almost never get) income, and obviously want to spend as little as possible on maintaining the area. BobDavid may soon have a new subject to cover! I hope I jest.
Rob
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everybody knows what something looks like, and thus, what's the point of making a straight picture of it since there's neither mystery nor question.
Agreed. I've recently arrived at that location a few times myself, wondering as I'm shooting something: "Haven't we seen this before? What's the point?"
the amateur side of the art is entirely open to the individual's personal quest of leaving reality aside, wherever that leads.
And that's why it's so good to be a retired photographer these days, rather than a professional. We're now amateurs again, in the best sense of the word. We to it for the love of it.
all they (concepts) do is stifle the model and snapper on the ground. I've been through that one several times myself, and it ends up in tears and lost relationships.
What a shame. The word "stifle" should never appear in connection with any shoot.
it is all far too late in the circle for personal synchrony with the zeitgeist! For this whirl, at least!
NEVER too late! 8) "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
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Agreed. I've recently arrived at that location a few times myself, wondering as I'm shooting something: "Haven't we seen this before? What's the point?"
And that's why it's so good to be a retired photographer these days, rather than a professional. We're now amateurs again, in the best sense of the word. We to it for the love of it.
What a shame. The word "stifle" should never appear in connection with any shoot.
NEVER too late! 8) "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
And you say that wearing shades!
;-)
Rob
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2881_orig.jpg)
Rob
FWIW, IMO the use of faux frame and matts impede the potential impact for online presentation. Nice work otherwise.
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FWIW, IMO the use of faux frame and matts impede the potential impact for online presentation. Nice work otherwise.
It's not as simple as that.
You really have to choose how you want your images to accept contrast outside of them. In other words, were I to process my pictures to view them within white, I'd do one thing, but to be seen within grey or black, another level of internal tonality is required. The same development does not work the same within different backgrounds; try framing one of your own pictures within several different tones of background and see what you conclude. When I process, I automatically create a white border around the job.
My website is tailored to suit the format you see here, and that's all anybody on LuLa or anywhere else is going to get unless they buy a print. Which, as I no longer have a great printer for which I can buy inks (thanks, HP!), means that I may decide never to print again, and so I shall keep the prints I already hold.
In photography, there's usually a reason for everything.
;-)
Rob
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You really have to choose how you want your images to accept contrast outside of them. In other words, were I to process my pictures to view them within white, I'd do one thing, but to be seen within grey or black, another level of internal tonality is required. The same development does not work the same within different backgrounds
I often put borders around my online images for similar reasons. Trouble is, some images look good to me against a darker background, but not as good against a lighter one, no matter how I adjust the development. Jumping between various backgrounds within a single website seems a bad idea, though.
Add my praise to your last three contributions, Rob. All outstanding.
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I often put borders around my online images for similar reasons. Trouble is, some images look good to me against a darker background, but not as good against a lighter one, no matter how I adjust the development. Jumping between various backgrounds within a single website seems a bad idea, though.
Add my praise to your last three contributions, Rob. All outstanding.
Thanks for the kind comment, Arlen, and you're right: some images can't really work on both types of background. It's an extreme example, of course, but the one of the ribs, Ups and Downs, set against black would lose its edges completely and just become part of an extended page, or whatever it's viewed against. There was a similar effect in the old darkrooms, where one had the choice of white plastic, transparent perspex or even coloured developing dishes; they could give you a false impression of what you were processing, as could processing under the wrong safelight, sometimes a red, which wasn't the right choice because for my WSG stuff it should always have been a sort of yellow/green tinged safelight called an OB or something like that - no longer sure, exactly, of its code so long ago.
The other point about the darkrooom colours, apart from the safety angle, is that you had to become accustomed to a standard, much as with ambient light on monitors, where you unthinkingly understood what a print would end up looking like at the end of the process. Have to say, a wet print on a plastic draining sheet over the wash tank often looked far nicer than it ever could dried. ;-)
Lots of things in photography to make life difficult!
Rob
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Rob,
I would say your three most recent photos are positively spiffing, and I look forward to many more, as I expect Dave and Aunt Anna do too.
;D Properly corrected, I am.
(Attached photo of Aunt Anna & Dave taken in Oban, Scotland, while on a bus/boat tour to the island of Iona, summer 1972. There's an in-joke being shared, thus one face's grin and the other's grimace. Anna was an expert cut-up.)
-Dave-
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;D Properly corrected, I am.
(Attached photo of Aunt Anna & Dave taken in Oban, Scotland, while on a bus/boat tour to the island of Iona, summer 1972. There's an in-joke being shared, thus one face's grin and the other's grimace. Anna was an expert cut-up.)
-Dave-
Aunt Anna has a very familiar face; the style of dress and hair are very much of Scotland in those days. You can tell at once that Carnaby Street, insofar as it ever made it up to Scotland, was limited to the very young, and older poseurs like, ahem, fashion photogrsphers I know rather well! But on the other hand, my Ann (wife) was rather keen on style, and often would buy from the makers stuff we'd just photographed... them wuz the days!
If you went to Iona, you did better than I: I made Oban, but never the islands - AKAIR. I just had no local curiosity. Unless you want to include some cameras. I see you already had one... where's the uke or banjo?
;-)
Rob
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I think I would have liked Aunt Anna a lot.
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If you went to Iona, you did better than I: I made Oban, but never the islands - AKAIR. I just had no local curiosity. Unless you want to include some cameras. I see you already had one... where's the uke or banjo?
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We did get to Iona as part of a loop around the Isle of Mull, also stopping at Tobermory along the way. Can't remember now if it was a single day or two day boat trip. I do remember the water was choppy. My camera was a Kodak Instamatic. This was around the time my dad started letting me use his Leica, though it was left at home on this vacation in favor of his more pocketable Retina. The plastic uke was also left at home. :)
Anna lived in the US for decades, but the dress she's wearing was probably made by my mom. I remember that Mom liked '60s fashion from a distance but had no interest in making clothes influenced by it.
Anna was truly a gem. Huge influence on me.
-Dave-
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We did get to Iona as part of a loop around the Isle of Mull, also stopping at Tobermory along the way. Can't remember now if it was a single day or two day boat trip. I do remember the water was choppy. My camera was a Kodak Instamatic. This was around the time my dad started letting me use his Leica, though it was left at home on this vacation in favor of his more pocketable Retina. The plastic uke was also left at home. :)
Anna lived in the US for decades, but the dress she's wearing was probably made by my mom. I remember that Mom liked '60s fashion from a distance but had no interest in making clothes influenced by it.
Anna was truly a gem. Huge influence on me.
-Dave-
Very few males have had much impact on my way of thinking; almost everything that I hold dear or in which I believe I find basic truth has come from the distaff side of my life. Influence from the male membership of the family tree has been practically zero. I think women have more imagination and much more sense of reality, too, whereas males seem to major in one direction at a time. It's not about multi-tasking at all, but about breadth of personality.
Perhaps that's why many men fear them.
Rob
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I see that Rob has been tearing up this thread lately. There is smoke everywhere. They are all somewhat mysterious. Must be a new found love.
Here is one I took today, which I think conveys a little bit of loneliness. Debated whether I should tone down contrast and accentuate the loneliness even more.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Hilton-Falls/i-X7FsZNR/0/M/JMRO7896%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Nice one, John. Even if it is sharp. ;)
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Nice one, John. Even if it is sharp. ;)
I know how it feels. It has my sympathy. Only the return of summer can help either of us.
Rob
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Can't wait for summer. Must learn to photograph in, and enjoy all seasons. Doctor's orders, no excuses. So here is one more minimalist image from my walk.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Hilton-Falls/i-R3TjDtX/0/M/Dec%2018-%202016%20Terra%20Cotta%20062%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Can't wait for summer. Must learn to photograph in, and enjoy all seasons. Doctor's orders, no excuses. So here is one more minimalist image from my walk.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Hilton-Falls/i-R3TjDtX/0/M/Dec%2018-%202016%20Terra%20Cotta%20062%20copy1000-M.jpg)
You may have been walking, but your buddy, Batman, was clearly flying.
;-)
Rob
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You may have been walking, but your buddy, Batman, was clearly flying.
;-)
Rob
+1. ;)
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So you see, it's no lie: the rumours are true!
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2908_1_orig.jpg)
Nancy & Sid? Marilyn & James Dean (never woulda guessed!)? :)
-Dave-
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Thread drift. That's not an abstract.
Just sayin'
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Thread drift. That's not an abstract.
Just sayin'
Wot!? Ghosts not abstract?
Jus' thinkin'
;-)
Rob
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Yeh, ghosts are abstract, by definition. :)
But this thread is so good, so unique, I hate to see it drifting off course.
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Batman mythology notwithstanding, it's pays to explore our shadows and it makes light even more welcoming; especially in Winter! Getting home after work is no fun. It's dark and there is no time to photograph.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Hilton-Falls/i-bNVstZN/0/M/Dec%2018-%202016%20Terra%20Cotta%20031%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Batman mythology notwithstanding, it's pays to explore our shadows and it makes light even more welcoming; especially in Winter! Getting home after work is no fun. It's dark and there is no time to photograph.
Already being home because there is no work is even less fun; don't knock the alternative!
;-)
Rob
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Yeh, ghosts are abstract, by definition. :)
But this thread is so good, so unique, I hate to see it drifting off course.
How ironic that I made a similar observation some time ago, and had my little knuckles politely rapped!
We are in danger of being thought of as fundamentalists. Not a good idea in today's clime.
Rob
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Rob, I see... I think?... very mysterious. A shaft of light makes an appearance and points to a window we cannot see through. I better go sleep on this.
JR
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Rob, I see... I think?... very mysterious. A shaft of light makes an appearance and points to a window we cannot see through. I better go sleep on this.
JR
I agree with you, John, better to lie down!
The explanation is terribly mundane: I just saw it and liked it, which is pretty much all I think photography ever is, unless you're trying to sell something. It's what I'm always trying to say to people: it's in one's head/eye or it isn't, and if it is, all you can do about it is photograph it, for better or for worse; and even then, with or without one, it exits whilst it exists... hence my Glimpsed Parallels gallery. I have a couple of recent shots where I can't even find again the polished steel plate on a wall where I shot the reflections. I am sure I know where I made them, but the plate - vanished! And I live between two tiny towns. God knows whether Leiter could ever have found some of his windows again, let alone redo the magic he noticed within them!
One of the reasons I'd love to be able to move back to a city to end my days is because of the variety of stuff around, especially for somebody like me who has been away from big conurbations almost for ever, it feels, but at least for about half a lifetime. So much 'new' old stuff to rediscover... perhaps.
;-)
Rob
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I just saw it and liked it.
Every photographer should write that on the blackboard 1000 times!
That is, indeed, the essence of photography.
Thanks, Rob.
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Rob, it was tongue in cheek. However, I do believe some of the images we take during the course of our lives do reflect how we feel, or that we choose to photograph certain subjects because they have a certain resonance for us. One example is the image I just posted that I said represented loneliness and isolation. That's is what I saw when I first encountered it.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Hilton-Falls/i-X7FsZNR/0/S/JMRO7896%20copy1000-S.jpg)
And if one continues to have certain subjects with a theme or similar treatments, I think one can say that it may represent something. Not your latest image, but certainly some of the images you have posted have a kind if underlining look or theme. Does it have meaning? I can't say for sure, but it may have. And if you exhibited a whole body work, we may see a theme, or not. I don't think we should exclude possible social, cultural and psychological meaning in photographs or a body of work, but certainly not for most images. It goes without saying that the images with the most impact usually have an emotional appeal as well. So keep it up.
JR
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John,
I know you were joking: I never had that sort of impact on anyone with a snap!
But on a broader sense of the photographic images one makes: yes, there are bound to be personal sensations that drive one to recognize particular motifs as being relevant to one's own being, and that's probably why I keep well away from landscape. It is historical: I used to specialize in model pictures, and when that ended I found myself faced with the stark choice of either spending my own money on the delightful creatures or doing something else, something available and free rather than imported and prohibitively expensive. Available meant landscape, and I simply felt nothing for it beyond its use as frame for a person. Of course I could see a beauty in sunsets, multi-coloured beaches and shallow seas, but the prettier they were the more they required the human touch (for me) to make photographic sense.
So, that made me think of alternatives: find a new genre or just sell everything off and take up social drinking (and its consequences) when drink isn't permitted due to heart problems. Fortunately for me, the Internet reopend my memory to stuff that was seminal when I first became attracted to the medium, and in many ways it saved me from floundering about like a dying fish in the bottom of a boat. Which was where 'street' came in, but not necessarily in the sense of confrontational stuff, but more of what being in public can reveal in a visual sense. Hence, reflections within windows, views on advertising media, and so forth. I'd say that at the taking stage, these all conform to a broad concept of what I may think street is, but at the processing stage, I know very well that I try to eliminated as much as I can and concentrate on whatever I feel might really be the point of that image. At that time, the moment of where to fly, I have to admit to a somewhat jaundiced view on society and the human condition as I experience it. So if bleak is the speak, then that's perhaps fairly accurate a reflection of where I feel that I am. Conversely, there are times when I go out with a caption in my head, trying to find something to suit it. But usually not: usually it's about the thing hitting me right on the nose.
Frankly, I don't care very much for situations where the plot is laid out plainly for all to see; I suppose it's why I would much prefer doing fashion photography again rather than calendars, given both chance and choice, and unlike in my professional life, where I honestly didn't feel myself much influenced by other snappers if only because there was never time to think about dong anything "à la" but just to get on with it in one's own way as rapidly as possible, in post-pro life I find the opposite true, and the more I trawl and absorb those Americans and Europeans of the 40s and 50s, the more drawn I am to try to enter into a contemporary version of their world. Of course, that's impossible too, if only because nobody wears real hats anymore, and yellow cabs are not plentiful on the streets of Mallorca. I think the last time I saw a striped barber's pole was in 50s Glasgow.
So maybe even what I do get around to doing is actually born of a sense of frustration and that will out in the pictures too, I guess. What's funny, to me, is seeing other contemporary people trying to ape Leiter, Levitt, Klein, Callahan, Levinstein et al. and do so with razor-crisp images and terribly vibrant colours, killing the real sense of what was with their oh so very modern tools.
If one has to be nostalgic, be nostalgic for the real thing, try to be honest to it.
Rob
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How about a rush of lavender for a more sunny disposition?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-zmgrGdD/0/M/July%2013-2016%20Weirs%20Lavender%20farm-raw%20009%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Or deep long shadows from a cemetery and converted to BW for a sombre feeling?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Hilton-Falls/i-LfNHh7p/0/M/Dec%2018-%202016%20Terra%20Cotta%20151%20bw-copy1000-M.jpg)
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Happy holidays to all!
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Well I have been working on my inventory. I expect to get rid of half. I never should have listened to the advice,"save everything." Of course I mean cull juduciously not radomly.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-f2R3zSj/0/M/Feb%2020-12%20Downtown%20083%20copy3-1000-M.jpg)
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Well John don't ditch this one please!
Excellent work - even to how you have signed your moniker!
Tony Jay
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Well John don't ditch this one please!
Excellent work - even to how you have signed your moniker!
Tony Jay
+1.
Nice almost disappearing watermark.
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Thanks Tony and Eric. Some beautiful noise from my inventory files and from night shot experiments. Discovered that with moving subjects such as water and trees, or moving the camera, you can get some really interesting aesthetically appealing images by recovering the shadow areas.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-3djhDk4/0/M/Aug%202-12%20HP%20088%20panocopy2-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-wX7jHpG/0/M/Aug%202-12%20HP%20106%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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You continue to be very inventive, John. Nice work.
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For us Xmasers with nothing much better to do:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2899_orig.jpg)
;-)
Hah! "Ho ho h…"
(I think I hear Santa coughing. Or choking.)
-Dave-
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Hah! "Ho ho h…"
(I think I hear Santa coughing. Or choking.)
-Dave-
Well seen, Dave! I didn't get that connection until you pointed it out! I was thinking more along cattle-branding lines...
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Rob C
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Well seen, Dave! I didn't get that connection until you pointed it out! I was thinking more along cattle-branding lines...
;-)
Rob C
Your unconscious mind is even more mischievous than your conscious mind, Rob. ;)
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Saw that great abstract from Harold which reminded me of this set of two buildings I explored:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-mctkTtP/0/M/Aug%2026-12%20Evans-QEW%20bldg%20078%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-8phhvgr/0/M/Aug%2026-12%20Evans-QEW%20bldg%20089%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-D3nF3GG/0/M/Aug%2026-12%20Evans-QEW%20bldg%20097%20bw1000-M.jpg)
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In Birmingham city centre
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/1/365/31952197006_0f4088f988_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/QFvmYo)
Mike
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In Birmingham city centre
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/1/365/31952197006_0f4088f988_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/QFvmYo)
Mike
Love the left side in particular; great balance of components in the overall shapel! However, I believe that left part would make a wonderful image on its own.
Rob C
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Just the metal on the left or with some of the three buttons?
I'm not prissy and on a good day I could move the buttons.
A square crop would leave just one button which might be OK.
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I like it just the way it is, but the left part alone would also work, but be very different.
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Just the metal on the left or with some of the three buttons?
I'm not prissy and on a good day I could move the buttons.
A square crop would leave just one button which might be OK.
No, just the left on its own. If you want to include the buttons, you already have a fine picture as it is.
Rob
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I see, I think I'll leave it be then.
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It was Dec 3, 2012, I was on winter walk hoping for some interesting winter subjects after a snowfall. But it was so warm the snow melted, so I photographed the trees--sort of.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Hilton-Falls/i-nvLwKMC/0/M/Dec%203-12%20Terra%20Cotta%20056%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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I've got to say: I sort of like that one, John!
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Thank you Eric. I can't think of a better way to usher in the New Year given my circumstances, so here is one more for the the new year.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-bjMdKMb/0/M/July%2018-12%20Bronte%20Pier%20120%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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That's nifty. It doesn't look like trees at all. Maybe a Ferrari in free fall?
Happy New Year!
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Eric you are right, it is a reflection on car hood. And here is one with a simple gradient applied and it too is a reflection from an elevator door.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-R3kg62h/0/M/June%2018-12%20RBG%20051%20copy3-1000-M.jpg)
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One glance at that and I immediately said "Elevator door"... NOT!
Nicely playful and certainly abstract.
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Yes, less is very often more! Nice pair of pairs.
Rob
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Thank you. I very much enjoy simple and strong compositions even if I don't come up with as many as I would like.
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Designed by winter and the hand of man.
(http://www.pbase.com/art1/image/164795362/original.jpg)
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Rained again yesterday...
(http://www.theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/WetCommuteV.jpg)
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Nice work Stephen, I really like that one!
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Nice work Stephen, I really like that one!
+1.
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Excellent Arlen! Well seen. And I like the panoramic crop that enhances the long look and avoids a static middle.
Nice work Stephen. Reminds me of fish in a tank with undulating water.
JR
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Arlen, for once I think the framing enhances the image which in itself I think is strong enough not to need any help anyway. Nice geometry, nice colours, nice lack of colours :)
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Thanks guys. Mike, I have an Action that applies that frame. I thought it needed something to separate the white parts of the image from the background, but it could probably have been just a thin black border line.
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Anyone want a seat at the table? A refreshing picnic lunch, maybe?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-cHhj4PQ/0/M/Jan%2028-2013%20High%20Park%20004%20smugcopy-M.jpg)
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Hello, Hello, Aloe...in a rush...
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-c6w4CFQ/0/M/Feb%2018-13%20Allen%20Gardens%20029%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Like the picnic facilities :)
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Hello, Hello, Aloe...in a rush...
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-c6w4CFQ/0/M/Feb%2018-13%20Allen%20Gardens%20029%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Rish? No. That's an image that invites me to slow down and just soak my eyeballs in it. Beautiful!
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2995_orig.jpg)
Rob C
Ah! A Rob C rewrite of a BobDavid subject. Nice.
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Ah! A Rob C rewrite of a BobDavid subject. Nice.
Wot!!! This is the sea!
Actually, it's a shot with (if my memory isn't playing short-term tricks with me again) the seldom-used D700 and my manual 2/35 at f2.8. I stopped down a tiny bit just in case the thing wasn't going to be crisp enough on the grid wide open. The point is, I should just have stayed wide open and got a wee bit more blur, because doing manual focus, as I sway about so much, at that close distance focus without af is going to be approximate at the best of times! Perhaps C focussing would have helped, and a manual optic preclues that, and I think that this is one of those few types of shot when sharpness on the main thing really counts... Tripod? Are you kidding?
Oh well, it's 2017, so new things happen.
;-)
Rob
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Green from the tree that reminds us of the season of snow.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-6wJzkkS/0/M/Feb%2018-13%20Allen%20Gardens%20019%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2995_orig.jpg)
I see ya, Saul!
Err…Rob.
-Dave-
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This is not good Rob. It looks like you are on the inside trying to get out. But I am afraid, since you do so much good work on the inside, you have stay there.
JR
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Visited City Hall square with club group last night. Verrrry colddd!! The city tree lights slightly desaturated to bring out the reds even more. And square image with unusual foreground- as if I tried to smudge it- but it all the result of focusing and defocusing two images.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-sx6Wm49/0/M/Jan%208-2017%20City%20Hall-2-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-rBNbD6L/0/M/Jan%208-2017%20202%20copy1000%20City%20Hall-M.jpg)
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Rob... sumptuous, as usual.
(I was listening to Bernard Stiegler, a French philosopher, who was saying that the primary goal of art prior to the 20th century was "to be sumptuous". I rather liked that).
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Thanks for the kind remarks, people.
John's not far off target: I do feel I live most of my present life trying to be somewhere else. I could even say that it goes beyond that, to knowing that I have also felt myself never to belong fully anywhere at all. Perhaps it's due to living in several different countries as a kid, and then again years later on. Perhaps all of us who never really grew up living in any single home town feel that way. In fact, there are times when I look at my life, both the good and the bad of it, and think that I never actually managed to grow up at all, which probably explains why I have enjoyed so much of it. I have also come to realise that I have been truly blessed, and am not at all sure why. Even the hard bits turned out good in that they gave me the inner strength to handle spiritual pain. Crack my leg and I scream as loudly as the next!
;-)
Rob
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Visited City Hall square with club group last night. Verrrry colddd!! The city tree lights slightly desaturated to bring out the reds even more. And square image with unusual foreground- as if I tried to smudge it- but it all the result of focusing and defocusing two images.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-sx6Wm49/0/M/Jan%208-2017%20City%20Hall-2-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-rBNbD6L/0/M/Jan%208-2017%20202%20copy1000%20City%20Hall-M.jpg)
Very interesting.
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Thanks Graham. I was bemused that some people said there is nothing to photograph. It is like saying to a painter, don't go there we have exhausted all possible interpretations. I am always sympathetic, because I once thought that way too.
A few from the same outing. At the time Toronto City Hall was built, it was considered one of the most striking modern buildings:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-LJc2Gp7/1/M/Jan%209-%202017%20Toronto%20City%20Hall%20087%20copy1000-M.jpg) (https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-B8kPhgN/0/M/Jan%209-%202017%20Toronto%20City%20Hall%20212%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-2htchXg/0/M/Jan%209-%202017%20Toronto%20City%20Hall%20217%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
Those from Toronto will recognize this scene and what I have done to it.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-4sM3wZq/0/M/Jan%209-%202017%20Toronto%20City%20Hall%20220%20copy3-1000-M.jpg)
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Funny what sunlight can do with a ventilator.
There is a scene in Godard's Alphaville I think... I can't find it now (and google is now flooded by results for a Japanese pop-band who've taken that name).
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The flag sure went nicely with the shapes and colours.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-T7J7PBm/0/M/Jan%209-%202017%20Toronto%20City%20Hall%20147%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Shadows
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This bench, much overlooked, finally made its way into my graces.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-VmRcpWg/0/M/Aug%2023-2014%20Riverwood%20Park%20016%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Some shadows
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/432/32175156862_a2ef921471_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/R2d6aQ)
Mike
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The lamp called this morning.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-BdnnrnQ/0/M/JMRO8340%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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I like the sweeping curves and I like the way they are interrupted. I think the grey edge on the right works well but I'm not so sure about the top, does it look just a little pointlessly messy?
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Yes, I suppose I could have cropped out the top border of the lamp shade, but I left it in because I am doing series on lamp abstracts from window blinds and sun and shadow effects. I want people to recognize the abstracts are from the lamp, shade and sun and how you can work a scene and get many results.
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Makes sense :)
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For now, most are variations on the larger scene of the lamp seen here. I am going to try for some really close up abstracts like the alternating stripes. Should be interesting.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-ZcwSJrv/0/M/Jan%209-%202017%20Toronto%20City%20Hall%20005%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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For now, most are variations on the larger scene of the lamp seen here...
A very pleasing color palette, scene and composition in itself.
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For now, most are variations on the larger scene of the lamp seen here. I am going to try for some really close up abstracts like the alterating stripes. Should be interesting.
JR
I love this image.
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Thank you Slobodan and Graeme. Me lamp thanks you too ;)
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It looks like a fascinating series, John.
When I first saw it, it feelt to me as if your lamp was trying to steal some of the shadows from DrMike's image.
Personally, I prefer the original, with the top of the lamp showing.
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Thank you Eric.
Ring around the Rosie, to warm you up on this midwinter day. But the irony is this was taken in a cemetery.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-ddFrBT6/0/M/Jul%2013-%202014%20Woodlawn%20cememtery%20023%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-fMZRPTt/0/M/June%201-%202014%20RBG%20215%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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The Cloud Gods are watching those who critique in a mean spirited and unhelpful way! This one had one eye and mouth when I spotted him. But of course I am just kidding. I have to do something for creative competition ;)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-KVZCvfd/0/M/June%201-%202014%20RBG%20016%20copy1000-2-M.jpg)
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By the water's edge.
JMR
One with fast movement of camera:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscape-Impressions/i-W7f2wmT/0/M/July%2011-%202014%20Sunnyside%20048%20copy1000-M.jpg)
One with faster movement of camera:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscape-Impressions/i-6w9r6LQ/0/M/July%2011-%202014%20Sunnyside%20054%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Train Parts
Chuck
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Chuck, the high contrast works for me. Good distribution of black areas. Those are truck parts for a rail car. Interesting thing is you can tilt your camera any way you want for abstracts like these. Try some where the truck parts are lined up on a diagonal. So many interesting shapes, circles, triangles, lines, etc.
JR
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Two in-camera double exposures slightly cropped for maximum effect.
First combines two images straight on.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-4VSr3BM/0/M/Jan%2018-%202017%20Etobicoke%20Conservatory%20100%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Second combines a zoom with straight shot.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Kr4X6XT/0/M/Jan%2018-%202017%20Etobicoke%20Conservatory%20101%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Reducing a beautiful green scene to BW is not something I usually do, but I really like how the slight movement has created little strands of light, almost like steel wool in play.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-DKwJJPX/0/M/July%2028-%202014%20James%20Gardens%20232%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Incongruent.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-nvrpWsx/1/M/sept%2026-%202014%20Halton-badlands%20042%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Playing with shapes.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-BcBhVQH/0/M/Sept%2023-%202014%20Walmart%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-HFGj2c6/0/M/IMGP2733%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Love the first one with the light fluffy cloud drifting past a solid set of cubes. Nice conversion too, never an abstract though.
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I thought this artsy thread might benefit from some scholarly work on abstract art, Nobel-Prize level:
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/18/this-is-your-brain-on-art-a-neuroscientists-lessons-on-why-abstract-art-makes-our-brains-hurt-so-good/
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Some shadows
Mike
I like. Is okay to say that and just that?
Don Bryant
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Hey Slobodan, thank you for that link. It is very interesting reading, even the comments to the articles. Beats the unfiltered chaotic and crude comments of most You Tube channels. Now I will look for the works of the artists mentioned therein.
Thanks, JR
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I like. Is okay to say that and just that?
Don Bryant
Can't see why not :)
Just because I'm a windy, pompous gasbag I don't see why everyone else should be :)
Mike
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I thought this artsy thread might benefit from some scholarly work on abstract art, Nobel-Prize level:
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/18/this-is-your-brain-on-art-a-neuroscientists-lessons-on-why-abstract-art-makes-our-brains-hurt-so-good/
Nope, I don't like this sort of stuff any more than I do the standard hype from curators and similar committted (and thus compromised) people writing on the art of photography.
The simple truth is that anyone with a minimum of writing ability can produce this sort of material. One can state any position one desires, elaborate and convince the willing about anything; it's done in politics every day, and in advertising, every second.
From my point of view, all the different types of art represent are people striving to make themselves distinct from their peers, combined with the natural, inborn inclinations towards form and presentation that lurk within them, the very things that oblige them to take to art in the first place.
References to olden times are faux: in those years art was ever commissioned, it was executed/created for the greater glory of religion and banks and the glorification of ancestry of popes and other dignitaries. Art for art's sake didn't exist. It was a commercial venture, pure and simple. Without patronage it (art and artist) could not exist.
Modern painters also have to make enough money to keep 'em alive, but once a commercial market exists within which to strive and try one's luck, the ever-present problem of standing out is instantly appreciated on both sides of the financial exchange, and so people experiment until they find a niche that pays off. That's the business of art, just as it is of photography. Those who photograph and/or paint without that commericial imperative are seldom household names, and so what they do or do not do is of relative importance to themselves alone; they do not form 'movements' nor do they create schools of visual thought and style.
For myself, I think that I increasingly find abstract paintings appealing. Why? Simply because they allow one to see something different almost all the time: they don't bore one, as would looking at the Mona Lisa ten times a day. Of course, for that to hold, one must first find an abstract piece that has instant appeal to one: if not, hatred will grow just as rapidly as regret of purchase. And I think that also applies to me with photographs, which are perhaps even more limited and constricted by their very ability to record too damned much information too well, and thus deny my own imagination the freedom to roam and extrapolate upon what's there. That's part of the fun of art: bringing your own head to it. When there's too much evidence there's not enough room for self. So then, why bother owning the thing in the first place? Just investment? A bit of reflected glory if somebody coming to visit you recognizes the creator's name?
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Can't see why not :)
Just because I'm a windy, pompous gasbag I don't see why everyone else should be :)
Mike
You mean like a bloviating old fart? ;)
Don Bryant
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You mean like a bloviating old fart? ;)
Don Bryant
That's me :)
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For myself, I think that I increasingly find abstract paintings appealing. Why? Simply because they allow one to see something different almost all the time: they don't bore one, as would looking at the Mona Lisa ten times a day.
This part nails it for me, Rob. A good abstract image invites my mind to explore it with my own imagination, not bound by what I'm "supposed" to see or feel.
The essay that Slobodan provided a link to buries the essential notion in a lot of excess verbiage.
I can't make up my mind. Is the writer of that essay a windy, pompous gasbag
, or a bloviating old fart
? Or both?
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All these comments remind me of the song, "Hurt so bad". When I thought it was all so good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTf18vueoKg
JR
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Most of my multi-exposure images do not turn out well, but I keep trying because I really like the look of the end result when it does turn out well.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-MnG4mkZ/0/M/sept%2026-%202014%20Halton-badlands%20077%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Time for less talk (from me) and more images. I may have shown one of them before.
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Time for less talk (from me) and more images. I may have shown one of them before.
This is going to be a dangerous post that may upset many; so, if you're easily upsettable, read no further.
Eric, the first one reminds me of the little Dutch boy who saved everybody by sticking his finger into a dyke.
Rob
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/l/little_dutch_boy.html
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It may be a myth for people with little experience with dykes, but it is getting older all the time.
The wall is certainly at war with flatness. It's my favorite.
Bruce
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It may be a myth for people with little experience with dykes, but it is getting older all the time.
The wall is certainly at war with flatness. It's my favorite.
Bruce
Thanks, Bruce.
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This is going to be a dangerous post that may upset many; so, if you're easily upsettable, read no further.
Eric, the first one reminds me of the little Dutch boy who saved everybody by sticking his finger into a dyke.
Rob
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/l/little_dutch_boy.html
How could I pass up reading a post with a come-on like that, Rob?
Actually, my response is that now I'm tempted to photograph my thumb and make a composite with my thumb stuck in the pipe hole. :D
Eric
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Eric the third image looks familiar. One of your early posts? I really like the last image and the tinges of blue throughout.
JR
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Eric the third image looks familiar. One of your early posts? I really like the last image and the tinges of blue throughout.
JR
Thanks, John.
The third one I may well have shown before, but probably in B&W if I did.
The last one is a window air conditioner that I saw walking in New York a couple of years ago.
Eric
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Thanks, John.
The third one I may well have shown before, but probably in B&W if I did.
The last one is a window air conditioner that I saw walking in New York a couple of years ago.
Eric
Cool trick! Did you engage it in conversation?
;-) ;-) ;-) Just a joke - not being a pedant - honest!
Rob
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The Toronto city Hall has a decidedly abstract shape. Love to photograph it. The immediate lighted areas kind of made it difficult to see what was in the night sky, so the blue sky that seemed to float by and surround the the city hall was a bonus.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-PmFzXZc/0/M/Jan%2015-%202017%20Toronto%20City%20Hall%20058%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/201701/i-nRK8j2q/0/O/PEG_NEX6_2_5221_20170130.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201701/i-nRK8j2q/A)
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Spanish Moss
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Chris you should look up a song by Gordon Lightfoot called, appropriately enough, "Spanish Moss."
This one is not moss:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-XdnMK9n/0/M/Aug%2018-%202013%20Caledon%20Badlands%20133%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Taken in the same locale:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-dKhbrbS/1/M/Aug%2018-%202013%20Caledon%20Badlands%20040%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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It's Queen Anne's Lace, a member of the wild carrot family.
Although a weed, some people do grow it in the garden. In July the crown does look lovely and has a fringe of pink.
JR
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It's Queen Anne's Lace, a member of the wild carrot family.
Although a weed, some people do grow it in the garden. In July the crown does look lovely and has a fringe of pink.
JR
Thanks John - noted that down now!
Does it have an edible root, or is the carrot connection too vague? However, that's probably going to be academic now, as the entire field has become a fresh forest of pines and wild oak. The maquis part is so thick it is pretty much impassable now, and I doubt much can grow through that cover.
Rob C
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Lost in textures ...
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Thanks John - noted that down now!
Does it have an edible root, or is the carrot connection too vague? However, that's probably going to be academic now, as the entire field has become a fresh forest of pines and wild oak. The maquis part is so thick it is pretty much impassable now, and I doubt much can grow through that cover.
Rob C
Yes Rob it is edible but inadvisable. According to Wikipedia, it is kind of woody and not very good. You must be homesick or nostalgic for the flowers you saw back home. I tried to find some in my files but have only this one which is a double exposure.
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I like your double exposure - nice technique with pleasing sort of diffusion.
Homesick? Moi? Not really. Spain has been my home for thirty-six years, a longer period than I've lived anywhere else.The Q.A.Lace stuff grows/grew right here in the ex-farm across the hedge. Yes, I am hoping to sell this place at some stage and return to the UK, but that's not driven by homesickness but by all maner of fiscal considerations. Had I no kids, I wouldn't give it a thought other than to how I might fare if the Brexit mess deprives me of health insurance out here.
I am trying hard to convince myself that there are advanages for me to returning, but it's a struggle and adventure in self-deception, as every call back there to anyone reminds me: they think I must be crazy to think of going back having made an escape! On the other hand, maybe they just rather have me a few thousand klicks away.
Flowers? I never enjoyed gardening. My wife sort of did, as did my mother, too, filling large gardens fore and aft her house until she got too old for it all and had to spend money paying gardeners to keep it all going. Which of course, was never as artistically done as she'd managed to do it.
You just can't replace love with paid hours.
Rob
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Rob one must garden for pleasure, because I have tried it, and it is a lot of work.
Here is one, same plant in winter, with a subtle treatment.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-pQtwLjX/0/M/Dec%203-12%20Terra%20Cotta%20005%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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It's a natural subject and I will say no more.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-WgWTz9Q/0/M/Aug%205-2013%20RBG%20038%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Wow, John!
I've run out of things to say about your abstracts. Beautiful, natural or not.
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Thanks Eric. Lilipads turning autumn colours on water reflecting blue sky.
JR
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As usual a number of engaging shots on this thread. I haven't contributed for a quite a while so here are 4 with somewhat different flavors.
Chuck
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It's the first one that works for me, the right mix of complexity and repetition. Although like the doors posted earlier, that's probably just a question regarding my psychology :)
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As usual a number of engaging shots on this thread. I haven't contributed for a quite a while so here are 4 with somewhat different flavors.
Chuck
Very different from what I've come to expect from you, Chuck. But very fine!
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Yes Chuck, a nice set. The first and last are quite mysterious.
JR
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OK, here's a new one (at last) from me.
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White chocolate and blueberry muffin?
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Of course not Graham: squashed butterfly, obviously!
A little fluttering of the wings before destructions, and we'd have had an original Ernst Haas!
;-)
Rob C
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OK, here's a new one (at last) from me.
Looks both like the remains of a muffin and a flower. Excellent!
JR
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Minimally speaking...
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-nPJxZVL/0/M/Dec%2012%202014%20Badlands%20011%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-htCJDdc/0/M/Dec%2012%202014%20Badlands%20030%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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OK, here's a new one (at last) from me.
Now that is mysterious! :)
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White chocolate and blueberry muffin?
Close.
Looks both like the remains of a muffin and a flower. Excellent!
JR
But no flower. Just the remains of a blueberry muffin on a red napkin.
I guess I should have given it a John R-type blur treatment. My abstracts are getting too easy to decode.
So congratulations to GrahamBy and John R for deciphering it so quickly. The next time you are both in Boston at the same time, I'll happily stand you both to a beer.
Sorry, Rob. Better luck next time.
-Eric
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Sizing up the elements.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-BjnWLkq/0/M/June%201-%202014%20RBG%20210%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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You have a good eye for graphics, John. Even without color.
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This is an amazing place and should be visited if you are near Naples.
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This is an amazing place and should be visited if you are near Naples.
And that's an amazing photograph! But hey, what else did you expect from Italy?
Well seen.
;-)
Rob
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This is an amazing place and should be visited if you are near Naples.
Superb! Reminds me of Klimt.
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/262/32501314830_0c38ab3338_c.jpg)
Nearly a meter of snow fell in 24 hrs here recently. Then, freezing rain.
While plowing my driveway, I had to get off the tractor to shoot this with my phone.
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Sizing up the elements.
Like :)
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Interesting reflection in the wet beach sand yesterday
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This is an amazing place and should be visited if you are near Naples.
Nice one.
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This is an amazing place and should be visited if you are near Naples.
Agree this is great. The shadows really frame it nicely.
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Too complex to be abstract?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/MonochromeMagic/Infrared/i-8NMbW3w/0/XL/P2164613_edit3-XL.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/MonochromeMagic/Infrared/i-8DKH8dV/0/XL/P2164614_edit1-XL.jpg)
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Tugboat Tough
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Sans Chaleur~
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Nice one, Patricia.
But I'm happy not to share the temperatures! Having a year or two ago discovered myself to have become a victim of the dreaded Raynaud (I used to think of him as chilblains), doing the shopping with plastic bags becomes a painful experience in winter... an old neighbour of mine has had the condition since she was eighteen, poor wench. The things people tell one.
Next time I feel it coming on I must check the thermometer in the hall: I could well be owner of a built-in trigger mechanism that could double as a handy body thermometer of my own. You see? Always the positive guy, looking for the bright side in everything! Just like my snaps.
;-)
Rob
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Sans Chaleur~
Very nice.
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Very nice.
I agree.
I understand that parts of Maine have had amost eight feet of snow. Probably somewhat lesser amounts on the coast where Pat does her magic.
We only have a couple of feet of the white stuff here near Boston, and tomorrow is supposed to get above 50 F.
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Too complex to be abstract?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/MonochromeMagic/Infrared/i-8NMbW3w/0/XL/P2164613_edit3-XL.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/MonochromeMagic/Infrared/i-8DKH8dV/0/XL/P2164614_edit1-XL.jpg)
Not at all, Matt; my brain contains more veins and lukewarm pasta, and yet it's pretty abstract at best.
Rob
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One thing I really like about these recent posts is that folks are willing to stretch the boundaries of "abstract."\
Trees, tugboats, snow and ice: All good material for creative seeing.
Eric
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Too complex to be abstract?
Not sure I like your vignette treatment of the borders, but the sprawling branches are wonderful and abstract enough for me. When I first saw these images I immediately started mentally creating my own crops. Not because I like it better another way, it's the way I work in the field when I encounter such wonderfully abstract subjects with so many possibilities.
JR
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Saw Grass Morning
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Tugboat Tough
Oh, very nice :)
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Saw Grass Morning
Lovely. The two horizontal arcs add so much. Well seen.
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Not sure I like your vignette treatment of the borders, but the sprawling branches are wonderful and abstract enough for me. When I first saw these images I immediately started mentally creating my own crops. Not because I like it better another way, it's the way I work in the field when I encounter such wonderfully abstract subjects with so many possibilities.
JR
Thanks John. The white vignette borders were a bit of a 'let's see how this looks' experiment. The branches I find immensely interesting and so much potential - just a matter of finding the most effective way of presenting them.
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ENERGY: Two thoughts came to mind with this image. First, was that the energy needed to create this scene (enormous pressure, erosion from waves, rain and wind) was being reflected in the rocks themselves. I was also reminded of Aboriginal philosophy, in which existence consists of energy. All things are animate, imbued with spirit, and in constant motion. The picture was taken on Gaff Point, a unique, unspoiled promontory on the south coast of Nova Scotia. The Gaff Point trail takes one through conifer forests, across heaths and grasslands, beside high cliffs and along a spectacular rocky coastline. It is here, among those rocks, that I have found some of the most beautiful samples of form, texture, pattern, and colour.
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Wonderful JNB. Those striations are mesmerizing.
JR
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This image was taken in somewhat heavy overcast light and so is a little flat - very little specular light. But I thought the graphic pattern was strong, so I took the shot anyway.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-bF2HQdb/0/M/Dec%2028-%202015%20City%20Hall%20Downtown%20005%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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This image was taken in somewhat heavy overcast light and so is a little flat - very little specular light. But I thought the graphic pattern was strong, so I took the shot anyway.
In addition to the strong graphic quality and appealing composition, I like the random reflections in the windows.
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In addition to the strong graphic quality and appealing composition, I like the random reflections in the windows.
Yes.
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It was a beautiful foggy day yesterday, so we went out looking for woodland areas to photograph. Kind of dangerous to park on the shoulder when the fog is so thick. But went to this area where we found a more suitable place to park. Here is one result that I played around with.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-BXKKmRM/0/M/Feb%2022-%202017%20Glen%20Haffey%20006%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Lovely, John.
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Thank you Eric. Here is a second image from the same outing. More abstract and surreal than the first image.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-8JVkqjf/0/M/Feb%2022-%202017%20Glen%20Haffey%20005%20copy3-1000-M.jpg)
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Hi John,
Curiously, to me, the previous one has just the right abstract and surreal quality, while this one is slightly less exciting (to me).
But these inspire me to try again to find some blurry tree photos. I tried some quite a whiile back, inspired by your earliest moving forest images, but I didn't get anything that was worth posting. It obviously takes a lot of practice and a good eye to get to your level.
Cheers,
Eric
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Try 1/8-1/4 sec with moderate telephoto, like 50mm and up (70-200 zoom is good) . You can use 1/15, but then you really have to move the camera a little faster. Use small fluid movements, not jerky. Trigger shutter same time as you start movement, it's almost instantaneous. If you use wider lens, try at 1/4 of sec to ensure blur is transmitted. If on long end, say 200mm, movement is more erratic due to hand and body movement, slight movement produces greater and exaggerated effects, so be judicious. Now it's up to you to find the right subject matter!
Good luck!!
JR
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Try 1/8-1/4 sec with moderate telephoto, like 50mm and up (70-200 zoom is good) . You can use 1/15, but then you really have to move the camera a little faster. Use small fluid movements, not jerky. Trigger shutter same time as you start movement, it's almost instantaneous. If you use wider lens, try at 1/4 of sec to ensure blur is transmitted. If on long end, say 200mm, movement is more erratic due to hand and body movement, slight movement produces greater and exaggerated effects, so be judicious. Now it's up to you to find the right subject matter!
Good luck!!
JR
Sounds right.
It reminds me of the old one about "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?"
The answer is "Practice, practice, practice!"
Eric
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Sounds right.
It reminds me of the old one about "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?"
The answer is "Practice, practice, practice!"
Eric
Huh, I was driving down to England from Scotland one year in the mid-70s and stopped somewhere to ask directions that my local map didn't make clear. I got out of the car in some High Street or another and asked a passing pedestrian if he knew the way to Luton and he said yes, thanks! Had I been bigger, I'd probably have spent the night in jail.
Assholes are nothing new.
Rob
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Red Riding Hood and the wolf.
My first thought.I can't help it.
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Red Riding Hood and the wolf.
My first thought.I can't help it.
I like your imagination! Wish I'd thought of that.
;-)
Rob
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It's the best kind of image that can be "read" in different ways.
Nice one, Rob (and Red Riding Hood).
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reminds me of the scene in Jurassic park where the T-Rex puts his eye to the toilet window.
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Thought I might put this here...
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Nice, Graham.
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From Glacier Point, Yosemite
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Very sensuous, Hugh.
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Very sensuous, Hugh.
Stop right there!
This sort of image should be banned for its indecency! If it's not good enough for Fuji (officially) to tolerate, then why must we be forced to look? It could make us go blind!
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From Glacier Point, Yosemite
Abstract? Really?
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Rob,
don't you think that after the recent discussion a pink "3" could be misinterpreted? Just take the "twist" as request and turn the pic 90° clockwise and there we go to indecency again...
Sometimes you have to search for ambigiouty;-)
Harald
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Rob,
don't you think that after the recent discussion a pink "3" could be misinterpreted? Just take the "twist" as request and turn the pic 90° clockwise and there we go to indecency again...
Sometimes you have to search for ambigiouty;-)
Harald
I don't dare, Harald; that would be less than honest as photographer! Worse, personal morality aside, what would happen to the white 3?
I can imagine any number of complaints arise about that from the aternative reality branches of LuLa. Making pink straight would mean the rest was - what?
Sometimes I think it would have been easier taking up politics: I could have stood as an Independent candidate and offered the voters whatever turned them on; wait - isn't that what everybody does already?
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Sometimes I think it would have been easier taking up politics: I could have stood as an Independent candidate and offered the voters whatever turned them on; wait - isn't that what everybody does already?
I just read that Breitbart gets more page views than pornhub... so it seems the strangest things excite some people.
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I don't dare, Harald; that would be less than honest as photographer! Worse, personal morality aside, what would happen to the white 3?
I can imagine any number of complaints arise about that from the aternative reality branches of LuLa. Making pink straight would mean the rest was - what?
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Making the pinks straight mean the rest are perverts. And more, just substitute pink by green, red or brown and you can clearly see the secret sauce of politics.
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Sometimes I think it would have been easier taking up politics: I could have stood as an Independent candidate and offered the voters whatever turned them on; wait - isn't that what everybody does already?
Jep. That's the concept of deception by ambiguity.
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All I can say is Thank You Rob and Harald!
This is much more creative and fun than anything in the Trump II thread, and more substantial, too. ;)
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Thought I might put this here...
The thumb nail image looks quite disappointing. But when I enlarge, oh my, what fine pattern of light and shadow combined with curve movement.
JR
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I just read that Breitbart gets more page views than pornhub... so it seems the strangest things excite some people.
I think Breitbart gets a mention in the Mr Trump Saga thread; I have not looked at it (Breitbart). IMO the entire thread has overrun its course and it's devolved into an endless belt of yes, no, yes, no.... must be the digital influence coming through. Never head of pornhub - probably take hours to get into it, I suppose, so I'll restrain myself - oops! - and think of other things.
Must try to get my ass out into the field and try to find some nice faces...
My twenty-five? year-old granddaughter's coming to spend some time with me in April I think; she's nice, but as she's family I can't bring myself to bother her with the boredom of getting portraited (feels slightly more interesting than being portrayed - I think). I'm conscious of having pissed my own two kids right off photography with so many studio test shots. My wife escaped: just said no, and meant it.
;-(
Rob
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The thumb nail image looks quite disappointing. But when I enlarge, oh my, what fine pattern of light and shadow combined with curve movement.
JR
Exactly my reaction, too.
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Patricia, funny that you should post this as I am looking at my recent shoot of similar subject matter. But your image manages to look raw and painterly at the same time. Nice work.
JR
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Patricia, funny that you should post this as I am looking at my recent shoot of similar subject matter. But your image manages to look raw and painterly at the same time. Nice work.
JR
Indeed. Island living is really good for your photography, Patricia.
Eric
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Helped my Raynaud digits no end, Patricia!
Now I feel too numb to face the shower. I'll pour another mug of tea instead.
(In the good olds, my wife and I would come back from our trips to Scotland with the trunk filled with French liquid goodies as well as the two types of British-bought teas that she had decided made for the perfect blend. Such niceties long lost, I now depend on lousy little paper sachets of tea dust, the junk that tea planters would once have discarded as a toxic nuisance and waste product, but which now perhaps outsells everything else.)
No, I have to go face another estate agent today, so I better brave the bathroom after all.
Rob
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That's lovely.
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The thumb nail image looks quite disappointing. But when I enlarge, oh my, what fine pattern of light and shadow combined with curve movement.
Thank you, and thanks to the Romans... it's a theatre they built in Lugdunum, which became Lyon. I was there sight-seeing with friends (as seen in another thread) and had all my gear because I was on my way to shoot some portraits for a project... about which I was worried because of the uncharacteristically intense winter sun :)
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Patricia, funny that you should post this as I am looking at my recent shoot of similar subject matter. But your image manages to look raw and painterly at the same time. Nice work.
JR
Thank you John. Eric indicates it may be the releases of magical center of earth vapors, and I am more and more inclined to agree, as even when the storms buried us here, the snows did all the work of removing the unnecessary for seeing. Amazingly the snows have all but disappeared into thin air over the past three days. The simplification of those deep blankets is tucked under my hat though for thinking forward. Must say Graeme that it is easily more lovely working inside near the fire, than the days of shoveling.
(ps..Rob, try to see the cold as wonderful fresh water cubes in your Lillet on a summer's 90 degree afternoon. Surprisingly the mental take is helpful, and the stressing at firing up increases the event. Let your mind carry you to that lovely crackled glass of Lillet and cubes. Also, for many it does really help to overdress your trunk as it does really aid in the hand and toe digit vessels remaining more open. Hands and feet behave much like that other digit which self protects when jumping in near freezing seas. (It's the self protection of the core so that the operating system has a shot at survival. ) )(enjoying your projects... keep moving!)
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(ps..Rob, try to see the cold as wonderful fresh water cubes in your Lillet on a summer's 90 degree afternoon. Surprisingly the mental take is helpful, and the stressing at firing up increases the event. Let your mind carry you to that lovely crackled glass of Lillet and cubes. Also, for many it does really help to overdress your trunk as it does really aid in the hand and toe digit vessels remaining more open. Hands and feet behave much like that other digit which self protects when jumping in near freezing seas. (It's the self protection of the core so that the operating system has a shot at survival. ) )(enjoying your projects... keep moving!)
OMG! I'd forgotten all about that!
But a tip: no male should be required to ride a bicycle in the cold. Retrieval in some temperatures can be almost impossible, and cause panic that may be conducive to heart attacks in later life. Trust me on that one.
In his book, The Moon's a Ballon, David Niven quoted a great instance of that happening up in an Italian (?) ski resort (probably from skiing, not bicycles, which could be awkward), and the poor victim rushing into the bar in high distress yelling "Cazzo gelato! Cazzo gelato!" I think I remember Niven saying it was resolved by the application of some Scotch. That 'solution' strikes me as sadistic in the extreme. But a reasonable use of the fluid.
With reference to another thread, it could well be an example of God having a laugh at her first stupid production sample.
In fact, it reminds me of the old days when I had an Exakta with those bulky lenses with the semi-automatic aperture stopdowner as an extension at the side, that fitted above the frontal shutter release. (Pressing that lump down also pressed the shutter button.) Clearly, the Laws of Natural Progression led to the better idea of keeping the good bits inside, confirming, as with the cameras, the better design of her second version of the product.
So far - so far - only those cameras and lenses have become obsolete.
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I just read that Breitbart gets more page views than pornhub...
Kinda makes sense to me: folks just getting their wankery fodder from different sources.
-Dave-
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Patricia, I love both these winter views. Particularly as we've had so little winter in my locale. Two days last week I went out & about with no jacket at all, temps in the 60s F, during the normally "coldest month of the year."
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Estimated Time in Traffic: 11 Minutes
(http://www.theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/Estimated%20Time%20in%20Traffic-%2011%20Minutes.jpg)
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Estimated Time in Traffic: 11 Minutes
(http://www.theintimatelandscape.com/shared_images/Estimated%20Time%20in%20Traffic-%2011%20Minutes.jpg)
Great picture!
Rob
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Wot 'e said. Stunning colours :)
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Wot 'e said. Stunning colours :)
Yes!
Excellent use of unannounced traffic stop.
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Okay then, a semi abstract being added to the great pile.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-NS5dQZr/0/M/Dec%2028-%202015%20City%20Hall%20Downtown%20031%20cropcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Okay then, a semi abstract being added to the great pile.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-NS5dQZr/0/M/Dec%2028-%202015%20City%20Hall%20Downtown%20031%20cropcopy-1000-M.jpg)
A new take on American Gothic? ;)
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Nice one, Armand.
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Nice one, Armand.
Thanks!
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Maybe it's time to come up with a new name for the not-quite-kosher abstracts.
Substracts?
Metastracts?
Polystracts?
Faroutstracts?
Whateverstracts?
Anyway, your snaps always make me smile, Rob.
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A new take on American Gothic? ;)
Ah !! I like :)
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Hiding in Plain Sight
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Privacy Shield
(http://v3.harlempix.com/wp-content/gallery/artsy/DSCF6052.jpg)
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Maybe it's time to come up with a new name for the not-quite-kosher abstracts.
Substracts?
Metastracts?
Polystracts?
Faroutstracts?
Whateverstracts?
Anyway, your snaps always make me smile, Rob.
***WARNING***
Thread Drift! :)
Agreed on Rob's snaps, though.
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***WARNING***
Thread Drift! :)
Agreed on Rob's snaps, though.
Then maybe: Snapstracts? ;)
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Harald, love the window blind. And I was about to post one of a similar subject.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-3QmzX4z/0/M/March%203-%202017%20House%20Lamp%20Raw%20030%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Harald, love the window blind. And I was about to post one of a similar subject.
JR
Funny. At first I wanted to post "AMPELMANN GOES NASTY" but I refused regarding the topic...
(http://v3.harlempix.com/wp-content/gallery/artsy/DSCF6055.jpg)
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Also superb, Harald.
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From today's Toronto, Downtown outing:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-qgXx8ww/0/L/March%205-%202017%20Downtown%20Toronto%20020%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Rob,
I suspect you are completely incapable of taking an uninteresting photo.
Eric
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Rob,
I suspect you are completely incapable of taking an uninteresting photo.
Eric
That's very generous of you Eric!
Thing is, one has to be of a similar bent of mind to see anything interesting in them, and that's the problem if you are sort of a bit off the mainstream. I guess I do spend most of the time wandering through those darker corners of the mental bayou, snug but exposed in my little pirogue, hoping to avoid the alligators and wondering if the distant sounds of Van Broussard are meant for me, or constitute but a general lament for mankind. Such is life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7fm7QTXZKo
Rob
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lungs
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Snooker
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From today's Toronto, Downtown outing
Love this kind of shot, and the sunlight/shadows with the blinds, too.
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Mainsail
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Blueprint, the lines are just a rough indication...
(Actually, this image didn't quite work out the way i wanted to, but d**n, what about those contrails?)
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Snooker
Oscar, just excellent! If I was teaching a class on the principle of dominance, this would be my example of a small red object being the centre of attention despite its small size and extreme off-centre placement in the picture space. "Sail," graphic and minimalist, also excellent.
JR
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Oscar, just excellent! If I was teaching a class on the principle of dominance, this would be my example of a small red object being the centre of attention despite its small size and extreme off-centre placement in the picture space. "Sail," graphic and minimalist, also excellent.
JR
Thanks. Strangely enough, before my not quite so intentional break from photography i would completely dismiss this type of image, or at least just ignore it. Now, suddenly, i "get" it, i frequently like these type of images, and am also easily able to identify an opportunity. It's the strangest thing. Maybe an "acquired taste" that needed to develop at a subconscious level.
(I do know that the images that some of you post here at lula have contributed a lot to my "understanding" or learning to see.)
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Love this kind of shot, and the sunlight/shadows with the blinds, too.
Excellent use of shadows. Uncanny, I have a similar shot. But I don't have wonderful curves like you do, or the really wonderful dynamic play of light, shadow and objects that take your eye through the image.
JR
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Snooker
Hmmm... small red object(s) :)
(http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/img/s5/v130/p1609272115-4.jpg) (http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/p631768190/e5feb8b33)
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A couple of years ago, on a cold wintry day like today, I decided to tour the country backroads. As I drove I could see that the snow had visually simplified the landscape and made it look minimalist with graphic elements everywhere. But the winds were so blustery and the air so bitingly cold, I only stepped out to take this shot. I then drove home before I got stuck in the storm. I celebrated my one shot with a warm brandy.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-TLs29kn/1/L/Feb%206-11%20Caledon%20035%20smugcopy-L.jpg)
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Hmmm... small red object(s) :)
Yes Slobodan, I have not forgotten that wonderful shot of small reds and blues lines. That one tilting light sure looks like it is checking you out.
JR
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Thanks. Strangely enough, before my not quite so intentional break from photography i would completely dismiss this type of image, or at least just ignore it. Now, suddenly, i "get" it, i frequently like these type of images, and am also easily able to identify an opportunity. It's the strangest thing. Maybe an "acquired taste" that needed to develop at a subconscious level.
(I do know that the images that some of you post here at lula have contributed a lot to my "understanding" or learning to see.)
I have to admit to much the same thing: post retirement I hardly made pictures at all; since my wife's death, other than for the occasional week or so off, I have hardly stopped. It has become both therapeutic and, because the old work genre is no longer financially feasible, has forced me into new directions that I seldom gave a thought to in relation to myself.
I owe it all to one man: I rediscovered Saul Leiter after fifty-something years and boom! there was a ready-made genre I could explore without limits other than the ones in my own head. Okay - no yellow cabs around here and no snowy sidewalks with ladies parading red umbrellas, but apart fom that, plenty of glass windows including my own...
;-)
Rob
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Hmmm... small red object(s) :)
Actually, this:
http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/blog/2016/3/nominee---9th-internl-color-awards
Which led to some of the images i posted recently, both normal and abstract. I have no clue how that works. I remember leaving here with JMR's shifted trees in my head and coming back with Slobodan's umptiest pricewinning architecture shot, and suddenly something clicked. I guess my brain got fried and it just stopped thinking, and now i use the gut, like Rob is preaching to us all along...
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Actually, this:
http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/blog/2016/3/nominee---9th-internl-color-awards
Which led to some of the images i posted recently, both normal and abstract. I have no clue how that works. I remember leaving here with JMR's shifted trees in my head and coming back with Slobodan's umptiest pricewinning architecture shot, and suddenly something clicked. I guess my brain got fried and it just stopped thinking, and now i use the gut, like Rob is preaching to us all along...
Sometimes you have to let go and photograph what comes into your head as you walk or see the landscape around you. If I was downtown in a hurry or walking with purpose, I doubt I would see most of the things I have posted.
Continuing on my wintery theme here is another:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-a-winters-day/i-w7DzLvd/0/M/Feb%206-11%20Caledon%20006%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
And another:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-a-winters-day/i-DBvhcCB/0/M/Feb%2013-11%20Montrose%20068%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Hmmm... small red object(s) :)
(http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/img/s5/v130/p1609272115-4.jpg) (http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/p631768190/e5feb8b33)
Super :)
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Delivery
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Sometimes you have to let go and photograph what comes into your head as you walk or see the landscape around you.
Yes, although i like to be able to explicate what i shoot, see, or feel. Obviously, photography that goes beyond words is the stronger photography, but then you first need to be proficient with words. Otherwise you'd go beyond words quite quickly.
(I'm sure Trump would merely need a picture of your average instatwitter cat to be dumbfounded! ;-) )
(Please note the smiley)
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Hidden Fibonacci
(Need the high res to get the full view)
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Good ones, Oscar.
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Hidden Fibonacci
(Need the high res to get the full view)
So I spy Bart's resolution target on the ground? ;)
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Good ones, Oscar.
Yes, very nice. They don't look like much as thumbnails, but once opened and enlarged, the impact of the graphics is very strong.
JR
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Back to a little more abstract:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-758H7NR/0/M/July%203-%202016%20RBG%20%26%20Dundurn%20Castle%20158%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Aquatic Inversion
(And that's just before breakfast!)
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Back to a little more abstract:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-758H7NR/0/M/July%203-%202016%20RBG%20%26%20Dundurn%20Castle%20158%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
I'm undecided about these. Also about the blinds shots etc. I"ll try to explain: by abstraction we generally mean a reduction of a concept to bare essentials (so it becomes applicable in a general sense). Obviously, in art one can explore abstraction by exploring this reduction, and clearly this means one can reduce by too much at which point it loses its meaning, or even a meaning. So, from an explorative viewpoint it may be interesting, but it easily may lose interest for the audience.
Does that make sense?
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Aquatic Inversion
(And that's just before breakfast!)
Beautiful!
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Aquatic Inversion
(And that's just before breakfast!)
That's a winner!
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I'm undecided about these. Also about the blinds shots etc. I"ll try to explain: by abstraction we generally mean a reduction of a concept to bare essentials (so it becomes applicable in a general sense). Obviously, in art one can explore abstraction by exploring this reduction, and clearly this means one can reduce by too much at which point it loses its meaning, or even a meaning. So, from an explorative viewpoint it may be interesting, but it easily may lose interest for the audience.
Does that make sense?
Sure, I agree. However, we have to put our semi-abstract images somewhere. In my experience, in listening to people at galleries, shows and camera clubs, when people can't relate to an abstract image, they really pan it. Not just "I don't like it,", but comments like, what is that, why did they bother, etc. True abstraction has to have something people can relate to, which by that same criteria means, it may not be truly abstract after all.
How about this one shown in this post: http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=86369.1680
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-bxS3L33/0/L/JMRO6955%20abstract%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Doesn't exist in reality. It's a double exposure created by two camera movements and slightly cropped. It looks like someone went wild with a paintbrush. The colours and how they are juxtaposed, and their movement, really appeals to me. It has universal elements, but it does not necessarily have universal appeal.
JR
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Aquatic Inversion
(And that's just before breakfast!)
+1
I think this qualifies as hyper realistic rather than abstract.
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Hmmm... small red object(s) :)
(http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/img/s5/v130/p1609272115-4.jpg) (http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/p631768190/e5feb8b33)
Stunning, delightful, and elegant. This is something I'd like hanging on a wall.
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Doesn't exist in reality. It's a double exposure created by two camera movements and slightly cropped. It looks like someone went wild with a paintbrush. The colours and how they are juxtaposed, and their movement, really appeals to me. It has universal elements, but it does not necessarily have universal appeal.
JR
Yes, or perhaps I'm mistaken with Impressionism, but for me a good abstraction should preserve impressionistic elements. Indeed, it may not appeal to me personally, but I should still be able to recognise some kind of impression that the photographer (or generally, the artist) may have wanted to communicate. I know there is an entire school of thinking that says you should just judge by your own perception, but I do not personally believe communication in any form was meant to be a unilateral experience.
I'm fine with a non-existing composite, since it is similar to a photographer doing flower arrangement. You may see and photograph individual flowers, have a sense that some combination of these makes a good arrangement, and you make a composition with just the impression of the result. This could even serve the additional purpose of removing a sense of imperfection: the individual flowers may have faults, but the impressionistic representation makes that totally irrelevant.
It allows the viewer to concentrate on the impression, not on the detail.
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A bit bleak, perhaps, but sign of the times...
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-2841_1_orig.jpg)
Rob
Sorry for bumping this entry but
HOLY BLOODY SH*T, THIS IS BLOODY BRILLIANT!
I wouldn't even call it abstract at all, especially with that subtitle "Sign of the Times"
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Anything, but bleak - colorful buildings in Kinsale in southern Ireland
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Anything, but bleak - colorful buildings in Kinsale in southern Ireland
Colorful it is, but this i would call impressionistic, not abstract. Additionally you could question the necessity of photography as the medium...
And IF we qualify this as impressionistic, and i don't mean to be overly critical, then what impression is being transferred? How is this different from any other colorful houses in a street? (In the same way that a sunset generally consists of pleasing colors, but how is this particular sunset different from all others?)
Please note: i'm just trying to spice up the discussion, it may well be that this thread is also meant to be non-judgemental, in which case you can ignore my questions.
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Constrained darkness
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Constrained darkness
Now, that's abstract! And lovely, in a macabre way. And wall-deserving.
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Constrained darkness
I've just been looking at a set of Bert Stern's Marilyns and yep, this may be "constrained", but I still see breasts. I'm basically an optimist, regardless what people think!
Thanks for the nice words about The Driver - kinda liked that one myself, if I may say so.
;-)
Rob
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Constrained darkness
This is a "big photo." The larger, the better.
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It's good and gritty. It holds together better than most vertical compositions I see and it seems to be ascending.
Bruce
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Constrained darkness
I didn't want to say anything, but Rob would know. And the breasts make it difficult for me to see the darkness.
Bruce
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Kitty Picture
Dem boids in a postbox gits everwhere!
An' they ain't flown no place no how not yet!
(Forgive the Alfred D. Runyon moment, but it just flew out all by itself. Oh well, it is Saturday after all, and it's been a tiring week doing not a lot.)
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Rob
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Now, that's abstract! And lovely, in a macabre way. And wall-deserving.
+1.
(About Oscar's "Constrained Darkness.")
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Nice one (npi) Patricia!
I hadn't logged in earlier, and saw your post showing just a squiggle and nothing more, so hadn't realised that an image came with it too! I'd imagined you'd just made it (the squiggle) as a sort of passing remark.
Rob
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Nice one (npi) Patricia!
I hadn't logged in earlier, and saw your post showing just a squiggle and nothing more, so hadn't realised that an image came with it too! I'd imagined you'd just made it (the squiggle) as a sort of passing remark.
Rob
Patricia wouldn't show a squiggle unless it contained layers of inner meanings, Rob. ;)
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Colorful it is, but this i would call impressionistic, not abstract. Additionally you could question the necessity of photography as the medium...
And IF we qualify this as impressionistic, and i don't mean to be overly critical, then what impression is being transferred? How is this different from any other colorful houses in a street? (In the same way that a sunset generally consists of pleasing colors, but how is this particular sunset different from all others?)
Please note: i'm just trying to spice up the discussion, it may well be that this thread is also meant to be non-judgemental, in which case you can ignore my questions.
Thanks for your comments. I don't know myself, what would be the best description of this style.
Topaz Impression program which I used, calls it Abstract 1. A friend of mine described it as a painting with circles. I thought, this rendition produced something quite different from the original photograph. Non-photographers look at it differently then photographers. A competition judge would really hate it. Next time, I'll try Abstract 2. But on another image.
Here is a slightly gentler image transformation.
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Patricia wouldn't show a squiggle unless it contained layers of inner meanings, Rob. ;)
Eric, you're just compounding my embarrassment!
Tell you something, though: I feel that the day of 'straight' representational photography, as she was once known and loved, has pretty much passed.
It may be no more than self-projection going down here, but, I for one, feel almost no desire to record straightforward shots anymore. I feel it's as if we have crossed from classical salon to impressionism, much as with the art world of Paris those years ago. I know that there's just no turning back for me, at least.
On top of that, embracing what digital has brought, the sense of performance developing from score, the jazz-like sense of improvisation on a basic idea has made itself very strongly felt. I really do think of each shot as being just a sort of starting point to something else I may or may not be able to create later on in the process. No, it's not the same thing as spending time in the darkroom: that was another sort of creative process altogether, where the shot was the first thing that came to mind and the darkroom more the process of finishing it to the best one could in line with the original intention behind the exposure. Today, there's even a disconnect between what I think I see in camera, and what I do see on the monitor. There's a sense where the first stage is a sort of recognition of something, and that something revealing itself further down the line and sometimes not as what it has originally suggested itself to be.
I quite like that; in a way it permits that sense of anticipation one had with Kodachrome, where what you shot and remembered wasn't always, by the time the films came back to you, exactly what you had imagined you'd shot. Surprises are sometimes nice...
Rob
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I feel the same way, Rob.
Nowadays, there is a great choice of finishing options, and I don't mean just a click on one of the hundreds of presets in some filter plugin.
We all see things differently, get influenced by our past work, work of others, and get also more adventurous by changing slightly or greatly the original images.
And of course, every image may ask for a different treatment, and every exhibition (online or physial) may require different type of prints.
I can relate also with the element of surprise when seeing an image some time after returning from a trip or discovering some interesting part in an otherwise bland image. Speaking about surprise or discovery - once, still in the film days with a Fuji GX617 I took a picture of swans and their reflections near a beaver lodge in northern Ontario, which looked quite satisfactorily on the light table, but only after scanning it at a high resolution I discovered a fully grown buck with a nice set of antlers standing on the other side of the lake.
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I feel the same way, Rob.
Nowadays, there is a great choice of finishing options, and I don't mean just a click on one of the hundreds of presets in some filter plugin.
We all see things differently, get influenced by our past work, work of others, and get also more adventurous by changing slightly or greatly the original images.
And of course, every image may ask for a different treatment, and every exhibition (online or physial) may require different type of prints.
I can relate also with the element of surprise when seeing an image some time after returning from a trip or discovering some interesting part in an otherwise bland image. Speaking about surprise or discovery - once, still in the film days with a Fuji GX617 I took a picture of swans and their reflections near a beaver lodge in northern Ontario, which looked quite satisfactorily on the light table, but only after scanning it at a high resolution I discovered a fully grown buck with a nice set of antlers standing on the other side of the lake.
That was a wide Texas Leica, wasn't it? No, not the buck, the Fuji!
Regarding digital processing - I have no plugins at all - I see them as the invitation to yet another visual rut which can be found all too easily on one's own. I think that what digital offers is a sort of mixed blessing in that it gives us infinite contorl - more or less - over what we can do, but also the terrible temptation of overdoing things, and not knowing when enough's enough, when to walk away and let the shot be. Which itself is a problem: sometimes a little bit more would have made the difference.
In the end, either way we can't avoid responsibility.
Rob
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Yes, I had at one time both of them, the Texas Leica (Fuji 690) and the wide Texas Leica. They both produced large and sharp images.
However, the biggest film frame I ever made, was done on a rotational Seitz Roundshot Super camera, using a 400mm lens. Used the entire film roll just for one pano image - over 5 ft long film frame.
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Not sure if this is abstract, but I am trying to do something with deep space as opposed to a 2-d surface,
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Not sure if this is abstract, but I am trying to do something with deep space as opposed to a 2-d surface,
Hi Geoff,
Photo-Cubism?
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Rob
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Rob, Something like that. I was thinking of submitting this one, taken in the instant that a ferry on the St Lawrence was pulling out. The surfaces were so painterly.
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The other side of the ramp looked like a Clifford Still
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I like all three.
My favorite is the first of the two Ferry shots.
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Good eye, Geoff; the first one, with the greens, is so brutal and screams of the differences between flesh and and the far tougher things that soft flesh can fashion.
The last one is very much into painting, but in a way that saves it from the trap of trying to make photographs that inevitably end up as failed paintings.
Good work.
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Thank you, Rob. I tend to stay away from the whole abstract thing. It was interesting to see how the photographs of Siskind and others stood up well in the AB Ex show that the Art Gallery of Ontario did a while back, but that may have been a temporary aberration. They were at least made at a time when there was a passionate belief in the power of abstraction. Today, not so much.
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Not sure if this is abstract, but I am trying to do something with deep space as opposed to a 2-d surface,
Following could be considered a combination of surrface & depth.
I have to reshoot though for several reasons, and i'm contemplating a write up about it. So, !et's call it a prelude:
Primary Colors
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A couple of shots from a recent walkabout
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A couple of shots from a recent walkabout
Nr 2 totally, although i would have liked the entire image filled. Absolutely great combination of natural structure and shadow, brilliant abstraction of life's entanglements and intertwined and interconnected pathways.
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A couple of shots from a recent walkabout
The first one - those lovely colours and shapes...
Rob C
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Or maybe it's about politics, how one lie connects to another to form a web of deceit, with underneath an entire world of alternative facts...
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Yep: "The Shadowworld of Alternative Facts"
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Yep: "The Shadowworld of Alternative Facts"
Gosh, the value of these images just skyrocketed! ;)
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The Swarm is coming your way.
Chuck
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The Swarm is coming your way.
Chuck
A scene from a not-yet-released Hitchcock film? ;)
Eric
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A scene from a not-yet-released Hitchcock film? ;)
Eric
Yes, although it is as of yet 'undiscovered' :D
The interesting thing about this shot (to me) is that the implied motion was frozen into a surface skim of ice which was underlain by water and then a layer of older ice.
Chuck
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The Balinese Mistress
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Traffic lights at-a-tension.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-7FRkSMs/0/M/Apr%2013-10%20Forks%20159%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Traffic lights at-a-tension.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-7FRkSMs/0/M/Apr%2013-10%20Forks%20159%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
I think they are saluting as the White (fuzzy) Angels do a flyover.
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Traffic lights at-a-tension.
[ X ] Like
From the carhoodreflectionseries?
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[ X ] Like
From the carhoodreflectionseries?
Thanks. Not car hood series, but sure looks like one now that you mention it. Was stopped at light, had camera and saw these clouds align with traffic lights. Gave it Bw treatment, which makes it look more ominous and striking.
JR
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Is this dark matter? Or just a dark forest? Nice to explore and play in PP.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-XtLBKV5/0/M/Feb%2010-10%20Coldcreek-Cal%20164%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-3VSvWGc/0/M/Feb%2010-10%20Coldcreek-Cal%20160%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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It's nice to see you playing with B&W, John.
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Thanks. Not car hood series, but sure looks like one now that you mention it. Was stopped at light, had camera and saw these clouds align with traffic lights. Gave it Bw treatment, which makes it look more ominous and striking.
JR
Well seen. Traffic lights, with which we try to control the flow of traffic, are now combined with the free flow of a cloud in the sky. That's certainly a contradiction that could make an audience think: the lights placed at the far side emphasise the expansiveness of the sky (and thus of freedom), and the low angle of view kind of reminds us that we are trying to reach above ourselves and control even the heavens.
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Is this dark matter? Or just a dark forest? Nice to explore and play in PP.
These are very nice!
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Oh what patterns melting snow leaves behind!
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-tw2LMTP/0/M/Mar%206-10%20Caledon%20052%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Is this dark matter? Or just a dark forest? Nice to explore and play in PP.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-XtLBKV5/0/M/Feb%2010-10%20Coldcreek-Cal%20164%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-3VSvWGc/0/M/Feb%2010-10%20Coldcreek-Cal%20160%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
I just love this..
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Road Trip
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Neat!
I like the first one best (as the most ambiguous).
They would look good blown up to wall mural size.
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Neat!
I like the first one best (as the most ambiguous).
They would look good blown up to wall mural size.
Yep, I'd load some roll paper in the printer for this one. Good stuff!
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The second one for me; the quasi-vehicles lending context and a more human connection, which is perhaps what draws me most to photography, despite (if not because) my not really being a particularly social animal in person!
Like the style a lot.
Rob C
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A very interesting and painterly set John B. Everyone seems to like those eccentic light lines. I find it amusing, since most of the time I would remove those light lines.
JR
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Reflecting
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-5JFS2RM/0/M/Madawaska%20392%20copy1000-M.jpg)
And the abstractness of it all
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-PfcZXWd/0/M/Madawaska%20201%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Road Trip
Have been chewing on these for a couple of days and concluded that they work remarkebly well!
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RE: Road trip
Thank-you, everyone, for your comments. The eccentric light lines are reflections off the chrome on the vehicles, of course. When I was a child, travelling with my family on vacation, I would often drift into a daydreamy state. Sometimes I would narrow my eyes to a slit and watch the landscape whir by through my eyelashes. I guess I was a weird kid. Anyway, that's sort of what I was thinking about with these experiments. My wife was driving while I shot, have no fear.
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I was wondering how those were done, now I know. If only I can get someone else to drive, I would do this at least once on every trip. Thanks John B.
JR
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Oh the colours.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-fVgwWxf/0/M/Sept%2024-2013%20Ottawa-Algonquin%20trip%20277%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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This thread is like going into a candy store for me.
John r: Of your latest three my favorites are "Reflecting" (simple elegance) and "Oh the Colours" (dazzling -- also a reflection?)
-Eric
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Oh the colours.
LOVE this one!
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LOVE this one!
This thread is like going into a candy store for me.
John r: Of your latest three my favorites are "Reflecting" (simple elegance) and "Oh the Colours" (dazzling -- also a reflection?)
-Eric
Thanks, Eric and John B. The colours are part car and mostly tail light reflecting the autumn foliage.
JR
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Since we're into carreflections
Alternative Universe
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Since we're into carreflections
Alternative Universe
I like it!
As long as we're doing light and reflections...
Dancers in my Swimming Pool.
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The intent is abstract in that I don't care what the subject is :)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3804/33928306126_523c85859d_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/TG8rnh)
and
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2810/32955073513_cff29277e8_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Sd8ndD)
Mike
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Love the yellow paint on the wiggle wires Mike.
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Thank you Patricia.
There's a lot of black at the bottom of your work whereas it's the top section that carries the interest and captures the eye. I'm all for dead space but I'm wondering if it looks better by losing a good bit off the bottom.
Mike
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There's a lot of black at the bottom of your work whereas it's the top section that carries the interest and captures the eye. I'm all for dead space but I'm wondering if it looks better by losing a good bit off the bottom.
I think it needs the dead space. If it were cropped, the black and white areas would have more nearly equal prominence, and to me it feels as if the mood of the image wants the black to dominate.
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I think it needs the dead space. If it were cropped, the black and white areas would have more nearly equal prominence, and to me it feels as if the mood of the image wants the black to dominate.
Agree with that assessment, Eric. It reminds me of that order and chaos symbol.
JR
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Black and white can be so surreal.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-Mq8ftch/0/M/June%202-%202014%20Airport%20Rd%20blds%20035%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-tsLj8wX/0/M/June%202-%202014%20Airport%20Rd%20blds%20037%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-kcdcv5d/0/M/June%202-%202014%20Airport%20Rd%20blds%20017%20bw-copy1000-M.jpg)
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Great geometry John.
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Goldrush from the West
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I guess this one is maybe a geometric abstract landscape, of sorts.
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That is cool and well composed. It is actually dynamic as it fans out from bottom, to sides and upward. Notice that there is actually a V'' shape that creates the underlying form of a triangle. Really like this.
JR
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That is cool and well composed. It is actually dynamic as it fans out from bottom, to sides and upward. Notice that there is actually a V'' shape that creates the underlying form of a triangle. Really like this.
JR
Thanks, John. The credit must go to the gardeners for Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA. I have no idea what vegetation it is, but I'll revisit the scene later in the season when it has begun to grow, and -- who knows? -- perhaps even blossom.
Eric
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Black and white can be so surreal.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-tsLj8wX/0/M/June%202-%202014%20Airport%20Rd%20blds%20037%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
I especially like this one. Has a Bauhaus-y vibe.
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I especially like this one. Has a Bauhaus-y vibe.
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Thanks Dave. Have to look up Bauhaus now.
JR
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Thanks, John. The credit must go to the gardeners for Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA. I have no idea what vegetation it is, but I'll revisit the scene later in the season when it has begun to grow, and -- who knows? -- perhaps even blossom.
Eric
I knew your V composition and array reminded me of something I took a couple of years ago for a cemetery slide show. I found it. Not quite as dynamic as yours. Would need a higher vantage point to show the pattern as you did.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-dw2HrfH/0/M/May%2013-2013%20Woodland%20Cemetery%20004%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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I see we're both hooked on geometry, John.
The bouquet on top of the headstone in yours really livens up the image.
-Eric
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[Regarding Mount Auburn Cemetery, "I guess this one is maybe a geometric abstract landscape, of sorts." Quote Eric M.]
This has such a spare yet powerful sense. It reminds me very much of Minor's work on the Cape, same spare and proud strength...(Hope you were able to sit with him awhile in contemplation while visiting. I often hope he knows how much I owe him for the joy that bursts within this grey dome)
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Thanks, Pat.
I'm always delighted when anyone who knew Minor sees something Minor-like in one of my photos.
In my first workshop with him, ten days at his house in Arlington, his presence was with us 24 hours a day.
The second workshop, a year later, was six weekends, and I expected the intensity to lessen in between weekends, but it really didn't.
The "official" notes I took for both workshops are now being scanned and added to the Minor White Archive at Princeton University.
E.
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Taken in: Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
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Very, very, nice, Brian!
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Very, very, nice, Brian!
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Enjoy.
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Enjoy.
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Gentle and lovely.
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Gentle and lovely.
Yes love the image and the use of the soft focus technique to achieve the result. Have water in house so can't get out to take photos. These make me hanker for the blossoms!!
JR
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Riot of colour. And lest we forget November days.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-X6b59k4/0/M/Sept%2015-%202014%20Palletta%20Manor%20Burlington%20049%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-n9Z3dHx/0/M/Nov%2011-%202014%20High%20Park%20040%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Of squares and circles
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Of squares and circles
Yes, well done.
JR
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Moon Landing,...
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Colourful Display.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-JDW594v/0/d31a0240/M/July%207-2013%20Toronto%20Art%20show%20050%20copy1000-2-M.jpg)
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Yes, that one would certainly lose something in B&W.
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Riot of colour.
John, that image is unlike your other images where you've moved the camera during exposure. This appears to be shot with a mirrorless camera or it's some kind of video image. Care to reveal your secrets? :)
In any case, I love it.
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I had to look it up. Ok, you mean the multi-exposure flower image. It is about 7 or 8 shots on the same frame- so to speak. In-camera. You need a camera that has multi-exposure capability. Most of the high end cameras have this, about 10 or 11 per frame. Some only allow 3 or 5 per frame. My Pentax allows 999.
I did a simple, but slow diagonal movement at highest speed possible- like about 250 or higher to avoid blur (ha, ha). You can also do spirals and even create patterns where there was none.
The trick to these is to look for a subject with different colours or patterns that adjoin each other and are continous- such as found in garden flower beds. Not everyone likes these. But I have found you can win them over if you keep in mind the old adage, technique is secondary and composition and mood are primary.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-sJqVt3D/0/6be08c19/M/Sept%202-%202014%20RBG%20085%20smugcopy-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-XWLBf9n/0/3309cf25/M/Sept%2015-%202014%20Palletta%20Manor%20Burlington%20057%20smugcopy-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-mHjTtSb/0/813d26bb/M/Aug%2021-%202014%20James%20Gardens%20029%20smugcopy-M.jpg)
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My Pentax allows 999.
These are very cool indeed, John.
Now please show us one using 999 shots! ;)
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Thanks, John. My D800 can do multiple exposures, I think. I will learn how today.
I don't think you've posted this single image I didn't love.
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Sandstone complexity.
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Sandstone complexity.
Such richness of detail! I enjoy letting my eyes wander through this image.
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Sandstone complexity.
You sure that's not part of lemon meringue pie? Delicious indeed.
JR
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I am unable to go out and photograph at this, my favourite time of year. Had to paint washroom instead and do repairs. But as I opened the door to go out and buy supplies, I espied this wonderful image. We know what it is but I still consider it to be abstract. I cropped slightly in order to have one ray of light carry the eye out of the frame, while the other stayed contained. A nice tension.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Vgms4Bb/0/b9de9c9c/M/JMRO9149%20bwcopy1000-3-M.jpg)
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I am unable to go out and photograph at this, my favourite time of year. Had to paint washroom instead and do repairs. But as I opened the door to go out and buy supplies, I espied this wonderful image. We know what it is but I still consider it to be abstract. I cropped slightly in order to have one ray of light carry the eye out of the frame, while the other stayed contained. A nice tension.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Vgms4Bb/0/b9de9c9c/M/JMRO9149%20bwcopy1000-3-M.jpg)
Nice work. Well seen & lovely BW.
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Nice one, John.
It's a good thing you have your camera with you when doing household chores.
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Is it abstract? Who knows, the intent was not a record shot.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4183/33543621563_5bc7c8021a_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/T78Q3P)
Mike
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Vgms4Bb/0/b9de9c9c/M/JMRO9149%20bwcopy1000-3-M.jpg)
I don't know why, but i feel a distinct urge to give it a title: Cat's Claw
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Is it abstract? Who knows, the intent was not a record shot.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4183/33543621563_5bc7c8021a_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/T78Q3P)
Mike
It's nice, and sufficiently abstract for me.
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Vgms4Bb/0/b9de9c9c/M/JMRO9149%20bwcopy1000-3-M.jpg)
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GFX 50S:
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/_GF06041.jpg)
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GFX 50S:
Jim
Jim, what are you up to? I thought you cancelled your Fuji GFX order. Looks fascinating and intriguing at same time. Some parts look out of focus, where the lines start to curve. Optical illusion? Reminds me of those end-of-broadcast stripes and colours when a station would go off the air.
JR
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Jim, what are you up to? I thought you cancelled your Fuji GFX order. Looks fascinating and intriguing at same time. Some parts look out of focus, where the lines start to curve. Optical illusion? Reminds me of those end-of-broadcast stripes and colours when a station would go off the air.
I did cancel the GFX order. Then I found out you could do manual focus stopped down with native lenses, after believing people who said you couldn't.
http://blog.kasson.com/the-last-word/fujifill-gfx-50s-summary/
As to the image, let's just say I'm playing with the electronic rolling shutter of the camera.
Jim
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As to the image, let's just say I'm playing with the electronic rolling shutter of the camera.
Jim
Ah, sure, so we should technically be able to do something similar with an iphone.
I also found btw that my little Sony has a special JMR mode. It is high iso noise reduction, which takes several shots for stacking, but it doesn't necessarily have to be hi iso, and the burst of images is more like a short movie, although the camera sounds 4 shutter release clips. That just seems to be for processing purposes, not actual exposures.
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GFX 50S:
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/_GF06041.jpg)
Jim
Neat!
You could start a new photo mag called "ShutterWork" maybe.
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As to the image, let's just say I'm playing with the electronic rolling shutter of the camera.
Jim
My but your answer is just as intriguing as your image. I will read your review. Thanks for sharing.
JR
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Clouds and their shapes were so wonderful that morning I could have watched them all morning with a nice cup of coffee, or two. But I was leading group so had to move on. Sigh.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-43kTx5b/0/7b10ace1/M/June%203-2013%20Downtown%20TO%20053%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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This shot has balance issues but I haven't contributed here for a while so ....
Chuck
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It is still pretty nice. It does look a little over-sharpened on my monitor.
JR
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It's lovely.
I can see the balance problem, but you don't want to crop out the nice stuff on the left edge, either.
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The phantom cat observed my camera technique. I spotted him and thought he was an apt subject for experimentation on a nice clean green background of grass. I wrongly posted first time on "without prejudice" thread.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-FDQKRvL/0/86c531dd/M/July%2016-12%20Breukner%20park%20219%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-xg6pqtS/0/9b908b07/M/July%2016-12%20Breukner%20park%20270%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Ah! The first actual photograph of the famous Cheshire Cat!
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Addressing the audience:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-vzr7qxj/0/45118b15/M/July%202-11%20RBG%20220%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Clouds and their shapes were so wonderful that morning I could have watched them all morning with a nice cup of coffee, or two. But I was leading group so had to move on. Sigh.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-43kTx5b/0/7b10ace1/M/June%203-2013%20Downtown%20TO%20053%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Great capture almost tells an entire story
You: Okay, group, listen up. In order to continue we first need to get those creative juices flowing. Everybody grab their mobile phone cam and try to depict some out-of-the-box imaging. Go outside for the next hour and ...
An hour should fit 2 cups of coffee just fine, no?
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This shot has balance issues but I haven't contributed here for a while so ....
Chuck
Cool stuff.
The interesting part here is especially that nature has a way of making chaos peaceful, while human-induced chaos usually is very disturbing.
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The phantom cat observed my camera technique. I spotted him and thought he was an apt subject for experimentation
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-xg6pqtS/0/9b908b07/M/July%2016-12%20Breukner%20park%20270%20copy1000-M.jpg)
I hate to admit it, but that experimentation seemed to have worked quite well. Just three colors make a great impression of a cat. "Impression" being the operative word, of course.
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Well thanks for all the feedback. Sometimes you just have to try things.
Here is the tower of power, which is a title as silly sounding as it looks in print.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-rmGjCfg/0/29f8a773/M/Mar%2014-11%20Downtown%20240%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Two more from me.
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Two more from me.
Have to say Eric, they don't look good small, but once enlarged they come to life. I particularly like the branches in the undulating water. It has a 3-D quality to it.
JR
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Finally got opportunity to get out and photograph before all the new colours and blossoms of spring disappear. Here is one taken with Eric in mind. He said I should try for a 1000, multi-exposure image, so I did. No, not really. This is a about 26 exposures - camera exif doesn't say- with a little contrast adjustment as the multi-exposure tends to flatten out light. Looks somewhat like a painting.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-bcTt8DJ/0/27075220/M/JMRO9175%20NIagara-%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Been looking at JMR pictures too often, so obviously this happens: 30 exposures of a Dandelion.
I uploaded a large file, because you have to see the actual pixels to believe it...
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Two more from me.
Yes, the branches-image is brilliantly beautiful. Very Zen.
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Been looking at JMR pictures too often, so obviously this happens: 30 exposures of a Dandelion.
I uploaded a large file, because you have to see the actual pixels to believe it...
Very nice. Did you use a tripod? I assume you are using a Pentax?
JR
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Very nice. Did you use a tripod? I assume you are using a Pentax?
JR
No, a little Sony WX350. handheld, deliberately moving. Then stacking the images in post.
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Been looking at JMR pictures too often, so obviously this happens: 30 exposures of a Dandelion.
I uploaded a large file, because you have to see the actual pixels to believe it...
I love it!
It does seem a bit like the Essence of JMR. ;)
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A wormhole?
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A wormhole?
Slinky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slinky)
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Slinky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slinky)
Close but no cigar, it's much bigger ;)
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Close but no cigar, it's much bigger ;)
Of course it's bigger. I didn't mean to suggest that it actually is a slinky. It being an abstraction, it just reminded me more of a slinky than a wormhole. But that may be a direct result of lack of wormhole memories on my part. ;-)
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No, a little Sony WX350. handheld, deliberately moving. Then stacking the images in post.
Oscar, did you have to align every image, or did you just stack as is? I kept this link to try stacking about 50 images for a very impressionist image. But I have hard time bringing myself to take fifty separate images!
See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bFbbtosBd4
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Oscar, did you have to align every image, or did you just stack as is? I kept this link to try stacking about 50 images for a very impressionist image. But I have hard time bringing myself to take fifty separate images!
See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bFbbtosBd4
No, I didn't align every image but there is not too much difference between position in shots. I used burst mode and shot 10 pictures with each burst which takes about a second. I moved and rotated slightly during the shots, figuring that a single subject would possibly work best with slight rotation.
Aligning is possible though in the post-stacking process. Doesn't particularly take long, and would be well suited for the pictures as shot in the video. The attached image is a burst of 10 with alignment, which somewhat reveals the actual movement I apparently made.
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Lots of great shots guys!
A couple left over from winter.
Chuck
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No, I didn't align every image but there is not too much difference between position in shots. I used burst mode and shot 10 pictures with each burst which takes about a second. I moved and rotated slightly during the shots, figuring that a single subject would possibly work best with slight rotation.
Aligning is possible though in the post-stacking process. Doesn't particularly take long, and would be well suited for the pictures as shot in the video. The attached image is a burst of 10 with alignment, which somewhat reveals the actual movement I apparently made.
I prefer the first. Much more impressionistic.
JR
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I was too late for the pink fruit blossoms but I did get some crab apple blossoms. You make do and photograph what comes your way. Looks much better in large format.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Niagara-Region/i-98NBkwc/0/6cd7c927/M/May%209-%202017%20Niagara%20Tour%20Raw%20014%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Niagara-Region/i-8dbbFVz/0/2969edb7/M/May%209-%202017%20Niagara%20Tour%20Raw%20060%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Niagara-Region/i-zcDXvwR/0/76d63d51/M/May%209-%202017%20Niagara%20Tour%20Raw%20048%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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(http://www.kasson.com/ll/rs6688.jpg)
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Jim, you have been tampering with the Universe again. It's a time fabric weave oscillating. Or perhaps someone is compressing musical notes. Wonderful!
JR
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Ambiguous lines.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-WLnwXCK/0/c0f4ec73/M/May%2018-%202017%20RBG%20and%20cemetery%20092%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Here is an accidental abstract:
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More impressions courtesy of spring blossoms.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-Lwj9rVF/0/6d4d96a1/M/May%2018-%202017%20RBG%20and%20cemetery%20096%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-QsPh4f8/0/dbf0a8d3/M/May%2018-%202017%20RBG%20and%20cemetery%20093%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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A Shadow Falls Upon the Land
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More impressions courtesy of spring blossoms.
OMG, you're totally going Bob Ross on us...
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Here is an accidental abstract:
Some of you guys, especially John R, use some fancy techniques to produce your abstract images.
I'll offer a free beer (but you have to come to Boston to collect) for the first person who can describe in sufficient detail the technique I used to produce my "accidental abstract." ;)
Eric
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... I'll offer a free beer (but you have to come to Boston to collect) for the first person who can describe in sufficient detail the technique I used to produce my "accidental abstract." ;)
You were putting your iPhone back into your pocket and accidentally pressed the button.
P.S. Ah, the lengths I have to go to get a free beer!
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You were putting your iPhone back into your pocket and accidentally pressed the button.
P.S. Ah, the lengths I have to go to get a free beer!
Maybe I will reveal all for a bottle of wine!
JR
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Sorry, Slobodan. I don't have an I-phone (or any kind of I-thingy). Good try. I'll offer you a glass of water as a consolation prize.
And, John, it's not really worth a bottle of wine, even the cheap rot gut that I buy. Glass of water for you, too.
Any more contenders?
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I'll offer a free beer (but you have to come to Boston to collect) for the first person who can describe in sufficient detail the technique I used to produce my "accidental abstract." ;)
I'm mostly a coffee/tea guy, despite the bottle of The Glenrothes (still not finished) that I bought last year in tribute to Michael), but if you're like me you were switching on your camera's rear LCD via a shutter tap while indoors and accidentally pushed too hard. Low light, long exposure, camera movement. :)
-Dave-
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Some of you guys, especially John R, use some fancy techniques to produce your abstract images.
I'll offer a free beer (but you have to come to Boston to collect) for the first person who can describe in sufficient detail the technique I used to produce my "accidental abstract." ;)
Eric
Looks remarkably like multishot noisereduction. At least on the Sony it will sound 4 shutterrelease clips, but in reality it takes a lot more images in rapid succesion and uses the time of 4 shutterrelease sounds to process into a single image.
If you move the camera quickly enough, this is what it looks like. But yours was a Canon, no?
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Solar System
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Looks remarkably like multishot noisereduction. At least on the Sony it will sound 4 shutterrelease clips, but in reality it takes a lot more images in rapid succesion and uses the time of 4 shutterrelease sounds to process into a single image.
If you move the camera quickly enough, this is what it looks like. But yours was a Canon, no?
Sorry Dave.
Oscar comes the closest, so I'll save him a beer for whenever he gets to Boston.
Yes, it was a Canon, a pocket S110 which I often carry with me for quick snapshots. A couple of weeks ago I decided to turn on automatic exposure bracketing.
Of course, now whenever I use that camera, I forget that it is going to take three photos, and right after I press the shutter button, I swing it down to stick it in my pocket. Then when I download the images to my PC, I typically have one clean shot followed by two blurry accidents, which I then delete.
This one I thought looked like a mildly interesting abstract.
Note to self: Stick a label on top of the camera reminding me to wait for all three shots... :D
Eric
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... right after I press the shutter button, I swing it down to stick it in my pocket....
And I said:
... putting ... back into your pocket and accidentally pressed the button.
I think I deserve at least a light beer :)
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bleh, I think we need a clubmeeting and sort this out over several beers. Eric shall pick up the tab for obvious reasons.
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And I said:
I think I deserve at least a light beer :)
OK, Slobodan. I'm watering your beer right now. ;D
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bleh, I think we need a clubmeeting and sort this out over several beers. Eric shall pick up the tab for obvious reasons.
OK. 2 AM tomorrow, at my club house. And since it's my beer, I play the part of the President, following Trump's Rules of Order (Anything I say is True, regardless of factual content, even if my next statement contradicts the first, in which case both are True, etc. ...) ;)
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P.S. To fit this thread, it may be a very abstract meeting.
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Overprocessed rust can lead to abstract compositions.
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Fencing in Trinidad, Cuba.
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Fencing in Trinidad, Cuba.
That is very cool, Brian.
JR
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I did manage to get a few shots before the blossoms and the new greens disappeared.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-HJWD97z/0/c450e4f2/M/May%2022-%202017%20High%20Park%20002%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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That is very cool, Brian.
JR
+1
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And this is a? Ken
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Looks good in colour, but more effective in BW, as it reduces elements to lines, shapes, light and shadow.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-ggBZmtH/0/e7f0937b/M/IMG_0001%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Looks good to me!
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Looks good in colour, but more effective in BW, as it reduces elements to lines, shapes, light and shadow.
]
+, +, +, and +1
the Oxford comma (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma)
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+, +, +, and +1
the Oxford comma (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma)
I much prefer what I call the Cambridge (or Yale) comma.
It involves, inserting a comma, wherever, you feel li,ke it, but especially after the word "and," :D
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Looks good in colour, but more effective in BW, as it reduces elements to lines, shapes, light and shadow.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-ggBZmtH/0/e7f0937b/M/IMG_0001%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
That's a great shot.
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Looks good in colour, but more effective in BW, as it reduces elements to lines, shapes, light and shadow.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-ggBZmtH/0/e7f0937b/M/IMG_0001%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
I am sure you are already sick of the same comment, but, man, never have those three letters interfered more with the elegance of the image than in this case.
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dawn apparition~
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dawn apparition~
Wonderful rorschach photo. I see a mic stand & cable along with a rack of stringed instruments. ;D
-Dave-
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A 'light' touch. Also minimalist.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-P7WSDvd/0/54a80c5e/M/May%2013-%202016%20Ottawa%20jpegs%20331%20bwcopy2-copy1000-M.jpg)
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A 'light' touch. Also minimalist.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-P7WSDvd/0/54a80c5e/M/May%2013-%202016%20Ottawa%20jpegs%20331%20bwcopy2-copy1000-M.jpg)
Minimalist but so effective. I love it.
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Minimalist but so effective. I love it.
+1
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Agreed.. An elegant plunge! A bit of James Turrell~
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Minimalist but so effective. I love it.
+2 or 3.
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Doors and walls.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-kt9t67r/0/dd988870/M/Jan%201-%202014%20New%20Year%20House%20abstracts%20036%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-XQHXxsp/0/d60217d0/M/Jan%203-2014%20House%20011%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-2Wcmthq/0/87c0306a/M/Jan%203-2014%20House%20053%20bwcopy1000-2-M.jpg)
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Shapes within architecture.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Guelph/i-jbRX5pw/0/523453c6/M/Dec%202-%202013%20Guelph%20outing%20097%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Guelph/i-2sKTGTs/0/6416ae95/M/Dec%202-%202013%20Guelph%20outing%20094%20red-orange-1000-M.jpg)
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Nice ones, John.
My favorite of the Doors and Walls is the second, which is the most elegantly direct.
And of the Shapes, I reallyn like the first (= the Face.)
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Thanks for the comments, Eric! Cleaning up a lot of files and deleting. They say data storage is cheap, but I have come to conclusion that time is even more important. So like we say about minimalism, sometimes less is more.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-chPzvFN/0/fb9366ea/M/Jan%207-13%20East%20mall%20arch%20013-2%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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"The Future wasn't Clear"
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"The Future wasn't Clear"
That one is clearly quite nice, Oscar.
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Trying to show a pattern or rhythm in this shadow play.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-bNxJqK7/0/95d32b7d/M/July%2015-%202013%20Rosetta%20Park%20099%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Golden Isles, Atlantic Coast
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Finally got my macro lens and was able to a few shots at the local greenhouse conservatory.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-Z4cb9NR/0/13ba83e5/L/JMRO0076%20copy1000-L.jpg)
JR
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Wet web
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7390/10258361736_ec038ff134_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/gCuMxN)
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Golden Isles, Atlantic Coast
Great shots, James, especially 1 and 3.
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In "Wet web" you have presented, what is obviously a disused snare and impersonal condensation, in a way I find very comforting. It could be a breast or some other grand design. What ever exceptions to this abstracts rule may lurk in the background are well camouflaged.
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Juxtaposition: from same filtration plant in Toronto.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-vPsm2S9/0/e353d07e/M/May%2027-12%20Harris%20Plant%20024%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Natures Abstract
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Jigsaw anyone?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-JV2BGMP/0/afe0d1a5/M/JMRO0245%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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JR's 'Jigsaw anyone' reminded me of something ...
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Jigsaw anyone?
JR
"Google maps"
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"Google maps"
Took me a while, but I think I get it now. Thanks for the comments.
So now I will move on to rhythm. Unfortunately, I did not get enough DOF.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-mMBk3wS/0/fe210540/M/June%2013-%202017%20Elgin%20Theatre%20033%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Two from the building we work in - one ephemeral & one I've been walking past most days for a couple of years.
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2 more - up close.
Chuck
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Gaudy but real. This place used to be a Vaudeville Theatre. The gold cast is so powerful due to the powerful tungsten bulbs and the surrounding gold painted walls that it enveloped everything. I converted most to bw, but I like this one as is, though I do have BW version.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-nZ8wTP9/0/0a42b280/M/June%2013-%202017%20Elgin%20Theatre%20070%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Riffing (back in 2014!) on Chuck's pics. Near infrared via 720nm low-pass filter.
-Dave-
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Fire on Water
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Taking flight.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-JMWt4Mh/0/4f9e8eae/M/JMRO0343%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Taking flight.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-JMWt4Mh/0/4f9e8eae/M/JMRO0343%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Very cool!
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Thank you Eric. From a newly built showroom at the Garden centre. Will the pendulum swing?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-BWw6jR4/0/55200906/M/June%2014-%202017%20RBG%20085%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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I love the green-blue colours and their movement.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-m7wxWhP/0/5f9a2bba/M/JMRO0818%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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That is delightful, the colours match the playful way the rectangles recede.
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That is delightful, the colours match the playful way the rectangles recede.
+1.
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That is delightful, the colours match the playful way the rectangles recede.
+2
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I love the green-blue colours and their movement.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-m7wxWhP/0/5f9a2bba/M/JMRO0818%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Masterful
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Many thanks for the comments everyone. This was double exposure with slight camera movement. Here is what the subject looks like straight. A scene which looks good in its own right.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-7sSGkKJ/0/b26f6db1/M/June%2028-%202017%20RBG%20159%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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It does look good, But the double-exposure version is even better.
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GFX 50S, CO 60mm f/4:
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/tt2.jpg)
Jim
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+1 Big camera, big picture!
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GFX 50S, CO 60mm f/4:
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/tt2.jpg)
Jim
Neat!
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Great shots, James, especially 1 and 3.
I like the first one.
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I like the first one.
Thanks y'all! I thought they got lost in the ether. My apologies also for not acknowledging the complement earlier Slobodan - I totally missed it, but (especially) since this style is something new to me that I've been developing the feedback is really appreciated.
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James I like 1 and 2 best. Sometimes I can relate and sometimes I cannot to these very intriguing images. Love the implied motion in each, however.
Now the other Jim and his magical weave machine draw me in right away. It reminds me of looking at shear curtains where he forces you to look at the weave while hinting at the light beyond.
JR
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I hope you get the point. Took some effort to make it sharp.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-3kwX2Lm/0/f132e758/M/JMRO0841%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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James,
One more vote for the first of the three.
Eric
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Many thanks for the comments everyone. This was double exposure with slight camera movement. Here is what the subject looks like straight. A scene which looks good in its own right.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-7sSGkKJ/0/b26f6db1/M/June%2028-%202017%20RBG%20159%20copy1000-M.jpg)
I like this. I'm trying to figure out how you got your abstracted version from this though. Somehow (nearly) all the green went away.
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James,
One more vote for the first of the three.
Eric
I think that's the most successful of the three as well :)
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I like this. I'm trying to figure out how you got your abstracted version from this though. Somehow (nearly) all the green went away.
When you do in-camera motion techniques, you will notice that colours become softer and more muted. Sometimes I like the effect, other times I try to bring back the original colours and density. In the straight shot, I simply hit "auto smart fix" in PS Elements, and it literally will adjust everything- constrast, colour, brightness, etc- skewing everything towards what I call a "pop" style. Sort of like Fuji Velvia vs most other other film. So this latter image is a"pop" style rendering, which I did not bother to adjust. See below for samples:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-vpVkXmk/0/c45077e7/M/JMRO0858%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-DZG3JGZ/0/bc879d20/M/JMRO0863%20copy1000-M.jpg)
All flat lighting, but you can readily see the truer more denser colours in the straight image vs the double exposure with camera movement.
Hope that answers your question.
JR
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Hope that answers your question.
JR
Just one more tiny technical question, John: Why don't my attempts at this kind of maneuver produce results as good as yours? ;)
Maybe I need a better camera??? ;D
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Just one more tiny technical question, John: Why don't my attempts at this kind of maneuver produce results as good as yours? ;)
Maybe I need a better camera??? ;D
Of course Eric. To be successful you need a much maligned lowly camera like the Pentax! With second generation Sony sensors, of course.
JR
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I spotted these ladies showing off in the park doing the can-can, if you can believe it.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-pZWgDZF/0/bd695024/M/July%201-%202017%20James%20Gardens%20048%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Another from the same series:
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/tt3.jpg)
GFX, CO 60/4.
Jim
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Jim, these remind me of your Las Vegas images, especially the guitar image. Keep it up!
JR
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Another from the same series:
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/tt3.jpg)
GFX, CO 60/4.
Jim
I love this one.
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When you do in-camera motion techniques, you will notice that colours become softer and more muted. Sometimes I like the effect, other times I try to bring back the original colours and density. In the straight shot, I simply hit "auto smart fix" in PS Elements, and it literally will adjust everything- constrast, colour, brightness, etc- skewing everything towards what I call a "pop" style. Sort of like Fuji Velvia vs most other other film. So this latter image is a"pop" style rendering, which I did not bother to adjust. See below for samples:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-vpVkXmk/0/c45077e7/M/JMRO0858%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-DZG3JGZ/0/bc879d20/M/JMRO0863%20copy1000-M.jpg)
All flat lighting, but you can readily see the truer more denser colours in the straight image vs the double exposure with camera movement.
Hope that answers your question.
JR
Sort of :) I'm more wondering why the green is so prominent in the straight shot, but the ICM shot seems to have lost just about all of it. It could be as simple as eliminating the color in post,but I was under the impression that you didn't manipulate it quite that much.
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Like I said, I just hit "auto smart" button and that is the way it came out- rather punchy and saturated. I could have toned it down and usually do because most of my images are about subtlety.
As I said when you move the camera, you get muting of colours and often colour shifts. I save in jpeg and raw. Seldom ever bother with raw unless I have to. So here are originals jpegs straight out of camera with slight brightening of about 20 points each. The movement subdued and/or altered the greens-aqua colours. I also altered my position for both shots getting more green from the panels with second shot because I moved to where the green panel was:
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I think this one borders on abstract:
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Like I said, I just hit "auto smart" button and that is the way it came out- rather punchy and saturated. I could have toned it down and usually do because most of my images are about subtlety.
As I said when you move the camera, you get muting of colours and often colour shifts. I save in jpeg and raw. Seldom ever bother with raw unless I have to. So here are originals jpegs straight out of camera with slight brightening of about 20 points each. The movement subdued and/or altered the greens-aqua colours. I also altered my position for both shots getting more green from the panels with second shot because I moved to where the green panel was:
OK then. The result isn't the output I would have expected based on my own use of similar techniques, but it doesn't matter - the result is cool. I guess part of the fun of movements and multi-exposures is that the outcome is a bot of a mystery until you see it! Appreciate the explanation :)
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Double exposure of Bugloss (I think?) Unfortunately the exif does not give such information. Lowered shadows and increased contrast to help separate the greens from the purples.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-2wsHdj2/0/f6428c7e/M/JMRO1001%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Fuji GFX, CO 60/4:
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/tt4.jpg)
Jim
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Jim,
One thing about your "weave" pictures that appeals to me is the complete absence of scale. When I begin looking at them, it feels as if I may be looking at a macro closeup of some kind of cloth. Then, after a few seconds, it suddenly feels as if it is really enormous, football stadium size.
I love them!
Eric
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Steps and stones can break your bones...and these almost did. Though recognizable, I think it looks quite abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-JkJp3NF/0/4f45d801/M/JMRO0455%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Jim,
One thing about your "weave" pictures that appeals to me is the complete absence of scale. When I begin looking at them, it feels as if I may be looking at a macro closeup of some kind of cloth. Then, after a few seconds, it suddenly feels as if it is really enormous, football stadium size.
I love them!
Thanks, Eric. That is deliberate. I've stopped telling people what they are and how they're made. Once I do, it seems to be a letdown for the viewer.
Here's another. Imagine looking up in the sky and seeing this:
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/tt5.jpg)
Jim
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Ah! Woven vapor trails. ;)
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Well, sort of an Abstract ::)
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The creek that I walk to in the afternoon.
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Ah! Woven vapor trails. ;)
The Blue Angels on LSD.
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Gonna leave this to your own imagination. Let's call it:
Rorschach test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test)
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Gonna leave this to your own imagination. Let's call it:
Rorschach test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test)
Shoes.
Rob
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Shoes.
Rob
How about a flower under water? Or those chocolate kisses in wrapper in water with light on it.
JR
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Lots of great stuff being posted lately. Some fire and a new flag.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-ghkbGVj/0/ecb33bbb/M/Aug%205-2013%20RBG%20239%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-DhzsGfR/0/5b18bbc1/M/Aug%205-2013%20RBG%20422%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Many great images in this thread!
One more abstract
(http://www.frankdisilvestro.com.au/img/s12/v185/p2409794411-5.jpg)
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One more abstract
Very nice indeed, Francisco.
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Very nice indeed, Francisco.
+1.
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Yes, well seen.
JR
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Many great images in this thread!
One more abstract
(http://www.frankdisilvestro.com.au/img/s12/v185/p2409794411-5.jpg)
Excellent addition to this thread.
Nice job.
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Fuji GFX, CO 60/4:
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/tt5.jpg)
Another variation on the same theme. My problem with this series is that it's hard on my back. I can capture images for 20 minutes, and it takes me a week to deal with them in post.
Jim
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It doesn't hurt my back at all to look at them, Jim. ;)
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It doesn't hurt my back at all to look at them, Jim. ;)
Hahhahahaha, +1
Besides Jim, if that camera is too heavy for you, i'll be pleased to take it out of your hands for a while...
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Hahhahahaha, +1
Besides Jim, if that camera is too heavy for you, i'll be pleased to take it out of your hands for a while...
r
What I meant was that sitting in front of the screen doing the work in post is hard on my back. And it wasn't completely a joke. I may need to get a standup desk.
Jim
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What I meant was that sitting in front of the screen doing the work in post is hard on my back. And it wasn't completely a joke. I may need to get a standup desk.
Jim
And what I meant was that your pain is our gain. These images are fascinating.
Eric
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Scorching Heat
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Taking the sails out of the wind.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-gB7Q75t/0/c2edbc15/M/JMRO0982%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Taking the sails out of the wind.
Nicely seen. Your title reminds me of an expression I learned about dealing with confrontational and angry personalities (specifically the teenage phase of it). It was stated more personally as "take your sails out of their wind". :)
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A bit of natural "sand art" at the beach yesterday.
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Rhythm
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Nicely seen. Your title reminds me of an expression I learned about dealing with confrontational and angry personalities (specifically the teenage phase of it). It was stated more personally as "take your sails out of their wind". :)
Thanks. I do enjoy that analogy. I also moved the camera during exposure. So you can see what appears to be light jitters in the water is in fact camera movement.
JR
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Playing with colours again. White and/or black can often ruin in-camera motion images. This area of white in first image is certainly close to ruining the image:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-b8XLCQF/0/24bca641/M/Oct%2015-%202013%20Bovaird%20Drive%20065%20cropcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-Vb6hSnx/0/f4979614/M/Oct%2015-%202013%20Bovaird%20Drive%20024%20cropcopy3-1000-M.jpg)
JR
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Last one of this set:
(http://www.kasson.com/ll/tt6.jpg)
Fuji GFX, CO 60/4.
Jim
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This has been an excellent set, Jim. Really good.
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Last one of this set:
I think you may have invented a new version of tartan :)
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Had a look at the article "So it goes" by Andrew Molitor. Very interesting and thoughtful piece. It gave me impetus to post and call these "a walk on the wild side" - at least in photographic terms.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-9Xb6vR4/0/f07bc5f6/M/Sept%201-%202013%20James%20Gardens%20038%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-hnfXzWG/0/f116dd7a/M/May%2020-2013%20RBG%20143%20copy-M.jpg)
JR
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But John, that's just semantics. You're simply hangin' a new label on a style you've done for a while.
I don't think that's what Andrew wants.
But I don't know what Andrew really wants, either.
;-)
Rob
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Impression of Savannah
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Impression of Savannah
I can almost see the moonlight through the pines...
;-)
Rob
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But John, that's just semantics. You're simply hangin' a new label on a style you've done for a while.
I don't think that's what Andrew wants.
But I don't know what Andrew really wants, either.
;-)
Rob
Rob, just wanted to add something to look at. Not claiming anything new. I enjoy in-camera movement and multiple exposure photography and the look, and that's why I do it.
JR
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I can almost see the moonlight through the pines...
;-)
Rob
Try using your phone and turning it sideways ;)
(In all seriousness, I did take a bunch of "conventional" images as well. I'll get to 'em eventually. Quite probably not in this thread :) )
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Rob, just wanted to add something to look at. Not claiming anything new. I enjoy in-camera movement and multiple exposure photography and the look, and that's why I do it.
JR
Yeah, of course, and that's perfectly fine, but that isn't the point: the point is that - what the hell is the point? - I have to check - hang on!
Got it! Yes, Andrew's article. The value or otherwise of additional text. The only additional text you've used is your © protector, but hey, unless it's plastered across a face, any reasonable retoucher can get round that and rip you off. ;-) That's to what I referred.
As mentioned before, in my own case, I find the idea of going out with a wordy programme in mind is counterproductive. I prefer to be lazy and receptive, like a seasoned concubine. Later, when I finish the picture, it can come to me out of nowhere, just as did the shot, that some play on words fits! Why not? Other times, I can stare and stare at the thing and nothing materializes out of the keyboard. Which is a drag because, by now, the website's stuck in a look that I can't break, or I'd feel obliged to start all over again. So if no words comes, neither does the snap hit the site.
How complictated we can make our lives. This is fun?
Rob
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Interior detail of Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
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Very cool mix of elements. Not least the triangular shadow which helps create more interest and a 3D effect.
JR
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I got so excited about this shot I forgot to focus on the cement. As a result, the autofocus targeted the reflected sky and the nearby cement area went out of focus. Have to curb my enthusiam.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-Gn5mk5G/0/002234a0/M/July%2021-%202017%20Col%20Smith%20Park%20021%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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From same walk above, I got excited and shot this in-camera beauty. So maybe I won't curb my enthusiasm after all.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-34L8RjZ/0/739ec26f/M/July%2021-%202017%20Col%20Smith%20Park%20039%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-FRjK9sX/0/f7972896/M/July%2021-%202017%20Col%20Smith%20Park%20008%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Interior detail of Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
Fabulous.
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I got so excited about this shot I forgot to focus on the cement. As a result, the autofocus targeted the reflected sky and the nearby cement area went out of focus. Have to curb my enthusiam.
Doesn't matter. Great shot regardless.
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These two remind me of the lyrics in the Shaker song, "Dance Dance wherever you may be..."
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-rzzWBqz/0/c23f44d5/M/JMRO1206%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-M9L74TP/0/2da7ffb9/M/JMRO1204%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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And this one, where gradually I learned to see the tree from the forest, so to speak.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-CtKz6R6/0/0600da6a/M/JMRO1196%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Interior detail of Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
Oh yes... Fan Ho does architecture :) I like :)
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Garden experiments:
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-6mvdb3Z/0/bb5fe171/M/JMRO1471%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-zShmZnk/0/e38bd033/M/JMRO1477%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-nKShkB4/0/74e52a08/M/JMRO1468%20copy3-1000-M.jpg)
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Multiple exposures with different motions? (The first one is my favorite of the three.)
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Multiple exposures with different motions? (The first one is my favorite of the three.)
I think the first and third are simple double exposures with straight one direction camera movements. I think the second is one still, combined with one circular movement. Three exposures works, but depends on the simplicity of the subject matter. More than three seldom works unless you want a simple impressionist look with minute micro-movements. This latter technique works really well with film and the look cannot be replicated in digital.
JR
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Garden experiments:
It seems to be getting crazier and more psychedelic, even for your standards... ;-)
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It seems to be getting crazier and more psychedelic, even for your standards... ;-)
You mean I keep going! Thanks.
Lotus flower impression, not so crazy... ;)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-9739ZHT/0/6c2d507c/M/Juy%2025-%202017%20RBG_0078%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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More experiments.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-nccPVVJ/0/472eb6da/M/July%2021-%202014%20Woodland%20Cemetery%20055%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-JntQdzV/0/bc781e71/M/July%2021-%202014%20Woodland%20Cemetery%20016%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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More experiments.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-JntQdzV/0/bc781e71/M/July%2021-%202014%20Woodland%20Cemetery%20016%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
This one I find to be powerful.
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This one I find to be powerful.
+1.
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More experiments.
Turning in their graves?
-Dave-
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A couple of watery abstracts.
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A couple of watery abstracts.
Very nice. Once again, screen image doesn't do them justice. A good-sized print showing all the tonality would be much better, I suspect.
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Very nice. Once again, screen image doesn't do them justice. A good-sized print showing all the tonality would be much better, I suspect.
+1.
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Water memories series- 1
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-TdMpH5b/0/677922b5/M/JMRO1628%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Nice one, John!
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Thanks JNB & Eric. I'm planning on printing them this weekend.
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In Nova Scotia a couple of weeks ago....
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Eric, this has an organic quality besides having an abstract and random quality. It looks like part of a marble counter, but you have left tell-tale bits that let us know it is part of the earth. I am here listening to Vangelis and his music makes me think that your image is like veins in the earth. As I keep listening, I see part of the cosmos with a green tint, like the northern lights. If you know Vangelis' music you too will be transported.
PS- I can't believe you went to Nova Scotia without me. Been there once, like Eden to me. It has so much to offer, sea, sky, highlands, mountains, rivers, etc. And I note you are exhibiting more colour images. Hope you have more to show.
JR
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You are right, John. It is rock, actually a stone step at the house where we stayed for our week in Nova Scotia.
Sorry I forgot to invite you along. ;)
Eric
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~smǿrrebrǿd of home!
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~smǿrrebrǿd of home!
;D
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Water memories - 2 & 3
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-PqnSQVT/0/faa501f1/M/JMRO1588-RBGcopy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-Bb7j3LJ/0/98c34069/M/JMRO1675%20cropped%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/267/18546038873_43cdc3ba54_b.jpg)
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Peter - that's just wonderful. It would fit in next to any of the impressionist paintings I have. The texture from the water is perfect.
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Yes indeed, wonderful image Peter. The water movement is just right. But let's not forget the composition. There is a good balance of shapes and colours, and without the balance no amount of technique would save it.
JR
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+1 to both Phil and John. A beauty!
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John – I've been admiring your images for a month or so off and on since I found them here. What kind of camera do you use? Whatever it is they are beautiful. Whatever style it was, you are bringing her back to life. My cameras won't do that, but I'm guessing I can imitate in post. The highest form of flattery.
Jim, Bravo! Don't ruin your GFX!
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/267/18546038873_43cdc3ba54_b.jpg)
Lovely image!
Rob C
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Lovely image!
+1.
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John – I've been admiring your images for a month or so off and on since I found them here. What kind of camera do you use? Whatever it is they are beautiful. Whatever style it was, you are bringing her back to life. My cameras won't do that, but I'm guessing I can imitate in post. The highest form of flattery.
Jim, Bravo! Don't ruin your GFX!
Thank you Brad for your comments and your interest. I use a Pentax K3. Same sensor as the Nikon 7000 series. The last three images in the Water Memory series are double exposures. Almost all the high end DSLR's have this feature. Some past images are multiple exposure, but most are simple camera movement.
JR
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Maelstroms
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NASA discovers evidence of extraterrestrial surf (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170817/830a1a6ebb04953567bb38f516da10c3.jpg)
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NASA discovers evidence of extraterrestrial surf
Must be one of the "suppressed" New Horizons Pluto pics! ;D
-Dave-
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Is this abstract? Possibly not.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4351/36634568785_52ff574140_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XPgJYi)
This is intended as abstract
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4412/36496776031_491cc31717_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XB6vZa)
This probably is though
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4364/36441554636_deeaf038a8_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XwduA9)
Mike
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Sure it is.
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Water memories - 4
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-dntBRcx/0/808b3a79/M/JMRO1580%20copy1000-M.jpg)
And here is source of series:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-k6L39fQ/0/e05a1800/M/Aug%2010-%202017%20RBG_0303%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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#1 Hang Ten
#2 La Jolla Glass Co.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170821/ea855403f887f11b0b842b7931d87432.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170821/06607696978a6a10297cc5650cee8c40.jpg)
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Excellent shots, Swellpix!
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Excellent shots, Swellpix!
Yes, excellent shots Swell Pix. I also like Mike's, especially the window and wire shot.
JR
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I also like Mike's, especially the window and wire shot.
JR
Me too.
Eric
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My regret about the window and the wire is that the wire isn't quite strong enough, otherwise I too think it's the best of the group :)
Mike
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few misc sources
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Nice set. #2 and 3 really speak to me.
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For me it's #1 but I feel it's too polite and needs some grit from Nik Bleach bypass with the settings cranked up although keeping the yellow and ideally brutalising that too. The composition is strong enough to carry some brutal processing :) all of course IMO.
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My regret about the window and the wire is that the wire isn't quite strong enough, otherwise I too think it's the best of the group :)
Mike
Looks fine on my computer, as well as on the tablet. It's subtle which fits the overall structure of the wall, but certainly visible enough to break the pattern and attract attention. I'd like to crop off the distracting bits at the top and bottom for the same reason.
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More from my foggy day. Two variants.
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Very interesting set Eric. "Dynamic symmetry"- I really like your title! I especially like the first one which combines a natural component with man made ones. I think to take images like these, you have to be in the right frame of mind, almost not thinking at all. Apart from patterns, I often only see and take images like this when I take a break from shooting images, just looking around, thinking of nothing at all, and then I see see something. How about you Eric?
JR
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Very interesting set Eric. "Dynamic symmetry"- I really like your title! I especially like the first one which combines a natural component with man made ones. I think to take images like these, you have to be in the right frame of mind, almost not thinking at all. Apart from patterns, I often only see and take images like this when I take a break from shooting images, just looking around, thinking of nothing at all, and then I see see something. How about you Eric?
JR
Thank you, John. That is very much the way I photograph. Most often I just go out with no particular agenda and hope to notice when something like this catches my eye.
When I saw the scene, and the obvious symmetry, I thought of one of Edward Weston's "spoof" photographs which he called "Exposition of Dynamic Symmetry," so I stole part of his title. His image (look for it on Google) and mine have nothing in common except for the title.
Eric
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Red is almost always striking. And a little bit of unwanted white can almost ruin an image.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-SK7CcVW/0/654d86d2/M/Aug%2010-%202017%20RBG_0161%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Nothing ruined in these!
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Guess what this is(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170827/b0c13f1b268c7f4d759e6eb9f422ae7d.jpg)
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Weathered bench(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170827/ba43a7e919ff8fa0044d443ae8e2f2dd.jpg)
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Nice ones. Sbode.
My first thought on the first image was contents of a waste basket of the opioid epidemic. :o
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Guess what this is(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170827/b0c13f1b268c7f4d759e6eb9f422ae7d.jpg)
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The remains of trap or skeet shooting.
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A little unusual, but maybe not quite abstract. Anyway, I find macro work a way to reinvigorate my photography. It can be documentary, but that's not why I do it.
Added a second image, employing photo-stacking. Works OK for what I do. But leaves behind a lot of ghosting if you try to photograph a whole flower.
JR
1
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-2BRhXHz/0/c923207d/M/JMRO1796%20copy1000-M.jpg)
2
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-DvRq75X/0/2351487e/M/Aug%2028-%202017%201804-%20copy2Flowers-1000-M.jpg)
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#2304: looks strange, as the forms and shapes come over and over again... what is it?
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#2304: looks strange, as the forms and shapes come over and over again... what is it?
Not really. When you use extension tubes, or simply a long macro lens, if you pay attention to the periphery, you will notice many out of focus areas. In this case, they are like patterns, so I use them creatively. One of the easiest to do is repeating motifs, like other out of focus petals or flowers, strategically arranged. These were only done one hour ago. But I got so excited after I got my extension tubes, I had to try it and post it! Give it a try.
JR
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Mysterious and impressionistic. Joyful and playful
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-tTWsbCh/0/a3909e92/M/Aug%206-12%20JG%20256%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-sm2cNbX/0/b45f5fea/M/Aug%206-12%20JG%20097%20copy3-1000-M.jpg)
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3125_orig.jpg)
Proving that sefies are possibly best made with a cellphone, rather than as here, with a Nikon.
Rob
I don't know, Rob. You look delightfully enigmatic to me.
Eric
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I don't know, Rob. You look delightfully enigmatic to me.
Eric
Truly enigmatic. Do you notice when you stare at image, it appears to oscillate. Just like Rob.
JR
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Damn! Back to the drawing board! I had hoped to scintillate, not vacillate nor even oscillate!
Best laid plans of mice and men...
Wait - maybe I just needed a shave?
;-)
Rob
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Damn! Back to the drawing board! I had hoped to scintillate, not vacillate nor even oscillate!
Best laid plans of mice and men...
Wait - maybe I just needed a shave?
;-)
Rob
Maybe I need a shave too?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-rbN9g4C/0/89dfffbe/M/Aug%206-12%20JG%20113%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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John,
Your selfie bears a strong resemblance to Rob's. ;)
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My morning walk.
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Nice trio, JNB.
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John,
Your selfie bears a strong resemblance to Rob's. ;)
Come on, Eric There is a distinct difference. Rob was oscillating, I am pulsing. Can't you see-feel the difference? And here I am below starting to come into focus after too much pulsing.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-kVhG65W/0/350c74de/M/tulip%20stack%20sharpened%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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The pulse is just right on that one, John.
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Random pattern that was planned- so to speak.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-StnGCLX/0/d584ef2e/M/Sept%203-%202017%20RBG%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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A few "Street" abstracts, with (minimalist color)...
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A few "Street" abstracts, with (minimalist color)...
Love the little duck in #1!
How do you tell the difference between engineers and vandals in the sign ones? At least it looks like something's going to happen.
Rob
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Thanks, Rob.
I boosted the saturation in the little duck and the signs, which I almost never do.
I can't tell the vandals from the engineers. Can you? ;D
Eric
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Flow
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Only the shadow(s) know.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-sqZqmgG/0/39c8e615/M/Family2016%20and%202017%20events_0594%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Only the shadow(s) know.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-sqZqmgG/0/39c8e615/M/Family2016%20and%202017%20events_0594%20copy1000-M.jpg)
I'd be tempted to clone away the right-hand handle, and leave its repaired shadow. Ambiguity for Russ...
;-)
Rob
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Just passing by like the cloud. Is that ambiguous enough?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-BhRC9KW/0/76ac3384/M/April%2016-%202012%20235%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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I just love the cloud leaping from one rooftop to the other.
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I just love the cloud leaping from one rooftop to the other.
Yes! More inspiration.
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I didn't know the cloud was performing "parkour." I'm too old for that. How about some deep rich, grey, white and blacks.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-WNWmCXf/0/45586845/M/IMG_0016%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Nice, John. Even if they are in sharp focus. ;)
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How's this for abstract?
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How's this for abstract?
As a BW, it really stands out graphically, as in outstanding.
JR
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Yup. Excellent!
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Love it! Rotate that a bit and I am no longer looking up at a building, but across a rippling plain with an abstract city laid out in the middle.
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Building!? I see brain waves, wavy hair, field of wheat after storm... :)
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Building!? I see brain waves, wavy hair, field of wheat after storm... :)
Yes: Egyptian Mummy Pubis - National Museum of Contemporary Photography in Cairo (NMCPC). Gift of the Trump Foundation for Human Understanding (TFHU).
Rob
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Yes: Egyptian Mummy Pubis - National Museum of Contemporary Photography in Cairo (NMCPC). Gift of the Trump Foundation for Human Understanding (TFHU).
Rob
+1. ;D
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Abstracts? This is how Bert Stern did it back in '58:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCVg1UOADO8
The music no less so.
;-)
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Abstracts? This is how Bert Stern did it back in '58:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCVg1UOADO8
The music no less so.
;-)
I think it is obvious, that Bert Stern was trying to make an analogous connection Jazz music and the movement and fluidity of reflected images in water. I found it particularly interesting because I have often thought of doing a slide show with abstract (loose definition) images and some music that suits images. This reinforces for me that Jazz is at the top of my list. Second, as I often like to photograph such subjects, it did occur to me the beauty and fluidity of the imagery is best captured by video and not a still image.
JR
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I think it is obvious, that Bert Stern was trying to make an analogous connection Jazz music and the movement and fluidity of reflected images in water. I found it particularly interesting because I have often thought of doing a slide show with abstract (loose definition) images and some music that suits images. This reinforces for me that Jazz is at the top of my list. Second, as I often like to photograph such subjects, it did occur to me the beauty and fluidity of the imagery is best captured by video and not a still image.
JR
You're right; I don't do motion at all, but the closest I get to what I imagine motion would do is found in simply focussing a long, manual lens slowly. Love it. It works nicely as an almost physical experience doing it with a 500mm reflex over a bay with many boats. You can practically taste the colours coming and going...
There's so much to enjoy, even if you don't make an image at all. Photography can offer such a lot of emotional buzz just looking through the lens...
Rob
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Somewhat whimsical that steel duct work upsettting all the symmetry.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-WWr2jd2/0/cb1ef40c/M/Sept%209-12%20Downtown%20TO%20026%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Somewhat whimsical that steel duct work upsettting all the symmetry.
Still seems to work since there is a bit of "tension" or "dialogue" between the rounded shape of the building and the bend corners in the duct which try to mimic the rounded shapes, but merely succeed to mimic the ventilation raster. Maybe works better if the top of the duct isn't visible giving the impression it continues on => shapes instead of things...
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Still seems to work since there is a bit of "tension" or "dialogue" between the rounded shape of the building and the bend corners in the duct which try to mimic the rounded shapes, but merely succeed to mimic the ventilation raster. Maybe works better if the top of the duct isn't visible giving the impression it continues on => shapes instead of things...
Oscar makes some good points.
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Ice Flow Abstract
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"Carbon Dioxide"
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Nice one, Oscar, but why the title?
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"Carbon Dioxide"
As these things often open in PS (default, for me) I took the liberty of looking at it with a Layer added.
It's a lot more powerful with Input 198 and Output 114.
Of course, your idea may have been entirely for a delicate sense rather than a heavy one.
No, I didn't save the file, just the reading, and for your interest only. Second-guessing, in other words, which I don't like!
;-)
Rob
P.S. By way of apology, one of my period favourites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ads-VjLHaJM
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Nice one, Oscar, but why the title?
Because for me the image represents a "balance of elements" even though their "flow" may be slightly disrupted. Light blue obviously represents a flow of oxygen, the complementary color its complementary element. The bubbles perfectly showing that strange middle ground where they are neither chaos, not structure.
If i would be outspoken, i'd be an outspoken Darwinist, not in the sense of anti-creationism, but in the sense that the earth represents a 5 to 20 billion year evolutionary balance, and human beings can't even remotely comprehend what that means. Thinking that we can disrupt that balance just because we find our own intellect a unique and incomprehensible faculty in relation to nature is an extremely odd proposition and overestimation of our importance in the grander scheme of things.
Obviously, this could have been inspired by another thread on these forums, i'll leave the judgement of that at the discretion of the reader. Let's keep this thread limited to the artistic merits of presented images.
The bubbles btw are a result of the microwave. Ever noticed that if you microwave something and condensation attaches itself to the lid or foil, it are extremely small microbubbles, but then at the slightest touch they immediately form large bubbles, but they are always perfectly random distributed, not touching. In other words, not chaos, but not structure either.
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It's a lot more powerful with Input 198 and Output 114.
That could mean so many things, i suggest you attach a pict of what you actually see.
Personally i have no qualms whatsoever, zilch nada, with anyone posting a variation of my images, especially to illustrate suggestions.
Personally i liked the subdued colors because a lightish blue represents oxygen quite well, and then the complement follows naturally, but i'm always open to suggestions. (I just don't listen very well...)
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... the earth represents a 5 to 20 billion year evolutionary balance, and human beings can't even remotely comprehend what that means. Thinking that we can disrupt that balance just because we find our own intellect a unique and incomprehensible faculty in relation to nature is an extremely odd proposition and overestimation of our importance in the grander scheme of things...
Amen, brother! My thoughts exactly. Can I quote you in that other thread? We are but a grain of sand in the ocean of time.
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That could mean so many things, i suggest you attach a pict of what you actually see.
Personally i have no qualms whatsoever, zilch nada, with anyone posting a variation of my images, especially to illustrate suggestions.
Personally i liked the subdued colors because a lightish blue represents oxygen quite well, and then the complement follows naturally, but i'm always open to suggestions. (I just don't listen very well...)
No, I'm not going to do that. Unless you use Photoshop the numbers mean nada. I really don't like touching anyone else's work.
;-)
Rob
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This one was made a few weeks ago in Greenland
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This one was made a few weeks ago in Greenland
That is nice, not least the aqua colours which always say something to me.
JR
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One from my just started project "Abstractions".
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Why do I think of oysters?
Looks like it'll be an interesting project - don't abandon it.
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I can do these all day long but they are soooo tempting :)
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4430/37032258446_2860a5451c_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Yqq1fA)
Mike
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One from my just started project "Abstractions".
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Great project, Boudewijn. Please do show os more from this project.
Eric
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The water droplets add a lot to this image.
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The water droplets add a lot to this image.
That was the reason to shoot it, without it it wouldn't be much.
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(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/d-3146_2_orig.jpg)
Rob
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I can do these all day long but they are soooo tempting :)
Mike
Go on, do it :)
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According to my wife, I do.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4423/36824867620_5f08e7ecb4_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Y765bG)
Walking through any sunny city is a slow process :)
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Abstraction project searches along
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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According to my wife, I do.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4423/36824867620_5f08e7ecb4_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Y765bG)
Walking through any sunny city is a slow process :)
That's what I call "Street photography." ;)
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Abstraction project searches along
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Very fine!
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According to my wife, I do.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4423/36824867620_5f08e7ecb4_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Y765bG)
Walking through any sunny city is a slow process :)
Very much like this one Mike. I like the configuration, of course, but also the black elements within the white area and vice versa.
JR
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Thanks JR. It presented itself and I knew what PP would get it do what I wanted.
As I say walking round cities is slow with me.
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Astrology…
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Looking down
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170925/4dda3a0b5b54859dfcb7bb186f6e2776.jpg)
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More Real Street Photography! :)
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Nice find and a clever shot (and title).
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How do I post a flickr image?
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How do I post a flickr image?
Easy :)
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4401/37130100935_951607ccc2_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Yz4tq4)
Aqua (https://flic.kr/p/Yz4tq4) by Slobodan Blagojevic (https://www.flickr.com/photos/slobodan_blagojevic/), on Flickr
Ok, to do so:
1. Click on the arrow under the image on Flickr
2. Select BBC Code and size
3. Copy and paste the link
Voila!
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I tried linking this image from flickr but only the link showed up and not the photo. So I'm just uploading it for now.
This photo is kinda abstracty. About a 2 minute exposure shooting into indirect light. Nothing spectacular, just plain and simple.
Ok, pasting the BBCode, like I was told earlier, worked.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4433/36306316734_8e943236df_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Xjgn5b)LongmontDamReservoir-1-15 (https://flic.kr/p/Xjgn5b) by Joseph Alsko (https://www.flickr.com/photos/20yearsusaf/), on Flickr
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I tried linking this image from flickr but only the link showed up and not the photo...
What are you doing different than the instructions above? Really, it is the simplest thing ever: get the link, copy and paste here. Flickr even highlights the link for you.
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I tried linking this image from flickr but only the link showed up and not the photo. So I'm just uploading it for now.
This photo is kinda abstracty. About a 2 minute exposure shooting into direct light. Nothing spectacular, just plain and simple.
I rather like it.
I can't link to flickr either. But then again, I don't have a flickr account. ;)
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Life imitating (abstract) art. Boat hull, out for some TLC.
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Ice Flow Abstract
Like!
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Here's one I took in Birmingham (UK) last weekend. We were watching some of the riders finishing the Birmingham Velo 100 mile ride. I was doing some panning shots but inadvertently set much too slow a shutter speed at first. This was the result - possibly better than the pictures I took with the 'correct' speed.....
Jim
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Life imitating (abstract) art. Boat hull, out for some TLC.
Jackson Pollock would be envious. Me too!
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Here's one I took in Birmingham (UK) last weekend. We were watching some of the riders finishing the Birmingham Velo 100 mile ride. I was doing some panning shots but inadvertently set much too slow a shutter speed at first. This was the result - possibly better than the pictures I took with the 'correct' speed.....
Jim
Very nice one!
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This was the result - possibly better than the pictures I took with the 'correct' speed.....
Yes. Definitely.
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Life imitating (abstract) art. Boat hull, out for some TLC.
Indeed. No dripping required. Interesting colorscheme btw.
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Life imitating (abstract) art. Boat hull, out for some TLC.
LOVE this boat hull. :)
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A couple from yesterday:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4420/37348718772_3230d4870a_c.jpg)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4341/23526857898_994075de45_c.jpg)
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Now this thread is really getting some abstracts.
Nice ones, Peter.
Eric
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A couple from yesterday:
Very nice indeed!
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Absolutely wonderful, Peter. At first I thought the second was upside down. But then I thought what does it matter, it works and we will never know unless you tell us.
JR
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Very nice indeed!
+1
Reminded me of this one I had laying around. Unfortunately, I shot it just too late. A moment before the water was much calmer which gave a beautiful transition between the relative structure on top and into the wavy pattern below, but by the time the camera was ready, the moment was gone and the water ever so slightly more disturbed, almost completely changing the effect.
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If you go out in the woods today...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-dS5ZV9k/0/d4e976d4/M/JMRO2787%20bw-copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-MvrtmZZ/0/826e37c7/M/JMRO2699%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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+1
Reminded me of this one I had laying around. Unfortunately, I shot it just too late. A moment before the water was much calmer which gave a beautiful transition between the relative structure on top and into the wavy pattern below, but by the time the camera was ready, the moment was gone and the water ever so slightly more disturbed, almost completely changing the effect.
Lovely nonetheless. Your timing looks great from here.
John, re:orientation. That's why I signed it. :). I actually changed my mind about orientation twice. :)
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Here's one I took in Birmingham (UK) last weekend. We were watching some of the riders finishing the Birmingham Velo 100 mile ride. I was doing some panning shots but inadvertently set much too slow a shutter speed at first. This was the result - possibly better than the pictures I took with the 'correct' speed.....
Jim
I obviously miss this one. Fantastic expressionism, in shape, colour, light and movement.
JR
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Fantastic expressionism, in shape, colour, light and movement.
Yes, absolutely.
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If you go out in the woods today...
I love the second one.
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Thanks John. Let's continue the surprise in the woods theme: "If you go down in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise...." Of course it was altered to make certain it is a big surprise.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-PQR24G6/0/320de013/M/Juy%2025-%202017%20RBG_0129-M.jpg)
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This one is more impressionist than usual. Longer lines make it sweeping and airy, IMO.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-7g66smr/0/d713457b/M/Oct%205-%202017%20Oxtongue%20and%20Algonquin_0235%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Really fine.
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Thank you Eric. This one is a different movement, more experimental. A bit like lens flare, echoes throughout the image.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-jcwjQNc/0/80f9f9c9/M/JMRO3888%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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semi abstracts
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semi abstracts
#2: *Stranger From The Depths. :)
-Dave-
*The title of the novel that got young me hooked on science fiction. It’s been out of print for ages. Found a used hardcover version a few years ago and discovered the version I’d read multiple times as a kid had been significantly abridged. The longer version is also a richer one and holds up really well!)
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#2: *Stranger From The Depths. :)
+10!
Creepy but good. I'll have to look for "Stranger..."
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Yes, I played around with this one. But I still like it.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Hilton-Falls/i-2ZnF4wW/0/03d0fb3e/M/JMRO3931%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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semi abstracts
Not all that abstract but I do love that carp lips one! :D
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This is not bad for LG phone image. cropped with bw conversion. Despite being recognizable, I think it has an abstract quality to it.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-XMPrLpM/0/a2495d79/M/20171008_143409%20bw-cropcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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#2: *Stranger From The Depths. :)
-Dave-
*The title of the novel that got young me hooked on science fiction. It’s been out of print for ages. Found a used hardcover version a few years ago and discovered the version I’d read multiple times as a kid had been significantly abridged. The longer version is also a richer one and holds up really well!)
+10!
Creepy but good. I'll have to look for "Stranger..."
Not all that abstract but I do love that carp lips one! :D
Thanks! They are funny to shoot but it took several attempts to get the timing and shutter speed right and I still couldn't get it entirely as I wanted.
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A couple of days ago, I was working in my garden when I happen to notice how the sun was shining through the swiss chard leaves. Seemed like a good idea to take a few photos and here's what I got.
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I like them, Bob.
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I think the first is very strong. Well placed lines and good balance between the strong reds and greens. The shadow areas in general are problematic. They are very strong at expense of other elements. I took some like this and discovered shadow areas do not work well with the bold graphic colours and strong light. They were hard to place in the picture space and still make the image work.
JR
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...The shadow areas in general are problematic.
Thanks John. I appreciate your comments, and have to add that I exaggerated the light-dark contrast purposefully via dodges and burns, perhaps to the detriment of the photo. I'll reconsider on future shots of this sort.
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Zebra like.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-6TDzxNw/0/a6ea7afe/M/JMRO4634%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Wavy.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-f6zHSHf/0/b6711001/M/JMRO4508_1004%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Started carrying my point and shoot camera in the car and managed get this image. But I missed the rainbow. Nowhere to pull the car aside. You can crop these in the camera or in PP until the cows come home. Great visual exercise.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-Sfv6mCx/0/89fe8de6/M/Oct%2025-%202017%20facade2-copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-JDTBnBb/0/9b3be919/M/Oct%2025-%202017%20facade-bw3-1000-M.jpg)
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Started carrying my point and shoot camera in the car and managed get this image. But I missed the rainbow. Nowhere to pull the car aside.
JR
Works very well without a rainbow as far as i can tell...
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Works very well without a rainbow as far as i can tell...
+1.
Of course, you could also price a rainbow at B&H to carry in your gadget bag when needed. ;D
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Wavy.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-f6zHSHf/0/b6711001/M/JMRO4508_1004%20copy1000-M.jpg)
I like Wavy. I could see that on my wall.
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I like Wavy. I could see that on my wall.
Thanks. Soon as I can afford it, many of these are going on my wall.
JR
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Armand mentioned the colours were not great this year- so true. You need cool nights as well as short days, and it was rather warm most of late September and most of October. 2012 was the best I have seen in quite a while. Here is one from that time, on the surreal side.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-mT3rrpm/0/cc7210ae/M/Arrowhead%20Park%20041%20cropcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Along the road whimsy.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-wzdJLHB/0/3fa00c33/M/Bancroft-%20Monck%20Rd%20104%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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5 minute river shot near Lyons, CO.
Have you been painting the water again. It has nice organic look and flow and wonderful mauve-magenta hues.
JR
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Have you been painting the water again. It has nice organic look and flow and wonderful mauve-magenta hues.
JR
Thanks. A lot of the river rocks in the area have that color.
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5 minute river shot near Lyons, CO.
5DR/25-105mm @ f16/80mm
I think by cropping out the rocks, the picture becomes more abstract and engaging.
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on Flickr
Wow!
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I think by cropping out the rocks, the picture becomes more abstract and engaging.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4473/37524881330_a57b324d39_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ZaWPSA)LDR-10-14-17-1-2 (https://flic.kr/p/ZaWPSA) by Joseph Alsko (https://www.flickr.com/photos/20yearsusaf/), on Flickr
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4473/37524881330_a57b324d39_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ZaWPSA)LDR-10-14-17-1-2 (https://flic.kr/p/ZaWPSA) by Joseph Alsko (https://www.flickr.com/photos/20yearsusaf/), on Flickr
Yes!
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Seen from above. (But how high above…?)
-Dave-
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how tall are you ? ;D ;)
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Autumnal Inversion - Shot last month in Muskoka, Ontario
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how tall are you ? ;D ;)
Not quite tall enough! ;)
-Dave-
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4493/38152666901_a66942bbb5_b.jpg)
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Berlin
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Berlin
A democratic version of the Berlin Wall? With handy stairs to get across? ;)
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A democratic version of the Berlin Wall? With handy stairs to get across? ;)
I think, no.
;-)
This is how the "democtratic" version looks like. As there's little of the actual wall remaining, they started to "reconstruct" the path of the wall with these iron pillars. Only in some parts of course.
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More shadow play.
JMR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscape-Impressions/i-8gbSzQR/0/ea69ddb0/M/Sept%2017-12%20Heart%20Lake%20Rd%20014%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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No tricks this time; Just observation. It was glorious morning.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscape-Impressions/i-bgb3mvc/0/3001dd8c/M/Arrowhead%20Park%20054%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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A bow and curtsy.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Npp8CK4/0/4cb59ad2/M/JMRO4753%20bw-twistcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Really abstract! Beautiful curves, by the way.
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Really abstract! Beautiful curves, by the way.
+1.
All it needs is for the JMR logo to be slowly rotating while we view it. ;)
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A bow and curtsy.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Npp8CK4/0/4cb59ad2/M/JMRO4753%20bw-twistcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
Images like this are why this is my favourite thread on LuLa.
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Star Flowers
Chuck
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And that one, Chuck. 8)
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Light and can never be overused.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscape-Impressions/i-k73Xx2b/0/d159c02d/M/May%205-%2012%20Badlands%20051%20copy1000M.jpg)
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Light and can never be overused...l
Nor (human) spellchecking ;)
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Flipped reflection of a hillside. The floating log doesn't look flipped so that plays with your mind a bit.
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Ice Flow Abstract
That would look great on a wall!
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Nor (human) spellchecking ;)
I finally got it. Despite reading it a few times, I didn't understand the complaint. Apparently the brain can often, and in this case did, read into the sentence the correct wording even though it's not there. Let's try again: Light and shadow.
JR
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Flipped reflection of a hillside. The floating log doesn't look flipped so that plays with your mind a bit.
It very subtle and you have to enlarge the image quite a bit to see the log juxtaposed against the mirage-like reflection.
JR
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Went on Downtown Toronto outing today. Overcast with very flat light. But I really fell for these circular lines and played around with contrast to improve the quality of light.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-SC6xDxv/0/bdb5185b/M/JMRO4791%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Went on Downtown Toronto outing today. Overcast with very flat light. But I really fell for these circular lines and played around with contrast to improve the quality of light.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-SC6xDxv/0/bdb5185b/M/JMRO4791%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Nice.
I'm glad you didn't leave out the {shadows} on this one. :D
-Eric
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Nice.
I'm glad you didn't leave out the {shadows} on this one. :D
-Eric
+1
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This is what you get when you give your kid the camera with a longish exposure
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This is what you get when you give your kid the camera with a longish exposure
Good stuff!
The first shows a little too much influence of John R's work IMHO, but the second one is a highly original abstract.
You've got competition in the family now.
My wife recently got herself an iPhone, and she has started competing with me photographically. I may have to learn how to cook so I can complete with her.
-Eric
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Don’t start wars you can’t win
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Don’t start wars you can’t win
Words of a wise man! ;)
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Enjoy,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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This is what you get when you give your kid the camera with a longish exposure
In the first one, it's inclusion of the figures (? – human and dog?) that really elevates the image. The angle of the branches and the flow of motion is perfect. Print it, mat and frame it, and put it on the wall. Your child will be inspired.
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Enjoy,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
I do enjoy this. It is very mysterious and evocative.
Eric
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I do enjoy this. It is very mysterious and evocative.
Eric
+1. Needs some scale to do it justice.
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Playing.
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I do enjoy this. It is very mysterious and evocative.
Eric
+1
Tolkien-like.
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"Playing" has good balance top to bottom, not just side to side.
Bruce
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It was sort of round already and then the sun came out a little.
Bruce
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Playing.
Kind of mysterious and spooky at same time. Reminds me of movies where those Egyptian drawings, rocks and figures take on anthropomorphic features and then come to life.
JR
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It was sort of round already and then the sun came out a little.
Bruce
Interesting Bruce. The clown doll or colorful Raggedy Anne that haunts the church? I have to stop. Maybe next time I will see just lines shapes and colors.
JR
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It was sort of round already and then the sun came out a little.
Bruce
Very cool.
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Playing.
I love mirroring! I have an app (Photodirector) for my S8 that has that feature and I like to mirror faces and things in nature. We should have a mirroring thread.
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Interesting Bruce. The clown doll or colorful Raggedy Anne that haunts the church? I have to stop. Maybe next time I will see just lines shapes and colors.
JR
I try to look for better Angels. I like to think they are in there too, somewhere.
Nevertheless, your comment made me wonder: What if I added back in what might be thought of as the Raggedy Anne panel. I had cleaned the act up. However, if I moved Raggedy Anne a little to the left...
Bruce
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Tshirt
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I love mirroring! I have an app (Photodirector) for my S8 that has that feature and I like to mirror faces and things in nature. We should have a mirroring thread.
Very nice. The first time I saw the technique with photography was maybe 40 years ago when I was really starting to look at past masters and innovators. Unfortunately, I don't remember who the photographer was. My interest was reawakened about 15 years ago by a gentleman who was producing what he called photographic mandalas. I find it to be more challenging than it looks to produce something that works well.
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Love this one. Good eye.
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Love this one. Good eye.
+1.
Jerry Uelsmann has used the mirroring technique for many years.
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+1.
Jerry Uelsmann has used the mirroring technique for many years.
Can't resist this reference and topic. I discovered Jerry Uelsmann through this site. Incredibly creative work over many years, including in film days when no digital manipulation was available.
Here are some mirrored samples from my files. One does not have to be pure about this, I varied the process. Too much mirroring can start to look gimmicky:
The good
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-JC6MkFM/0/44af41bd/M/Nov%202-%202015%20High%20Park%20061-copy1000-M.jpg)
The bad
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-4qFsB3m/0/40f96153/M/Nov%203-%202016%20High%20Park%20298%20panocopy-1000crop-M.jpg)
The not-so-ugly
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Rff4zJG/0/a8ac1a7b/M/Oct%2027-%202013%20Panocrop-1000-M.jpg)
And others
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-K89t9K3/0/9518fa3c/M/May%2014-11%20Niagara%20224%20pano1-copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-jmVRxgC/0/a8b98d48/M/Nov%2025-%202013%20Guelph%20walk%20008%20mirror-resized1000-M.jpg)
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More playing. These all began life as detail shots of the blades off the town's snow removal trucks and tractors.
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Can't resist this reference and topic. I discovered Jerry Uelsmann through this site. Incredibly creative work over many years, including in film days when no digital manipulation was available.
Here are some mirrored samples from my files. One does not have to be pure about this, I varied the process. Too much mirroring can start to look gimmicky:
The good
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-JC6MkFM/0/44af41bd/M/Nov%202-%202015%20High%20Park%20061-copy1000-M.jpg)
The bad
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-4qFsB3m/0/40f96153/M/Nov%203-%202016%20High%20Park%20298%20panocopy-1000crop-M.jpg)
The not-so-ugly
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-Rff4zJG/0/a8ac1a7b/M/Oct%2027-%202013%20Panocrop-1000-M.jpg)
And others
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-K89t9K3/0/9518fa3c/M/May%2014-11%20Niagara%20224%20pano1-copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-jmVRxgC/0/a8b98d48/M/Nov%2025-%202013%20Guelph%20walk%20008%20mirror-resized1000-M.jpg)
All very fine, John, as expected.
(Of course your logo is in the wrong location in the first one. ;D )
Eric
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More playing. These all began life as detail shots of the blades off the town's snow removal trucks and tractors.
I very much like the yellow third one.
The composition seems complete [something I find rare in details] and the feather of the edge suits it.
Bruce
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I very much like the yellow third one.
The composition seems complete [something I find rare in details] and the feather of the edge suits it.
Bruce
Thanks, Bruce. It's my favourite as well.
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More playing. These all began life as detail shots of the blades off the town's snow removal trucks and tractors.
Beautiful set!
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Beautiful set!
I agree, a fine set, it is. However, the image with the number does not seem to belong. It kind of makes one think of graffiti, whereas the other images are really abstract.
JR
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More playing. These all began life as detail shots of the blades off the town's snow removal trucks and tractors.
Super, all of them. I've been accused of shooting bulldozer blades in the past, too. :)
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Interesting Bruce. The clown doll or colorful Raggedy Anne that haunts the church? I have to stop. Maybe next time I will see just lines shapes and colors.
JR
I try to look for better Angels. I like to think they are in there too, somewhere.
Nevertheless, your comment made me wonder: What if I added back in what might be thought of as the Raggedy Anne panel. I had cleaned the act up. However, if I moved Raggedy Anne a little to the left...
Bruce
I should not been so cavalier with my comments. I like the colour version best Bruce. Though I seldom look for known motifs in patterns and abstracts, I have become aware they are sometimes there, and that is what I wanted to say. I would rather people not focus on them unless that was my intent. I try to look for patterns and shapes and spatial relationships, so that my abstracts will have some kind of structure to help guide the viewer. Here is one with intent:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Belfountain-and-Forks-of-the/i-n2rgNpN/0/e81c753c/S/Aug%2017-10%20Bellfountain%20267%20LScopy-S.jpg)
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Cavalier is OK with me.
The profile I see in your photo, however, seems more classical.
Bruce
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I can't recall how this was done, but I have grown to like it, as I like the painterly glow.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-TBRhvKP/0/1cd73c71/M/Algonquin%20167%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Very classy, John.
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I went by these doors again this year, and the building was gone. These resemble barn-like doors and walls, but the place was in fact a repair/sales place of country equipment, like lawn mowers, boats, power stuff.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-SXkg2rH/0/3eafd704/M/Little%20Hawk%20Lake%20246%20cropcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Hi guys. I'm quite new here, and loving these abstracts. Here's one from a week or so ago: Well-Weathered Metal. Fuji X-T20, 16-50mm.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4521/24679544738_a1d3c64389_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/DAR7Q3) (https://flic.kr/p/DAR7Q3)
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Hi guys. I'm quite new here, and loving these abstracts. Here's one from a week or so ago: Well-Weathered Metal. Fuji X-T20, 16-50mm.
It reminds me of a slide. This one wants take you down the slope. Nice harmonious colors.
And may I ask, how do like the T20 Fuji?
JR
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I see it as a closed eye, but am reminded that rust never sleeps...
The X-T20: I've only had it for ten days or so, and the lens that came with it is not among Fujinon's better lenses. Despite that, the sensor is excellent, and now that I've bought Iridient Developer, I feel I'm getting a lot out of the camera. Physically, I find it on the small size - my large hands could do with the grip extension, so I might buy that later. I'm saving up to buy the 10-24 ultra wide-angle lens for landscapes - there's talk of Santa paying for half of it, so, fingers crossed.
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I see it as a closed eye, but am reminded that rust never sleeps...
The X-T20: I've only had it for ten days or so, and the lens that came with it is not among Fujinon's better lenses. Despite that, the sensor is excellent, and now that I've bought Iridient Developer, I feel I'm getting a lot out of the camera. Physically, I find it on the small size - my large hands could do with the grip extension, so I might buy that later. I'm saving up to buy the 10-24 ultra wide-angle lens for landscapes - there's talk of Santa paying for half of it, so, fingers crossed.
No, as you said, Christmas was last year.
But you never can tell!
Rob C
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Hi guys. I'm quite new here, and loving these abstracts. Here's one from a week or so ago: Well-Weathered Metal. Fuji X-T20, 16-50mm.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4521/24679544738_a1d3c64389_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/DAR7Q3)
(https://flic.kr/p/DAR7Q3)
I love it! Keep 'em coming, Rob!
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Cheers, Eric. I've just been enjoying your landscapes, and also your baroque flute playing - I play baroque lute and theorbo. Sorry to hear about your medical problems. Good luck!
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Cheers, Eric. I've just been enjoying your landscapes, and also your baroque flute playing - I play baroque lute and theorbo. Sorry to hear about your medical problems. Good luck!
Thanks, Rob. I have three flutes, all made of African blackwood. Two baroque (one plays at A440 or A415, and the other at A415 or A385), and one modern (Boehm system) flute, also wood but with silver keys, modern pitch. I love the woody sound of all three.
Eric
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Hi guys. I'm quite new here, and loving these abstracts. Here's one from a week or so ago: Well-Weathered Metal. Fuji X-T20, 16-50mm.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4521/24679544738_a1d3c64389_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/DAR7Q3)
(https://flic.kr/p/DAR7Q3)
Well done!
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Cheers, Bob.
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I think someone posted something similar, but I can't remember who it was. I kept staring at these shadows for days after I cleaned the cupboards. I thought it was too symmetrical to be interesting but relented when the shadows cast at oblique angles.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-DLZZVH2/0/53a0b617/M/cupboardsO4859%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Hi guys. I'm quite new here, and loving these abstracts. Here's one from a week or so ago: Well-Weathered Metal. Fuji X-T20, 16-50mm.
Very appealing!
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I think someone posted something similar, but I can't remember who it was. I kept staring at these shadows for days after I cleaned the cupboards. I thought it was too symmetrical to be interesting but relented when the shadows cast at oblique angles.
JR
T'weren't me, but I've shot similar. I don't recall CLEANING the cupboards before or after though. :-[
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I was trying to find out your name, John, so I looked at your website and found that some people think you have "rocks in your head." If I enter anything abstract or non-representational in my club, it seldom does well. But I am not changing. Wonderful site with great images BTW.
Here is the same image that I started to play with. Nothing special, but playing helps the creative juices flow.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-JpWFhGM/0/a58e8fc1/M/cupboard4%20twisted%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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I like the "played with" version even better than the straight one (which was quite nice already).
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Okay then, Eric, here's looking at you!
JR
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Okay then, Eric, here's looking at you!
JR
Nice.
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If I enter anything abstract or non-representational in my club, it seldom does well. But I am not changing.
Ditto. If you're not making images that interest and attract you, what's the point? And, I think it's very healthy to show such images to other club photographers, even if it's not to the general taste. You never know when or who you might inspire!
Here is the same image that I started to play with. Nothing special, but playing helps the creative juices flow.
Like Eric, I find this one more interesting and appealing.
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Okay then, Eric, here's looking at you!
JR
That's a great selfie, John! :D
Eric
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My latest contribution to the best thread on LuLa. From two days ago.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4568/26882200609_d0425583f4_c.jpg)
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My latest contribution to the best thread on LuLa. From two days ago.
This one is very nice. Reminds me of a Van Gogh sky.
JR
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This one is very nice. Reminds me of a Van Gogh sky.
JR
+1.
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My latest contribution to the best thread on LuLa. From two days ago.
Nice! Is that a rock, or something else?
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Sunrise abstract from this morning.
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Sunrise abstract from this morning.
cool!
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cool!
Thanks!
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Yes it is kind of abstract. It has a really nice glow and a horizontal movement. Love the brown-orange colors. We don't usually critique in the abstract thread, but I think this would look even better without the bottom right land mass. Just pure color and movement. How did you get the look, camera movement or long exposure?
JR
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Nice! Is that a rock, or something else?
Not supposed to tell. :)
Rusty truck fender with lichen.
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The cupboards are haunting me. And now LuLa too. I have to keep them clean. A fuller variation, in which the window blinds nicely fill the bottom right area with shadows, and make overall look even more interesting-- at least to me.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-rdSFLPm/1/155a5024/M/JMRO4924%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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And from cupboard to walls and windows, more striking light. I get critical comments about my bare walls, but it allows the light to play. So for now it stays.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-4mQMh6d/0/77e360f9/M/JMRO4917%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Sunrise abstract from this morning.
exquisite
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Yes it is kind of abstract. It has a really nice glow and a horizontal movement. Love the brown-orange colors. We don't usually critique in the abstract thread, but I think this would look even better without the bottom right land mass. Just pure color and movement. How did you get the look, camera movement or long exposure?
JR
Thanks! I did about a 3 sec pan, if I remember correctly, during sunrise. The dark area is water. I really went crazy with the edit in LR.
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exquisite
Wow! Thanks Bob.
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I love this in colour, but it seems to be more surreal in BW. Let's see if I can manage at least one image per week.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-hdfvk2V/0/f0da3301/M/JMRO4906%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Another winner, John.
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Another winner, John.
+1. Our old house had lots of blinds on windows, and I had fun playing.
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+1. Our old house had lots of blinds on windows, and I had fun playing.
Very cool, John B. Only my north window lacks this kind of feedback. Of course it emits soft light and is very good for still life and small objects.
JR
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I like this… symmetry works perfectly.
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Today is raining, so I fetched one from my past outings that I didn't bother to process. Looks quite striking in BW, and has an abstract look.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-Q5Kgqmv/0/c971326c/M/Mar%2014-11%20Downtown%20256%20bw1copy-1000-M.jpg)
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Today is raining, so I fetched one from my past outings that I didn't bother to process. Looks quite striking in BW, and has an abstract look.
JR
I like it.
I always wonder how much the architect thinks about perspectives and light and reflections when designing the appearance of a building. Have I simply captured something that he/she left for me to discover, or have I found something unforeseen? I suspect the good ones are way ahead of me.
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I like it.
I always wonder how much the architect thinks about perspectives and light and reflections when designing the appearance of a building. Have I simply captured something that he/she left for me to discover, or have I found something unforeseen? I suspect the good ones are way ahead of me.
Another cool image well seen.
JR
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Believe it or not, this is part of a downtown Toronto building, actually part of their walls and decor. I like the juxtaposition of colours and shapes, but also want it for my creative competitions. They even have embedded glass floor blocks and blue light fixture/sculptures, I guess to go with red light stripe.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-4Z3TGMR/0/48d896de/M/Feb%208-%202014%20Downtown%20Toronto%20067%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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On border of abstract, but certainly they have an abstract and surreal feel to them. The walker, for some reason, reminds me of James Dean.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-xNpqWw7/0/fea5d46d/M/Mar%2014-11%20Downtown%20055%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-7JnxhJ8/0/e9eed759/M/Mar%2014-11%20Downtown%20040%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Believe it or not, this is part of a downtown Toronto building, actually part of their walls and decor. I like the juxtaposition of colours and shapes, but also want it for my creative competitions. They even have embedded glass floor blocks and blue light fixture/sculptures, I guess to go with red light stripe.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-4Z3TGMR/0/48d896de/M/Feb%208-%202014%20Downtown%20Toronto%20067%20copy1000-M.jpg)
I do like this one, and it works in any orientation. Seems almost Japanese in its simplicity and design aesthetic.
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On border of abstract, but certainly they have an abstract and surreal feel to them. The walker, for some reason, reminds me of James Dean.
JR
I like the first one in particular, but the second has that wonderful surprise element of the walking man in the corner.
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Thank you for the comments John and Eric.
Went out in the fog today. It was a rare occasion for me, as I would usually be well away from the countryside. I love the muted tones
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-vP96J4R/0/08ee3e35/M/JMRO5037%20Terra%20Cotta%20Dec%204-2017-1200-M.jpg)
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Thank you for the comments John and Eric.
Went out in the fog today. It was a rare occasion for me, as I would usually be well away from the countryside. I love the muted tones
JR
That would look great on a wall!
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Went out in the fog today. It was a rare occasion for me, as I would usually be well away from the countryside. I love the muted tones
JR
That's gorgeous.
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Not sure if this belongs in abstracts. Though I did manage a walk, the weather seemed more conducive to making, rather than taking images. This is a friend with ATTITUDE.
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Not sure if this belongs in abstracts. Though I did manage a walk, the weather seemed more conducive to making, rather than taking images. This is a friend with ATTITUDE.
Cool image!
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more light on a local temple
Bruce
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Cool image!
I agree. The "ATTITUDE" comes across nicely.
JR
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more light on a local temple
Bruce
Now we know that Buddha (I think) gets his power from sun. Everything else turns blue. This is an interesting experiment. There is good distribution of blue and yellow. It reminds me of Disney's, Alice in wonderland. She also stepped into a surreal world.
JR
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Have a few more from foggy day outing but not suitable for abstract thread. Here is one I just finished processing.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-zv7T6XL/0/a739e7dd/M/JMRO4598%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Two from the small local shipyard. All the boats are in drydock for the season, but there are still changes in what can be seen depending on the weather and the light.
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Two from the small local shipyard. All the boats are in drydock for the season, but there are still changes in what can be seen depending on the weather and the light.
Now these are really cool and definitely abstract. They do have a nautical "feel" to them. But they also remind me of veins in the layers of the earth. Of course the red is outlier... and dare I say a warning sign.
JR
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Two from the small local shipyard. All the boats are in drydock for the season, but there are still changes in what can be seen depending on the weather and the light.
That second one is just an utter masterpiece. It has that ethereal sense of movement. People dancing. Maybe it should be called "El Tango" to allude to its origins of ships and sailors...
"El Tango"
Come sway with me
and be alive
slow at first
but then we'll strive
for passion in our lasting dance
of travels and some wild romance
and call home
wherever we arrive
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I would have never thought to try something like this without the inspiration of the very artistic and creative photographers on this forum. Out shooting a sunrise and I just rotate the camera for a few seconds on the tripod. No big deal.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4576/27087459189_42a48697df_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/HgCiUr)Abstract-33717 (https://flic.kr/p/HgCiUr) by Joseph Alsko (https://www.flickr.com/photos/20yearsusaf/), on Flickr
Regards
Joseph
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Really cool stuff from both of you, John and Joseph!
Eric
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Really cool stuff from both of you, John and Joseph!
Eric
Really fine, Joseph. I know a photographer that takes images like these and then combines them with bird images in flight.
JR
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Well, it's great!
And it looks like you landed on Saturn ...
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At north coast of Spain
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Oh, looks like marble :)
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Season's colours
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/201712/i-kV3PDqd/0/5ff907d2/O/PEG_A7_1_2314_20171206.jpg) (https://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201712/i-kV3PDqd/A)
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Good stuff, folks!
-Dave-
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Good stuff, folks!
-Dave-
Yes indeed.
Chuck
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Perhaps a sense of discomfort?
Chuck
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Really cool stuff from both of you, John and Joseph!
Eric
Thanks Eric!
Really fine, Joseph. I know a photographer that takes images like these and then combines them with bird images in flight.
JR
Thanks for the suggestion JR!
Well, it's great!
And it looks like you landed on Saturn ...
Nice observation!
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Perhaps a sense of discomfort?
Chuck
Neat!
I have no idea what it is. Surely not water.
Please don't give it away!
Eric
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RE: Joseph's shot
Well, it's great!
And it looks like you landed on Saturn ...
+1
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Beautiful, whatever it is.
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Perhaps a sense of discomfort?
Chuck
Though Eric may be right about it not being water, it gives me the feeling one could drown.
Bruce
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You know how on the path of life, no matter what fork in the road you take, what bends appear, you always seem to be connected to some people, no matter what?
"Entanglement"
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You know how on the path of life, no matter what fork in the road you take, what bends appear, you always seem to be connected to some people, no matter what?
"Entanglement"
Very cool. And a bit creepy.
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Time for some holiday abstracts, and here's mine "Chardflake Blizzard", which also serves as the artwork for this year's greeting card from yours truly. Just in case you wondered how abstract it gets. ;)
Happy Holidays!
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Very cool. And a bit creepy.
+1.
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A hillside reflecting off of some thin lake ice here in Colorado.
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Another contribution for this fun thread. :)
Chuck
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Another contribution for this fun thread. :)
Oooh, I like this a lot.
-Dave-
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Oooh, I like this a lot.
-Dave-
Definitely fun.
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Went on outing to City Hall Square in Toronto to capture the lights. Went in to warm up and this is what I found.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-LxV3jkC/0/5da2b399/M/Dec%2010-%202017%20City%20Hall%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Went on outing to City Hall Square in Toronto to capture the lights. Went in to warm up and this is what I found.
Ah, Toronto. Less straight-laced and more curvy than one might imagine. Here are some older examples from University College and Convocation Hall (U of T) respectively.
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Pretty good images John B. I was going to ask if you could get me into Convocation Hall until I realized these are old images. I am going to have to give them a call to see if they will allow a group of people in.
So while I was inside photographing the stairs seen here...
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-GJRdzLq/0/4b538395/M/Dec%2010-%202017%20City%20Hall%20Lights_0324%20copy1000-M.jpg)
ET landed in the square with his new spaceship and I managed to get one shot before he took off.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-ZFZ9Zt6/0/ca343d7b/M/Dec%2010-%202017%20City%20Hall%20Lights_0231%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Did you at least get ET's autograph?
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ET landed in the square with his new spaceship and I managed to get one shot before he took off.
Sitting on the far East Coast, I always thought this sort of thing was the norm for Toronto.
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Meanwhile, on the east coast (NS)....
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Chuck, you may be right. However, I do think ET was just out of this world with the design of his ship. Now look at John B's image. It's a nasty looking alien, the kind that Sigourney Weaver tried to destroy. But effective. Eric, I did one better than an autograph- I got Canada in his good books. Can you see his antennae lighting up all the way to the top? That means he is delighted to be part of the Toronto Festival of lights.
Which reminds me, one night I was out and about in downtown Toronto, just going for a walk. I saw a small red light in the sky moving to and fro. Like it was dancing in the sky. I watched it for about ten minutes to see if I could determine what it was. I looked to see if anyone else noticed. No one around to discuss the light in the sky. What could it be? So I started to walk toward the light and was getting kind of nervous as the light sometimes seemed to be heading in my direction. After about half hour walking I ended up at a boarded construction site. I saw a crane and my eyes followed its neck up towards the red light in the sky. I was relieved. Phew, that was close! I didn't have to go home and tell people I saw a red light in the sky.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-5bF8wVN/0/5fd1a45d/M/Dec%2010-%202017%20City%20Hall%20Lights_0214-2%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Nice find and capture Steven, especially the colours.
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John R, that second shot of the lights really works (better than the first, for me). Steven B – good eye! I know the abstract expressionists aren't everyone's cup of tea, but I can't help seeing such images in my 'walkabouts'.
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That's pretty damned good!
Rob
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Meanwhile, on the east coast (NS)....
I better take something to calm myself down.
Now I know how it could feel to be thirty and stranded on a desert island; one could see them everywhere!
;-)
Rob
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I better take something to calm myself down.
Now I know how it could feel to be thirty and stranded on a desert island; one could see them everywhere!
;-)
Rob
Rob, rest assured you're not alone.
Georgia O'Keeffe, eat your heart out.
;-)
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That's pretty damned good!
Rob
Thank you.
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Rob, rest assured you're not alone.
Georgia O'Keeffe, eat your heart out.
;-)
Yes, I first picked up on her from a video given me by the same snapper-happy waiter who got me into Photoshop! It wasn't primarily about her, but her part as girlfriend to an older photographer (Stieglitz). I found her paintings very attractive.
Some folks lived exciting lives back then! Must have been the location down there on the border.
I wonder if she dared consider the conch shell? Oh well, I suppose it's the fault of all those beach pictures I made.
:-)
Rob
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"Absolution"
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Meanwhile, on the east coast (NS)....
Very nice mirrored image!
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Very nice mirrored image!
Thank-you. Judging from the reactions, it turned into a kind of sandy Rorschach.
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"Absolution"
Very nice. I keep coming back to look at it.
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Oh, yes. Especially love the tape over the trace of older tape... :)
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"Absolution"
Touch it or drink it?
Lovely, Oscar.
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Grey on white, soft and abstract. I borrowed the second from atomic agency. Had to super freeze it to get it to sit still.
JR
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Grey on white, soft and abstract. I borrowed the second from atomic agency. Had to super freeze it to get it to sit still.
JR
I don't know what the heck that is, but it's super cool!
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I don't know what the heck that is, but it's super cool!
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I don't know what the heck that is, but it's super cool!
+2.
Or super- cooled.
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Mind-bending but really super-cool! :D
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Enjoy.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Enjoy.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
I do!
The textures and implied motion are very appealing.
Eric
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I do!
The textures and implied motion are very appealing.
Eric
I like it too. Mineral motion…
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"Quantum Physics"
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Most of what I shoot is more objective but maybe this one would fit in here.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4635/39181840721_ec89e160a8_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22GnbaX)IMGP8286-Edit (https://flic.kr/p/22GnbaX) by Matt Burt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbnet/), on Flickr
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Fantastic bubble stacks, Matt.
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Fantastic bubble stacks, Matt.
This is similar to the one he posted in ice bubbles 11. Quite fantastic, especially in BW. But I am on to Burt. I know pancakes when I see them. Eric, get Matt to tell you where their made and we will all head over for some brunch. I will bring the blueberry sauce!!
JR
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Thanks, but I prefer strawberry! 8)
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Most of what I shoot is more objective but maybe this one would fit in here.
What planet are these from?!?!?
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The blues.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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What planet are these from?!?!?
Gunnison! :D
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The blues.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Very nice!
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Very nice!
+1.
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That too.
Nice.
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Very nice!
YES!
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Fisheye Filmstrip Entry
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Blue, Green and Black...
Peter
Perfect eqilibrium!
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Blue Green Black...
Peter
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Blue Green Black has equilibrium and plenty of subtle motion. Not that Rob would find it perfect any other way, I just thought I would say...
Bruce
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Blue Green Black has equilibrium and plenty of subtle motion. Not that Rob would find it perfect any other way, I just thought I would say...
Bruce
Bruce, you're making photography sound sexy again.
That would be nice.
;-)
Rob
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Perfect eqilibrium!
Thank you Rob...from this mornings walk with my family. Our Christmas eve morning ritual.
Peter
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Blue Green Black has equilibrium and plenty of subtle motion. Not that Rob would find it perfect any other way, I just thought I would say...
Bruce
Ha...
Peter
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Landscape in stone.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Landscape in stone.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Theses drones get everywhere! This one must have been far too hight to be legal.
;.-)
Rob
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Bruce, you're making photography sound sexy again.
That would be nice.
;-)
Rob
Oh well, so much for sexy.
I looked at Peter's "Blue Green Black..." again hoping to find an explanation for my saying it had subtle motion and realized I had misunderstood its construction. I failed to see the steel structure he was photographing and imagined it as a photoshop combine representing what would have been a sexy painting.
I still like the image as an abstraction of the sky and structure, though now I see its motion as regular and blatant.
Bruce
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I looked at Peter's "Blue Green Black..." again hoping to find an explanation for my saying it had subtle motion and realized I had misunderstood its construction. I failed to see the steel structure he was photographing and imagined it as a photoshop combine representing what would have been a sexy painting.
I still like the image as an abstraction of the sky and structure, though now I see its motion as regular and blatant.
Bruce
Hi Bruce,
Well, the clouds are in motion and smaller pieces of green are peppered throughout the black.They make the eye move...
Peter
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Not sure if this falls into the abstract realm, but I took a "normal" tree shot then cranked the noise reduction to 100% on it in LR. I then exported and then re-imported it and did the same thing with the noise reduction. I did this several times and came up with this.
It's not serious photography, just having fun with a digital image.
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It certainly is a fun picture.
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It is a fun picture, for sure. I was bothered by the black spots in the snow. They seemed to spoil the effect somewhat.
Alan
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It certainly is a fun picture.
Thanks! Digital allows us to try different things that we wouldn't/couldn't with film.
It is a fun picture, for sure. I was bothered by the black spots in the snow. They seemed to spoil the effect somewhat.
Alan
Thanks! Those were cut corn stalks. Easily removed.
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the "March of the Ice Ents" !
Very cool shot !
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Blue Green Black...
Peter
Great image!
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OK, a bit of a stretch but it is abstract.
Chuck
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OK, a bit of a stretch but it is abstract.
Chuck
Interesting, an inverted abstract? A suggestion- also try selecting the main element, invert it, and leave the background as is. Another method to try.
JR
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I was going to put these in the minimalism thread, but hardly anyone goes there.
JR
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Interesting, an inverted abstract? A suggestion- also try selecting the main element, invert it, and leave the background as is. Another method to try.
JR
Thanks for the idea John. I'll try incorporating it into the tool box.
I really like your snow shots. Both compositions work well.
Rain and gale force winds have beaten our snow into non-photogenic crusts.
Chuck
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Very Nordic yet surprisingly warm in its simplicity somehow... children's book read from beneath a warm down comforter... or maybe it's just because my eyes, ears and fingers are still zoning from my brief foray out earlier this morning... the continued sea smoke all night from the reach had turned everything right glass sculpture but almost the moment the sun appeared the shot was gone... great time of year!
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Very Nordic yet surprisingly warm in its simplicity somehow... children's book read from beneath a warm down comforter... or maybe it's just because my eyes, ears and fingers are still zoning from my brief foray out earlier this morning... the continued sea smoke all night from the reach had turned everything right glass sculpture but almost the moment the sun appeared the shot was gone... great time of year!
I find it quite frustrating when there is a fresh wintry scene outside, that disappears by the time I'm warm enough to go out to photograph it. I've missed both of our minor snow falls so far this winter.
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The pond from a couple of weeks ago doubled up.
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The pond from a couple of weeks ago doubled up.
The face of an Alien Invader!
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I was going to put these in the minimalism thread, but hardly anyone goes there.
JR
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I like your wry sense of humour! Your two pictures are beautiful.
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Re: Show us some Abstracts!
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Quote from: Patricia Sheley on December 29, 2017, 11:30:18 AM
Very Nordic yet surprisingly warm in its simplicity .
Quote Eric:
I've missed both of our minor snow falls so far this winter
Minor! Everything is golden again! Thought all of my Minor White archive and books had gone missing in the move to Maine...Sorting miscellaneous from movers that included now destroyable tax files, they appeared sandwiched between non descripts . I'm a happy camper today...also found my missing ND filters, spare batteries and two missing cameras in addition to my padded recharge system for my greedy but much loved Merrills. Hope I'm actually awake... yep, I can smell the leeks caramelizing... ;)
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Minor! Everything is golden again! Thought all of my Minor White archive and books had gone missing in the move to Maine...Sorting miscellaneous from movers that included now destroyable tax files, they appeared sandwiched between non descripts . I'm a happy camper today...also found my missing ND filters, spare batteries and two missing cameras in addition to my padded recharge system for my greedy but much loved Merrills. Hope I'm actually awake... yep, I can smell the leeks caramelizing... ;)
That certainly counts as a Minor miracle! :D
Be well, stay warm, savor the leeks (but no leaks, please).
Eric
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One of the reasons I like macro lenses is that they can turn even a horribly rainy, stay-indoors day (such as today was here) into fun.
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One of the reasons I like macro lenses is that they can turn even a horribly rainy, stay-indoors day (such as today was here) into fun.
#1!
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One of the reasons I like macro lenses is that they can turn even a horribly rainy, stay-indoors day (such as today was here) into fun.
From Quick Silver to honey bees... that's quite good John.
JR
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the...hand of man...
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#1!
+1
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Just a confused deer who was startled by my camera. When he stopped I managed to get his legs before he fled ;)
JR
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the...hand of man...
Well seen, nice composition!
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From Quick Silver to honey bees... that's quite good John.
JR
Quicksilver – thanks for that description. I liked the "fluidity" of this experimental shot. All of them were handheld at close to maximum magnification and, at f/4, a very narrow depth of field.
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Well seen, nice composition!
Thank you!
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Oh my! Wow!
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It was before breakfast, in fact, before the first decent cappuccino, so i have no idea what i was thinking, but then again, that's what the abstract thread is for, no?
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It was before breakfast, in fact, before the first decent cappuccino, so i have no idea what i was thinking, but then again, that's what the abstract thread is for, no?
It's very sexy, but I can't figure it out. Can I have a coffee too, please, just as long as you're making one...
Rob
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Peter, the plumage is wonderful. There is texture also, as the light moves from highlight, to midtones, to shadow areas, Very nice.
JR
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It was before breakfast, in fact, before the first decent cappuccino, so i have no idea what i was thinking, but then again, that's what the abstract thread is for, no?
Why would you want to spoil this shot with 'thinking?' I think Rob gave the best description. Of course, I am kidding about the 'thinking.' If you didn't have a greater appetite to 'see' and/or photograph that day, surely you would have just gone by it.
JR
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Questions in a world of white
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Something new is born.
JR
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Peter, the plumage is wonderful. There is texture also, as the light moves from highlight, to midtones, to shadow areas, Very nice.
JR
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Something new is born.
JR
It is indeed. Very nice.
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Questions in a world of white
Now that is minimal! Clever.
Rob
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Questions in a world of white
Yes :)
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Yes :)
+1.
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Questions in a world of white
Beautiful! A classic example of “less is more”.
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Yes, sometimes less is more. Sometimes, it can be plain boring. I have lots of those. But if you never walk that fine line, you will never know. The last image is a reminder to remember to use manual focus mode when shooting in falling snow. But I like the ethereal look, so I posted it too.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Belfountain-and-Forks-of-the/i-Dqj3GP2/0/c00fded3/M/Feb%203-%202015%20Bellfountain%20217%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Now that is minimal! Clever.
Rob
Thank you. I strive for these kind of shots but as John R says above I'm mostly failing.
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remember to use manual focus mode when shooting in falling snow. But I like the ethereal look, so I posted it too.
Now you tell me. :) I had a few sharp foreground snowflakes and fuzzy subjects the other day. Don't do much shooting in active snow. Now I know better.
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Biting back~
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Biting back~
Fierce fangs!
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Biting back is superb. I have a much more gentle offering.
JR
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A little more dark and moody.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Winter-in-High-Park-2013/i-mZn5Dwz/0/6fc8478d/M/Feb%207-11%20HP%20227%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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A little more dark and moody...
Ah! A masterpiece!
(Too bad I can't see it larger)
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Quote from: John R on Today at 04:24:57 PM
A little more dark and moody...
Anything but! Meditation dressed in storm. I am hoping, no imagining, that a small bird to the right is celebrating his inner calm~
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A little more dark and moody.
Beauty! VERY moody.
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Sorry to brake the mood, but this may be a more technical study of four brushes and blended gradients.
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Sorry to brake the mood, but this may be a more technical study of four brushes and blended gradients.
I need sunglasses to view it.
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A concrete urbanscape and the all-seeing lamp.
JR
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i have no title yet
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i have no title yet
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Wild!
No title needed.
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1960s might be apt...
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Taking a nod from Rob, "Subdued Psychedelic"...
Peter
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im leaning towards Rubber Klimt!
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Look through the woods and what do I see?
JR
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Great shot Michael. HIt's obviously a distorted equilibrium.
JR
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Here's some more distorted equilibrium. 8)
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im leaning towards Rubber Klimt!
+1
Peter
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Here's some more distorted equilibrium. 8)
Very cool Peter.
JR
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Very cool Peter.
JR
+1.
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Putting together a slideshow of our City Hall during festival of lights. Here she is, followed by an abstraction of same, which I really like.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-PmFzXZc/0/3558dbb3/M/Jan%2015-%202017%20Toronto%20City%20Hall%20058%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-B5qNNQv/0/29452703/M/Jan%2015-%202017%20Toronto%20City%20Hall%20044%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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an abstraction of same, which I really like.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-B5qNNQv/0/29452703/M/Jan%2015-%202017%20Toronto%20City%20Hall%20044%20copy1000-M.jpg)
As do I.
Are those buildings LED-lit?
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As do I.
Are those buildings LED-lit?
Me too!
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As do I.
Are those buildings LED-lit?
I was going to say no, but I looked it up. You are right. It is lit from the roof with leds.
https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/venues-facilities-bookings/booking-city-facilities/city-squares/nathan-phillips-square/lighting-city-hall-towers/
They lights sneak up on you and you tend to notice them more when it is really dark. Looks better from a distance. The human eye does not see the violet cast as deeply as the camera sensor. If you haven't already guessed, that building is the famous Toronto City Hall. Quite modernistic looking, with a giant mushroom in the middle.
Thanks for the comments, Peter and Eric.
JR
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LED light, especially blues and violets play havoc with digital movie cameras, too. I like it, actually. Something we've not seen before. Actually, I admit to a secret love affair with LEDs. Science Fiction.
Meanwhile, back to the topic at hand: abstracts. :)
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Delightful, Peter.
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Kudos for anyone correctly identifying this semi-abstract.
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part of a trash burning furnace ?
well there is ductwork for hot gas based on insulation blanket and appearance of metals. a couple hydraulic actuators and structural arm maybe for the pivot of the door or hatch.
Was this in a mining industry
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Interesting guess. Incorrect, unfortunately. :)
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Interesting guess. Incorrect, unfortunately. :)
Iranian rocket parts bin?
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Heh. 'nother good guess. Actually, Rob it was Kurdistan, but...
Sorry. Still no winner.
I'll give y'alls a hint. You're looking up.
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this is wonderful: love that the wrench left a fitting open; love the pulleys, vents, splits, dist amp, reliefs. If there were a God He would love the obsolescence, just as his humanity nears the same, yet the utter brilliance of "there is a way to do this". The careful riveted trim of exterior trim lets me know the closer cared as well. While my first reaction was an exotic as in Lagonda, have come around to something as wonderful as a calliope. The pulleys, belts and rollers would allow infinite precision adjustment to whatever the powers provided. Just love this!
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Please don't tell me early elevator shaft: I want so much more!
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Damn, something as ordinary as heating and cooling?
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Heh. 'nother good guess. Actually, Rob it was Kurdistan, but...
Sorry. Still no winner.
I'll give y'alls a hint. You're looking up.
But from Iranian source: the pretty lady from the White House said so. There were markings! And holes! And rockets come down from "looking up"! It was on tv: must be true.
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Whatever it is, it's so freakin' chaotic that if I were responsible for it I dunno if I'd be ashamed or proud. Maybe both! ;D
-Dave-
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…the pretty lady…
Darn it, fixed before I had a chance to get snarky!
-Dave-
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It's somebody's worst nightmare, but it's a fascinating image.
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You'll all hate me when I tell you what it is. It's a guilty pleasure of mine. Aircraft. Military aircraft in particular.
If you were to stow away in the undercarriage well of a Boeing B52, just before landing when the wheels dropped and you looked up, that is what you'd see.
Pima County Air Museum, south of Tucson. Nikon D200 HDR 3 images, hand held.
Glad you like it. :)
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Aha! Good to know some of that mess unfolds & extends into something that makes sense. :D
-Dave-
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You'll all hate me when I tell you what it is. It's a guilty pleasure of mine. Aircraft. Military aircraft in particular.
If you were to stow away in the undercarriage well of a Boeing B52, just before landing when the wheels dropped and you looked up, that is what you'd see.
Pima County Air Museum, south of Tucson. Nikon D200 HDR 3 images, hand held.
Glad you like it. :)
Darn !
my first thought was inside an aircraft bay due to the cables and hydraulics and those two struts, but the uniform level of corrosion caused me to think it had to be terrestrial rather than aircraft. Didn't realize there was that much low alloy steel in that vintage. Learn something new every day ! Now i have to wonder what all the insulated ducts were for ? keeping the tires warm ? thanks.
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Darn it, fixed before I had a chance to get snarky!
-Dave-
That's part of the trouble with writing English on a Spanish computer system. And a huge part of having failing eyesight and dyslexic fingers with a penchant for the Thelonious Monk trick of hitting between two keys. I wonder if he had bad eyes and took it from there?
At least LuLa now appears to have overcome the problem where I used to discover I had lingered too long on a reply, only to discover that it wouldn't fly anymore. It's a strange thing, but I find that the three ways of reading one's posts: as they are being typed; on the Preview; and then finally after posting, each reveals different errors in the typing or order of thought. Not a lot one can do about the latter beyond writing everything in Word and then importing it, but that kills the initial juice before it starts to bubble. It would then resemble my cooking.
But hey, depriving you of one opportunity doesn't mean I shan't offer you others. Either way, it's nice to know one is being read! I'm quite grateful to your aunt!
;-)
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Some pretty cool images Peter. I guess aircraft on first. But on second I was lost.
JR
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Step right in, maybe you will get vertigo. Thought I would try to de-escalate the brouhaha over the canola field.
JR
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That's great, John. Low light levels, quick wits. :) This is the last thing he saw before he was transported into another dimension...
*Indulgence filter on, please*
More aviation fetishism.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4655/26083656778_9bffd34176_o.jpg)
*Indulgence filter off*
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The shimmer really makes it, Peter. All the textures and nuances of the metal come to life. Well done, 'riveting work'.
JR
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That's a lovely shot John. Every time I try something like that it's ruined by camera shake :) You'd think I'd learn.
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Splendid stuff, Peter and John.
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That's a lovely shot John. Every time I try something like that it's ruined by camera shake :) You'd think I'd learn.
Splendid stuff, Peter and John.
Thank you Mike and Eric. Mike, it is a bit shaky as the escalator was moving. My idea was to create effects on the walls of the escalator and the surrounding environment. As you say, sometimes it was just too blurry, so I did a few. Here is another:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-Zg5fmpZ/0/fbb83d32/L/JMRO5964%20halfbwcopy1000-L.jpg)
JR
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And this is the AI monster that was watching me take images in the subway. He looks benign, but he really wants to own and control you now that he is aware that he can. Same as Google, Microsoft, Apple and all the others.
JR
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That's great, John. Low light levels, quick wits. :) This is the last thing he saw before he was transported into another dimension...
*Indulgence filter on, please*
More aviation fetishism.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4655/26083656778_9bffd34176_o.jpg)
*Indulgence filter off*
Somewhere, Buck Rogers is smiling...
Peter
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And this is the AI monster that was watching me take images in the subway.
OMG! You're lucky to get outta there alive!
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And this is the AI monster that was watching me take images in the subway. He looks benign, but he really wants to own and control you now that he is aware that he can. Same as Google, Microsoft, Apple and all the others.
JR
"He" is a she if you ask me, and she thinks you're a breath of fresh air. She clearly has got her eye on you!
Top shot! Love the color and tone, fits the subject well, creates a lovely befitting atmosphere.
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*Indulgence filter on, please*
More aviation fetishism.
Is that titanium ? It has a special sheen all it's own...
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John,
The quality of your work is definitely escalating. ;)
Eric
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Thanks for the comments everyone. I think Oscar is right, it is a she. Once spotted, I went to her like a moth to a flame. Fortunately, I had my friends drag me away after a couple of shots.
JR
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Is that titanium ? It has a special sheen all it's own...
Very observant! It's an SR-71.
Boeing Museum of Flight, Seattle.
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John,
The quality of your work is definitely escalating. ;)
Eric
AghhhhHHH! :)
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Thanks for the comments everyone. I think Oscar is right, it is a she. Once spotted, I went to her like a moth to a flame. Fortunately, I had my friends drag me away after a couple of shots.
JR
I really was dragged away. So much to see and observe in the new subway stations. This has be one of my favourites in a long while. Maybe controlled chaos? Something fantastic anyway.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Torontos-new-Subway-Stations/i-7DTC4Bq/1/8eaf7be5/L/JMRO5932%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Very cool. That's the last thing he saw before he was transported into the other dimension.
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I really was dragged away. So much to see and observe in the new subway stations. This has be one of my favourites in a long while. Maybe controlled chaos? Something fantastic anyway.
JR
Very interesting indeed. The color seems essential in this image.
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(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180130/d9fe09f5acbb96341829bc4bbd13d4fa.jpg)
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Bubblicious! Amazing, both spheres and pentagons. Just don't drink it. Wouldn't want you to float away.
JR
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Love the subway/escalator shots, John. Very creative!
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Fantastic, sbode! Can't begin to imagine the technical challenges of that image. Beautiful!
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Ice-Bound Abstract...
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Superb, Stephen. Print it HUGE. 8)
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Cracked
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(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180204/4e34f5554379175b906a8c28bee2d243.jpg)
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Found Art?
On a sign post in a parking lot.
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Nicely graphic, Eric.
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Back to subway musings.
JMR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Torontos-new-Subway-Stations/i-GzkLqMQ/0/a06d535a/L/JMRO6270%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Back to subway musings.
JMR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Torontos-new-Subway-Stations/i-GzkLqMQ/0/a06d535a/L/JMRO6270%20copy1000-L.jpg)
I knew you'd find a way to liven it up, John!
Delightful!
Eric
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Thanks Eric. One more from the upper level of the lower depths- the subway!
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Torontos-new-Subway-Stations/i-gfHP5Tr/0/e3a900e6/L/JMRO6179%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Oh man! They must have built that just for you, John!
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A frosty morning
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Nice ones, Pieter.
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Thanks Eric, I know these type of shots are cliché'd to death but I like them, because they're my own cliché's ;)
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Yes, those are always the best.
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Here's one I did a while ago and just ran across it again. Maybe it should go in the Minimalist thread.
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Not sure whether this fits as an abstract, either, but ... why not:
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Here's one I did a while ago and just ran across it again. Maybe it should go in the Minimalist thread.
Eric,
Very nice...High speed nice?
Peter
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Eric,
Very nice...High speed nice?
Peter
I think it was out of an airplane's window, so yes: High speed. The only sharp bits are the water droplets on the outside of the window. I think we had just emerged from a cloud.
Eric
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I think it was out of an airplane's window, so yes: High speed. The only sharp bits are the water droplets on the outside of the window. I think we had just emerged from a cloud.
Eric
You do, of course, realise you flew moved into Leiter territory?
I'm sure he'd have approved.
Rob
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http://www.douglasdolde.com/-/galleries/recent-images/-/medias/ffb8d20c-d05e-4287-ab65-95d8c9661508-hidden-hare
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http://www.douglasdolde.com/-/galleries/recent-images/-/medias/ffb8d20c-d05e-4287-ab65-95d8c9661508-hidden-hare
Really wild transformations.
Joshua Tree National Park by any chance?
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optics
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Here's one I did a while ago and just ran across it again. Maybe it should go in the Minimalist thread.
or a "Color Field" thread.
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motion
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I always like this type of shot. It seems a bit magenta to me but perhaps that's where you were going with it.
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Preaching to the Choir.
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I always like this type of shot. It seems a bit magenta to me but perhaps that's where you were going with it.
The light was very magenta to start with and the camera saw it this way. I only added a smidge of contrast and clarity.
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... the camera saw it this way...
I hope it is still under warranty ;)
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I hope it is still under warranty ;)
Funny. Looking back at the picture it does look much more magenta than on my calibrated screen in LR so I'm not sure what went wrong.
But here, for you I'm fixing it, in 2 choices even.
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a very good candidate for a 1000+ piece puzzle ;D
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a very good candidate for a 1000+ piece puzzle ;D
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a very good candidate for a 1000+ piece puzzle ;D
i like the picture. There is something "Zen" about it.
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a very good candidate for a 1000+ piece puzzle ;D
I would likely go mad before I finish.
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Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco, Calif.
Interior shot before and recent refit.
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sky
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a very good candidate for a 1000+ piece puzzle ;D
Sick, man. You are really, really sick. :)
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The wisps of clouds really adds to the transition of colours.
JR
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Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco, Calif.
Interior shot before and recent refit.
If not for title I was lost as my eyes scanned the image. It took while for me to notice the railings as railings. Sort of got caught in the shapes and patterns. Wonderfully intriguing. Drew me right in.
JR
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Took a group to this secret location. Of course, it is no longer a secret.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Glen-Haffey/i-DcXQVjN/0/485e87dd/L/Feb%2024-%202018_0162%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Took a group to this secret location. Of course, it is no longer a secret.
JR
Lovely color in that one, John.
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Took a group to this secret location. Of course, it is no longer a secret.
VERY nice!
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VERY nice!
+1.
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Smile Sar-ah
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The wisps of clouds really adds to the transition of colours.
JR
Thank you. It took me about 30 shots from the airplane window to get one as I wanted it.
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Dark core
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Smile Sar-ah
A Maneater for sure. ;D
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Dark core
Beauty! Looks like ancient cartography.
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Took a group to this secret location. Of course, it is no longer a secret.
JR
Nice.
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Thanks to all who commented. One more from the outing. More understated and less contrasty.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-RQ2SZgn/0/547bb02b/L/Feb%2024-%202018_0201%20cropcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Thanks to all who commented. One more from the outing. More understated and less contrasty.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-RQ2SZgn/0/547bb02b/L/Feb%2024-%202018_0201%20cropcopy-1000-L.jpg)
I love your fuzzy forests, John.
I have made a few attempts to do something similar, but I obviously need to practice a lot more before I'll have anything postable.
Thanks for sharing your beauties.
Eric
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I love your fuzzy forests, John.
I have made a few attempts to do something similar, but I obviously need to practice a lot more before I'll have anything postable.
Thanks for sharing your beauties.
Eric
Thanks Eric. This one is actually in-camera double exposure combined with camera movement. I like these better than the single shot images as they look more painterly. Just be quick and systematic- and- as you said, practice.
JR
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a very good candidate for a 1000+ piece puzzle ;D
Here are a couple more candidates ;)
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Nice ones.
I especially like the creepy-crawly "Puzzle-1."
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feng zhau (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_feet)
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Very classy, Oscar.
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optics
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Also from my local park, but it's main characteristic is expressive.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-tgkGkmd/0/a10b4e89/L/Nov%207-11%20HP%20504%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Also from my local park, but it's main characteristic is expressive.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-tgkGkmd/0/a10b4e89/L/Nov%207-11%20HP%20504%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Excellent!
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Here are a couple more candidates ;)
#2 reminded me of this photo, from British photographer Howard Hurd. "One of the most surreal things I've seen for a while - a patch of pebble-patterned floor vinyl (with seaweed attached) washed up on the shingle of southsea beach the other day."
:)
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#2 reminded me of this photo, from British photographer Howard Hurd. "One of the most surreal things I've seen for a while - a patch of pebble-patterned floor vinyl (with seaweed attached) washed up on the shingle of southsea beach the other day."
:)
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That is rich!
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From yesterday's walk in downtown Toronto. Looking up can make towers and buildings look abstract and sometimes surreal.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-GcvhrJ6/0/b7fcb0dd/L/March%2011-%202018%20Downtown%20Toronto_0193%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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More puzzles
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Grid
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From the depths.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Torontos-new-Subway-Stations/i-GTQDx9M/0/79340298/L/Feb%204-%202018%20New%20Subways_0340%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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From the depths.
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Oh, that one really works well. From the new subway again? I wonder how you even make it to your destination on time. Or are you just permanently stuck there a la The Matrix, caught up in all the opportunities?
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I'm in charge of outings at the club, so I do an exploratory outing, either alone or with friends. This was such an outing. I have learned to eat a good breakfast so I can just "wander" around, sometimes for hours. If I had to work, I would have been fired, to be sure. I seldom do better than my first time. Everything is so new and fresh.
Thanks for the comments.
JR
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Distorted reality.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-JwNghXS/0/8010bb61/L/March%2011-%202018%20Downtown%20Toronto_0335%20cropcopy-3-1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-m6gWJMP/0/5ba9de29/L/March%2011-%202018%20Downtown%20Toronto_0317%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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That's classic. The hostas in my garden can't be bothered arranging their leaves in such a blatantly pretty pattern. Or maybe the issue is with the dude looking at them. ;)
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E-Type - The latest in my set of multi-exposure classic auto abstracts.
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E-Type - The latest in my set of multi-exposure classic auto abstracts.
In similar vein as the London collages?
It works, recognisable e-type features, although it's perhaps more an impressionistic collage than it is an abstract. Idk. Do you aslo have some version where maybe something like a subtle silhouette of the entire car is visible?
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In similar vein as the London collages?
It works, recognisable e-type features, although it's perhaps more an impressionistic collage than it is an abstract. Idk. Do you aslo have some version where maybe something like a subtle silhouette of the entire car is visible?
Similar, though the technique is slightly different. In this case it wasn't possible to get a defining wide view of the car itself, and sometimes that can certainly be an asset. Luckily the E-Type is distinctive enough (to the intended audience) in its details.
Here's another - a classic Mustang GT350 - that has more of a defining view.
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I spent a bit of time in my "studio" watching paint drop ;), and here are some of the results.
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And two more for good measure...
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That's a great set, Bob!
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That's a great set, Bob!
Lovely work, Bob.
JR
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Thanks for viewing.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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That's a great set, Bob!
Thanks Eric and John R!
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Thanks for viewing.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
This has a quiet elegance and nice balance.
Eric
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That's a great set, Bob!
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bns, that’s superb!
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Thanks Slobodan.
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bns, that’s superb!
Thanks Eric and Peter.
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That's a great set, Bob!
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Thank you, armand.
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another puzzle
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leaves
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Rorschach no. 1
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Rorschach no. 1
Anatomy
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Anatomy
Indeed, that was my first thought too. Thanks.
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Rorschach no. 2
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These are neat, Bob.
The second reminds me of someone I know.
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Expand the field of view and you'll find a bunch of people sitting in a circle around the embers of a bonfire. Someone has a guitar. ;)
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Cool! Err, hot! Hope the lens didn't melt.
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This is the result of experimenting with some filters from many years ago. No danger whatsoever, the underlying photo is much more basic (see attached).
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Another from the secret forest.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Glen-Haffey/i-cJLp6S3/0/6eb0a6df/L/Feb%2024-%202018_0247%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Black abalone mother of pearl macros...
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The muted light and soft earthy browns took over. The white birches called out and they need no introduction.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Cultural-Hotspots-Etobicoke/i-VpC6VPj/0/46eaf1d0/L/IMGP9158%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Muted tones and limited sharpness
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Cultural-Hotspots-Etobicoke/i-N7WTmCw/0/c29f88d4/L/March%2024-%202018%20house%20orchid%20crop1000-L.jpg)
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Muted tones and limited sharpness
JR
The overall binding theme, if i really think about it, would be "tubes"!? How else could you combine orchids and subways in one book?
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Gorgeous, John!
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Thanks, Oscar and Eric. I tried to do a photo stack in PS for sharpness throughout. About six images. Did this a few times and the results are very disappointing. Here is one result:
JR
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Thanks, Oscar and Eric. I tried to do a photo stack in PS for sharpness throughout. About six images. Did this a few times and the results are very disappointing. Here is one result:
JR
Lovely orchid. Out of curiosity, what stacking software are you using? The artifact on the bottom of your last image suggests maybe not enough steps, but it could also be caused by software mistakes.
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Natural shore ice sculpture
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Lovely orchid. Out of curiosity, what stacking software are you using? The artifact on the bottom of your last image suggests maybe not enough steps, but it could also be caused by software mistakes.
I used PS-classic. I tried Zerene Stacker but it created way too much ghosting. I took about six images @f11 using PS. Before this I took about 13 images, @5.6 and the results were almost identical. Lots of right angle white area artifacts. The longer the focal distance between far and near, the worse the results. If the distance is small the technique works fairly well. Example: one flower petal works great. But a whole flower at very close distance creates mush. Look at centre of the image, just mush. I do much better with one shot at F 16. At F22 and 32, the image gets really soft. Great if that's the effect you want.
I did Ok with this one. It was about 20 shots, so I guess I have to create more increments.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-3QZZ49g/0/b89e2e20/M/New%20blend%20photostack-M.jpg)
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Lovely orchid. Out of curiosity, what stacking software are you using? The artifact on the bottom of your last image suggests maybe not enough steps, but it could also be caused by software mistakes.
That artifact is likely caused by the change in focal length with different focusing points.
It happens to me all the time, could be solved by a focusing rail but it's not worth the effort for how much I shoot close up focus stacking. As John I get plenty of artifacts and correcting for them is a pain, I'm not sure how you guys do it. I did try in the past Helicon and Zerene and they also had issues.
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That artifact is likely caused by the change in focal length with different focusing points.
It happens to me all the time, could be solved by a focusing rail but it's not worth the effort for how much I shoot close up focus stacking. As John I get plenty of artifacts and correcting for them is a pain, I'm not sure how you guys do it. I did try in the past Helicon and Zerene and they also had issues.
Maybe oscar has the right idea, I should try for something simpler, like a single flower. Anyway I tried one more time using f16 six images trying to capture a larger section of the flower. Here is the result. You can see the artifacting especially around the edges of the petals, doesn't even include what I cropped out and cloned over.
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From peering into ditches (at shell ice).
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From peering into ditches (at shell ice).
I like these. Especially no 3. It's as if you shrunk yourself and were able to photograph a broken glass pane from a low angle and show us the many facets of cracks in glass.
JR
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That's a great series, JNB.
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From peering into ditches (at shell ice).
Stunning sequence! So good!
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Thank-you everyone. John, you've picked the one (#3) that seems to generate the most comments from viewers.
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Rainy day... water drop refractions...
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Rainy day... water drop refractions...
Superb colors…
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Superb colors…
I appreciate your kind words, francois. Thank you.
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I keep trying photostacking at the macro level. Results are very poor and I have to get a reasonably clean image. Here is one, but you can see the mid sections went blurry. I started shooting F16 instead. The second is the result.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-xgntMb3/0/76c7213b/L/April%208-%202018%20tulipstack-1%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-BgCVNtM/0/3621ed19/L/April%208-%202018%20tulip%207560%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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I keep trying photostacking at the macro level. Results are very poor and I have to get a reasonably clean image. Here is one, but you can see the mid sections went blurry. I started shooting F16 instead. The second is the result.
JR
Perhaps you need a rail so you don't have to refocus the lens?
Does your software also allow adjustment of the separate layers in the stack? Affinity Photo for example will allow stamp-painting from the separate entries.
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Perhaps you need a rail so you don't have to refocus the lens?
Does your software also allow adjustment of the separate layers in the stack? Affinity Photo for example will allow stamp-painting from the separate entries.
Thank you for that info, Oscar. I tried Zerene stacker and Helicon. They produce a lot of artifacts, you just have to look close. Right now I am trying PS. Perhaps I should try Affinity. If I understand correctly your meaning, with Affinity, I can designate one image to override the others?
As for focusing rail, way to expensive for such limited use. I have my eye on new full-frame Pentax instead!
JR
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Just send me all your rejects, John. I'll be happy to have them. ;)
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Okay, at least this one more represents the kind of look I want to achieve.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-hnJq4rw/0/7bd53271/M/March%2026-%202018%20house%20orchid%20minimumfocus%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-N2HrMFN/0/5fda6b54/L/i-N2HrMFN-L.jpg)
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-N2HrMFN/0/5fda6b54/L/i-N2HrMFN-L.jpg)
Very well seen!
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Surreal take on a spring garden. The gardens are almost here.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-P7snLfP/0/81d8a521/M/Aug%2018-%202014%20Parkette%20Mayfield%20Rd%20007%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-N2HrMFN/0/5fda6b54/L/i-N2HrMFN-L.jpg)
I like one very much, both abstract and nature at the same time.
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Guido, Francois thank you for the compliments.
Rich
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Guido, Francois thank you for the compliments.
Rich
Yes, cool image, Rich. I have similar image. Good to keep an eye out for these kinds of patterns.
JR
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Going for a walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-W7Hm3WL/0/05b341b8/M/sept%2026-%202014%20Halton-badlands%20017%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile. ;D ;D ;D
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There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile. ;D ;D ;D
Rich
Thanks, Rich. I was trying to think of the right caption for John R's photo, and I think you nailed it.
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Thanks, Rich. I was trying to think of the right caption for Joh R's photo, and I think you nailed it.
Yes, yes...at least he is mobile!
JR
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An experiment. My little nephew made me see it.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-5ZmwmCV/0/712348c6/M/April%2015-%202018%20spinner%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Your nephew has a good eye.
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Your nephew has a good eye.
Eric, it's a fidget spinner. I noticed that when it spins, it gives off colours and patterns. He brought it to my attention, and that's what I photographed.
JR
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First I photographed tulips using macro lens. It was intense= photo1
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-9fws7x3/0/0b229d21/M/April%207-%202018%20Tulip-1%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Then as the petals fell off I decided to play a little and this is result, photo 2:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-7cNRm2G/0/015ea372/M/April%207-%202018%20O7505%20white%20background%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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More from Tulipland.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-PWfvMhG/0/fd2ac6bc/M/April%2017-%202018%20tulip-4%20copy1000b-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-6hmx33d/0/3f4c5ff6/M/April%2017-%202018%20tulip-5%20cropcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Fantasy sky and abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-t7rqd8q/0/b5c7bf53/M/April%2018-%202018%20wispysky-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-LMwS34R/0/1d9b21d3/M/April%2018-%202018%20abstract-1%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Wow!
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Wow!
Thanks Eric. It was either that, or this Pokemon called Mew-3, named after the original Mew-2. My daughter who used to play with them, got a real kick out of it.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-WbFB445/0/528a326b/L/Me-3%20pokemon-L.jpg)
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Wow squared!
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Wow squared!
Thanks again. Photographing glass and other objects looking for patterns and other interesting phenomena.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-wJvJfVQ/0/42dc8ca5/M/JMRO7831%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-s3gtNQc/1/5af0d48b/M/April%2018-%202018%20abstract-5%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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"Castellation"
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Too Many Balls in the Air!
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To Infinity and Beyond!
Made me think of the Buzz Lightyear movie :P
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Colour interrupted.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-FTtPDS7/0/d7d0345e/M/JMRO7855%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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“Crossing the red Line”
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Colour interrupted.
JR
But beautifully interupted it is.
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“Crossing the red Line”
Yes, for some reason i like this one a lot better than the one with the lamppost.
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Yes, for some reason i like this one a lot better than the one with the lamppost.
I didn't think it was much on my phone, but once at home you can see it is really striking.
JR
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But beautifully interupted it is.
Thanks Oscar. Bought another piece of glass to continue my experiments on light and colour.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-VgS7nz5/0/7b658cf4/M/April%2023-%202018%20abstracts%20JMRO7915%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-4nDfMph/0/255c5c2c/M/April%2020-%202018%20abstract%20glass_0444%20copy1000-2-M.jpg)
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Mechanical abstracts
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Mechanical abstracts
Beautiful! What are those mechanisms?
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It's as acstract as many here.
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/909/40787810395_3af25953ae_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/259hc1g)
Mike
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It's as acstract as many here.
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/909/40787810395_3af25953ae_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/259hc1g)
Mike
Very cool Mike. The Slanted shadow really adds tension and interest to the image.
JR
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It's as acstract as many here.
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/909/40787810395_3af25953ae_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/259hc1g)
Mike
Bravo!
One of the best I have seen in a long while...
Congratulations
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Beautiful! What are those mechanisms?
Thanks, it's the internals of a mechanical calculator, it's an exhibit in the Science Museum in London.
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Re lamp on wall - thanks for the support guys :)
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It's as acstract as many here.
I'm not sure: is this a justification for its existence? ;-)
For the sake of discussion i'd like to be a nay-sayer on this one. As far as abstraction goes this one would work as well (and in my personal opinion; better) if the lamp wasn't visible. Cropped just below the lamp so both shadows are visible would have equal tension, and possibly even a little more intrigue.
Additionally, the image seems to be (lens) distorted, which, for these type of images, is detrimental.
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Without the lamp I think it feels too light with no substance, I think the lighter more delicate lines need that lump of near black as a contrast. But of course I am prejudiced as I saw and shot it like this which is pretty much out of camera.
I tried fixing the apparent distortion but couldn't eliminate it so I concluded it might be on the wall. I'm also pretty poor at fixing stuff like that, as fix one aspect another one goes wrong so in the end I think rude word it all I'll just go with what I have :)
Mike
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Without the lamp I think it feels too light with no substance, I think the lighter more delicate lines need that lump of near black as a contrast. But of course I am prejudiced as I saw and shot it like this which is pretty much out of camera.
I tried fixing the apparent distortion but couldn't eliminate it so I concluded it might be on the wall. I'm also pretty poor at fixing stuff like that, as fix one aspect another one goes wrong so in the end I think rude word it all I'll just go with what I have :)
Mike
Well, the vertical colorgradient over the original size is very appealling but there is a fascinating reversal happening in the lampshadow. But that gts kind of lost because the lamp itself clearly isn't an abstraction and it doesn't quite "interact" with the available shadows or structures to form a story or intrigue. For me it kind of reduces the trigger to look at the image as an abstract and more-or-less pulls one into the reality of: "oh, it's a lamp on a wall."
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I don't disagree, I don't think it's awfully abstract but then I'd say half the shots in this thread aren't really abstract either :)
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Triangularity because I don't know how to photograph a singularity ;)
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-R3pNxjN/0/6bc7e3e4/L/April%2023-%202018%20JMRO7907%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
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Taken with cell phone at the long term care facility I was visiting.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-F7n99Sw/0/bad4aedb/L/shadow-%20lakeshore%20lodge%20copy-1000-L.jpg)
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Taken with cell phone at the long term care facility I was visiting.
JR
Very nice!
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Very nice!
Thanks Armand. I never thought a cell phone would take a decent image, but the newer phones have decent sensors.
JR
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A new one I created yesterday.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-5P8XMFZ/0/54458fcd/M/stepscomposite-bw-1%20copy-M.jpg)
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A new one I created yesterday.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-5P8XMFZ/0/54458fcd/M/stepscomposite-bw-1%20copy-M.jpg)
I love it!
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Thanks Armand. I never thought a cell phone would take a decent image, but the newer phones have decent sensors.
JR
It's not the device. You could have used a pencil to sketch that scene, and it would still be a lovely image. Good eye!
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It's not the device. You could have used a pencil to sketch that scene, and it would still be a lovely image. Good eye!
Thank you John and Eric. John B, I agree. I was trying to say how surprised I am at the quality if the images coming out of the cell phone.
JR
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Thanks Armand. I never thought a cell phone would take a decent image, but the newer phones have decent sensors.
JR
This recent trip I used my phone almost as much as my "good" camera as the image quality is good enough most of the times. It suffers in lower light and when I want a different perspective than the fixed focal length.
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On track.
Kent in SD
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blueish
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blueish
I like these very much.
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On today's walkabout...
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On today's walkabout...
Lovely. Just the right amount space to offset the powerful red. I will guess a buoy and boat.
JR
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On track.
Kent in SD
It's quite an image. But it does look somewhat staged.
JR
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Kent,
Without the shotgun shells, you'd have a much more powerful image.
If you placed a shadow of a hunter in the image, still staged, but a plausible narrative.
Peter
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Does the image imply six shots to kill one poor animal?
Poor mother if it does.
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Lovely. Just the right amount space to offset the powerful red. I will guess a buoy and boat.
JR
Thank you, and yes.
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Steps and shadow
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Steps and shadow
Pieter, I like this image but have a suggestion, if you don't mind. I think this image would be much more effective if the depth of field was solid throughout.
JR
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Thanks John, and I don't mind at all.
It would take another long train ride/day trip to try your suggestion (as well as a nice sunny day) because I didn't take the same shot with a much smaller aperture when I was there. Sometimes you miss the most obvious variations.
But I'll try to think of it next time I "work" a subject to try different dof settings
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Didn't think it would turn out well because the light was very harsh, but the camera movement smoothed out the harshness. The transition from lights to darks, looks quite effective and moody to my eyes. Taken at Niagara area in small conservation area.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/St-Johns-and-Niagara/i-LNrRbPz/0/41c9a44a/M/JMRO8122%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Another lovely "nature" shot, John.
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nice
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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Q2LcPQH/0/1a7c0ccc/M/April%2020-%202018%20abstract%20glass_0426%20pano-5%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Cypress Swamp Abstracts: Spanish Moss & Cypress Trees 1/6 @ f/22 ISO 50 shot from a moving boat
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Cypress Swamp Abstracts: Spanish Moss & Cypress Trees 1/6 @ f/22 ISO 50 shot from a moving boat
The second feels a bit unbalanced to me, but the first one is great.
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I shot two here so this is the first shot. I thought the above posted showed more of the swamp-ish look.
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Nice one Chris!
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Nice one Chris!
+1.
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Fallen
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Was out and about yesterday. Some results.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/St-Johns-and-Niagara/i-XmsJJJ3/0/36d39bf6/M/JMRO8251%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/St-Johns-and-Niagara/i-nwg3tfP/0/9a7f9f75/M/JMRO8221%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Taken with my cell phone outside the care centre I visit regularly.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-7CLt2pR/0/ed08a394/L/20180510_201555%20copycrop-1000-L.jpg)
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More excellent goodies, John.
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That wavy reflection one is particularly nice!
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Thanks Matt and Eric.
Here we have magnetic personalities with so much attraction they distort each other.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-BR2C6nD/0/1f2cdaa9/M/Jan%202-2013%20Mississaga%20downtown%20024%20bwtwist-copy1000-M.jpg)
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Was out and about yesterday. Some results.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/St-Johns-and-Niagara/i-nwg3tfP/0/9a7f9f75/M/JMRO8221%20copy1000-M.jpg)
LOVE this one. BFP time. :)
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Thank you Peter.
Does anyone want a sandwich?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-72h5h2f/0/b18815ba/M/May%2013-%202018%20St%20Johns_0107%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Water drops over circuit board
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A little more abstract maybe?
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/911/41387964204_e57ec64113_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/264j8PJ)
Anyone guess where it was taken?
Mike
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A little more abstract maybe?
Anyone guess where it was taken?
Mike
Yes, a little more abstract. But the shadow detracts from the overall movement, and the focus on the highlights against the green.
JR
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One more from the conservation area in Niagara.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/St-Johns-and-Niagara/i-7FQ6FNR/0/aa350b6a/M/JMRO8319%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Focusing on Cyclamen purpurascens Mill at the feet of Mount San Martino.
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I am thinking of taking a photo of singer in a club and then compositing same on this fantasy stage.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-9pkQC8d/0/14e43d2c/M/stepscomposite-2bw-1000-M.jpg)
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From some experiments with glass.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-7D3W7BV/0/c822d49f/M/April%2023-%2022018%20JMRO7914%20copy3-1000-M.jpg)
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Went to photograph trees and flowers but came back with these.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-7ZRVmQf/0/2346ce79/M/JMRO8799%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-ZH87rW7/0/424210b0/M/JMRO8818%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Spring Impressions.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-S5TXF85/0/b0de1721/M/JMRO8401%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Armand, very nice and very interesting. It reminds me of a crescent moon trying to shine through a cloudy sky- softly luminous.
JR
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Armand, very nice and very interesting. It reminds me of a crescent moon trying to shine through a cloudy sky- softly luminous.
JR
Thanks. It's a slightly older shot, I have no idea what it was as I have no other frames before or after.
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'Went to photograph trees and flowers but came back with these.'
Excellent.
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'Went to photograph trees and flowers but came back with these.'
Excellent.
Thank you Bob!
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A load of balls really
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1736/27567179307_5f75d501d7_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/J11ZYX)
Mike
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Summer impression.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-9KbzKR7/0/0f0d7fc8/M/Aug%2012-12%20Miss%20Bicycles%20104%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Cool!
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Summer impression.
JR
John, that's a bloody cool direction you're moving into. Didn't realize this works even better with a common object than with flowers. With flowers, trees, and nature it is still instantly recognisable as such, but here it "detaches" from reality because for some reason it takes time to comprehend the shape even if you already recognise it.
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Thank you John and Eric. I am attaching the "original", so to speak. The colours are not enhanced in PP. They are painted by the city to attract visitors to the area. There are about 6 bicycles, all painted and topped off with a basket of flowers. The red flowers make the best accent and really attract the eye. I now photograph these, semi-freehand- that is hand held while resting my hands and camera on top of tripod. Too difficult otherwise. Notice the fence in the original? It disappears when you move the camera enough or when you take enough exposures.
JR
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The original is interesting, but I prefer your interpretation, John.
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Graphical play
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-cCJdGjm/0/b3e7f72e/M/Feb%2010-13%20Sunnyside%20009%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Graphical play
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-cCJdGjm/0/b3e7f72e/M/Feb%2010-13%20Sunnyside%20009%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Like the shapes very much.
Peter
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Like the shapes very much.
Peter
Me too.
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Something different
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Something different
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Like!
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Something different
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Looking at this image small reminds me of ocean waves painted in Van Gogh style . When enlarged it is much more abstract. Nicely done.
JR
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+1 for "Graphical Play"
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Thanks for the comments Eric, Peter and Bob.
Here is one from a Spring Garden.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-7w9fsSx/0/5f53085b/M/JMRO8396%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Endless variations
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Something different
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Beautiful!
Agreed - looks like Van Gogh.
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Endless variations
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Also lovely.
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Cannot resist.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Cannot resist.
I like!
Been reading a draft of a paper a friend is working on. Physics stuff…so when I look at this photo I can't help but see a gravity well. ;)
-Dave-
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I call this photo “Big Bang”
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I call this photo “Big Bang”
Very nice.
JR
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I call this photo “Big Bang”
You are really on a roll!
Great stuff!
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More garden delights.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Rhododendrum-Park-Mississauga/i-VvfwS9V/0/40168bd3/M/JMRO9404%20copy1crop-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Rhododendrum-Park-Mississauga/i-FtmLPxC/0/48afbd87/M/JMRO9401%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Recently observed.
(http://www.pbase.com/image/167620068/original.jpg)
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Recently observed.
I really like this, Arlen. Where have you been? You have just the right amount of elements in focus to make this abstract image successful. It draws your eyes into the intriguing combination of colors and shapes. This would be wonderful on a wall.
JR
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You are really on a roll!
Great stuff!
Thanks, Eric and also JR and Dave. I have been working on a series of abstracts with a comon, but variable, subject matter. I am using the shapes of nature to create my own images.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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I really like this, Arlen. Where have you been? You have just the right amount of elements in focus to make this abstract image successful. It draws your eyes into the intriguing combination of colors and shapes. This would be wonderful on a wall.
JR
Thanks John, it's been a while since I've done something like this and I had forgotten how much fun it is. As for my absence, a number of life events came up that pretty much commanded all of my attention; and then once out of the habit of posting, it took a while to pick up again. I'm trying to get back into the groove.
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Spring impressions 2.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-jCPz5LC/0/55ab70f7/M/May20-%202018%20RBG_0248%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Casting shadows. Taken with my cell phone.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-qRPmncC/0/3a79fd45/M/20180510_193528%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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I don't believe I have shown this one already.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Sometimes the world is like a swirl.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-bz5sxz7/0/30ec022e/M/stepscomposite-liquify-2%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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So, John, please tell me exactly how you waved your camera around to get that swirl!
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So, John, please tell me exactly how you waved your camera around to get that swirl!
Ahem, ahem, not really a camera swirl. It is an PP exercise work I did for a "creative" competition. I did it with the liquify tool. Easy to overdo. But I like the look of this one so I stopped. Thanks for the comments, Eric.
JR
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Spring impressions 2.
JR
Very attractive.
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Casting shadows. Taken with my cell phone.
I like this one!
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I don't believe I have shown this one already.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Really nice. Love the texture and subtle colour.
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While waiting for my wife, I spied this just up the street.
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While waiting for my wife, I spied this just up the street.
Beautiful catch.
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Stainless:
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Stainless:
Flawless.
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Flawless.
+1.
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While waiting for my wife, I spied this just up the street.
Good eye!
JR
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One from downtown.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-rLL8pbW/0/36bdad4b/M/Sept%2016-12%20Downtown%20TO%20085%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Flawless.
Thanks; can't buy myself a boat, and if I could have it would have had to have been sold some time ago... time seems to be the great leveller - everyone my age who had them had to wave (no pun etc.) them adios at some stage - just too physical.
That said, they still provide some good photo ops.
:-)
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+1.
Thanks, Eric; I seem to be attracted to shiny, stainless steel things. As I am to things grimmer, too.
:-)
Rob
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So, John, please tell me exactly how you waved your camera around to get that swirl!
Ha!
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Ha!
Yes I sometimes resort to PP to create images.
But most times it's simply not necessary. Here is one for the caterpillars.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-ktwGNqk/0/0912b7b1/M/JMRO8812%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Yes I sometimes resort to PP to create images.
But most times it's simply not necessary. Here is one for the caterpillars.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-ktwGNqk/0/0912b7b1/M/JMRO8812%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Very nice.
Taken, of course, with your caterpillar lens. ;)
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Ha!
I couldn't help myself, so I did one more.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Px6vQ4k/0/7f890648/M/April%2015-%202018%20spinner%20transformcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Rooftopstudy
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Rooftopstudy
Difficult to make "complex" work, but you've pulled it off with style!
Rob
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Rooftopstudy
See, one can quibble about what constitutes an abstract, but this image definitely has an abstract feel with abstract like shapes. So much to photograph in this scene. Well seen!!
JR
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Difficult to make "complex" work, but you've pulled it off with style!
Rob
+1.
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See, one can quibble about what constitutes an abstract, but this image definitely has an abstract feel with abstract like shapes. So much to photograph in this scene. Well seen!!
JR
Doesn't have an abstract feel to me, geometric yes, graphic maybe but I don't detect any abstraction not that the lack of a label diminishes a photograph in any way.
Mike
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Doesn't have an abstract feel to me, geometric yes, graphic maybe but I don't detect any abstraction not that the lack of a label diminishes a photograph in any way.
Mike
Your view reinforces my point. The image does have recognizable elements, but it is fundamentally about an abstraction of shapes, colours and lines and not about the things themselves. If we go the route of only unrecognizable elements, most of our efforts will be be unappealing and unrelatable to most people. But I certainly take your point.
JR
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These are not necessarily great images but I want to show them because I tried one of the in-camera "filters" called "Bold Monochrome." Based on some trials, I think it does not reproduce bw well on subjects that are already highly contrasty. Such as white sidewalks and black elements on sunny days. It completely overwhelmed the whites and blacks. I am going to try this filter on moderately sunny days, hopefully with just soft shadows, and see how the monochromes reproduce.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-jCkHfGs/0/21d6429f/M/JMRO9520%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-LbnGwLJ/0/e06615b4/M/JMRO9462%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Your view reinforces my point. The image does have recognizable elements, but it is fundamentally about an abstraction of shapes, colours and lines and not about the things themselves. If we go the route of only unrecognizable elements, most of our efforts will be be unappealing and unrelatable to most people. But I certainly take your point.
JR
As ever it's only a personal opinion.
Is this abstract or a portrait?
http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/blog/http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/blog/wp-content/themes/zinfandel-blue-10/images/02_Brandt.jpg
This must be abstract
https://images.curiator.com/images/t_x/art/d0fe0005a006075084c8767ae8354884/bill-brandt-nude-east-sussex-coast-may-1959.jpg
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These are not necessarily great images but I want to show them because I tried one of the in-camera "filters" called "Bold Monochrome." Based on some trials, I think it does not reproduce bw well on subjects that are already highly contrasty. Such as white sidewalks and black elements on sunny days. It completely overwhelmed the whites and blacks. I am going to try this filter on moderately sunny days, hopefully with just soft shadows, and see how the monochromes reproduce.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-LbnGwLJ/0/e06615b4/M/JMRO9462%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
I like this one a lot.
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As ever it's only a personal opinion.
Is this abstract or a portrait?
http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/blog/http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/blog/wp-content/themes/zinfandel-blue-10/images/02_Brandt.jpg
This must be abstract
https://images.curiator.com/images/t_x/art/d0fe0005a006075084c8767ae8354884/bill-brandt-nude-east-sussex-coast-may-1959.jpg
Of course I recognize the elements in both images as aspect of the human form. I agree that the second is 'more' abstract than the first. However, I view both images as abstract in quality, where the object was to reduce the image to its simple elements. Love the images by the way. First rate.
JR
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Of course I recognize the elements in both images as aspect of the human form. I agree that the second is 'more' abstract than the first. However, I view both images as abstract in quality, where the object was to reduce the image to its simple elements. Love the images by the way. First rate.
JR
I agree completely.
I'll add that OPGR's rooftop and these recent images fit the "purist" meaning of "abstract," which shouldn't care about recognizability. I am quite comfortable also with a looser definition which would include any subject that is interesting but unrecognizable.
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Sometimes the world is like a swirl.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-bz5sxz7/0/30ec022e/M/stepscomposite-liquify-2%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Different tools, new results. If you like the results (and I do), why be restricted by convention? :)
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Different tools, new results. If you like the results (and I do), why be restricted by convention? :)
Amen!
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Not sure I've posted this one before?
Palm fronds in the wind
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Mashup/i-mxSqb9v/0/8b19a154/L/P9161123-L.jpg)
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More experimentation...
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Very intriguing, Bob. I admire your experimenting spirit.
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More experimentation...
I like it very much but for the stars; for me, they introduce something that doesn't fit with the rest of the feeling. Just too defined and distracting.
Rob
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This is for a fourth of July themed event...
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This is for a fourth of July themed event...
Ah! So the stars can stay.
Nice one.
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https://www.hanskrusephotography.com/Landscapes/Råbjerg-Mile/i-DrVrrWh
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Råbjerg-Mile/i-DrVrrWh/0/5433df61/X3/_MG_6844-X3.jpg)
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Old and wrinkled - ancient granite on Lake Superior north shore
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https://www.hanskrusephotography.com/Landscapes/Råbjerg-Mile/i-DrVrrWh
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Råbjerg-Mile/i-DrVrrWh/0/5433df61/X3/_MG_6844-X3.jpg)
Very fine! And different from your usual broad landscapes.
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Street tar abstract.
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Very fine! And different from your usual broad landscapes.
Thanks Eric and I do also photograph abstracts from time to time :)
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Street tar abstract.
It's a Brice Marden...I like this picture very much, Eric.
link to Brice Marden> https://www.google.com/search?q=bryce+marden&oq=bryce+marden&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.7767j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Peter
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It's a Bryce Marden...I like this picture very much, Eric.
link to Bryce Marden> https://www.google.com/search?q=bryce+marden&oq=bryce+marden&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.7767j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Peter
That's cool Peter; did Bryce invent/discover string theory?
I learn something amazing and new every day. The downside: there's no place left to store it without dumping previous files. That, of course, is the basis of dementia: too much friggin' information and not enough space on the C disk.
There is no solution, I'm afraid.
:-(
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Very intriguing, Bob. I admire your experimenting spirit.
Like it very much, except the stars. But hey, it's for a big day.
JR
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Who knows? The murky shadows knows.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-44tL6JL/0/a5cb23f3/M/June%2025-%202018%20RBG_0225%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Street tar abstract.
Like this one, Eric. But I am curious as to why the street is so bright. Using Flash or under lamp light?
JR
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Like this one, Eric. But I am curious as to why the street is so bright. Using Flash or under lamp light?
JR
It was shot in fairly flat light and I boosted the contrast and added some vignetting to liven it up. I now realize that it does look as if there was an unnatural light source. But it was all Lightroom trickery, no PhotoShopping required.
Eric
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These are not necessarily great images but I want to show them because I tried one of the in-camera "filters" called "Bold Monochrome." Based on some trials, I think it does not reproduce bw well on subjects that are already highly contrasty. Such as white sidewalks and black elements on sunny days. It completely overwhelmed the whites and blacks. I am going to try this filter on moderately sunny days, hopefully with just soft shadows, and see how the monochromes reproduce.
JR
Just want to expand on what I said about the "Bold Monochrome" experiments. Notice how where darks and blacks already exist things quite quickly turn blacker. Whites almost pure. For some subjects, this will work. But for most, the extremes look unreal and unusable for reasonably natural images. See below.
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Just want to expand on what I said about the "Bold Monochrome" experiments. Notice how where darks and blacks already exist things quite quickly turn blacker. Whites almost pure. For some subjects, this will work. But for most, the extremes look unreal and unusable for reasonably natural images. See below.
The Sony's have a high-contrast mono mode, which i presume is an equivalent. The whites show haloing which seems a deliberate effect, and for the little Sony's the blacks tend to block, though that can help to separate subject of course. I think it renders that way so you can emulate the covetted gritty street look.
I have yet to try it on the A7 which has significantly more DR. See what they are really after.
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Repeating Pattern
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Blue Vase from Covent Garden
The backstory:
Me: "Where did you get that?"
Wife: "Covent Garden."
Me: "What? We haven't visited London in years!"
Wife: "And now you finally notice it."
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The Sony's have a high-contrast mono mode, which i presume is an equivalent. The whites show haloing which seems a deliberate effect, and for the little Sony's the blacks tend to block, though that can help to separate subject of course. I think it renders that way so you can emulate the covetted gritty street look.
I have yet to try it on the A7 which has significantly more DR. See what they are really after.
Please do try it. I would like to see some results. For my part, I still want try this mode on bright overcast days to see if the bw is less contrasty and whether blacks and white block up less.
JR
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An IR look that to my eye looks less murky than a straight bw average conversion. It certainly allows the textures to come out.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-zzhm2HV/0/28a31e49/M/JMRO9496%20bwIFcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Oooh, I like abs-14!
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Walk on by.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-WKzTnvL/0/81ee7747/M/July%204-%202018%20James%20Gardens_0338%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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What to do on bright sunny days!!?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-gNgm3qf/0/d195c42d/M/JMRO9628%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-ZC5Xs8d/0/c83f0d30/M/JMRO9629%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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What to do on bright sunny days!!?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-gNgm3qf/0/d195c42d/M/JMRO9628%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-ZC5Xs8d/0/c83f0d30/M/JMRO9629%20copy1000-M.jpg)
But only if you have a superb eye for design and pattern!
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Oooh, I like abs-14!
Thanks!
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A recent one.
(http://www.pbase.com/art1/image/167774105/original.jpg)
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A recent one.
(http://www.pbase.com/art1/image/167774105/original.jpg)
My tummy feels like that sometimes.
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Mine too. :)
I've been thinking of titling it "The Way Out".
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A recent one.
(http://www.pbase.com/art1/image/167774105/original.jpg)
Well, I like the image, tummy or no tummy.
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Barcelona
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/q3ptmddgz1u263m/Neils-Photography--M10-in-Barcelona-030718-072.jpg?raw=1)
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/ikjamui2jjegdr9/Neils-Photography--M10-in-Barcelona-030718-076.jpg?raw=1)
Neil
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Well, I like the image, tummy or no tummy.
Me, too! Gorgeous.
Did you light it yourself? Or is that available light?
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Walk on by.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-WKzTnvL/0/81ee7747/M/July%204-%202018%20James%20Gardens_0338%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Very nice mate
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Me, too! Gorgeous.
Did you light it yourself? Or is that available light?
Thanks, Peter. It's available light.
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Mine too. :)
I've been thinking of titling it "The Way Out".
Wonderful Arlen. To me the image is somewhat foreboding, like a crocodile's eye watching you.
JR
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Very nice mate
Neil, thank you for the comments. But as I was scanning the new images I noticed your fabulous bw images of Barcelona architecture. Who could these be from? The new kid on the block. The images are quite powerful and surreal they way you have composed them against the sky. Excellent work.
JR
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Neil, thank you for the comments. But as I was scanning the new images I noticed your fabulous bw images of Barcelona architecture. Who could these be from? The new kid on the block. The images are quite powerful and surreal they way you have composed them against the sky. Excellent work.
JR
Indeed, they are excellent. Well done Neil.
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Barcelona
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/q3ptmddgz1u263m/Neils-Photography--M10-in-Barcelona-030718-072.jpg?raw=1)
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/ikjamui2jjegdr9/Neils-Photography--M10-in-Barcelona-030718-076.jpg?raw=1)
Neil
I like the second image, Bold and powerful.
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Barcelona
I like the first one best.
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On the beach.
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Great stuff Neill, Les, and JNB.
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On the beach.
The tonality is sumptuous. Very effective and organic looking.
JR
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From my cell phone on trip to local minimall.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-mcZcNgB/0/f24496a9/M/Wall%20abstract%200180708_144621%20copy900-M.jpg)
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From my cell phone on trip to local minimall.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-mcZcNgB/0/f24496a9/M/Wall%20abstract%200180708_144621%20copy900-M.jpg)
You've got a good eye, John, even when you don't wiggle your camera/phone around. ;)
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You've got a good eye, John, even when you don't wiggle your camera/phone around. ;)
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Thank you Eric and John. Lots of wonderful stuff being posted lately.
JR
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Ups and downs in the Maritimes.
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Ups and downs in the Maritimes.
Good seeing.
JR
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Wonderful work John.
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Just want to expand on what I said about the "Bold Monochrome" experiments. Notice how where darks and blacks already exist things quite quickly turn blacker. Whites almost pure. For some subjects, this will work. But for most, the extremes look unreal and unusable for reasonably natural images. See below.
More experimenting in softer shadow light. Still lots of blacked out areas in the shade.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-ZLcB4BS/0/110b186f/M/JMRO9962%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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More experimenting in softer shadow light. Still lots of blacked out areas in the shade.
Very nice. Love the mystery. Reminds me of Susan Burnstine (http://www.susanburnstine.com/).
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Very nice. Love the mystery. Reminds me of Susan Burnstine (http://www.susanburnstine.com/).
Wow John. She is good. Love the work and I am still going through it. Thanks for the feedback.
JR
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The scent of Lavender.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-vFjxrX4/0/f6036b92/M/July%2013-%202018%20Weirs%20farm-4%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Very evocative, John. It really does give the impression of a scent rising from the blooms.
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Very evocative, John. It really does give the impression of a scent rising from the blooms.
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Well thank you, Arlen and Eric. I think that is the most important element of a photograph- to convey something. Jay Maisel said, if your images don't convey something for you, why should they for anyone else. The light was harsh, so I decided to experiment even more. Camera movement can and usually does soften colours and contrast.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-QQjNbW6/0/49087b84/M/July%2013-%202018%20Lavender%20farm_0595_editedcopy-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-ppbXf2b/0/4642da9d/M/July%2013-%202018%20Weirs%20farm-9b%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-2NSph4N/0/17b645c3/M/July%2013-%202018%20Weirs%20farm-3%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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I wish someone would do a video of you photographing, John.
I suspect your movements through long exposures would be an interesting dance. ;)
Eric
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I wish someone would do a video of you photographing, John.
I suspect your movements through long exposures would be an interesting dance. ;)
Eric
True that, Eric.
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Thank you Eric and Bob. I take out Club members on outing/workshops, but not not everyone like these types of shots. Most give up if they don't get good results right away. Also, many just want "prize winning shots", rather than pursue what really interests them. So nowadays, I just try to help them with whatever they like.
JR
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Radiating.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-4R77H8D/0/e555a118/M/July%206-%202018%20Bloor%20St_0375%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Surreal, but real.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-fk9qsTW/0/f3a31b6f/M/July%206-%202018%20Bloor%20St_0367%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Surreal, but real.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-fk9qsTW/0/f3a31b6f/M/July%206-%202018%20Bloor%20St_0367%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Absolutely!
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If it's cars then ...
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2658/32220728174_87b3d1ef8f_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/R6eDW7)
Mike
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Surreal, but real.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-fk9qsTW/0/f3a31b6f/M/July%206-%202018%20Bloor%20St_0367%20copy1000-M.jpg)
I like this one a lot, with those smooth curves and shapes.
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Thank you Eric, Mike and Francois. Appreciate the comments.
JR
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A couple of garden variety abstracts.Chuck
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Both very nice, Chuck.
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Both very nice, Chuck.
Yes. Particularly like the second image.
JR
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Taking off.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-78QPCNm/0/38bb7027/M/Feb%208-%202014%20Downtown%20Toronto%20115%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Surreal, but real.
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Surreal, but real.
+1
Thanks Bob.
JR
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Mystery lamps.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-rV9Csfq/0/9917997a/M/JMRO0256%20July%2024-%202018%20sepialamp%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-qB586VG/0/d3acd5d3/M/JMRO0244%20July%2024-%202018%20lamp1000-M.jpg)
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A rainy day at the Piazza San Marco...
(https://fursan.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-3/p2987070922-6.jpg)
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Directional intuition...
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Directional intuition...
Intriguing fabric that also makes me think of those coarse, oatmeal biscuits that taste so good when dunked in coffee, just as long as you get 'em out rapidly enough to avoid total disintegration, whereupon both biccy and coffee become disasters.
So, a photograph good enough to eat?
:-)
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Intriguing fabric that also makes me think of those coarse, oatmeal biscuits that taste so good when dunked in coffee, just as long as you get 'em out rapidly enough to avoid total disintegration, whereupon both biccy and coffee become disasters.
So, a photograph good enough to eat?
:-)
I think that's why the French came up with croissants, better dunkin' material...
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Lot's of really interesting shots on this thread as usual. I always stop by to see what's new here.
Chuck
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The Phoenix rises again.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-K2NphWb/0/add7b87a/M/IMG_0014%20July%2025-%202018%20Etobicoke%20Valley%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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The Phoenix rises again.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-K2NphWb/0/add7b87a/M/IMG_0014%20July%2025-%202018%20Etobicoke%20Valley%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Good catch, John!
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Good catch, John!
+1
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Directional intuition...
Until I clicked to get the expanded view, I thought it might be a bald man's misframed selfie. ;)
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The Phoenix rises again.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-K2NphWb/0/add7b87a/M/IMG_0014%20July%2025-%202018%20Etobicoke%20Valley%20copy1000-M.jpg)
When the pigs fly
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When the pigs fly
;D
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Phoenix [from John R] and Pigs fly are stunning and even without much imagination, one can quickly figure out how the titles have been chosen.
Well seen, John and Armand
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Phoenix [from John R] and Pigs fly are stunning and even without much imagination, one can quickly figure out how the titles have been chosen.
Well seen, John and Armand
Thank you
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windows
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I went to a garden party...
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-pCrQXdm/0/4af5af3c/M/JMRO0502%20July%2027-%202018%20RBG%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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I went to a garden party...
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-pCrQXdm/0/4af5af3c/M/JMRO0502%20July%2027-%202018%20RBG%20copy1000-M.jpg)
... and forgot your glasses. ;)
Lovely!
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Thank you Eric. Fortunately, my DSLR has diopter to help with such exigencies.
On way home I came to my senses and held the camera very steady. This is result.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-zz7Nrw4/0/136a46c1/M/JMRO0435%20July%2027-%202018%20RBG%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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... and this time you used a black-and-white memory card. ;D
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Another B&W.Chuck
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Another B&W.Chuck
That’s lovely. I always find if difficult to figure out where focus belongs in this kind of macro flower image. This seems to get it right.
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Very sensuous, Chuck.
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Pretty cool!
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Thanks guys.
Eric - I have never had anything I have done described as sensuous. ;)
Chuck
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Thanks guys.
Eric - I have never had anything I have done described as sensuous. ;)
Chuck
I'll have to look back over your other posts and find some more that fit that term. ;)
Eric
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... and forgot your glasses. ;)
Lovely!
There are many things that are best seen without your glasses. :)
I like this one a lot, John.
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It was too bright and sunny, so gave up on the sunflowers. Went for more pans in the fields and meadows. Thanks again Arlen.
JR
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Took this one on 'almost' daily walk along a nearby creek. Left the white streaks as they seem to go nicely in BW version. To me it has appearance of elements coming at and by you. Love my point and shoot Canon G1X.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-Tx5jXB7/0/ef82a108/M/IMG_0043%20July%2025-%202018%20Etobicoke%20Valley%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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I've been making fake risographs lately.
Don't worry about it; everybody had been having acute problems with the unfake of late. It's like an escape, the sand that hides the head.
Rob
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It's amazing what PP will do to recover shadow detail. Lots of noise that works to my benefit this time.
And one with lots of light- dappled light, that is.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-c3xQ8Tp/0/dc0a3e03/M/IMG_0022%20Aug%204-%202018%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-kF4fD3D/0/b8d874f0/M/JMRO0856%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Not just butterflies are free to fly.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-TsNwRDb/0/c34f84d5/M/JMRO0959%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
JR
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Not just butterflies are free to fly.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-TsNwRDb/0/c34f84d5/M/JMRO0959%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
JR
Wow, John, this one is really unique and eye-catching.
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John, you're breaking through a plateau with your latest entries.
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John, you're breaking through a plateau with your latest entries.
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On the rocks...
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I like those a lot too, JNB; especially the second one.
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I like those a lot too, JNB; especially the second one.
I was thinking the same thing. That blue-white-orange combination has a soothing effect, I think.
JR
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+1
Thank you guys for the comments.
JR
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Dance of the nucleus.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-zJ5S4rg/0/8e062310/M/Aug%2011-%202015%20RBG%20%26%20Islington%20215%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Strange how the mind plays John. How in the world your waterlily took me to the light of the Dutch masters AND Picasso's cubist portraits in the same flight of fancy I am unable to explain, yet it did. Such play is always so rewarding. Thanks for this one~
p.
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Many thanks Patricia. You certainly have your own voice when it comes to words.
JR
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Not just butterflies are free to fly.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-TsNwRDb/0/c34f84d5/M/JMRO0959%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
JR
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Thanks Bob.
JR
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I posted something similar a while back, but this I like better. I going to try it again with hopefully a softer light so that the triangle is not so bright.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-44TVx68/0/2877817c/M/WALL%201%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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I posted something similar a while back, but this I like better. I going to try it again with hopefully a softer light so that the triangle is not so bright.
JR
Great shadows and light (nice triangles). The aged three-way light switch is a neat element. The subtle hues work. ...keep playing with it.
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I love it, Patricia!
I can enjoy it as a pure graphic and also "read" the image in many different ways.
-Eric
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I love it, Patricia!
I can enjoy it as a pure graphic and also "read" the image in many different ways.
-Eric
Yep, makes you think abstractly (another argument would posit that all thought is abstract), and that is good for the soul, pushing it to spaces it might otherwise not navigate.
As an aside: Lillian Bassman would have loved that shot!
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"As an aside: Lillian Bassman would have loved that shot!"
Very generous Rob,
Her ability to work so graphically, painting and fashion, having sprung from the generation she did, was an early inspiration back in my teens. She perceived light in verso in a way that set the mind wandering. Although I have not yet achieved her 90 some odd years, I am on my way there, carrying her long white hair.
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I love it, Patricia!
I can enjoy it as a pure graphic and also "read" the image in many different ways.
-Eric
It has been an unexpected treat to have two gentlemen considered friends (not the norm for me), both pick up on something I felt in the night when thinking my way through a painting from one of my self portraits. Your individual perceptions brush my day~
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Shadow intrigue - from the opposite wall of course.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-hPmDxvH/0/46cfe54e/M/Aug%2011-%202018%20window%20shadows%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Shadow intrigue - from the opposite wall of course.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-hPmDxvH/0/46cfe54e/M/Aug%2011-%202018%20window%20shadows%20copy1000-M.jpg)
YAW! (Yet Another Winner.) ;)
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YAW! (Yet Another Winner.) ;)
Thank you Eric.
Shadow Intrigue is surely a segue to a 'Playground of the mind'.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-R7fxBM7/0/eda83a57/M/JMRO1248%20Aug%2012-%202018%20Etobicoke%20Creek%20-%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-2X8XNHk/0/976c18b4/M/JMRO1250%20Aug12-%202018%20Etobicoke%20Creek%202%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Trainstationstudy nr 2
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Trainstationstudy nr 2
Colour, pattern, texture, light and shadow... I find this one is very appealing!
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Colour, pattern, texture, light and shadow... I find this one is very appealing!
Me too.
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Me too.
Me Three.
JR
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This one is going to be cool too. I'm going to take the exact same picture, except with a lady in red descending the stairs. From the trainstationseries.
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Yes, cool. I like how the small dark shadows defines the steps and layers. I tell people to look for these whenever doing architecture, in particular.
JR
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"As an aside: Lillian Bassman would have loved that shot!"
Very generous Rob,
Her ability to work so graphically, painting and fashion, having sprung from the generation she did, was an early inspiration back in my teens. She perceived light in verso in a way that set the mind wandering. Although I have not yet achieved her 90 some odd years, I am on my way there, carrying her long white hair.
p.
Better than I ever managed! At least I can be smug: my son lost his by thirty!
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This one is going to be cool too. I'm going to take the exact same picture, except with a lady in red descending the stairs. From the trainstationseries.
Oscar, we can't go on meeting like this!
:-)
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Oscar, we can't go on meeting like this!
:-)
When our queen was succeeded by her son, they asked a rather famous local composer to score a special song for the occasion. As soon as the music was first heard, many people commented it sounded all too familiar, even suggesting plagiarism.
Obviously, that composer isn't quite as stupid to commit plagiarism for such a public occasion, but the music did indeed seem too much a copy of some other obscure piece of music. (At least not exactly a source for semi-copying the masterpiece of your lifetime).
Then i wondered: how does inspiration happen? I mean it could well be that he'd be having an entertaining meal at some obscure Chin. Ind. Spec. Rest. where they have some obscure background music playing, which he, being the composer he is, subconsciously registers and couples to a pleasing evening.
Years later he thinks he conceives an inspirational new melody to attribute to the new king.
So, here then is hoping you didn't publish this picture previously at some obscure website where i shouldn't have been visiting in the first place...
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Apparently, "photographic imaging" is a thing now (although technically this can be done in camera on some models).
Summerswirl
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The essence of turmoil
(Photographic imaging, or perhaps "photographics" for short...)
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Apparently, "photographic imaging" is a thing now (although technically this can be done in camera on some models).
Summerswirl
Very nice! Did you knit that one yourself?
;-)
Rob
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The essence of turmoil
(Photographic imaging, or perhaps "photographics" for short...)
I'd have opted for imagraphics, myself, but that's just an personal quirk of mine...
But a cool image, either way.
;-)
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Both very nice, ~O~ .
I would call them "Photo" for very short, or perhaps "Photo+."
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Both very nice, ~O~ .
I would call them "Photo" for very short, or perhaps "Photo+."
I like them both. Very nice work Oscar. I also do those in-camera on my Pentax. One sample, very similar to ~O~, but not as colorful.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-2cSdbTQ/0/9568bd5b/M/June%2025-%202018%20RBG_0216%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Went for breakfast with neighbour and spotted these shadows created by the morning light. Taken with cell phone.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-WNNfvvG/0/85d6d346/M/Restaurant%20abstract%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
edit: changed to color version.
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Working on image doing PP when what do espy- light, in pattern of course.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-QpZ53wK/0/cc062ae8/M/couch%20abstract%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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This one is going to be cool too. I'm going to take the exact same picture, except with a lady in red descending the stairs. From the trainstationseries.
Finally had a chance to do another testshot. This is a random traveller, but i believe the idea is going to work real well. I'd like a yellow dress walking down and a red dress walking up, as a metaphor for trains on a track with their yellow front lights and red tail lights.
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That should work well, O.
I look forward to it (the red dress and the yellow one.)
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Taken on Daily Walk, but I think fits nicely into abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-Bvx6KFK/0/a20e07ac/M/JMRO2599%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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... I think fits nicely into abstract.
Perfect example of a photographic abstract. Perfectly realistic, yet perfectly abstract.
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Perfect example of a photographic abstract. Perfectly realistic, yet perfectly abstract.
+1.
(P.S. Must I apologize for thinking like Slobodan? ;) )
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Perfect example of a photographic abstract. Perfectly realistic, yet perfectly abstract.
+1
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+1.
(P.S. Must I apologize for thinking like Slobodan? ;) )
As long as it's not about politics! ;-)
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Taken on Daily Walk, but I think fits nicely into abstract.
Those walks, John, have you chatting with some interesting spirits. C. Monet did a wonderful series at Vetheuil in the fog. Fog lifted but you caught that full first glance of the whole beautifully. Nice one.
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... (P.S. Must I apologize for thinking like Slobodan? ;) )
I deleted my post to avoid further distraction. Sorry for the silliness on my part.
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hmmmm~
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Well, I'm definitely a Type C, which makes me "a passionate, creative person." ;)
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hmmmmm~
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hmmmmm~
Patricia scares me with her ~hmmmmm~ But thanks everyone. Now I must check my toes, but not until after my walk. Wouldn't want to be disappointed before starting.
JR
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That depends on the shape of your foot, Eric.
I've just come across this totally scientific and surprisingly accurate analysis of my personality (I am type D):
;D
What if one foot is one type and the other is different? ;D
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What if one foot is one type and the other is different? ;D
It means your surgeon didn't match you correctly when you got your foot-transplant. ::)
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I admit I had some fun with this one in PP.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-RdhN59m/0/f65c9fee/M/JMRO2718%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Not quite pure abstract, but I like its abstract qualities. Taken on daily walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-fW6pB7r/0/f9c76ae1/M/JMRO2936%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Architectural abstractions are always good exercise.
I was actually positioned differently (and quite comforably i might add) on the pray for someone to walk the bridge and cast a nice shadow for the human factor, but unfortunately it didn't pan out, at least not in the time it took me to slowly finish my cappuccino...
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Sort of abstract?
(http://www.pbase.com/art1/image/168073152/original.jpg)
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That bird had been on the juice.
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That bird had been on the juice.
I do like the bird image. I have found if I leave the stabilization in the on position, it screws up my ICM timing and therefore the image.
JR
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Well this was all in camera, but I have to fess up that it was an accident, where the camera missed the focus. But I liked it better than other frames that were in focus.
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Shadow play from Daily walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-XVrzg3p/0/f6629c16/M/Sept%204-%202018%20Etobicoke%20Valley_0003%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Well this was all in camera, but I have to fess up that it was an accident, where the camera missed the focus. But I liked it better than other frames that were in focus.
One of my *fav bird pics of the last few years was the result of misfocus.
-Dave-
*A fav among those taken by me, that is. ;)
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From under trestle railway bridge. Love the long shadows. Taken on Daily Walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-2PVRNQs/0/5800aa37/M/Sept%203-%202018%20Etobicoke%20Valley_0018%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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From under trestle railway bridge. Love the long shadows. Taken on Daily Walk.
Well seen!
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From under trestle railway bridge. Love the long shadows...
Reminds me of this:
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Sort of abstract? I just loved the swirls.
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Sort of abstract? I just loved the swirls.
Me too; very nice. I'm always attracted to those kinds of tree swirls, but getting a good rectangular composition is usually a challenge.
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One of my *fav bird pics of the last few years was the result of misfocus.
-Dave-
*A fav among those taken by me, that is. ;)
Dave,
Wonderful picture.
So often the case...beauty is the goal and tack sharp can rob an image of it's poetry.
Peter
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Me too; very nice. I'm always attracted to those kinds of tree swirls, but getting a good rectangular composition is usually a challenge.
I agree. But I think the excellent bw tonality really makes the image sing.
JR
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A pod of dolphins (perhaps?) taken on Daily Walk. They are kind of blue because they long for the sea.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-WJQK8b9/0/3ff0681b/M/Sept%204-%202018%20Etobicoke%20Valley_0030%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Wonderful picture.
So often the case...beauty is the goal and tack sharp can rob an image of it's poetry.
Thanks. I have it in mind to get a (rumored) Fuji GFX-50r, adapt my Pentax 75/2.8 (great 645 format lens) to it and then take scads of photos either out of focus or at slooow shutter speeds. Besides hopefully resulting in some worthwhile pics it might also get under the skin of the res addicts. :D
-Dave-
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Thanks. I have it in mind to get a (rumored) Fuji GFX-50r, adapt my Pentax 75/2.8 (great 645 format lens) to it and then take scads of photos either out of focus or at slooow shutter speeds. Besides hopefully resulting in some worthwhile pics it might also get under the skin of the res addicts. :D
-Dave-
Yay!!!
Peter
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Yay!!!
Peter
+1!
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Indeed, very nice David. I think you included just enough black elements to balance the image beautifully.
JR
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Thanks, John!
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Seems this beautiful building and the morning sun collaborate well together!
You know Dave, these abstracts either strike you or don't. It's OK, but I don't like it as much as the first version.
JR
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From my Daily Walk series. Not hard to guess, but it was the interplay of shadow, light and shapes that drew my attention.
(edit: changed my mind, I like original better)
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-tnXQGLx/0/69d469df/M/JMRO3363%20bwcopy-2-1000-M.jpg)
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You know Dave, these abstracts either strike you or don't. It's OK, but I don't like it as much as the first version.
JR
I understand, John. I am working on a small series that will represent a "portrait" of Harpa, embellished with some of these detail shots for my coffee table book based on my recent trip to Iceland. It should be a best-seller of one! ;)
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Is it fair for me to call this an abstract? A cityscape? Probably not an architectural and I'm fairly certain it's not a landscape—despite the presence of a mountain and some weather in the background. I don't want to indulge in excessive genre-bending.
Made earlier this month during a vacation in Vancouver, B.C.
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... an abstract? A cityscape? Probably not an architectural and I'm fairly certain it's not a landscape...
That's why it is important to make up your mind as to what you are trying to convey at the time of shooting and reframe and refocus accordingly (both literally and figuratively). Selectivity in photography is paramount. Or, as my high school professor used to say: "A lack of clarity of language is a sure sign of the lack of clarity of mind." The same goes for visual language. ;)
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That's why it is important to make up your mind as to what you are trying to convey at the time of shooting and reframe and refocus accordingly (both literally and figuratively).
Sigh. I fear you may be correct. I simply tend to shoot what looks interesting to me while I'm peering through the viewfinder without thinking too much (okay, prolly not at all) about "what I'm trying to convey."
But I suspect I'm too old and set in my ways to learn how to exercise more discipline.
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More abstract. But still with mountains.
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No mountains. No sky. This ought to rate at least an 8.5 on the international open-ended abstraction scale, wot?
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No mountains. No sky. This ought to rate at least an 8.5 on the international open-ended abstraction scale, wot?
Yes :)
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More abstract. But still with mountains.
What you probably noticed in that scene is the layering of different buildings when viewed at a certain angle. You can then capitalize on that and exclude (abstract!) everything else (sorry, mountains). Something similar I did in Houston (five different buildings):
(https://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/img/s/v-2/p1454106853-4.jpg) (https://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/p161565912/e56abe8e5)
P.S. This isn't meant as lecturing, but rather as a friendly exchange of ideas
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...I simply tend to shoot what looks interesting to me while I'm peering through the viewfinder...
Nothing wrong with that. That's how it starts. It is an iterative process. You see something interesting and snap it. Then you think: "Hmmm, this looks interesting but too busy, too much information... how do I simplify it?" For instance, the photo posted above started with this image:
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No mountains. No sky. This ought to rate at least an 8.5 on the international open-ended abstraction scale, wot?
Rotate right 90 degrees and get a 9.0!
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It is an iterative process. You see something interesting and snap it. Then you think: "Hmmm, this looks interesting but too busy, too much information... how do I simplify it?"
The three pictures I posted earlier in this thread were all made within a five-minute period. Actually, I started with the most abstract, then my eye was attracted to the skycrapers with the mountains and clouds in the background.
My wife and I have been visiting Vancouver every two or three years for 25 years now. It is is arguably the big city with the most beautiful setting in North America. But the downtown is looking increasingly like Hong Kong Central, with enormous, closely-spaced towers crowding out the view of the harbour and the mountains beyond. In the three years since our last visit, it seemed like at least a half dozen new ones had sprouted up. A local community activist complained to us that relatively new buildings were being torn down so that even taller ones could be constructed in their place and, as often happens in city centers where there is a surge of redevelopment, housing costs have increased dramatically. The attached photo provides a sense of the density. I made it from an isolated park—apparently unfamiliar even to many Vancouverites—which must be the only parcel of undeveloped land along the downtown waterfront.
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From downtown Toronto.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Kensington-Market/i-TG2x96L/0/8cf13bfb/M/IMG_0068%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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From downtown Toronto.
". . . the pipes, the pipes are calling."
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I'm guessing this is as abstract as many here
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1873/43749534405_fc06b1d4d9_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/29DZNnk)
Mike
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I'm guessing this is as abstract as many here
Mike
It looks fine to me. Here is one from nature, taken on my Daily Walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-Xq3XWNz/0/7e6d9ee6/M/Sept%2014-%202018%20Terra%20Cotta_0179%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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You choose your subjects well for in the camera movement. The trick seems to be to avoid over bright skies and white as the background.
This one is particularly nice as it has relatively few plants in it.
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Here is one from nature, taken on my Daily Walk.
Really good, this one.
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Really good, this one.
+1.
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Encounter
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+1.
Thank you John, Eric and Mike for the comments. Mike the image consists of grasses shot against pond water reflecting the blue sky. But you are quite right, in general, I try to avoid white unless I decide the white can be part of the image or has a pattern.
JR
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Encounter
Cool. I like the tilted perspective.
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From yesterday's walk, Sept 15, some abstractions.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-ck54GLg/0/b2124d98/M/Sept%2014-%202018%20Terra%20Cotta_0193%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-WjcRTws/0/24cff078/M/Sept%2014-%202018%20Terra%20Cotta_0204%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Cool. I like the tilted perspective.
Thank you.
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Few more, quite different
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Few more, quite different
These are different. But I especially like second image with its almost mysterious shadows.
JR
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Few more, quite different
I really like the third one.
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Part of Daily Walk in a new conservation area.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-GVK8VdQ/0/4cdcb4cf/M/JMRO4392%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Part of Daily Walk in a new conservation area.
A change of environment every now and then can be healthy.
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Mangkhut
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It looks fine to me. Here is one from nature, taken on my Daily Walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-Xq3XWNz/0/7e6d9ee6/M/Sept%2014-%202018%20Terra%20Cotta_0179%20copy1000-M.jpg)
A standout, from among many good ones.
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Sadly, work has kept me from doing as much photography as I like for much of this year, but I had an architecture assignment in Vancouver over the weekend and saw a couple of abstract opportunities on the flight home. Because of the loss of sharpness from shooting through commercial airliner windows, I'm not sure any of these are suitable for printing/framing but I like the results enough to share online :)
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A standout, from among many good ones.
Thank you Arlen!
JR
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[...clip] Because of the loss of sharpness from shooting through commercial airliner windows, I'm not sure any of these are suitable for printing/framing but I like the results enough to share online :)
I really like the first one. Love the movement of the river and the green colour. It looks much better in large version.
JR
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These are different. But I especially like second image with its almost mysterious shadows.
JR
I really like the third one.
Thank you!
Sadly, work has kept me from doing as much photography as I like for much of this year, but I had an architecture assignment in Vancouver over the weekend and saw a couple of abstract opportunities on the flight home. Because of the loss of sharpness from shooting through commercial airliner windows, I'm not sure any of these are suitable for printing/framing but I like the results enough to share online :)
I know the feeling. I came across beautiful views from the airplane and got all excited when taking some photos only to be disappointed later when I pixel peep.
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Grass
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The conversing trio.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Graffiti-Alley/i-S53vLCG/0/ceaba1f3/M/March%208-%202015%20Graffiti%20Alley%20247%20copybw-1000-M.jpg)
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And the middleman is saying, "Wait! You're both right!"
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more grass
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I ventured into JR's galaxy of icm, the little Sony has a special JMR mode for that, no kidding. Let's just say i'm glad i made it back out alive.
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I ventured into JR's galaxy of icm, the little Sony has a special JMR mode for that, no kidding. Let's just say i'm glad i made it back out alive.
Keep going. It looks pretty good. It not black hole, but a Big Bang. Seriously though, do you mean the software does something: Or does the lens actually move, zoom, and/or turn?
JR
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Keep going. It looks pretty good. It not black hole, but a Big Bang. Seriously though, do you mean the software does something: Or does the lens actually move, zoom, and/or turn?
JR
No, it has a fixed 2 second exposure mode that they claim is for fireworks. Obviously, we here at LuLa know better. Movement is of course entirely optional.
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even more grass
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Tree fungus.
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even more grass
That is a very fine shot.
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That is a very fine shot.
Indeed. Good one Armand!
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That is a very fine shot.
Indeed. Good one Armand!
Thank you!
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2 - very different
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From Daily Walk series.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-q3K8Bc5/0/5455c8b0/M/JMRO4592%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-XRTk6jt/0/db77b6df/M/JMRO4603%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Not conventional abstract, but close enough. Taken at ISO 6400 on my diversion from daily walk near the park. Got too dark for my liking.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-kLC5V66/0/86d9f6fa/M/JMRO5172%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Abstract from Daily walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-2L5z88C/0/5a6000f6/M/Sept%2029-%202018%20High%20Park_0028%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Ooh! Excellent!
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"Found Art" - exploring wall art in Wynwood, a Miami's art district:
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"Found Art" - exploring wall art in Wynwood, a Miami's art district:
I like them!
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I like them!
Well, I was about to say the same. I think the way you have composed them puts your own stamp on the "found art." I also like how you "worked" the subject, with your three samples. Well done.
JR
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Well, I was about to say the same. I think the way you have composed them puts your own stamp on the "found art." I also like how you "worked" the subject, with your three samples. Well done.
JR
Right on! Good stuff.
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More abstractions from the graffiti walls.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-mV7nkTL/0/51559651/M/JMRO2933%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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"Found Art" - exploring wall art in Wynwood, a Miami's art district:
New stuff, here are some from 3 years ago
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Acqua danzante, Burno, Italia.
BTW, nice find, Slobodan!
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I may need to revisit this for a more refined picture, since there seems to be some lost craftmanship in this.
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I may need to revisit this for a more refined picture, since there seems to be some lost craftmanship in this.
A picture/window frame? Very interesting.
JR
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Here is one from my daily walk, warts and all.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-cKHXnQn/0/bcedb7b0/M/JMRO5753%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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From Oct 9, Daily walk at the Badlands.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-MZLjt8H/0/d8431ed0/M/Oct%209-%202018%20Caledon%20Badlands_0258%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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From Oct 10, Daily walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Hilton-Falls/i-9cD4RGn/0/1e63eb55/M/JMRO6064%20cropcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Hematite
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstract/i-KD2J3qr/0/a892e2d1/X3/hematite-X3.jpg)
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Are these abstract? Probably.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1963/30306203367_2688ce1e71_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Nb4dpH)
and
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1903/30306203317_58eca7e06d_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Nb4doR)
Mike
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Fall reflections and wave patterns in a small lake in eastern Ontario
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Nice photograph; so specific that maybe it does actually cross over into abstract in the sense of generic representation?
;-)
Rob
P.S. Why does a dot appear in my post, here, instead of the photo of the leaf?
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Nice photograph; so specific that maybe it does actually cross over into abstract in the sense of generic representation?
;-)
Rob
P.S. Why does a dot appear in my post, here, instead of the photo of the leaf?
I think this topic went away from purely abstract long time ago. What I felt was abstract about this one was the presentation, with the leaf suspended in the air with no visible support (clearly at least, an astute observer can figure out it's suspended in a spider net)
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Turning over a new leaf in an abstract pond. From daily walk series.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-mHfwwsk/0/49dfefda/M/JMRO6348%20cropcopy1000-M.jpg)
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I finally learned that I can work with white on occasion. From Daily walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-zHFpnv2/0/38b609fc/M/JMRO6559%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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I think you can work with anything that moves.
And if it doesn't move, you do!
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Not a sunset at the beach.
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I think you can work with anything that moves.
And if it doesn't move, you do!
Thanks Eric. Got to keep moving, as they say.
JR
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Not a sunset at the beach.
Sure it is. And wonderful find at that.
JR
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Encounter with a tree.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Encounter with a tree.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Very nice. Like the browns and white unfied by the black wavy lines.
JR
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A second variant from daily walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-R2xRh43/0/63d7ad3b/M/JMRO6768%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Nice fall color! Continuing on the water theme...
Sea Spray 1, 2, & 3
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Yes, let's continue the autumn and colour themes. From daily walk series.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-V6gtFWR/0/89fe90e5/M/Oct%2012-%202018%20Glen%20Haffey%202_0272%20cropcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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May have posted this before, but not in the abstract thread.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-mXMrCs6/0/53085f34/M/Aug%203-%202016%20James%20Gardens%20049%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Something seems to be missing...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-vg7fCs9/0/610bf181/M/May%2013-%202016%20Ottawa%20jpegs%20054%20bwmono-1000-M.jpg)
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Something seems to be missing...
Color?
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Something seems to be missing...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-vg7fCs9/0/610bf181/M/May%2013-%202016%20Ottawa%20jpegs%20054%20bwmono-1000-M.jpg)
"Let there be light?"
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Well, John, I could always give you the benefit of the doubt and believe you shot an ultra modern pipe and tap system, so the missing link might be drops of water...
;-)
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Wow, three hits! Thanks for looking. Oscar, so tongue in cheek. Whereas, Eric and Rob are so creative. I believe the blank pole is for flags, as in flags announcing an event or exhibition. But I am sure all you sharp rhetoricians knew that. :-*
JR
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I almost didn't know it was yours, John, because nothing was moving. ;)
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Eric, if the post is not going to move, I have to make it more exotic.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-bz9P5B9/0/26db8779/M/May%2013-%202016%20Ottawa%20jpegs%20054%20bwmono2-1000-M.jpg)
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Black and white makes this a little more abstract than the color version.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-6zM92Vw/0/89a66fad/M/May%2013-%202016%20Ottawa%20jpegs%20369%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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A little experimentation and creative license.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Hilton-Falls/i-3GVsxGJ/0/49e80d25/M/JMRO6058%20copyblur3-1000-M.jpg)
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A little experimentation and creative license.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Hilton-Falls/i-3GVsxGJ/0/49e80d25/M/JMRO6058%20copyblur3-1000-M.jpg)
Neat!!!
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This?
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1913/30464313657_1c05e74d9b_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Nq2z6c)
Mike
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This?
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1913/30464313657_1c05e74d9b_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Nq2z6c)
Mike
Yes.
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It looks like both you and the graffiti artist were trying to balance things. :D
JR
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Feng shui
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Feng shui
Nice one, O.
I think I'll redesign my home office using the principles expressed here. ;)
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abstract.
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reflections
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...a bit disorienting, good. Nice play between ground and figure/ground and sky.
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May have posted this before, but not in the abstract thread.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-mXMrCs6/0/53085f34/M/Aug%203-%202016%20James%20Gardens%20049%20copy1000-M.jpg)
+1
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Thank you Bob! Was about to post another and I guess I will. Could have removed the security camera, but it looks more sinister and abstract at same time with camera in place.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-LsL9sgK/0/30b7e2e8/M/Sept%2025-09%20Bolton%20177%20LS-bwcrop-1000-M.jpg)
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Thank you Bob! Was about to post another and I guess I will. Could have removed the security camera, but it looks more sinister and abstract at same time with camera in place.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-LsL9sgK/0/30b7e2e8/M/Sept%2025-09%20Bolton%20177%20LS-bwcrop-1000-M.jpg)
Very nice, I like it! Strong visuals.
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Security cameras are ubiquitous. Leaving it in is appropriate.
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Security cameras are ubiquitous. Leaving it in is appropriate.
Definitely.
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Definitely.
Yep, don't abstract 'em!
:-)
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Reminds me of my callow youthfulness and the happy 60s.
:-)
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I am getting more interested in abstracts, and here's one of my faves.
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Reminds me of my callow youthfulness and the happy 60s.
:-)
Sponge Bob, obv... ;-)
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reflections
Very nice, Armand. I know several spots where i have similar multiplicity, but haven't found an interesting subject yet. The tree as a natural object in an unnatural setting (especially with the addition of the lights) works well.
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I am getting more interested in abstracts, and here's one of my faves.
Totally Tangram. ;-)
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I am getting more interested in abstracts, and here's one of my faves.
Nice one!
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Nice one!
Double nice. It has a real optical illusion quality to it.
JR
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Also at parking lot of Senior's Home I visit.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-kVjJxVx/0/2f0bf643/M/20181004_181908%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Wild!
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Wild!
Thanks Eric. Sometimes when you by a place a lot, you decide to slow down and notice a few things. This one was easy as the sun was going down and made reflections obvious and glaring.
JR
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When I visit the Seniors Residence on a sunny day I can't help but notice the wonderful shadows created by the metal outdoor furniture, as I walk into the building. I photograph them with my cell camera on occasion whenever the light is right. They are so intriguing.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-HJ5BnPw/0/ab7a834f/M/20180916_162910%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-xRGNb8s/0/45876a2e/M/20180916_163259%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-cDZmZLW/0/44b51183/M/20180527_140556%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-SdpK8H4/0/11ed164d/M/20180901_160217%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-3fGbrc6/0/7f70793d/L/20180916_163137%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Beautiful! Well seen. Especially #3.
I love the idea that cameras make us see better.
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Beautiful! Well seen. Especially #3.
I love the idea that cameras make us see better.
+1 to both points!
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Very nice, Armand. I know several spots where i have similar multiplicity, but haven't found an interesting subject yet. The tree as a natural object in an unnatural setting (especially with the addition of the lights) works well.
Thank you, that entire building is designed like this and there is a central area where it gets interesting if there is a gathering of people.
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Overexposed an experiment but before I send it to the trash I came up with this.
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+1 to both points!
Thanks Peter and Eric. I never thought I would like the images from my phone, but I do. In fact I am going to buy a decent holder because that is one area where cell phones are lacking. Tapping your phone and still getting reasonably sharp images is dicey at best. Peter, I think your observation is well stated. Seeing the world through such a large and clear "finder" can not be overstated. For me it is a kind of awakening, like the first time I looked through the viewfinder of medium format camera.
JR
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From my brother's new apartment. Taken with my cell phone. All he had to say, was, 'Oh, I see'. He is very interested because he has now taken up photography as well. One of the things I really like about this image, is the secondary subtle lighting on the radiator.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-P7PF2Pv/0/1d855c1e/L/20180811_173402%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Overexposed an experiment but before I send it to the trash I came up with this.
I like this, Armand.
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I like this, Armand.
Thank you! It was supposed to look like this: https://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=127319.msg1076747#msg1076747
It's a long exposure at 30s during which I used a flashlight to lit it from the sides, at the ground level.
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It's as if the wind blows on a moody autumn day.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Glen-Haffey/i-Zmzx3d8/0/e034ec9e/L/Oct%207-%202013%20Glen%20Haffey%20630%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Lake Superior
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I really took to these Temples. The bw shapes created by the sun and shadows made for endless possibilities.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-JPShTg4/0/L/i-JPShTg4-L.jpg)
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Apparently need to do some people pictures again, because, well, ...
Schlagerfestival (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlager_music)
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I quite enjoy the idea of catching three different dimensions at once, and thus making a fourth. Oh well, it keeps the computer warmed up and the belief that one is getting one's money's worth in a kinda roundabout way.
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I really took to these Temples. The bw shapes created by the sun and shadows made for endless possibilities.
JR
This is an abstract taken from same temple location above:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-VpHHV95/0/ec46f36e/M/Oct%209-%202013%20Gore%20Rd%20Architecture%20060%20cropcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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From the temple that keeps on giving. I decided to consolidate these and post in one post so people can see how interesting this temple is.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-ns5Wz8t/0/3acfbfce/M/Oct%2011-%202013%20Gore%20Rd%20Temples%20010%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-JPShTg4/0/334a7ca4/M/Oct%2011-%202013%20Gore%20Rd%20Temples%20053%20bw-crop1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-6FwBQbb/0/2b640fa7/M/Oct%2011-%202013%20Gore%20Rd%20Temples%20028%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-fdvJBbp/0/c4146053/M/Oct%2011-%202013%20Gore%20Rd%20Temples%20029%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-VpHHV95/0/ec46f36e/M/Oct%209-%202013%20Gore%20Rd%20Architecture%20060%20cropcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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John, I think that temple exists only in your fertile imagination!
Fascinating.
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John, I think that temple exists only in your fertile imagination!
Fascinating.
Thank you Eric. I think I will show one last colour version of the Temple. Harsh sunlight sometimes makes for interesting bold and dense shapes and colors.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-zBPD9z5/0/e24452c0/L/Oct%2011-%202013%20Gore%20Rd%20Temples%20040%20copy3B-1000-L.jpg)
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Let the chips fall where they may...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-FdV4MTQ/0/1f5684b9/L/Oct%201-2013%20Haliburton%20trip%20036%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Nice find - but if it was mine I'd process it hard and make it brutal to focus on the shapes, the hell with the colours :)
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I see your flaky paint and raise with my weird bark.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4871/45070259875_0160cc9307_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2bEGS38)
Which isn't processed quite right.
Mike :)
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Nice find - but if it was mine I'd process it hard and make it brutal to focus on the shapes, the hell with the colours :)
Thanks Mike. Are you referring to the red paint chips? If so, sometimes I will exaggerate to bring the effect or look. I should have used LR for PP as it has black and white point settings, whereas Elements is very basic.
JR
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I see your flaky paint and raise with my weird bark.
Which isn't processed quite right.
Mike :)
It looks pretty good to me. Nice dense golden browns, well defined shapes in the overall design pattern.
I ran out of "real abstracts", if that matters anymore. So here is one whose subject matter is obvious, but I think has quirky abstractness to it.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-phSPDJh/0/5c2e8530/M/Oct%201-2013%20Haliburton%20trip%20052%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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That one has charm!
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Yes the red fakes. Give a roughing up in Nik which is I think once again free?
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That one has charm!
Thanks Eric. Yes I thought it was charming and whimsical until I gave it a bw treatment. Amazing how bw can alter the look and feel of an image literally and figuratively. Looks a little menacing, now, I think.
JR
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Thanks Eric. Yes I thought it was charming and whimsical until I gave it a bw treatment. Amazing how bw can alter the look and feel of an image literally and figuratively. Looks a little menacing, now, I think.
JR
Nah, for me it be the color one. The lego colorscheme seems to really support the quirkiness.
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I can't decide. I like them both, but the feeling is very different.
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Not for this puppy: the b/w conversion is just dead when you compare with the vibrancy of the colour shot. Not all originals are created equal.
IMO.
:-)
Rob.
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He's right you know :)
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And another where the PP isn't quite right - it was a very dull, overcast day in Italy. Sigh
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4815/44909913185_a856dd2697_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2bqx3y2)
Mike
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Mallorca:
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I ran out of "real abstracts", if that matters anymore. So here is one whose subject matter is obvious, but I think has quirky abstractness to it.
JR
The Unbearable Being of Lightness ;)
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Mallorca:
Love the richness of it.
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And another where the PP isn't quite right - it was a very dull, overcast day in Italy. Sigh
Mike
Mike, I think I know what you are after, but if the light is not suitable, not much you can do. The composition is good. I am guessing you want more contrasty light to accentuate the elements. Most of my images are like that- you get what you get when you are there. The resulting images may not be great, but they help in keeping our visual sense sharp...if only the light was better... if only the light was better...
JR
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Mallorca:
For some reason Rob, I can picture you dancing in similar light with a rose your mouth, tapping and stamping your feet, right to the end.
JR
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For some reason Rob, I can picture you dancing in similar light with a rose your mouth, tapping and stamping your feet, right to the end.
JR
Actually, I have been trying to master the Moonwalk.
It is very simple and even an idiot can do it. The problem is, if you are not an idiot, it is very hard to ignore reality and attempt to counter and pervert the rules of physics of forward motion and bodily equilibrium. I am sure that had I been allowed to continue art classes in school rather than doing physics and chemistry I would, by now, have that pesky walk down to the level that I could just do a quick couple of seconds of it where I think it might get some applause, rather than find myself still practising it out on the terrace, checking my lack of progress in the french windows.
The rose I leave for the Mexicans; never seen a Spanish chick do that! But hey, flamenco's not my thing.
;-)
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Lines that meet the sky. More abstractions from my local mall.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-64Nf5Gz/0/01e3014e/M/Brownsline%20mall%20DSC_8766%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Lots of good stuff here, folks.
And Rob: I would love to see your moonwalk!
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Lots of good stuff here, folks.
And Rob: I would love to see your moonwalk!
In fifteen years when I've got it down pat, let's get together and share the moment!
;-)
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In fifteen years when I've got it down pat, let's get together and share the moment!
;-)
I'll come visit you in my wheelchair by then.
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This isn't abstract but will feel at home here.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1977/31529538928_e823596e43_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Q3a8s9)
Mike
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This isn't abstract but will feel at home here.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1977/31529538928_e823596e43_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Q3a8s9)
Mike
It's more design than subject, so it fits just fine.
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It looks good to me Mike. Bold intersecting lines with just enough irregularity to give it some tension.
JR
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This morning at 11F (or -12C).
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They were leaning on me, so to speak.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-gz3j28z/0/6d983ec5/M/Sept%2024-2013%20Ottawa-Algonquin%20trip%20006%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-LGnNhqx/0/16ea588d/M/Oct%201-2013%20Haliburton%20trip%20002%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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In a seldom-used corner of my garage.
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Wispy.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Glen-Haffey/i-Mp4thCT/0/f9dc08bd/M/Oct%2011-11%20GH-Gore%20Rd%20719%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Wispy.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Glen-Haffey/i-Mp4thCT/0/f9dc08bd/M/Oct%2011-11%20GH-Gore%20Rd%20719%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Cool!
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Cool!
Very!
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Rob and Eric, thanks for the comments.
JR
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Patina
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Nice one, ~O~.
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Red always demands to be seen. Just ask it. In fact, it wants its own thread! Ha, ha....you know, laugh like the Joker. Strictly an abstract comparison ;)
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-CBPqXpr/0/5be90382/M/Sept%2019-11%20JG%20028%20cropcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-nskGdXv/0/a8529aa4/M/Sept%2019-11%20JG%20038%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Patina
Beautiful, and I can share the misery of a destroyed cassette.
Rob
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Red always demands to be seen. Just ask it. In fact, it wants its own thread! Ha, ha....you know, laugh like the Joker. Strictly an abstract comparison ;)
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-CBPqXpr/0/5be90382/M/Sept%2019-11%20JG%20028%20cropcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-nskGdXv/0/a8529aa4/M/Sept%2019-11%20JG%20038%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Oh no! Do we now need a Red Showcase thread? ::)
These look great right here. ;)
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You're breaking up...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-7DsCkV5/0/01c6150c/L/May%208-11%20HP%20197%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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You're breaking up...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-7DsCkV5/0/01c6150c/L/May%208-11%20HP%20197%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Nice!
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Armand, I think I like the color version best. Something about pink that is soothing and eye catching.
Eric, what is behind the curtain. Hope? The wood? is very nice. The red-orange pieces really draw your attention.
JR
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Peep holes...naw, just quirky and practical fence building.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Bygone-Days/i-88p49kx/0/8422eaf8/M/JMRO2588%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Nice one, John.
Even B&W photos can be cheerful.
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Nice one, John.
Even B&W photos can be cheerful.
Thanks Eric. I sure hope LuLa can find a home for genreless images. Come to think of it many of your images homeless too :-[
But you won't catch me crying over spilt milk.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-kZ3p3g2/0/860b7a5d/M/Mar%207-11%20badlands%20025%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Thanks Eric. I sure hope LuLa can find a home for genreless images. Come to think of it many of your images homeless too :-[
But you won't catch me crying over spilt milk.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Badlands-of-Caledon/i-kZ3p3g2/0/860b7a5d/M/Mar%207-11%20badlands%20025%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
I like this one, John. It would go nicely with some of my road tar images. ;)
Let's hear it for more Genre-free images!
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From Santiago Chile.
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The ghost from the Dolomites :)
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The ghost from the Dolomites :)
Brilliant! This is the stuff that nightmares are made of, and our life is rounded with little sleep.
(Shakespeare probably got lost in translation somewhere.)
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I like this one, John. It would go nicely with some of my road tar images. ;)
Let's hear it for more Genre-free images!
Ah Eric, were Abstract but not a genre... Irony of the day!
;-)
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Hans, I like them both. Nice to see you post some abstracts and architecture images. The first is a nice juxtaposition of elements. Re the second ghostly image, I have to admit I did not at first notice the face in the water(?) but saw an abstract of undulating colors. So when Oscar used the word nightmare, I revisited and wondered what I missed. She looks eerie but also benign and otherworldly. Nice. Ghostly is right imho.
JR
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Hans, I like them both. Nice to see you post some abstracts and architecture images. The first is a nice juxtaposition of elements. Re the second ghostly image, I have to admit I did not at first notice the face in the water(?) but saw an abstract of undulating colors. So when Oscar used the word nightmare, I revisited and wondered what I missed. She looks eerie but also benign and otherworldly. Nice. Ghostly is right imho.
JR
If that were the only face, it would indeed be relatively benign...
Dante has been there, i'm sure.
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If that were the only face, it would indeed be relatively benign...
Dante has been there, i'm sure.
Thanks and I should have used plural as there are more than one :)
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4871/31352092917_d9ff69fd77_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/PLtEWa)
Hope that's not too objective.
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Hope that's not too objective.
Fantastic. Good seeing.
JR
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Fantastic. Good seeing.
JR
+1.
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I processed this image many ways. In the end I liked what came straight out of camera with a little brightness and contrast adjustment. What I like is that soft blur of the leaves matches the movement of the water.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-MBrttrP/0/4a4defc2/L/Dec%204-11%20HP%20001%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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A bit of fun with old christmas lights and cut crystal I call "Seasonal Chaos". I'm pretty sure they're not Hallmark-ready, but I had some fun. C&C welcomed.
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(http://oi67.tinypic.com/2a5knzk.jpg)
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A bit of fun with old christmas lights and cut crystal I call "Seasonal Chaos". I'm pretty sure they're not Hallmark-ready, but I had some fun. C&C welcomed.
Bob, I like the middle one best. The black makes the design come out better. I do think they are a little bit static because the overall shape is a hexagon which is positioned right in the middle. I have tried some of these myself and found using extension tubes allows you to explore even more interesting effects. If you are really keen on showing part of crystal, you may want to try selective focus stacking. That is keep only the areas you want sharp.
JR
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Hi John and thanks for your thoughts. Definitely a work in progress.
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Well...somewhat abstract, in anticipation of the coalescing needles...ouch, ouch ouch ;)
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-6FJScJR/0/58ab81a6/M/Nov%2013-11%20HP%20066%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Elegant lines.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-QX7Lwgf/0/4301885a/L/Nov%207-11%20HP%20556%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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Nice Armand. You, me and few other have been staring at the paint dry again ;)
One from Glen Haffey, happily a little known place.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-NwrPdX6/0/51d15b04/L/Oct%207-%202014%20Badlands-%20Glen%20Haffey%20068%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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John,
I think your paint is still wet. :D
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John,
I think your paint is still wet. :D
Maybe I can take lessons from Peter on how long I have to wait to post after processing my images 8)
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...or just keep painting, Eric...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-9Zd2Svn/0/9488ad19/L/Oct%207-%202014%20Badlands-%20Glen%20Haffey%20159%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Do keep on painting, John.
Eric
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Testing to see if I can embed an image directly from my Google Photos account:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/O71Mf18THsHiEe72C4qBqFJXxKR9nYM1ZS_vbHciKXyKPGNdwlqIzkGioiwIaY-YBrB6uHeYiH6ZXYcaaKH06L-FN5kYe6AfU5qYWb26zO7KJGhHSeErL0vp9oDqcfd6fu3zCPpbCw=w2400)
YES! 8)
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Yes it looks good to me Peter. It is rather large so tread carefully or you will break it.
JR
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Ice in the river. As the sun warmed the day and the water receded (this far upriver from the ocean still sees tidal swings), I kept hearing "snap, crackle, pop"!
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Yes it looks good to me Peter. It is rather large so tread carefully or you will break it.
JR
Thanks for the warning. Break Google Photos linking? Or the Forum?
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Thanks for the warning. Break Google Photos linking? Or the Forum?
I tried unsuccessfully to be humorous. I meant the ice.
JR
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It looked to me as if Peter had already tiptoed onto the ice, perhaps trying to retrieve his camera. ;)
I like the shot, Peter.
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More seasonal chaos, and happy holidays!
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Zoom, zoom, lines and circles is all you need.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-FxGzgFV/0/60b7bd22/L/Aug%2015-12%20Applewood%20cars%20013%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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What can I say, the green just wanted to intrude and not be left out.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-SCZSs5R/0/36ce8899/L/Dec%202-%202013%20Guelph%20outing%20020%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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What can I say, the green just wanted to intrude and not be left out.
JR
Bloody brilliant!!!! "The Parachutist"...
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I need to post some more here. So here goes.
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And a more minimalist one.
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And a more minimalist one.
Eric, sometimes colour alone is enough to move one when viewing an image. I like the blue ice image a lot.
One from the archives, which for some reason I bypassed.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-jBmNLVL/0/6b4f9975/L/Aug%2012-%202013%20Caledon%20123%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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And I like your gentle waves. (You know, the one titled "JMR.) ;)
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From same outing, a little more surreal looking.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Belfountain-and-Forks-of-the/i-Z7stds9/0/f338637f/L/Feb%204-2013%20Bellfountain%20208%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Burano, Italia.
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Nice one, Larry.
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Nice one, Larry.
Yes I like that shot a lot Larry.
JR
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Abstract and minimalist.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-MQ9xnBN/0/68da0c3d/L/Jan%2010-%2020115%20Caledon%20Badlands%20122%20bwcopy-highcontrast%20-1000-L.jpg)
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Abstract and minimalist.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Caledon-Badlands-20142015/i-MQ9xnBN/0/68da0c3d/L/Jan%2010-%2020115%20Caledon%20Badlands%20122%20bwcopy-highcontrast%20-1000-L.jpg)
Great!
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Nice reflections, Larry!
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I like your abstract and minimalistic photo, JR!
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Death Valley.
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Death Valley.
Thank you Eric and MIke.
Larry, love this mushroom colored desert landscape. Wonderful movement of shapes and shadows.
JR
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I have decided this looks abstract enough to post on this thread. The original is good in its own right, but as this is a creative image for a friendly competition, I decided to alter it.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-98SrC5R/0/7889fcb8/L/Mar%2014-11%20Downtown%20179%20bwcreative2-1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-ZSZ5Rbk/0/d424682f/S/Mar%2014-11%20Downtown%20179%20copy1000-S.jpg)
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Another nice one, Larry. Sadly, I've never visited Death Valley.
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...I decided to alter it...
Me too :)
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Nice ones, John and Slobodan.
I must admit that when I first saw John's, I thought it might be from Slobodan, who is usually the "abstract building king."
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Thank you Eric. Yes Slobodan has some mighty fine architectural abstracts. But does he have a spaceship like this! Come to think of it, I bet he does.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-pCKGRBJ/0/59e1c833/L/Mar%2014-11%20Downtown%20229%20pano2-1000-L.jpg)
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Beam me up, Scotty! (Er, I mean, Johnny.)
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Bark - Hawai'i
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Nice one, Rab.
And it certainly would not work in B&W.
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Nice one, Rab.
And it certainly would not work in B&W.
Was about to say the same. Well done Rab.
A large percentage of my images will not work in BW because they rely on color combinations like this image.
JR
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... Yes Slobodan has some mighty fine architectural abstracts. But does he have a spaceship like this! Come to think of it, I bet he does.
No, I don't. But were we in the Chain thread, I would offer something like this in response ;)
P.S. Nice one, Rabanito
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No, I don't. But were we in the Chain thread, I would offer something like this in response ;)
P.S. Nice one, Rabanito
Excellent image. The triangle in your image is an excellent follow up and match for my 'spaceship'.
JR
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I took this one today. It has energy, I think. Would have preferred all the flowers to be coloured and not white, but alas, it was not to be. Doesn't matter though, because the greenhouse and all its flowers brought joy to my day.
JR
Edit: added a second image.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-4RsmDpT/0/c4bebe85/L/Jan%2015-%202019%20Centennial%20Greenhouse-1%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-wCRRk8W/0/d4720235/L/Jan%2015-%202019%20Centennial%20Greenhouse-7%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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A pleasure to look at your pics, not only those
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A pleasure to look at your pics, not only those
+1.
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+1.
Thanks Eric and Rabo. It is even more gratifying when you love what you do.
JR
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Space ships from Slobodan's former life back in Belgrade :-)... (Belgrade, Serbia's Aeronautical Museum).
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Space ships from Slobodan's former life back in Belgrade :-)... (Belgrade, Serbia's Aeronautical Museum).
Very creative Larry. Now I know what the Serbs have been up to.
JR
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Orange, black and blue I could not eschew.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-XPnjJMC/0/234e76e0/L/Sept%209-12%20Downtown%20TO%20004%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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More whimsical play of light and shadow to go with previous deeper play of Orange brick and blue lamp with dark shadows.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-GVn79SF/0/166feaa1/L/Sept%209-12%20Downtown%20TO%20100%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Water memories...that's the way I remember these images.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-WBcScKZ/0/fdb2cbfa/L/May%2021-12%20Rockway%20105%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-gfzQh8M/0/1c064070/L/July%201-12%20Burlington%20081%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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A minimalist ice:
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And ice in B&W:
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Now look what you've gone and done Eric.. You've planted that wonderful taunt of Edmands, and teased out another side of Slobodan. Pleasurable on both counts~
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Now look what you've gone and done Eric.. You've planted that wonderful taunt of Edmands, and teased out another side of Slobodan. Pleasurable on both counts~
Thank you, Patricia.
When I saw Slobodan's, my first thought was "Ooh! That's my kind of image!" ;D
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Now look what you've gone and done Eric.. You've planted that wonderful taunt of Edmands, and teased out another side of Slobodan. Pleasurable on both counts~
Indeed, nice work, Eric and Slobodan. But Slobodan, you have to post more of these.
JR
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... When I saw Slobodan's, my first thought was "Ooh! That's my kind of image!" ;D
I’ll tell you a secret, Eric. That’s a reflection of the blood moon of last night in our building’s rooftop pool ;)
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I’ll tell you a secret, Eric. That’s a reflection of the blood moon of last night in our building’s rooftop pool ;)
I'll have to come visit you at the next blood moon to see if I can do an even better shot. :D
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I'll have to come visit you...
Any time, Eric.
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Any time, Eric.
:)
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I am in Spring mode. So here is one which is sheer play in PP.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-63HWKCL/0/4d79c854/M/May%202-%2012%20Niagara%20Gardens%20350%20copyred2%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Nice and prickly, Armand.
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Nice and prickly, Armand.
Thank you!
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Stark and abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-MRVhLX3/0/9e5e16ad/L/May%2026-2013%20Ont%20arch%20Ass%20bldg%20043%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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I am in Spring mode. So here is one which is sheer play in PP.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-63HWKCL/0/4d79c854/M/May%202-%2012%20Niagara%20Gardens%20350%20copyred2%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Envious, a field of tulips... Strawberry Fields. In youth, did bruise my hands through the poison to tissue of hands planting a naturalized field of tulips. Lasted for years. Trying to work a bit of that magic here on the island but with the existing woods and alongshore areas.
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Envious, a field of tulips... Strawberry Fields. In youth, did bruise my hands through the poison to tissue of hands planting a naturalized field of tulips. Lasted for years. Trying to work a bit of that magic here on the island but with the existing woods and alongshore areas.
Patricia, you manage to interweave the ordinary with the extraordinary when you write. Thank you for the comments. One last look. Any more and it would be cruel.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-TPvGKQL/0/49449ada/M/May%203-%2012%20RBG%20443%20desat-copy%20memorial%20bench-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-mQbG8XW/0/28713b7e/M/May%203-%2012%20RBG%20432%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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I spied a 10-toothed ice monster near the banks of the river yesterday, and thought I should document its presence for all to see. ;)
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A couple from Indiana last fall:
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A couple from Indiana last fall:
The first one is a fall indeed. The second is more like slip and fall ;)
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The first one is fall indeed. The second is more like slip and fall ;)
Yea Larry, you're out of control. Why can't you be less flamboyant and go in one direction, like sideways.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-qFKCkH2/0/e814e618/L/Sept%202-12%20Charles%20Daley%20167%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Frozen Pond
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winter
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more winter ice.
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more winter ice.
The first: Wow
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The first: Wow
Thanks, Rab. It was on a small puddle in a normally dry part of our local woods.
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The first: Wow
Make that two wows! Lots of things to see in that one.
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Make that two wows! Lots of things to see in that one.
Yes, the snow puddle does have a surreal quality. But I do like the blue ice image with its array of glass-like lines that radiate in all directions.
JR
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We don't often see brown.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Centre-Island-outing/i-w28HzCg/0/f128d990/M/June%202-%202015%20Downtown-Centre%20Island%20102%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Of course it is recognizable, but it is somewhat abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-kctJbK8/0/2164c90b/M/Aug%205-12%20HB%20206%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Not very recognizable to me (I wasn't there when you shot it), but very nicely abstract.
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Not very recognizable to me (I wasn't there when you shot it), but very nicely abstract.
Thank you Eric. You are right. I wasn't thinking. Of course, not everyone is from Toronto.
JR
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Of course it is recognizable, but it is somewhat abstract.
JR
I like it a lot, John. It actually hits the exact right balance between abstract and recognisable, and it's precisely therefore that I believe it should be considered a very successful abstraction. It has a nice graphical quality to it, so one can imagine more than a city nightscape, e.g. a graph timeline of all activity in the city or something odd like that.
By recognisable, i mean recognisable as a city nightscape, not necessarily which particular city, although for those people living there and recognising it as their hometown, it might just give another dimension to it and I'm sure this would be a potential seller for a postersize print aimed at the hipster crowd.
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Of course, not everyone is from Toronto.
HA! ROFL. You've justified one of Canada's greatest in-jokes. :) :) :)
Nice image, too. :)
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HA! ROFL. You've justified one of Canada's greatest in-jokes. :) :) :)
Nice image, too. :)
Thanks Peter. It's true. When travelling in Canada and asked where I am from, I never say Toronto. Etobicoke. If people then ask, where is that, I mumble as quietly as possible, Ter...an...a.
JR
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I like it a lot, John. It actually hits the exact right balance between abstract and recognisable, and it's precisely therefore that I believe it should be considered a very successful abstraction. It has a nice graphical quality to it, so one can imagine more than a city nightscape, e.g. a graph timeline of all activity in the city or something odd like that.
By recognisable, i mean recognisable as a city nightscape, not necessarily which particular city, although for those people living there and recognising it as their hometown, it might just give another dimension to it and I'm sure this would be a potential seller for a postersize print aimed at the hipster crowd.
Thanks Oscar. I came across the image while culling my stock, which I suppose is more fuel for those who advocate, save everything!
JR
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I came across the image while culling my stock, which I suppose is more fuel for those who advocate, save everything!
JR
Alternatively, you could just send me all your discards and let me pick the best 90% of them. ;)
P.S. I've never been in T*r*nt*, except for one airplane change at the airport, which required something like a six-mile hike to get to the next plane.
Eric
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Yesterday I went to a butterfly conservatory. Didn't get much in the way of butterflies (rejects!), but I did get some great abstracts. The first is about the mysterious light and dark, but the second is the same radiating fire I posted on chain thread.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-w94QpGD/0/1030a045/M/JMRO8006%20butterfly%20con%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-CtLHpzS/0/0d9c2612/M/JMRO8111%20butterfly%20con-1000-M.jpg)
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Both excellent, as always.
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This is strictly speaking a bodyscape, but it is both abstract and landscapy, I think.
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Clever!
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Clever!
+1.
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+1.
+2. You have to tell us in which country those dunes were taken 8)
JR
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Again no butterflies, but did get this "true" abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-55CCc7t/0/36175948/M/JMRO8136%20butterfly%20con2%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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+2. You have to tell us in which country those dunes were taken 8)
JR
Unmistakably Dutch dunes!
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Nice "Dunes" JR!
Here's some from California:
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And another. Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley.
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Nice "Dunes" JR!
Here's some from California:
Hey Larry, those Dunes were taken be Eric Kellerman, not me.
JR
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A patchwork.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-8tPR8cd/0/8b64c4ab/L/JMRO8201%20buttterfly%20con-2%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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THAT is very pretty!
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THAT is very pretty!
+1.
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+1.
Thank you Eric and Eric. I think I am going to put this one on my wall.
JR
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+1.
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It is kind of mesmerising... Definitely will make a great print.
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Another winner, JR!
Here's one from Burano, Italia.
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Another winner, JR!
Here's one from Burano, Italia.
Nice Larry. You don't see how vibrant Larry's reflection is until you enlarge it.
JR
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Nice Larry. You don't see how vibrant Larry's reflection is until you enlarge it.
JR
Agreed.
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Thanks you two!
Too many people on a hot summer's day in Venice...then saw the post cards of Burano and spent the afternoon there. Lots fewer people, lots more hidden gems and...the colorful, dancing waters! Neither still nor motion can do it justice.
Love to see a collection of JR's abstracts. Portfolio or book, perhaps?
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Gateway
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Gateway
You're cooking! Like it.
Rob
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You're cooking! Like it.
Rob
Me too, it is very striking.
I'm also mesmerized by JR's patchwork. Well worth printing.
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Another thumb's up for ~O~'s Gateway.
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car language
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Thanks you two!
Too many people on a hot summer's day in Venice...then saw the post cards of Burano and spent the afternoon there. Lots fewer people, lots more hidden gems and...the colorful, dancing waters! Neither still nor motion can do it justice.
Love to see a collection of JR's abstracts. Portfolio or book, perhaps?
Thank you Larry and Arlen for your comments. I do have two galleries which contain many of my abstracts. Some are repeats in both galleries.
https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Abstracts/
https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/
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Gateway
Interesting that your lines seem to be radiating outward, while the light and arch want stasis and focus. Cool image.
JR
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Autumn swirl
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From one temporary puddle in nearby woods ...
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From one temporary puddle in nearby woods ...
Very nice set. On the whole they remind me of images of the universe and the inner workings of the human body. The second looks like it is consuming something with its jaws. But the last I like for its composition and its similarity to this one.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-CBzh8pS/0/da8358b7/M/Feb%2018-13%20Sam%20Smith%20Pk%20015%20smugcopy-M.jpg)
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Thanks, John.
Maybe we should start a new Chain thread: Groups of Lumps. :D
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Eric - the first and fourth will make for great prints.
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More from "patchwork." This one has white areas that are like a tear in the fabric of colour.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-P3bvLMj/0/5879d747/M/JMRO8225%20butterfly%20con%20copycrop1000-M.jpg)
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Eric - the first and fourth will make for great prints.
Thanks, Rajan.
I haven't printed any of them yet. I have to let them "age" in my mind's eye before printing, but I will get to them in about another week.
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More from "patchwork." This one has white areas that are like a tear in the fabric of colour.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-P3bvLMj/0/5879d747/M/JMRO8225%20butterfly%20con%20copycrop1000-M.jpg)
You are a magician, John.
With your earlier motion-effect images, I could figure out pretty esily how you did them.
(And when I tried swinging the camera myself, I learned how hard it can be to get the desired result.)
But with these recent shots I have no idea how you do them. But they are quite beautiful!
Eric
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More ice patterns, from Brookline Reservoir, yesterday.
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Organic Abstracts.
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In the alleyways of Graffiti in downtown Toronto, you can find much more. The walk alone is worth the trip.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Graffiti-Alley/i-9S6XhZw/0/72d84a21/M/March%208-%202015%20Graffiti%20Alley%20248%20copysmug-M.jpg)
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More ice patterns, from Brookline Reservoir, yesterday.
I especially like the first image. Nice movement of intersecting lines just interrupted by the small circles.
JR
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4379/36339054440_9bb5546f7c_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Xna9Ro)160406_lola.mb.abst5_018645 (https://flic.kr/p/Xna9Ro) by Morris (https://www.flickr.com/photos/morristaub/), on Flickr
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4315/35873561800_d1766cca04_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/WE2o7d)160401_lola.mb.abst2_018621 (https://flic.kr/p/WE2o7d) by Morris (https://www.flickr.com/photos/morristaub/), on Flickr
Dear josh and company. I'm getting sick of having to type in the verification letters and math answers every time I post, make a change, etc.
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Two beauties, Morris!
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Two beauties, Morris!
Interesting movement. I like the second, so much frenetic energy.
JR
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Two beauties, Morris!
+1
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Left the white arc in, as I think it contributes to overall arc-movement.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-kpTscgm/0/ace3b3af/L/Jan%2026-%202019%20Butterfly%20Con_0826%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Cryostraktus
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Back to work...er... I mean the fun!
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-MjZSr94/0/45186e73/M/Feb%209-%202019%20toothbrushes%20JMRO8307%20invertcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-CSBKRVn/0/6894e960/M/Feb%209-%202019%20toothbrushes%20JMRO8390%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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One more to complete the collection.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-zBkhqfB/0/fdf0d4eb/M/Feb%209-%202019%20toothbrushes%20JMRO8318%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Left the white arc in, as I think it contributes to overall arc-movement.
JR
I agree, the arc makes the image...
Peter
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Is there a name for this style of image, John? I agree with the others - they are quite beautiful.
I’ll try: “gestural photography”.
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I see a nice series, JR! Perhaps a portfolio?
Here's another from my Dancing Waters of Burano, Italia.
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Is there a name for this style of image, John? I agree with the others - they are quite beautiful.
I’ll try: “gestural photography”.
Thanks Peter M and Larry for your comments and interest. At this point, I have only my website to view my work, here: https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/ and here: https://johnroias.smugmug.com/Abstracts/ Some are repeated.
I would call this type of photography, impressionistic and abstract, based on in-camera-motion (ICM) techniques. Some I do with multiple exposures, but they are much more difficult to do successfully. With this ICM technique you can make subjects appear totally abstract, or for want of better term, semi-abstract and impressionist. I came to this technique after obtaining my first digital camera in late 2007 and into 2008 and experimenting with camera movement. About five years ago I discovered the ICM work of Michael Orton. Yes, the same person known for popularizing the Orton technique. Orton's work has inspired me to look at the smaller world and to look for patterns in subjects, or even to create patterns by using ICM. Rather than explain how I do these, I will refer you to Michael Orton's video. After you view his video, you will see why I call him a master of this technique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-cxPJcO1Xw
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I agree, the arc makes the image...
Peter
Thanks again for your comments, Peter. Always a pleasure to hear your thoughts and critiques.
JR
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Short circuit of the autistic mind
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At the hospital
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Oscar excellent abstracts. The first is electric but frenzied. Remember one of the first big Moog electronic music hits- Popcorn? Reminds me of that music. The second is more placid, but plays with the mind a bit. It might be very dull without the lines, just flat shapes. The lines help lead the eye and unifies the image.
JR
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Another nice pair in the collection, Oscar!
JR: Love your collection! Enough within the ICM to grab and relate to that's missing from Orton's work. Perhaps a step beyond!
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Another nice pair in the collection, Oscar!
JR: Love your collection! Enough within the ICM to grab and relate to that's missing from Orton's work. Perhaps a step beyond!
Thanks again Larry. I really do like Orton's slide shows!
Here is one that I hope has not been posted before. The purple-red comes from overlapping red leaves and blue sky due to multiple exposures. It's like a giant wave on the ocean.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-h4wXCxR/0/8aa4e0ad/L/Oct%2017-%202015%20Mount%20Nemo%20021%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Delicacy.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-22bmkh9/0/8f5192e4/M/April%201-%202018%20-%202%20House%20Flowers_0029%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Macula
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Very nice John B. You are a master of rendering tones.
JR
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Light and shadow in a grainy world
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-CVW5Fvc/0/fec30c02/L/Feb%2015-%202019%20Lamp%20JMRO8402%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Wild thing...you make my heart sing...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-vcfqDpp/0/ffbd2070/L/April%208-%202016%20Centennial%20Conservatory%20131%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Light and shadow in a grainy world
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-CVW5Fvc/0/fec30c02/L/Feb%2015-%202019%20Lamp%20JMRO8402%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Indoors>Outdoors>JR~
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Great pairing, John R and Patricia.
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Great pairing, John R and Patricia.
Thank you Patricia and Eric. But Patricia makes you think what are those mysterious shadows and shapes.
JR
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Shifting sheen.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-t3j3z62/0/ae1d8377/M/Feb%208-%202014%20Downtown%20Toronto%20075%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Fun with RBG, from same location as shifting sheen.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-x2xgBbt/0/a7141ee7/M/Feb%208-%202014%20Downtown%20Toronto%20071%20RBGcopy3-1000-M.jpg)
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New York Subway...
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New York Subway...
I can almost hear Bach’s organ music ;)
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Nice find, Eric!
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Thanks, Slobodan and Larry.
We were staying at my brother's condo. He and his wife are both pipe organ fanatics.
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Can you figure out what objects this is a photo of.
Larry
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Nope. But they are pretty.
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Surf boards, skateboards? Mind the white rectangle looks like a wall outlet, so maybe a painting or mural?
edit: I cheated but won't give it away.
JR
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Surf boards, skateboards?
Somewhat close. Hint: it was at a sports/outdoors shop.
Larry
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What, you still want me to guess. How about canoe or kayak?
JR
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Oversized Frisbees???
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Jackpot! Kayak. This ultramodern outdoors store is set back from the road, nicely landscaped, and has a gaggle of kayaks stacked up vertically against a plain gray wall. Marketing genius as it really stands out as you go by and you know what the store is about.
I passed it everyday for a month. I originally photographed it in a more traditional straight on manner but that did not satisfy me. So I decided to make the photo more from the side and use a long telephoto (560mm) to compress the kayaks. Bingo, what I wanted.
Larry
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Great shot, well presented.
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Great shot, well presented.
Fine shot, but you may want clone out the white sticker on blue kayak, so it doesn't draw too much attention away from the vibrant colors and random design elements.
JR
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clone out the white sticker on blue kayak
Have thought about that. Will probably do.
Larry
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I can almost hear Bach’s organ music ;)
Yea Eric, I can hear it too. Your imaginary neighbors must hate you.
JR
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Seems our discussion on AI and PS tools has had on effect on me:
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-VbHvpSp/0/c1968a5a/L/Feb%208-%202014%20Downtown%20Toronto%20067%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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It looks to me like a perfectly normal blue piano keyboard with extra small sharp keys. ;)
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or "resistance is futile" ;)
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From Algonquin Park. May it always flourish.
The purply color is from red-orange-yellow foliage overlapping the blue of the sky, and not PP.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-fNhKCTp/0/b833057a/L/Sept%2028-%202014%20Algonquin%20Area%20166%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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A second from series on Algonquin.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-3cm3Sdp/0/0fbda11f/L/Sept%2028-%202014%20Algonquin%20Area%20136%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Next time I'm near Algonquin Park I'll have to look for those two exact scenes. :D
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Next time I'm near Algonquin Park I'll have to look for those two exact scenes. :D
Thank you Eric. Head for Algonquin in autumn. Take a walk in woods with camera and zoom lens. Point it up, move camera in the direction of trunk, zoom and turn camera, all at same time, (don't forget to press shutter), you will arrive at location. Just like Dorothy in the land of Oz. But remember she took a long journey to get there, so be patient and pay no attention to the people who say "what are you photographing anyway?"
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-qcqF6jq/0/d034efc0/L/Sept%2028-%202014%20Algonquin%20Area%20172%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Ah, so that's the secret: "(don't forget to press shutter)"
As for the rest, I think I need the advice of a Chiropractor before trying it.
Eric
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John R going completely nineteeneighties musicvideo effects on us...
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Thank you Eric. Head for Algonquin in autumn. Take a walk in woods with camera and zoom lens. Point it up, move camera in the direction of trunk, zoom and turn camera, all at same time, (don't forget to press shutter), you will arrive at location. Just like Dorothy in the land of Oz. But remember she took a long journey to get there, so be patient and pay no attention to the people who say "what are you photographing anyway?"
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-qcqF6jq/0/d034efc0/L/Sept%2028-%202014%20Algonquin%20Area%20172%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Of the three, I particularly like this third one, John. And it looks like the tornado that whisked Dorothy away is currently in progress.
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Of the three, I particularly like this third one, John. And it looks like the tornado that whisked Dorothy away is currently in progress.
Thank you Arlen and everyone else that took the trouble to comment on my images. I took these out of hibernation because of the February blahs. You know, can't get outside due to weather and other problems. I am glad I did, as I rediscovered how much I like them. My initial reaction was that people wouldn't like the purply skies created by overlapping yellow, red and orange leaves with the blue sky. NowI just accept that it is part of the creative process and the multi-exposure technique.
JR
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Hard to think of this as abstract as I know what it is. Anyway:
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Hard to think of this as abstract as I know what it is. Anyway:
Vodka?
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Hard to think of this as abstract as I know what it is. Anyway:
As long as you don't tell, it stays abstract.
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Sleet. More fun photographing it on my window than walking in it. The wee dog was not amused by my insistence that she go out to pee.
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Sleet. More fun photographing it on my window than walking in it. The wee dog was not amused by my insistence that she go out to pee.
Wee dogs know that the short distance between undercarriage and ground can cause instant flash freezing. That could be dangerous. Ask any vet.
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The view of my sun roof after a wet summer night in Idaho, 6:14 am...
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at the edge of abstract
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The flowers were quite willing to pose, but the colors wanted to be more dynamic and wouldn't behave.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-pzQSHn3/0/52b50b4b/M/July%2020-%202015%20James%20Gardens%20032%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Impressions to warm up the winter blahs.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-bCtDxk6/0/4e0d55b6/M/Oct%204-%202014%20Haliburton%20and%20Oxtongue%20Rapids%20382%20boatblur-desat1%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Baby orcas? But where are the eyes?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-M6qNjZw/0/1ec618a5/M/Oct%204-%202014%20Haliburton%20and%20Oxtongue%20Rapids%20150%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Sadly, these things were delivered without any eyes, but you can always install a pair of strap eyes or pad eyes. One pair in the bow and another in the stern.
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They're napping, and their eyes are closed.
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So Eric, can you and Les do at least one sticker with a wink, and second with one one eye open. Can't trust passersby, except photographers and canoeists ;)
JR
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John,
I think, I posted this image somewhere else before, but here it is anyway - whitewater boat in Ferrari red, and equipped with two eyelets in the front.
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King City, California
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semi abstract
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King City, California
Cool Larry, well seen.
JR
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Let it flow.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-bbg3SM5/0/92ae03bb/M/Sept%2026-11%20huntsville%20061%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Spring is coming. It's just a hop and step away...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-vkMFV9g/0/b019e677/M/Sept%205-11%20HP%20057%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Oh yes, the glorious blossoms are coming...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-WWrLTXD/0/1629e8e4/L/May%203-%202013%20RBG%20184%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Chaos in Order
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John and Arlen, outstanding work, gentlemen!
John, that last one is just utterly impressionistic in both look and character. Great flow and texture. Please tell me it is icm, and not some dope postfilter ai thingy accidentally doing the right thing. Oddly enough, I have an urge to flip the image horizontally. Not sure why that "feels" more appropriate? Must be a left-to-right reader problem perhaps, you know, the unfolding of hope and opportunity associated with spring requiring a "leaning into" the image, in the same way that cursive text "leans forward".
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John and Arlen, outstanding work, gentlemen!
John, that last one is just utterly impressionistic in both look and character. Great flow and texture. Please tell me it is icm, and not some dope postfilter ai thingy accidentally doing the right thing. Oddly enough, I have an urge to flip the image horizontally. Not sure why that "feels" more appropriate? Must be a left-to-right reader problem perhaps, you know, the unfolding of hope and opportunity associated with spring requiring a "leaning into" the image, in the same way that cursive text "leans forward".
Oscar, thanks for the comments. It turns out the original is left to right but I didn't notice, since it's been awhile. It seems I created a mirror image and was going to meld them to create something new. I abandoned it because it looked too static. When I resized to post I didn't notice which one was the original. It is all ICM, perhaps two exposures. I don't think you can replicate this look with filters.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-b5ZzQwg/0/f9be8fd0/M/May%203-%202013%20RBG%20184%20copy2original-1000-M.jpg)
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I like it better this way.
Before, when I turned my monitor upside down, it was hard to read the text. :D
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Chaos in Order
Yes its is the vein-like structures that create the visual order. A wonderful play of snow and branches.
JR
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One from the greenhouse. The plants just kept needling me. So here is one.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Cultural-Hotspots-Etobicoke/i-28KrtPp/0/54edd9f2/M/April%207-13%20Allen%20Gardens%20227%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Not quite sure why this one speaks to me, but it does remind me of Astronauts tethered in space as a great ball (the earth) hovers in the background. A micro world view, I guess.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-SFVKjq8/0/12805459/M/April%207-13%20Allen%20Gardens%20260%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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More really good stuff, John.
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Thanks Eric. Recognizable but on the abstract side.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Guelph/i-wfKpRgZ/0/2832f192/M/Nov%2025-%202013%20Guelph%20walk%20076%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-fmm5SxQ/0/eee95398/M/July%207-2013%20Toronto%20Art%20show%20018%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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That's a powerful and moody image, Rab. It really pulls me in.
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That's a powerful and moody image, Rab. It really pulls me in.
Thanks Eric :)
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That's a powerful and moody image, Rab. It really pulls me in.
Ageed. Well done.
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Ageed. Well done.
:)
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Sometimes I see this image as simple juxtaposition of elements. Other times I see big brother and little brother.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/AGO/i-df3WNx8/0/96781f31/M/Oct%201-11%20AGO%20120%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Night is falling...and spring is coming. Can't wait to get out in the fresh air.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-PgDkWbB/0/236cab87/M/Sept%2017-11%20HP%20125%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Roofers
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Roofers
Neat!
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A very engaging image, Chris. Is there a story behind its making?
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A very engaging image, Chris. Is there a story behind its making?
I was shooting in the multiple exposure mode on a tripod earlier and wondered what it would do hand held...and this is what it did. D850 allows for 10 overlays with the 11th a composite of the ten. Works much like a neutral density filter. Not an abstract but just to give an idea of how it works like a ND. As to roofers, I finally got a new roof nearly 6 months after Hurricane Michael...so many more have not.
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Well I like the picture, and the fact that you now have a roof. Sorry that you've had to go through all that. My (82-year-old at the time) Mother's house (and neighborhood) was destroyed by a tornado some years ago, and she was almost killed. But as her doctor said, she is a tough old bird, and she eventually bounced back.
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I too am glad you finally have a roof, Chris, and that you are making use of such opportunities for good photography.
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It's a daily struggle but at least I'm dry now and I do appreciate everyone's concern...here's another focus stack in normal mode, 9 frames stacked and blended...for an in-camera process, it's pretty dang neat. I did some landscapes today but I had too narrow a step set and now know 5 to 6 will work far better than 3 which did work well on this image but the actual depth was far more narrow.
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Ethereal woods, ethereal sky.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Cultural-Hotspots-Etobicoke/i-3F3VLpv/0/8ff1c617/M/Apr%2023-11%20SamSmith%20103%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Cultural-Hotspots-Etobicoke/i-ZNfTKPc/0/0c3e3d53/M/Apr%2023-11%20SamSmith%20087%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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A fellow I met while strolling through the city.
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Beautiful sunny day.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-jv45fWv/0/ee24d4b1/M/Oct%2011-11%20Glen%20Haffy%20019%20cropcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Indiana.
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Moving on to shapes and elements...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-fqrq7FF/0/4a41743e/M/April%2016-%202012%20232%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Light and shadow.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-hDkdgXd/0/d7a8972a/M/Feb%2020-12%20Downtown%20HDR%20211%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Patina is best cultivated near the salty sea...
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Patina is best cultivated near the salty sea...
And patience and a drop - gallon or two? - of penetrating oil might have saved the damned pipe from breaking off!
:-)
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And patience and a drop - gallon or two? - of penetrating oil might have saved the damned pipe from breaking off!
:-)
But the result wouldn't have been as interesting photographically. ;)
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The foreboding path.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-2pnjHWS/0/594eb089/M/Aug%206-10%20JGardens%20008%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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The foreboding path.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-2pnjHWS/0/594eb089/M/Aug%206-10%20JGardens%20008%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
Super! Simple, elegant, powerful.
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Super! Simple, elegant, powerful.
Thanks Eric. Sometimes I make lines with the camera and create a flow; sometimes nature makes the lines and I watch the flow.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Belfountain-and-Forks-of-the/i-rfsBrDj/0/a1305a94/M/Jan%2027-10%20Bellfountain%20227%20cropcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Moody and surreal, John. I like it.
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Moody and surreal, John. I like it.
Ditto.
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Thanks again, Eric and Arlen. Moving on to spring and summer pastures.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-hRpxtsV/0/0b7fd96e/M/June%2019-09%20HP%20018%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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From vortex to gentle turbulence, or maybe charcoal sketch.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Autumn-Images-2012/i-v3xGjNs/0/51baa8d0/M/Sept-Oct%202010%20Algonquin%20968%20cropcopy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Autumn-Images-2012/i-BpZd3mb/0/3f6acfd6/M/Sept-Oct%202010%20Algonquin%20626%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-G2T6Xwb/0/2af5e83d/M/May%20412%2010%20Kortright%20048%20bw-layercopy-1000-M.jpg)
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They're all interesting, John, but I particularly like the charcoal sketch.
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Tree Cutter - last limbs to have to come down six months after the storm...trying times, trying times... The third image is just for clarification as to what's happening in the first image.
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They're all interesting, John, but I particularly like the charcoal sketch.
Thanks Arlen. It seems some of my ICM images lend themselves very well to this bw charcoal look.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-6tBmqDK/0/3a28243b/M/Nov%2015-10%20GH%20017%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Thanks Arlen. It seems some of my ICM images lend themselves very well to this bw charcoal look.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-6tBmqDK/0/3a28243b/M/Nov%2015-10%20GH%20017%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
Yes and this is another one. Very nice.
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Nebulous...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Belfountain-and-Forks-of-the/i-vNc2z9R/0/65a2093b/M/Mar%2010-10%20Forks%20057%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Belfountain-and-Forks-of-the/i-nCfRXFv/0/353e6f7c/M/Mar%2010-10%20Forks%20058%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Oh, man! These are good, John.
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Oh, man! These are good, John.
Hey thanks! Do you know what the actually subject is?
JR
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Hey thanks! Do you know what the actually subject is?
JR
Could be water, hair, finger paint, an accidental shutter-click while tripping over a tree root, or ...
You can tell me if you want to, but it won't make me like the images any less. :)
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Could be water, hair, finger paint, an accidental shutter-click while tripping over a tree root, or ...
You can tell me if you want to, but it won't make me like the images any less. :)
I am much amused by the "accidental shutter-click while tripping over a tree root" guess. I should go with that. You got it, moving water. Thanks again for your comments.
JR
(edit: added one last image)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Belfountain-and-Forks-of-the/i-VjPqNvn/0/403906a6/M/Mar%2010-10%20Forks%20054%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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A little sunlight, a little sprinkle.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Sherman-Falls/i-8CFRkRq/0/d17055bc/M/Mar%2024-10%20Sherman%20Falls%20018%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Shadows in snow.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscape-Impressions/i-xjfX6ck/0/6fcb03e8/M/snow%20shadows2-1000-M.jpg)
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Inspiring work, as always, John.
Query: how are you posting these images so that they fit within my screen?
Lately, it seems that every other image posted in the forum is too big for the screen, so that I have to scroll right and left to see the whole thing.
Thanks!
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Inspiring work, as always, John.
Query: how are you posting these images so that they fit within my screen?
Lately, it seems that every other image posted in the forum is too big for the screen, so that I have to scroll right and left to see the whole thing.
Thanks!
Thank you. I copy my images to my site at 1000 pix long by abt. 700 high. I then copy it from the site at medium (abt 600 x 400) or large (abt 800 x 600) I too find anything over abt 1000 does not fit on my 25 inch screen!!
JR
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(http://www.ultrahighendreview.com/uploads/images/miscellaneous/abstract0010.jpg)
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Nice one, Fab.
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Nice one, Fab.
I agree. Quite interesting, inasmuch as you have three movements: vertical, oblique and horizontal fluid, wavy movements.
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"Batman"
(Rob should be able to figure this one out.)
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"Batman"
(Rob should be able to figure this one out.)
Anchors aweigh!?
Nice!
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a little on the surreal side.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-N9Ws8fB/0/62af1d89/L/Mar%2019-12%20Cloverdale%20010%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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The ETs are watching us!
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reminds me of an insect in the tropics, a fly i think, that has a head on a long stalk plus with two eye stalks to side.
Good seeing !
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The ETs are watching us!
Thank you Eric and Degrub. Eric, this is same area and mall that I got my creations image of 'lift off' from. It is particularly amenable to bw conversions. I have whole series from this location and I may post them some time. I think it really works because the colours and shapes are so simple elegant and bold, especially against a blue sky.
https://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=96962.msg1105630#new
JR
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Tulips...
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Tulips...
(sigh)
Nice. I haven't seen any this year yet. This spring seems rather cool and everything is delayed.
JR
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Couldn't resist...after remembering all the arguments about what is an abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-2qpQT2F/0/bda571c5/M/Sept%2024-2013%20Ottawa-Algonquin%20trip%20006%20duotone-1000-M.jpg)
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Couldn't resist...after remembering all the arguments about what is an abstract.
JR
There comes a point when it is just easier to use Illustrator instead of a camera... =:-\
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The abstract comes from this abstract-like building image:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-WZNWJHv/0/b51ef8b6/M/Sept%2024-2013%20Ottawa-Algonquin%20trip%20006%20copy1000-M.jpg)
But I do prefer the power and colour of this suggested movement.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-xKM2BQD/0/0ad4cade/M/Sept%2028-%202013%20Minden%20area%20052%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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The abstract comes from this abstract-like building image:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-WZNWJHv/0/b51ef8b6/M/Sept%2024-2013%20Ottawa-Algonquin%20trip%20006%20copy1000-M.jpg)
But I do prefer the power and colour of this suggested movement.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-xKM2BQD/0/0ad4cade/M/Sept%2028-%202013%20Minden%20area%20052%20copy1000-M.jpg)
+1 on the second
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The abstract comes from this abstract-like building image:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-WZNWJHv/0/b51ef8b6/M/Sept%2024-2013%20Ottawa-Algonquin%20trip%20006%20copy1000-M.jpg)
But I do prefer the power and colour of this suggested movement.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-xKM2BQD/0/0ad4cade/M/Sept%2028-%202013%20Minden%20area%20052%20copy1000-M.jpg)
I don't think the second is the same buildings as in the first. ;D
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But I do prefer the power and colour of this suggested movement.
Plus you can't use Illustrator for that.
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I don't think the second is the same buildings as in the first. ;D
Where did you discover the clue, Eric?
Rob
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Where did you discover the clue, Eric?
Rob
Hey, never mind! That was a great observation.
JR
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Floating everywhere...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-4XNvNRC/0/3f08fd34/M/June%209-2013%20RBG%20164%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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reflections
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And a little of the essence of Spring.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-GhqDRxG/0/23a4f668/M/May%206-2013%20High%20Park%20067%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Water lilies in motion.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-Mz64KSc/0/153cf32f/M/July%2031-%202018%20RBG_0832%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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We were on an outing and I was photographing something when my friend asked if I could help him. "Not now," I said. He responded, 'you are such are door knob." Little did he know what I was about to show him.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-CmvDVrN/0/30cbd8d0/M/March%2017-13%20Cobourg%20275%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Nice selfie, John! ;D
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Nice selfie, John! ;D
Yea, I'm in there somewhere. Those door knobs now cost more than my older camera!
Eric, I am throwing these windows at you, so I suggest you dodge and duck.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Port-Hope-and-Cobourg/i-QrsWmGc/0/57dbb11c/L/March%2017-13%20Cobourg%20328%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Since I'm on a Windows computer, I'm afriad I can't throw Apples back at you! :D
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And a little of the essence of Spring.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-GhqDRxG/0/23a4f668/M/May%206-2013%20High%20Park%20067%20copy1000-M.jpg)
SO springtime! Lovely. John, you are the master of these techniques!
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SO springtime! Lovely. John, you are the master of these techniques!
Thanks Peter! Not like that guy Eric who wants to throw Apple(s) at me. Of course, I deserve it because I did throw Windows (7) at him.
JR
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Indoor trout fishing. I kid you not...
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Indoor trout fishing. I kid you not...
It may be fishy, but I like it.
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It may be fishy, but I like it.
Yes, very cool. You have to enlarge this to make sense of it- as thing we know and recognize. At the small level, I thought I was I looking at cow grazing and some shack above the cow.
JR
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Uncanny that on day Oscar posted his trout fishing, I just came back from a walk in the woods where people were fishing in nearby pond.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/St-Johns-and-Niagara/i-gXMbJkR/0/99513b14/L/JMRO8916%20St%20Johns3-1000-L.jpg)
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Spring Hormones
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Willow and forest. Finally some spring-like weather and blooms everywhere.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/St-Johns-and-Niagara/i-7q9DKT3/0/affaae2c/L/May%205-%202019%20St%20Johns%20-2_0069%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/St-Johns-and-Niagara/i-HKtwMp3/0/6c364dd3/L/May%205-%202019%20St%20Johns_0275%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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The colors work really well in the second one, interesting sense of depth too.
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Spring Hormones
Can't quite remember the last time my hormones sprang into life; is there any quick way to check they are still there? Which of course, assumes that they ever were, but how could one tell? Is a love for photography a hormone-inspired phenomenon? It might be!
I also wonder whether a love for photography actually finds itself able to reside within the same skull that has apparently lost its drive for making photographs. I've been thinking recently of just taking the battery out of the one camera that currently houses such a thing because I don't want it to rot there, just as happens a couple of times in every life with torches.
The current problem is, really, that at the end of working on some pix the moment comes when one asks - at least, I do - so what happened, did the Earth really move? Most of the time it appears not to have budged one iota. There has to be a certain perversity in continuing along such barren routes, no?
(This is all about personal considerations, by the way, not about any pictures folks have posted here.)
Is the pleasure one of camera ownership, of one-upmanship, of constantly upgrading and spending more and more to get somewhere up at the top of the totem pole; is it of a sense of adventure even, or is it something born of habit and the fact that the money has been spent, so may as well use the purchase simply to justify it?
I know without doubt that the removal of the professional bit has turned the whole thing upside down for me; rather than any supposed freedom to "shoot for myself", there is suddenly no other self for whom to shoot, since pretty much all I did professionally in the final half of the career was largely self-motivated and packaged to anyone willing to finance the gig. And there the rub: finance is of the essence if I want to do the things I want to do. Big finance I do not have, and would not spend on those trippy things if I had it. It would be hollow. It needs the client belief in one's ability to deliver.
I suppose I would never have been a happy amateur, never seeing photography from that perspective even as a schooldboy: it was always going, sooner or later, to be the job, the entire life. I wonder if professional journalists get the same feeling at the ending of their working lives and begin to devote their remaining time to the book they will never publish? Or the pub?
Unfortunately, I don't know any retired journos so can't ask 'em.
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I suppose I would never have been a happy amateur, never seeing photography from that perspective even as a schooldboy
I remember watching some movies by Man Ray. In them he showed a world as I'd seen when being about 4 years old.
All that is probably lost now :-(
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Can't quite remember the last time my hormones sprang into life; is there any quick way to check they are still there? Which of course, assumes that they ever were, but how could one tell? Is a love for photography a hormone-inspired phenomenon? It might be!
But the way the picture is of a male peacock trying to impress the ladies and at the same time of getting rid of the intrusive photographer
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Rabanito's drone over Jupiter
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I like both your "hormones" shot and the second of this latest pair.
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Jupiter! Imagine that. Hey Rabanito you sure go a long way to take photographs. Here is my lowly earth contribution.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-kHHcB2z/0/1e779ffd/L/JMRO8072%20butterfly%20con%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Jupiter! Imagine that. Hey Rabanito you sure go a long way to take photographs.
Oh no, don't overrate me!
Without false modesty, I just sent my drone to Jupiter from home... ;)
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Oh no, don't overrate me!
Without false modesty, I just sent my drone to Jupiter from home... ;)
Either that, or your bathroom needs a serious cleaning...
;-) <------
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Either that, or your bathroom needs a serious cleaning...
;-) <------
That's the single advantage that having your house for sale gives you: you gotta keep it fairly clean, or when an appointment comes along, you kill yourself with the concentrated effort.
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Either that, or your bathroom needs a serious cleaning...
;-) <------
You're probably envious because you cannot afford an Interplanetary Drone
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How about some micro interplanetary images.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-PNLF9dV/0/ce16e1b4/L/April%2020-%202018%20abstract%20glass_0412%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-ttv4WZB/0/20f28ae8/L/April%2020-%202018%20abstract%20glass_0455%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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those are sweet ! i would print those large.
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those are sweet ! i would print those large.
Ditto!
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those are sweet ! i would print those large.
Agreed. Those could really brighten up a room!
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Thank you all for the comments. I ruined quite a few of these because I didn't realize every time the floor moved the tripod moved with it and blurred many shots. Such cruel irony from a guy who loves to take blurry (ICM) images!!
JR
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I ruined quite a few of these because I didn't realize every time the floor moved the tripod moved with it and blurred many shots. Such cruel irony from a guy who loves to take blurry (ICM) images!!
JR
That's hilarious, John.
Here is a "Natural" abstract, taken where the floor doesn't move (much). But hand-held.
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That's hilarious, John.
Here is a "Natural" abstract, taken where the floor doesn't move (much). But hand-held.
I like that one. So intricate but not chaotic looking. I love such subjects. Here is mine:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Autumn-2015/i-T3HMLMx/0/8f2f0022/M/Sept%2027-28-2015%20Algonquin%20area%20540%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Rabanito's spacecraft "Lem" over the planet Solaris
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I ruined quite a few of these because I didn't realize every time the floor moved the tripod moved with it and blurred many shots.
The floor of the micro interplanetatium?
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Radiating
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The floor of the micro interplanetatium?
I bought a crystal container from Value village. Then bought a rainbow colored styrofoam knee pad from dollar store. I placed both on coffee table by window light. Whenever I moved the floor would buckle and cause both coffee table and tripod to sway. So frustrating. But I learned not to move and to hold my breath, and used self timer. I am going to try this again with smaller items and lamp light. Should produce lots of spectral light. Here are a few more.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-VgS7nz5/0/7b658cf4/M/April%2023-%202018%20abstracts%20JMRO7915%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-t7rqd8q/0/b5c7bf53/M/April%2018-%202018%20wispysky-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-wJvJfVQ/0/42dc8ca5/M/JMRO7831%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-R3pNxjN/0/6bc7e3e4/M/April%2023-%202018%20JMRO7907%20copy3-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-s3gtNQc/1/5af0d48b/M/April%2018-%202018%20abstract-5%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-FTtPDS7/0/d7d0345e/M/JMRO7855%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Wow!
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Wow!
Thanks Eric. At least you know how I did those images.
JR
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Those are wild, John. Wildly good. I've noticed refractions in various vases and crystals around the house and have thought of photographing the effects, but haven't had time yet.
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Those are wild, John. Wildly good. I've noticed refractions in various vases and crystals around the house and have thought of photographing the effects, but haven't had time yet.
I often have the feeling that "Anything I can do, John can do better..."
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One more shot before I pack up the car and head home...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-DVMb39h/0/89835381/M/JMRO0666%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Completely bored at brunch, but at least there's one more image separating me and the doctorlady.
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A little work in post.
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A little work in post.
More like a little magic ;) Reminds me of a child holding a glowing essence within their clasped hands and releasing it as fairy dust. Very nice!
JR
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I like the wild and surreal look of these.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Rhododendrum-Park-Mississauga/i-dhNPW93/0/7eac0216/M/May%2024-%202019%20Breukner%20Gardens_0945%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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More like a little magic ;) Reminds me of a child holding a glowing essence within their clasped hands and releasing it as fairy dust. Very nice!
JR
+1
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Did you clean the front porch and driveway? Oh yes, see for yourself.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-xHspXKk/0/ea7adbf6/M/May%2026-%202019%20Front%20porch-2%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Salty lake bed
(https://www.frankdisilvestro.com.au/img/s/v-10/p3441299051-4.jpg)
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Taken on daily walk. Ultragreen from translucent light. Really made for good separation of shadows and light.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-T6FpRNJ/0/21655a80/L/JMRO1995%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Something interesting if not for the color combination alone.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-7pWM5ZK/0/3b59cd9b/M/May%2030-%202019%20Brueckner%20Gardens%20-1_1385%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Everything you post is interesting, John.
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Everything you post is interesting, John.
As always, thanks Eric.
JR
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Uncharted territory
Cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Uncharted territory
Cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
The optic nerve inverted? Kidding of course. Interesting colors and pattern, Boudewijn.
JR
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I like that one a lot, Boudewijn.
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Pattern of green.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-HkVWGhV/0/c9fc4ca3/M/JMRO2278%20JUne%207-%202019%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Pattern of green.
Nice!
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Nice!
Thanks Dave! It was take in park on daily walk.
JR
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Taken today on walk at Breuckner Gardens. Last of the light. Love the bands of shimmering light combined with pattern.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-T83SdGB/0/b154057e/M/JMRO2469%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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That too!
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That too!
Thanks Dave. Never know where you will find subjects like this.
JR
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Scaffolding at sunset - London
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Here is a "found" abstract.
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Here is a "found" abstract.
Of course you are unwittingly trying turn me off ice cream or coffee, right? Or maybe just showing us that good abstracts can be found anywhere ;)
JR
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It actually wasn't coffee, it was Chocolate Valencia Orange from Whole Foods. ;)
The next ice cream lid wasn't quite as interesting:
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Also taken on walk, but played with this one.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-tB76rQS/0/3856eaf9/L/JMRO2836%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
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Also taken on walk, but played with this one.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-tB76rQS/0/3856eaf9/L/JMRO2836%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
Very nice!
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Very nice!
Thanks Jim. Bars from the heavenly gates...ha, ha.
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I think this one is at least semi abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-km6jKR3/0/44e0c311/M/JMRO2905%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Yes!
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Yes!
Thanks!
JR
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I went to see flowers and to buy groceries, and what did I get- abstracts. Taken at RBG gardens and grocery store.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-4d6b8sx/0/0f6f262f/L/JMRO3285%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-ZCnqc5Q/0/de071afd/L/JMRO3303%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-ZCnqc5Q/0/de071afd/L/JMRO3303%20copy1000-L.jpg)
^ This
Why don't you just buy some colored tape, and go all kindergarten on us? ;-)
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^ This
Why don't you just buy some colored tape, and go all kindergarten on us? ;-)
Tears are welling in my eyes, you know I missed kindergarten! Went straight to grade one. Guess I have to make up for it.
JR
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So you want to dance and flit away...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-F778CGz/0/0f7983fb/M/JMRO3207%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-cV9rFMd/0/f2181015/M/JMRO3213%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Scaffolding at sunset - London
LOVE this! Good seeing.
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Ride the waves.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-zD6RZ4M/0/40f98a79/L/JMRO3502%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Still waiting for your book, John. Or at least an exhibit, preferably near Boston. ;)
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Have a seat. Taken with phone camera.
JMR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Rfj6zTW/0/90022250/L/June%2030-%202019%20bw-armchair-1000-L.jpg)
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Taken last night on Daily Walk. Just for Oscar, cause I did miss kindergarten.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-VScqszs/0/d2c16231/M/JMRO4250%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Taken last night on Daily Walk. Just for Oscar, cause I did miss kindergarten.
Ha, you're talking to an habitual 12 year old here, who immediately sees this is a playground.
Victory Boogie Woogie still has a lot of tape included. As tape-fetishists, we'd be in good company.
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A bit abstract
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48136829447_eaa272720c_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gkFQki)
Mike
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A bit abstract
And a beauty it is...
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Thank you.
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And a beauty it is...
Yes it is. The kind of thing we walk by most every day.
JR
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Scaffolding at sunset - London
Allow me to present you with the Leiter Award of the month!
A cracking, real shot devoid of silly, repetitive tricks. Well done!
Rob
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You never know what you get on a walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-DtNM24d/0/504eb27b/M/JMRO4235%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Visited greenhouse and got this abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-bRJTSTg/0/2bf5007f/M/JMRO4433%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Purple Chinese houses
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Purple Chinese houses
Stunning Jim. Just wonderful! Perhaps you can explain the title?
JR
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Stunning Jim. Just wonderful! Perhaps you can explain the title?
JR
It’s the name of the flower.
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For my part I'd be curious to know how you got that effect. It's cleverly done with just the right amount of colour and less attention seeking blur.
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It's a real beauty, Jim.
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For my part I'd be curious to know how you got that effect.
About 1500 lines of Matlab code.
It's cleverly done with just the right amount of colour and less attention seeking blur.
Thanks.
Jim
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About 1500 lines of Matlab code.
Thanks.
Jim
Hahaha, what was the point of the original image? Considering you have more lines of code then you have rows of pixels in the final image!?!?!?
;-) <----------
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About 1500 lines of Matlab code.
Really? Awesome! Both your strategy and result are brilliant.
Computational Photography rocks!
Congratulations on a lovely image.
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Hahaha, what was the point of the original image? Considering you have more lines of code then you have rows of pixels in the final image!?!?!?
;-) <----------
The original image wasn't one single image, but rather 5 50-image stacks made with a GFX 50S, the 120 macro, and Aputure lighting, cross-polarized. The final image is 8000x8000 now, but I'm working at reduced resolution to make the computations go faster. Done at the original resolution, the final image would be 16000x16000 pixels. I can still go back and do one at the original resolution, but there are some things I don't like about the image I posted that I'm working on fixing.
Jim
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Considering you have more lines of code then you have rows of pixels in the final image!?!?!?
I should point out that this is apples and oranges. There are far more lines of code in Photoshop than there are rows in any image produced by it.
Jim
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About 1500 lines of Matlab code.
Thanks.
Jim
Ah, not the answer I expected but interesting.
Mike
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Aw shucks!
My Sony RX10III doesn't include Matlab. I can't find it anywhere in the menu. :(
:D
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Back to abstracts - semi, that is. With a little texture in the mix. From visit to Greenhouse.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-dwnfB3F/0/3063aa78/M/JMRO4355%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-Xb6MTVr/0/3f7d1877/M/JMRO4364%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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I thought there was a thread for graphic images but I didn't find it so this is almost abstract.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48161477202_fc132874db_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gnSafA)
Nice cacti by the by.
Mike
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I thought there was a thread for graphic images but I didn't find it so this is almost abstract.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48161477202_fc132874db_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gnSafA)
Nice cacti by the by.
Mike
It's pretty good. Minimalist and abstract, despite fact we can recognize it.
JR
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It's pretty good. Minimalist and abstract, despite fact we can recognize it.
JR
I agree completely.
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It's pretty good. Minimalist and abstract, despite fact we can recognize it.
Minimalist, sure, but what makes it abstract?
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Minimalist, sure, but what makes it abstract?
This thread allows for semi abstract and non representational imagery. So this qualifies. Sure, it's a sky, a wire and a lamp, but they are presented as shapes colours and an intriguing juxtaposition of the said elements, such that one realizes that this image is precisely more than the sum of its obvious parts.
JR
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Ah, but I have no problem with it being posted here. It's fine, fits right in. But still makes for interesting discussion regarding abstract. I mean, if you really feel there are distinct abstract qualities, what are they? Is it the flatness of the blue sky? Kind of like an abstract blue canvas with an abstracted line which is ambiguous because it could be electricity, but could easily be something else? The lamppost kind of triggering this idea?
Personally, I think it doesn't abstract anything, and therefore it is not abstract at all. It's teetering on the edge of impressionist, in the sense that it has a distinct minimalist collage feeling to it. Three elements that have some meaning when combined. It's potentially interesting as an art expression, but not an abstraction in any sense of the word.
Good contribution, evenso.
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This thread allows for semi abstract and non representational imagery. So this qualifies. Sure, it's a sky, a wire and a lamp, but they are presented as shapes colours and an intriguing juxtaposition of the said elements, such that one realizes that this image is precisely more than the sum of its obvious parts.
JR
Exactly.
As the originator of this thread I would prefer that it not degenerate into a definitional discussion, as happens too often (in my opinion) in other threads. I suggest that anyone who wants to argue with my admittedly loose definition of "Abstract" should read the comments I have made earlier in this thread about what qualifies.
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I don't think my photograph is particularly abstract but I don't care much (and I think it's in the spirit of the thread).
However, I would say I'm not inviting you to look at a lamp, nor a wire nor a beautiful sky.
I'm inviting you to marvel at the interplay between the wire and lamp against a lustrous background of solid blue. I could not care less that it's a lamp or a wire but I do care about the simplicity of the arrangement.
I almost didn't take the photograph as I thought nah, no-one would look at this twice, but then I thought; I would and took it. As you might imagine it took hours of careful consideration to snap. In fact saw and shot in under 10 seconds. Not much thought but some observation.
Mike
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Sprezzatura
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I don't think my photograph is particularly abstract but I don't care much (and I think it's in the spirit of the thread).
However, I would say I'm not inviting you to look at a lamp, nor a wire nor a beautiful sky.
I'm inviting you to marvel at the interplay between the wire and lamp against a lustrous background of solid blue. I could not care less that it's a lamp or a wire but I do care about the simplicity of the arrangement.
I almost didn't take the photograph as I thought nah, no-one would look at this twice, but then I thought; I would and took it. As you might imagine it took hours of careful consideration to snap. In fact saw and shot in under 10 seconds. Not much thought but some observation.
Mike
Right on.
Maybe I should have called the thread "Show us some images that I will like!" ;)
Yours certainly fits (and it is sufficiently abstract for me, for just the reasone you explained.)
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Sprezzatura
That is quite excellent. And yes, it is more purely "abstract" than some others in this thread.
I like it a lot.
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Nozzlecheck
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...It's teetering on the edge of impressionist, in the sense that it has a distinct minimalist collage feeling to it. Three elements that have some meaning when combined. It's potentially interesting as an art expression, but not an abstraction in any sense of the word.
Good contribution, evenso.
I confess I know little about abstract art or its history. You evidently do. I often see on YouTube many images similar to mine, Mike's or Jim's, and some like Eric's street and intimate small landscapes, and people refer to them, loosely, as abstract. I take your point, so on with this show.
Really like 'Sprezzatura', very abstract. Also like this Nozzzlecheck. Perhaps you will influence us at LuLa in new directions.
JR
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From my Daily Walk.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-7QQQ3B8/0/deac5d11/M/JMRO4461%20dark%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Krautrock! (https://youtu.be/vkOZNJYAZ7c)
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Nozzle check - no idea why but it makes me smile.
Good photograph as well but it seems to have built in joy.
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Nozzle check - no idea why but it makes me smile.
Good photograph as well but it seems to have built in joy.
Well said.
Nice catch.
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Vikingship
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...nah, no-one would look at this twice, but then I thought; I would
And that's what counts.
Glad you did!
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Nozzle check - no idea why but it makes me smile.
Good photograph as well but it seems to have built in joy.
Never thought of German flags as having any intrinsic joy.
:-)
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Never thought of German flags as having any intrinsic joy.
:-)
Clickedyclick
Nozzlecheck
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Vikingship
Very clever, O. You are on a roll.
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The reaching greens.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-jK8npDX/0/330b7a45/M/July%202-%202019%20Centenniel%20Greenhouse_0053%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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From a walk last night at
James Gardens Monet's Garden. The summer flowers are just starting.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-NDXzmdh/0/89c4dcd3/L/JMRO4624%20copy3highercontrast-1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-Pjc4vc4/0/14d284c7/L/JMRO4594%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Last piece to complete the impressionist trio.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-MWWKSHN/0/577310d2/L/JMRO4641%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Polka
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From a walk last night at James Gardens Monet's Garden. The summer flowers are just starting.
Good distribution of lovely pastels in Monet's garden...
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Absinthe
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Excellent stuff, both John R and ~O~.
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Excellent stuff, both John R and ~O~.
Thanks Eric.
JR
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Good distribution of lovely pastels in Monet's garden...
Didn't notice this reply. Oscar, I agree the pastels are nicely distributed, but both images are double exposures with camera movement.
JR
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Didn't notice this reply. Oscar, I agree the pastels are nicely distributed, but both images are double exposures with camera movement.
JR
Well, that makes it literally "painting with light". The colors come out nicely. The one notable side-effect may be the unfortunate repetitive pattern-like structure in the first image. Adds a bit of a mechanical feel to an otherwise naturalistic impression.
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If truth be told I often can't remember how some of these were taken. I experiment a lot, and unfortunately, the Exif does not indicate double or multiple exposure status. My guess is this is double exposure because the lines and colours are more hazy.
JR
1)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-TVHSPBK/0/6416af3c/L/JMRO4737%20copy1000-L.jpg)
2) On the soft side, probably due to diffraction and perhaps not enough depth of field.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-QFh9BhT/0/f0009ecd/L/JMRO4892%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
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Experimenting.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-gBsxKdv/0/2579cb3b/L/July%2010-%202019%20plant%20abstracts_0054%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Experimenting.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-gBsxKdv/0/2579cb3b/L/July%2010-%202019%20plant%20abstracts_0054%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Vertical blinds and houseplant leaves?
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Vertical blinds and houseplant leaves?
Of course.
JR
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Borrowed from walk in High Park.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-RmJ4jd5/0/c4225076/M/JMRO5198%20copy1000-M.jpg)
If this was red and yellow, it would surely be a fireball.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-kq9t8bd/0/51c198c1/M/JMRO5206%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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From walk at RBG Gardens.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-v2NNvbM/0/c20edb2a/L/JMRO5282%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-ng2Wm7c/0/aa9d9f34/L/JMRO5275%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/4505/38142276431_0000f4e245.jpg)
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Nice find, tried a square crop?
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/4505/38142276431_0000f4e245.jpg)
That's my cup of tea: True "Street" Photography! ;)
I think the square format is worth a try.
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Here are a couple of new semi-abstracts.
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Love the colours and textures of the swimming pool thingy. But for me you're showing us too much. The shadow is nice but I think it drags in a load of other stuff.
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Also semi-abstract.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-cDkjbJn/0/c30508b7/M/July12-%202019%20RBG-2_0509%20copy3-1000a-M.jpg)
Oh the gentle light and the majestic array.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-bTCTZv6/0/39785496/M/July12-%202019%20RBG-2_0449%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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That's my cup of tea: True "Street" Photography! ;)
I think the square format is worth a try.
near square works well.
(https://i.imgur.com/ylAUxEi.jpg])
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near square works well.
(https://i.imgur.com/ylAUxEi.jpg])
Yes!
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I agree looks tighter.
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Radiating.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-7dWDsr7/0/9be71074/M/JMRO5973%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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From last night's walk at James Gardens.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-JKRssNL/0/582ec334/M/July%2017-%202019%20James%20Gardens_0594%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-d7zrmL2/0/3d631acf/M/JMRO6043%20unsharpcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Just for fun.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-LQ4jGXR/0/0e948521/M/JMRO6275%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Just playing with the colors. From RBG Gardens.
...and second bw from RBG.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-6L9ppdC/0/57f9ad04/M/Aug%2010-%202017%20RBG_0209%20crop6b-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-bcq9GBr/0/a022bd76/M/Aug%2010-%202017%20RBG_0130%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Centennial Gardens abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Cultural-Hotspots-Etobicoke/i-7G7x4hK/0/4116b3b9/M/Jan%2018-%202017%20Etobicoke%20Conservatory%20028%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Ah, the old party game of "Spin the Camera." ;)
Nice, as usual.
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Nicely done. They are getting more complicated. Circular over straight line motions. I would like to see a video of the contortions you must be going through, John. :)
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Nicely done. They are getting more complicated. Circular over straight line motions. I would like to see a video of the contortions you must be going through, John. :)
Not really complicated. It's a double exposure: one panned at oblique angle very quickly; the second, the camera is turned and the lens zoomed at same time. It only works well when the colors don't absorb each other. Thanks for the comments.
JR
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Centennial Gardens abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Cultural-Hotspots-Etobicoke/i-7G7x4hK/0/4116b3b9/M/Jan%2018-%202017%20Etobicoke%20Conservatory%20028%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Great!
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Thanks Jim! One from tonight.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-nkwTZgc/0/730aec1a/M/JMRO6529%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Something different form the walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-XTdKfWc/0/c10093cb/M/JMRO6725%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Something different form the walk.
JR
Indeed different. In a good way. Minimalist on color appearance. High on intrigue. It's ugly and fascinating at the same time. Once you see a bridge (if it even is that), then it actually looks like a good abstracted representation of it. Far enough abstracted to not be impressionist, and yet, enough hints to make something up. (No, don't tell us what it really is, that would just spoil the fun...)
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Indeed different. In a good way. Minimalist on color appearance. High on intrigue. It's ugly and fascinating at the same time. Once you see a bridge (if it even is that), then it actually looks like a good abstracted representation of it. Far enough abstracted to not be impressionist, and yet, enough hints to make something up. (No, don't tell us what it really is, that would just spoil the fun...)
Interesting comments. You managed to characterise some of what I was thinking about the image. I didn't think it was going to turn out because it was shot near dusk and I had to use a high ISO. Damned mind readers... No wait... thanks for the insights.
JR
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I think we could say this one's abstracted, or at least semi-abstract.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/169551463/original.jpg)
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I think we could say this one's abstracted, or at least semi-abstract.
Very nice. Like a painting. Is it long lens with shallow depth of field?
JR
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I think we could say this one's abstracted, or at least semi-abstract.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/169551463/original.jpg)
That is lovely.
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That is lovely.
+1.
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Thank you, John, Jim and Eric.
John, the lens was an Olympus 60mm (120 equivalent) macro. I was walking down a street in a small eastern Cascade foothills town in late afternoon when I noticed this backlit group of flowers and birch tree near the sidewalk, with more flowers in the distant background. Somehow I saw instantly in my mind what I wanted the final picture to be, with most elements out of focus. So I set the lens to wide open (f/2.8 ) and focused so that most foreground and background elements were blurred. A strong wind was whipping the plants around, which also helped. And to top it off, I added a bit of ICM to the mix. The captured image still had a few more details than I wanted, but after a little processing with Topaz Simplify and Impressions, it came out pretty much as I had envisioned it.
I know; TLDR, right? :)
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I know; TLDR, right? :)
Not me. I found the explanation interesting. I think I can create the same effect using surface blur in combination with other effects. But the question is can I match your outstanding result. Also interesting is that I did not know your 60mm macro is the equivalent of a 120 mm full frame. Can you buy extension tubes for your lens?
JR
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Old Shack
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A fine set, Rab.
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In the car park.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48389689706_279c1b3185_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gJ2NSW)
Mike
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A nice one, Mike!
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Thanks just walking back to the car and I saw it. Not quite as I hoped as usual :)
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A nice one, Mike!
+1.
You could call it, "Reaching for the light."
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A fine set, Rab.
Thanks Eric :)
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Can you buy extension tubes for your lens?
JR
I don't think Olympus sells them, at least for the OM-D cameras, but 3d party companies do. The minimum focus distance for the 60mm macro is already very short; not sure I would want to get much closer to most subjects. If I'm getting serious enough to use extension tubes, then I use my Canon full frame system; I have a full set for that.
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Something to ponder over.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-d28wTWT/0/4b8168ee/M/July%2028-%202019%20James%20Gardens_1175%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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More to ponder over. Or maybe just another galaxy.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-HH84DKT/0/e9a52fe2/M/July%2028-%202019%20James%20Gardens_1080%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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More to ponder over. Or maybe just another galaxy.
JR
The curb...
I must say, I sometimes worry about your health, John. Those drugs safe?
;-)
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The curb...
I must say, I sometimes worry about your health, John. Those drugs safe?
;-)
Definitely habit-forming.
:-)
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Thanks for the comments Oscar and Rob. Safe enough to keep going... see below... recognizable yes, but it is made up of elements and shapes. And did I mention I like it... And Oscar when are you going to post on your site? I am patiently waiting.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-h4Rx3Zs/0/53bf7ab8/L/JMRO8103%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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semi abstract
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From walk along the Humber trail.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-73b98GP/0/a52ec08a/L/JMRO8292%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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From walk along the Humber trail.
JR
I'm not sure where/what the Humber trail is, but I do like your image that takes advantage of it.
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I suspect the Humber Trail doen't look much like that to us mere mortals. ;)
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I suspect the Humber Trail doen't look much like that to us mere mortals. ;)
It might to Dorothy.
:-)
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I'm not sure where/what the Humber trail is, but I do like your image that takes advantage of it.
I suspect the Humber Trail doen't look much like that to us mere mortals. ;)
OK. Time to fess up. This one I took liberties with. It was some kind of symbolic painting taken off the pillars of bridge. I like one part of the symbols; so I visually cropped and panned it so that it looks abstract. Then I inverted the colors for greater effect. Here is original with contrast and brightness adjustments.
Thanks for the comments everyone.
JR
edit: And here is the bridge that the trail runs under.
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OK. Time to fess up. This one I took liberties with.
Gosh! And here I thought this was the first straight-out-of-the-camera shot you ever did with no manipulation at all! ;D
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"I was an oak
Now I'm a willow
Now I can bend"
Buffy Sainte Marie, a really fine songwriter and singer.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-2FZ2KQF/0/25245884/M/April%2021-2013%20High%20Park%20016%20cropcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Really nice.
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Yes.
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Ha...what... I won Russ over. Thank you Eric and Russ. Every once in a while some things come together to make an image more expressive.
JR
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I'm won over, too. Reminds me of wispy blond hair hanging down over a blue sweater.
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I'm won over, too. Reminds me of wispy blond hair hanging down over a blue sweater.
Thanks Arlen. Wispy is the word that comes to mind for me also.
JR
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From last night, Aug 7- 2019, at RBG gardens. Radiating color and splendor.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-GpGZBbr/0/c14b2b5d/L/JMRO9215%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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From Aug 8 walk along creek. I was exploring like a child and came across this; zoom, zoom, look at the red go...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-cthdfNS/0/0950b5d1/L/JMRO9309%20COPY2-1000-L.jpg)
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From Aug 8 walk along creek. I was exploring like a child and came across this; zoom, zoom, look at the red go...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-cthdfNS/0/0950b5d1/L/JMRO9309%20COPY2-1000-L.jpg)
Very interesting. I like it.
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Me too.
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From Aug 8 walk along creek. I was exploring like a child and came across this; zoom, zoom, look at the red go...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-cthdfNS/0/0950b5d1/L/JMRO9309%20COPY2-1000-L.jpg)
I love this one!
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I love this one!
Many thanks folks. You never know until you try.
JR
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All aboard for abstract express. You coming Eric and Oscar?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-HkfgrLw/0/ba1ee3e2/L/JMRO9681%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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All aboard for abstract express. You coming Eric and Oscar?
JR
You outdid yourself with that one, John. Very inspirational. Cathedral like if you will, which, come to think of it, would be highly appropriate for a sunday posting...
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really nice. it looks like the fairy are dancing...
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Outstanding, John. You are setting the bar very high.
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Outstanding, John. You are setting the bar very high.
What Arlen said!
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What Arlen said!
Thanks guys.
JR
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Don't fall for it ;)
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-WNJTKfc/0/f3de8ed4/M/June%203-2013%20Downtown%20TO%20007%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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there
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Undulating patterns with a splash of color.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Oakville/i-M4LBmKn/0/768c84c7/M/Aug%2025-%202013%20Oakville%20Park%20014%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Having a whale of a time.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-57cSLpV/0/320b185d/M/oil-in-pan%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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What a web we weave.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-jsfKBx8/0/c2460d99/L/Aug%2014-%202019%20Riverwood%20Cons_0307%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Really wild, John.
I can't begin to imagine whattricks you used to get this effect,
Perhaps a little LSD in the camera? ;)
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Really wild, John.
I can't begin to imagine whattricks you used to get this effect,
Perhaps a little LSD in the camera? ;)
Thanks Eric. But really it's a sculpture that I visually arranged so that the black lines and blue sky areas would balance out. Beats having to crop later! Ah, the benefits of learning with slide film first.
JR
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Another very appealing result, John. At least to me.
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Another very appealing result, John. At least to me.
Thanks Arlen.
JR
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Toll Paid...
Peter
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Toll Paid...
Peter
Worth every penny.
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Everything became lines and colors.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-NxCSLK3/0/c0a72812/L/Aug%208-%202019%20RBG_0505%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Everything became lines and colors.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-NxCSLK3/0/c0a72812/L/Aug%208-%202019%20RBG_0505%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Wow!
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Toll Paid...
Peter
Worth every penny!
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Everything became lines and colors.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-NxCSLK3/0/c0a72812/L/Aug%208-%202019%20RBG_0505%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Very nice, almost makes me want to try it!
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behind
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Wow!
Thank you Jim and Armand. It a sideways pan of Gasoline station. So do give it a try Armand.
JR
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Surreal.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-XxrhXkb/0/1b56e0be/L/Aug%208-%202019%20RBG_0471bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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Surreal.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-XxrhXkb/0/1b56e0be/L/Aug%208-%202019%20RBG_0471bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
I love it…
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I love it…
Me too.
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Me too.
Me three...just kidding ;) thanks guys.
JR
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It's been a while.
Thanks for looking.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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It's been a while.
Thanks for looking.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Pretty cool. Let me know when you go into outer space again. I want to go too!!
JR
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LOVE LOVE LOVE! Can you tell us the original subject of this one?
Edit - never mind - I see your next post. This is a great one. Having done more than a bit of dabbling in this style myself, I can usually see the methodology or the original subject. Not this time, but that's part of the fun :)
Everything became lines and colors.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-NxCSLK3/0/c0a72812/L/Aug%208-%202019%20RBG_0505%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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It's been a while.
Thanks for looking.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
I love it!
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LOVE LOVE LOVE!
I'm quite fond of it, too. And I wouldn't have guessed in a million years that it started out as a gas station.
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It's been a while.
Thanks for looking.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
Very intriguing. Could be the earth's nervous system?
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Penny for guessing what this is:
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Penny for guessing what this is:
A photograph...
Peter
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Fairy dust. (Though I think Peter has already technically won the penny.)
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Floor or car reflecting Christmas lights?
JR
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I say it's an Abstract.
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Tunneling
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/169658161/original.jpg)
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I say it's an Abstract.
Quite. A detail of a Miami fountain, taken earlier in the day.
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Tunneling
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/169658161/original.jpg)
Nice one, Arlen.
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Nice one, Arlen.
Yes, very nice. It is like a tapestry and has the light glow look that really shows the wonderful subtle colors and patterns in the wood. But really Arlen, you have to learn to leave those whales alone.
JR
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Thanks, Eric and John.
A whale, huh? I saw it as more like a serpent searching for--chipmunks?--but I could envision it as a whale or a fish. Lately I seem to be noticing zoomorphic patterns within inanimate objects. Maybe I'm regressing to a cave man inner self. Better get a DNA analysis to see if I have an extra helping of Neanderthal genes. ;)
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A bit more down to earth. More of my abstract attempts on my website.
Thanks for looking.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Tunneling
Great!
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Flowers take flight.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-rhbW858/0/db313997/M/Aug%2023-2014%20Riverwood%20Park%20041%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Trying the "bold bw filter" and this is one result.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-zhfKTcr/0/759b0cce/M/JMRO0436%20bold%20bwcopy1000b-M.jpg)
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Trying the "bold bw filter" and this is one result.
JR
What's a "bold bw filter"? :(
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What's a "bold bw filter"? :(
Most cameras have software filters built in. Fuji is known for their film simulation filters like astia and velvia. So a bold bw filter creates extremely bold contrasty images in bw. Same as you would do in photoshop if you like that look. I just want to try it. Works a lot better on sunny days as the high contrast is already there to begin with. it tends to block up and blackout dark and shadow areas. So you have to choose your subjects wisely if you want to do it at all.
JR
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Most cameras have software filters built in. Fuji is known for their film simulation filters like astia and velvia. So a bold bw filter creates extremely bold contrasty images in bw. Same as you would do in photoshop if you like that look. I just want to try it. Works a lot better on sunny days as the high contrast is already there to begin with. it tends to block up and blackout dark and shadow areas. So you have to choose your subjects wisely if you want to do it at all.
JR
Thank you John :)
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Created with the aid of PS Elements. Just for fun folks.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-zs8nvCf/0/5e25b4de/L/JMRO0394%20copyequalize2-1000-L.jpg)
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I like it, John. But I'm really disappointed that it wasn't all done in-camera. ;)
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Thanks Arlen. This one is not the usual "offering" in a church.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-kQG9G9c/0/b81cf378/L/March%204-13%20Humber%20V%20church%20240%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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I like it, John. But I'm really disappointed that it wasn't all done in-camera. ;)
I keep looking for the John R brush in Photoshop, but I can't find it. :'(
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Neat!
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It's brutalist-futuristic.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Toronto-City-Hall-outing/i-vTJHM2L/0/059127e2/L/IMGP0160%20bwcopy6-1000-L.jpg)
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Yes it is. Nice, John.
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Thanks for the feedback Russ.
JR
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The summer season is ending...sigh
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-tT76FkX/0/2a70da56/L/Aug%2025-%202013%20James%20Gardens%20301%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-JG7V9Ck/0/80335bf1/L/Aug%2025-%202013%20James%20Gardens%20310%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-Nb4Hf7f/0/2718eaf6/L/Aug%2025-%202013%20James%20Gardens%20365%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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The summer season is ending...sigh
JR
Beautiful color combination and a nice way to remember summer!
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Beautiful color combination and a nice way to remember summer!
Thank you Francois. Still going out to get the last of summer. Then it's on to my favourite season, autumn.
JR
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Hot Air In, Cold Air Out
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Hot Air In, Cold Air Out
Great catch. Beautiful lines shapes and shadows. And I like how the small shadows of texture strewn throughout, reinforce the main shadows,. Very nice.
JR
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Great catch. Beautiful lines shapes and shadows. And I like how the small shadows of texture strewn throughout, reinforce the main shadows,. Very nice.
JR
It was one of those catches that just called out, "shoot me!" I too loved the interlocking textures.
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Hot Air In, Cold Air Out
I like the general geometry and would also probably reach for a camera!
Well seen.
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Grass in Water. . .
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Redditch
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48149540471_c2e698d52e_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gmNYST)
Mike
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Grass in Water. . .
That would make a really cool b&w... and more abstract. Well seen.
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That would make a really cool b&w... and more abstract. Well seen.
+1.
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That would make a really cool b&w... and more abstract. Well seen.
No! Colour makes it!
Rob
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Wot he said ^^^^^
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Russ,
That yellow green grass against the muted orange and blue makes it a winner...
Peter
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Russ,
That yellow green grass against the muted orange and blue makes it a winner...
Peter
Exactly. A bw version may have a more abstract look, but this color version has a lot of vibrancy and impact.
JR
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I have to agree with the color fans.
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Somewhat abstract...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-TGS6wbv/0/653f873e/L/JMRO1186%20copy4blue-1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-dLLxWGw/0/708a31d9/L/JMRO1180%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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those are lovely, John.
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those are lovely, John.
+1.
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Somewhat abstract...
JR
I like them both a lot… Nice concept with the background.
Well done!
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Thank you gentlemen. The image was not set up. I was talking with someone in my living room, when I looked across and spotted the light coming through the window and unto the plants. I guess it was the right time of day for the angle of light coming through the slats to get those bands of light.
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Almost Le Hex français but not quite.
Oh well, it's Sunday night.
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Hope she knows her impact:
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Very nice, Rob. Don't get the reference--probably not supposed to--but I do like the image.
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Very nice, Rob. Don't get the reference--probably not supposed to--but I do like the image.
Ah, it's to Deborah Turbeville, an American fashion photographer who was an avid user of olde worlde palaces and such, mostly in states of fine decline. Along with Sarah Moon, she completes my list of two favourite female photographers. She passed away some time ago at 82 or 81. She was busy right up to the end.
Thanks for enjoying the picture!
Rob
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Inner Space
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/169778631/original.jpg)
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Inner Space
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/169778631/original.jpg)
When I have dreams like that, I'm also usully trying to drive a car, sometimes one I had many years ago.
The brain does not always seek to remain in the moment.
;-)
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Inner Space
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/169778631/original.jpg)
Great moody abstract!
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Great moody abstract!
Wonderful Arlen! Love the light bathing the stone.
JR
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Thanks, guys. I had a lot of fun with it. Not to mention runs of the imagination.
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Nice one, Armand.
Elegant simplicity.
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New York City
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New York City
Nice!
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Great shots ,Arlen
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Thank you Slobodan
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New York City
Very nice!
Am I the only one seeing a face in the lightest area?
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Good eyes, Eric. That's why I took this shot.At first I thought it was mine and then realized it wasn't so took the photo after moving to make sure it wasn't mine.
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My ophthalmologist will be pleased that I spotted the face. ;)
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New York City
Love that style of work!
Rob
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Very nice!
Am I the only one seeing a face in the lightest area?
What you are seeing, Eric, is ET's inner man.
Just as well ET doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve too. That would be too much!
Rob
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What you are seeing, Eric, is ET's inner man.
Just as well ET doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve too. That would be too much!
Rob
Right, Rob.
And for a while I just thought it was my conscience showing up.
Eric
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This was spotted on my weekly walk with friends for breakfast. So ran home and grabbed the camera. And here it is!
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-tvKfFPh/0/4b88280e/L/JMRO1640%20bwcopy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Your Sharp eye is just as good as your Blurry eye, John. ;)
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This image and the following were taken in the same place, near a debris field. Need anymore clues?
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Following image.
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This image and the following were taken in the same place, near a debris field. Need anymore clues?
I really like this one. I guess the two were taken on sheets of ice.
JR
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Your Sharp eye is just as good as your Blurry eye, John. ;)
Thank you Eric. And you remind me that I have to check my eyes and get new glasses lest I lose both blur and sharpness!
JR
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Your Sharp eye is just as good as your Blurry eye, John. ;)
Better; it's the demanding one.
;-)
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In a junkyard.
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Not ice though.
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In a junkyard.
Those are very good pictures; I would love access to one of those yards where they stack old cars, not where they are flattened, but just one on top of the other with some shape left.
Rob
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This image and the following were taken in the same place, near a debris field. Need anymore clues?
I love these both!
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Thanks Guys . They are the window glass of old cars shot just after sunrise. Got some good shots and then they were moved and then I moved, so no longer any access to old cars laying about.
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A couple of more for perusal.I took quite a few images throughout the years they were there but would have liked to do more. I find the abstractness of the glass intriguing.
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second one.
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It's a wonderful set of images so far. I'm glad you caught what you did.
If you have any more, I'd love to see them too.
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It's a wonderful set of images so far. I'm glad you caught what you did.
If you have any more, I'd love to see them too.
Yes indeed; very unusual. I particulary admire this landscape that is not! Brilliant mind game.
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Thanks Eric, I appreciate your interest. Here are a few more.
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another.
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And one more.
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These are great, too.
The thumbnail of "Midnight River" looked solid black to me, but enlarged it suggests a single lightning stroke on a dark night.
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Floats and a Tube
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These are great, too.
The thumbnail of "Midnight River" looked solid black to me, but enlarged it suggests a single lightning stroke on a dark night.
I was thinking the same thing. The last two images are really nice work RBFritz. I believe I have seen that Saguaro sunrise image somewhere before.
JR
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Just another interplanetary mission I was on...you know...nothing special, more like RBFritz or Eric.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-NxcDWc9/0/7b1148f3/L/JMRO1780%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Yes, that looks a lot like me, John. :D
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Here's an old one I ran across recently, and that I like.
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Here's an old one I ran across recently, and that I like.
Beautiful. The Silver Surfer is jealous.
JR
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Like that plum island one.
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Thanks, John and RB.
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Yes indeed; very unusual. I particulary admire this landscape that is not! Brilliant mind game.
Rob, I agree with your assessment. A fine landscape that is not!
JR
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Not quite abstract, but not too revealing either:
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Good grab, and quite sufficiently abstract for me.
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Good grab, and quite sufficiently abstract for me.
Thanks, Eric.
I'm looking forward to more rainy days; I feel far more enthusiastic about photography when I think there could be a chance of getting reflections where usually all is flat and dull.
That's one of the thoughts that attracts me to returning to Scotland. I saw a shot last night during a BBC music show that was of the entrance to a theatre in Glasgow, and it was made on a bright day. I couldn't help thinking about the drama of it had the deep steps been glistening, the metal railings too. Also, not in any small way thanks to the late Peter Lindbergh, I love the idea of pix of a model out in the rain... whilst I, of course, am safely dry shooting from a doorway. As there would be no assistants, umbrellas are(let's not jump the gun here), would be out.
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And one more.
Nice series. Very associative.
These could be in a book.
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I said to one club member, what do you mean they are just steps and a porch...look at the lines, light and shadows. It is sometimes difficult to convey what you see to others. The second outing went much better.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-MQVHMzZ/0/f1bfa7d7/L/April%203-12%20Cobourg%20055%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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I said to one club member, what do you mean they are just steps and a porch...look at the lines, light and shadows. It is sometimes difficult to convey what you see to others. The second outing went much better.
JR
I take that to mean that, the second time, you went on your own, unencumbered by zombies?
It's the only way I would do it if I wanted to enjoy it, or even suffer the sweet pangs of another uneventful day...
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I take that to mean that, the second time, you went on your own, unencumbered by zombies?
It's the only way I would do it if I wanted to enjoy it, or even suffer the sweet pangs of another uneventful day...
On the other hand, Rob, after seeing the results, they saw what I was doing and how the light helped to transform mundane subjects. Then they went out with a better understanding of how to look for "interesting" subjects.
JR
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On the other hand, Rob, after seeing the results, they saw what I was doing and how the light helped to transform mundane subjects. Then they went out with a better understanding of how to look for "interesting" subjects.
JR
My missionary zeal is more personal, I'm afraid...
:-)
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So you helped them discover the amazing fact that photography has to do with LIGHT! :D
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Office block next to the old Billingsgate Fish Market in Lower Thames St, London.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
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Truly mind bending image!
Rob
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Hodge Podge.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-r2rC5BW/0/b3c4e61f/L/JMRO2382%20bwcopycrop-1000-L.jpg)
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Or you could call it "4."
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Or you could call it "4."
Yes, I thought of that, but did not want to be so literal. Sometimes, the obvious is part of the beauty of finding something amid the clutter of lines and shapes. Thanks for commenting.
JR
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More from the local mall.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-QfXSxLZ/0/46d27058/L/JMRO2390%20cropcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Shades of mountains past...
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Shades of mountains past...
I don't get the reference?
JR
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Taken on walk today at Rockwood Conservation area.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Xnhh2fC/0/15af73e7/L/JMRO2582%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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I don't get the reference?
JR
We have had two recent mountain shots with strong, dark, diagonals.
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Taken on walk today at Rockwood Conservation area.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Xnhh2fC/0/15af73e7/L/JMRO2582%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
Excellent.
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Thanks Eric. And you too Degrub, because I don't know your name. And herewith is another figurative mountain. The triangle, is after all a dominant shape in any picture space. Feel free to jump into the reflecting pool.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-hsZmqCC/0/22b70a2a/L/JMRO1682%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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From yesterday's walk in Glen Haffey, a conservation area north of Toronto.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Glen-Haffey/i-JGBLD9J/0/3540239d/L/Oct%2011-%202019%20Glen%20Haffey_0014%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Glen-Haffey/i-Gwhgmjd/0/bb4e0238/L/Oct%2011-%202019%20Glen%20Haffey_0039%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Nice, conventional (?) tree photo.
I like it. Russ will complain about your lens again.
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Nice, conventional (?) tree photo.
I like it. Russ will complain about your lens again.
Thanks Eric. Yes, it is more impressionist than abstract. Just added a second more abstract image.
JR
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I enjoy your "abstracts"
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The new one is nice, too.
It's interesting that the tree leaves suggest camera motion that was in a mostly-vertical arc, while the top level of the grasses is perfectly horizontal. Have you now mastered a technique that lets you move two parts of the sensor in different ways in the same shot??? ;)
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The new one is nice, too.
It's interesting that the tree leaves suggest camera motion that was in a mostly-vertical arc, while the top level of the grasses is perfectly horizontal. Have you now mastered a technique that lets you move two parts of the sensor in different ways in the same shot??? ;)
Thank you Rab and Eric. Eric, when you move the camera much of the image remains in the position where you started your movement. The more light you have on the subject, like sheen, sidelight and backlight, the more you can create the appearance of movement. You will see ghosting mostly on one end or side, depending on where you started and ended.
JR
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Taken on walk today at Rockwood Conservation area.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Xnhh2fC/0/15af73e7/L/JMRO2582%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
I'm really liking this one, John, the more I look at it. The sinuous, twisting lines and colors are very appealing.
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I'm really liking this one, John, the more I look at it. The sinuous, twisting lines and colors are very appealing.
Thanks Arlen. Autumn light and color seems so fleeting and ephemeral.
JR
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A recent one.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/169909745/original.jpg)
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A recent one.
Like it very much too
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Like it very much too
+1.
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Particularly fine shot Arlen!
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Taken on walk today at Rockwood Conservation area.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Xnhh2fC/0/15af73e7/L/JMRO2582%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
Awesome. Love the color contrast.
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All I can say is WOW! Arlen . I like that one.
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Particularly fine shot Arlen!
It is almost iridescent. Just lovely!
JR
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Awesome. Love the color contrast.
Thank you Matt!
JR
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Thanks guys for all your comments. This one was very experimental, and I did not have a good idea when I started where it would end up. Considering that, I was rather surprised and pleased with the way it turned out.
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Could this be considered an abstract? Reflection in Cliff Lake,MT at dusk looking south. It's a hanging lake in the Milwaukee Peaks area.
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Great catch!
It's abstract enough for me.
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Nice! Looks like an alien megalith floating above earth.
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Could this be considered an abstract? Reflection in Cliff Lake,MT at dusk looking south. It's a hanging lake in the Milwaukee Peaks area.
I guess that's why the moon and Rock are hanging- by a thread if I keep up this silly playing. I think it works great as semi-abstract. And that's what this thread is all about. also flipped it and very nice image.
JR
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Incredible shot of the rock above the trees.
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Could this be considered an abstract? Reflection in Cliff Lake,MT at dusk looking south. It's a hanging lake in the Milwaukee Peaks area.
Genius, I love it. You had a good eye!
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Could this be considered an abstract? Reflection in Cliff Lake,MT at dusk looking south. It's a hanging lake in the Milwaukee Peaks area.
I have to show my own falling rock, which yours reminded me of.
Full disclosure: mine is a composite.
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I have to show my own falling rock, which yours reminded me of.
Full disclosure: mine is a composite.
Get back. It's about to splatter everywhere.
JR
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Water memories...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-JmfL8sJ/0/1ac24350/L/Oct%2013-09%20Glen%20Haffy%20174%20contrastcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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YES !
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YES !
+1.
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Water memories...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-JmfL8sJ/0/1ac24350/L/Oct%2013-09%20Glen%20Haffy%20174%20contrastcopy-1000-L.jpg)
Great again
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Great again
Autumn more than any season evokes for me memories and sensations that no other season does. I am sure it the same for others. A close second would be early Spring where the new variegated greens are just amazing. You can see the green but also past the green and into the forest and other foliage. Just go for walk, look, breathe in...does it get any better? Thanks Rab!!
JR
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Eric and John, both of those are really wonderful images.
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…Full disclosure: mine is a composite.
Superb!
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Very impressionistic. Good shots.
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Thanks for all the comments. Rock on!
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Autumn is such a fantastic season for imagesIMO. I would like to add one to the water series.Taken in Texas hill country in November.
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Eric, I'm impressed. I don't know how to do that but it looks great to me.I especially like the streaky stuff trailing the rock.
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Eric, I'm impressed. I don't know how to do that but it looks great to me.I especially like the streaky stuff trailing the rock.
Thanks, RB and others.
I'll have to go back and see where the "streaky stuff" came from.
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For the curious, here are the three images that were combined to make my "Sky Rock 4" image (using Photoshop CS6):
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This one is more firmly grounded, but maybe the complicated patterns are out of this world?
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/169958609/original.jpg)
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It works for me.
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This one is more firmly grounded, but maybe the complicated patterns are out of this world?
Beautiful weave. I think it works because the blacks are well distributed and the harder lines help unify and guide the eye through the image. But I have to ask, is the area slightly above and below the green moss on the bottom right third, out of focus or soft? Or is that spectral light making it appear so, since the rest of the image appears sharp. You are on roll, I see.
JR
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Thanks, Eric and John.
Wow you have a really good eye, John, I had to really hunt to find the "green moss" you indicated. Not sure if it's moss or what, but I do see the softness near it. I'll go back and see if I can determine its nature.
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Sometimes I just like to play with the colors and ICM allows this to retain an abstract look.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-vQ7h7hg/0/86c7fb30/L/JMRO5037%20abstract2-1000-L.jpg)
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Lost in space.
:-)
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..
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Lost in space.
:-)
Love it, Rob.
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Love it, Rob.
The all seeing, all knowing eye. Rob obviously knows things we don't know.
JR
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The all seeing, all knowing eye. Rob obviously knows things we don't know.
JR
You betcha! Especially how it feels stupidly to lose a special part of one's son's inheritance for him.
;-(
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You betcha! Especially how it feels stupidly to lose a special part of one's son's inheritance for him.
;-(
I sympathize. However, I feel you are being too hard on yourself. I can't see how you are to blame at all. Those people practice those maneuvers every day.
JR
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I guess the wind motivated me to go a little wilder. Taken from Daily Walk at High Park.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-6SDRTQ7/0/801d1bdf/L/JMRO5264%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-MczdBnb/0/322063ec/L/JMRO5267%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Love these.
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Love these.
Careful Eric, you may get caught up in the wind! Thanks.
JR
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From Rockwood walk in October. Sometimes the waves combined with sun create fantastic imagery by way of undulating movements.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Rockwood-Conservation-Scotts/i-n768Rw8/0/f706143b/L/JMRO2576%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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From Rockwood walk in October. Sometimes the waves combined with sun create fantastic imagery by way of undulating movements.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Rockwood-Conservation-Scotts/i-n768Rw8/0/f706143b/L/JMRO2576%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
I like the blue and the gold nuggets...
Peter
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I like the blue and the gold nuggets...
Peter
If I recall correctly, the yellow rings came from reflections of the surrounding gold-yellow leaves. Thanks Peter.
JR
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Walking along the shore of Lake Coeur D' Alene. Bit of sun on the water with a slight breeze.
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Oops, forgot to attach the image,sorry.
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Good one, RB.
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Thanks,Eric. I am intrigued by the constant changing of the pattern and could "use up" a lot of time shooting it.
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Thanks,Eric. I am intrigued by the constant changing of the pattern and could "use up" a lot of time shooting it.
Indeed, I spent quite a bit of time at my location, because the patterns and bouncing light combined with the undulating water, are always changing. Didn't even want to leave! So keep them coming RB!
JR
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Was out there searching for some order among the chaos of Earth's origins, once again.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/170034380/original.jpg)
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Wow! Love it, Arlen!
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Thank you, Eric. That means a lot coming from you.
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Was out there searching for some order among the chaos of Earth's origins, once again.
You found it to be sure. The dark and light elements are nicely distributed, making the image look almost like a block print painting. I would still consider opening up shadows a little more in mid dark area. It seems when large you can see some details, but when small it appears almost black.
JR
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Thanks for your thoughts, John. I opened the shadows in that area somewhat already, but being against a light background page makes it look darker. I'll revisit it.
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I think it's a very cool image.
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Was out there searching for some order among the chaos of Earth's origins, once again.
Love it!
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Thank you RBF and Keith, your comments are much appreciated.
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Happy summers past.
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Happy summers past.
This certainly is quite well done and intriguing. But I must say, your comments appear to be at odds with the title... or are they?
JR
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This certainly is quite well done and intriguing. But I must say, your comments appear to be at odds with the title... or are they?
JR
Nope, summers past were better than the current situation I inhabit. On top of which it's cold, and nights are Arctic.
:-(
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The title does seem a bit cryptic, but the image is both cryptic and evocative. Love it!
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Even though some of the light is burned out, I really like the overall vibe. It is intriguing.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-BxmFPP6/0/4adcc1e2/L/JMRO5297%20door%20ajarcolor1000-L.jpg)
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Yes!
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Even though some of the light is burned out, I really like the overall vibe. It is intriguing.
JR
Groovy man.....Groooovy ;~)
Peter
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Even though some of the light is burned out, I really like the overall vibe. It is intriguing.
JR
Groovy man.....Groooovy ;~)
Peter
Thanks Eric and Peter. You know I missed the hippie era, but I am not complaining, because we have, 'cool man!'
JR
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Or Psychedelic man.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Tf9wcg2/0/ed1187ac/L/oxtonge-ragged%20rapids%20096%20distortpano3-1000-L.jpg)
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Now THAT is COOL!
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I'm with Eric in his response.
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C&C please.
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Fascinating. Lovely textures, and a little bit of horror-show weirdness.
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Fascinating. Lovely textures, and a little bit of horror-show weirdness.
+1.
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C&C please.
Totally mysterious and intriguing… I can't (yet) get my head around it.
Bravo!
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Totally mysterious and intriguing… I can't (yet) get my head around it.
Bravo!
Indeed. And the more one zooms in, the more it seems to morph into something else.
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I like Psychedelic man a lot, John. New technique, subject, or both?
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I like Psychedelic man a lot, John. New technique, subject, or both?
Thanks Arlen. I can't find the original file. Must have renamed it. It is really a "creative" rendition as part of a competition in the club. The original comes from an autumn image full of colors which was mirrored and stitched twice and then warped. Here is one part before the torture! Not bad in its own right.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Rockwood-Conservation-Scotts/i-ZHwKph7/0/43d57652/L/oxtonge-ragged%20rapids%20096%20copypano3-1000-L.jpg)
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Here is one part before the torture! Not bad in its own right.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Rockwood-Conservation-Scotts/i-ZHwKph7/0/43d57652/L/oxtonge-ragged%20rapids%20096%20copypano3-1000-L.jpg)
Indeed, I like this one a lot, too.
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Indeed, I like this one a lot, too.
Me too!
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Thanks Arlen and Eric.
JR
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Few weeks ago I went for the first snow shots but focusing on details was more productive.
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Few weeks ago I went for the first snow shots but focusing on details was more productive.
That's really fine, Armand. Just read an article from a British photographer who took similar images with a point and shoot camera. The article was about how images of the real world can look abstract without manipulation.
JR
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From High Park walk. Sometimes when you have red plants against other elements and you do ICM, it can look like a fire!
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Winter-in-High-Park-2013/i-tR8Dc4c/0/30a30540/L/JMRO5740%20copyblur1000-L.jpg)
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Armand: That's really nice.
And John: "Hot stuff!!" ;)
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snip ...
And John: "Hot stuff!!" ;)
Did you get burned Eric? If so, here is some tried and true ointment for you.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-q8L9FMk/0/8b780f2d/L/Mar%2016-10%20Elora%20045%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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That salves my problem. ;)
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Thank you, John and Eric!
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semi
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semi
Wonderful. simple and elegant. Graphic and striking. Good eye!
JR
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A view from my window. And no, I wasn’t smoking anything ;)
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the faces in the image remind me of Edvard Munch's "the Scream"
;)
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Wonderful. simple and elegant. Graphic and striking. Good eye!
JR
Thank you!
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A view from my window. And no, I wasn’t smoking anything ;)
I like it! (And I'm not smoking anything.)
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Semi-abstract:
Rob
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the faces in the image remind me of Edvard Munch's "the Scream"
;)
Observant!
Rob
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Not too lippy at all. Nice.
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Further semi-ab:
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Further semi-ab:
You know Rob, you can use those dusters to pamper those too-lips 8)
JR
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You know Rob, you can use those dusters to pamper those too-lips 8)
JR
Now that's deep!
:-)
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Natural fridge magnet:
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I love it!
Very evocative, but completely abstract.
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Two more from the archives. First is from NYC and second is the frozen surface of an alpine lake manipulated(of course).
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2nd one.
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Sinuous
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/170168246/original.jpg)
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Sinuous
Yes, sinuous and evocative. Well done.
JR
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Reminds me of Marilyn under silk sheets.
;-)
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Clever shot beautifully done.
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Thanks a lot for your feedback, guys.
Rob, the beauty of abstracts is that sometimes each of us can see what we want to see. :)
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Rob, the beauty of abstracts is that sometimes each of us can see what we want to see. :)
Very true!
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For your viewing pleasure (or not!)
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Too much out of focus?
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Both nice, Peter and RB.
To my thinking, focus sharpness is often less important in abstracts than in other genres.
It doesn't bother me here (but my aging eyes don't have the sharpness they used to (sigh!!).)
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After the big sucking in of breath:
"That's one bad scene, man..."
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Correction:
"That's one great bad scene, man..."
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Correction:
"That's one great bad scene, man..."
Thanks, Eric.
I was saddened, later, to watch her being ripped apart, engines pulled out, interior smashed and taken away to wherever beautiful boats go when they become too neglected and expensive to breath new life into them.
First saw her in '81 and she was a beauty.
;-(
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Some days you wind up staring at ceiling for no apparent reason.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-NDtPH6h/0/16535149/M/ceiling%20bw1000-M.jpg)
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And perhaps wishing you were using a Rollei TLR to get the magic of the square :)
No cropping of course.
I know your feeling well. But rarely do anything about it.
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And perhaps wishing you were using a Rollei TLR to get the magic of the square :)
No cropping of course.
I know your feeling well. But rarely do anything about it.
Thank you, whatever your views. Whenever I see square images, I do sometimes question whether I should switch. But the feeling does not last long, because I like both formats. I am almost acculturated to the rectangular format and thus see in that format. At the same time I do appreciate other formats, especially the square format. I once owned a Yashica twin lens reflex camera. Only shot slides with it. Amazing quality and resolution. But do you know what 6x6 cm, slide projector cost back then? And no one else used it either. And so I stayed with 35mm format.
JR
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Those Yashica TLR were great. I looked at getting one and doing wet darkroom again but it wasn't realistic.
6x6 projector - must have been a king's ransom. I'm not sure I have actually seen one although the university club might have had one.
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Those Yashica TLR were great. I looked at getting one and doing wet darkroom again but it wasn't realistic.
6x6 projector - must have been a king's ransom. I'm not sure I have actually seen one although the university club might have had one.
Years ago a friend was looking to sell his lightly used Rollei 6X6 Projector...which I bought and still have. What a great projector!
Peter
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Years ago a friend was looking to sell his lightly used Rollei 6X6 Projector...which I bought and still have. What a great projector!
Peter
Guess what Peter, I did buy and still have that same Rollei projector. Beastly, it is. I bought it at Government surplus auction when the Education department no longer wanted it for 100$, 20 or so years ago. The lamps get really hot and tend to burn out quickly. The lamps are very expensive and I don't think they are available any longer. It will go as museum piece unless 6x6 comes back into vogue in big way. Sigh...
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Thank you, whatever your views. Whenever I see square images, I do sometimes question whether I should switch. But the feeling does not last long, because I like both formats. I am almost acculturated to the rectangular format and thus see in that format. At the same time I do appreciate other formats, especially the square format. I once owned a Yashica twin lens reflex camera. Only shot slides with it. Amazing quality and resolution. But do you know what 6x6 cm, slide projector cost back then? And no one else used it either. And so I stayed with 35mm format.
JR
I've been thinking about that one a bit.
I don't think that I usually see anything in terms of a format unless I happen to be carrying a camera, where the option is no longer mine, but depends on how the format of the camera with me fits the subject once a subject has been selected. Then, when I go to shoot it, it becomes a vertical or horizontal decision depending on what fits the moment best. I take far more horizontals than verticals for one simple reason: I find verticals difficult to frame accurately when hand-holding the camera.
This, of course, applies to amateur photos; for pro stuff it was all about the final shape of the layout I had to fill. That was one reason why I liked the 6x6 cameras: you had more leeway if the final image didn't have to fit a perfect 2:3 shape, which unless it was for something intentional, and of my own design, was usually the case. For many vertical things that 2:3 was just too tall and thin, and on 135 format, ever square mm. counted!
But yeah, as I have said before, I think square gives a very different feel to pictures when they fit that shape perfectly; obviously, you can't just crop every shot square and hope to make it fit nicely, which I know is not what you are suggesting.
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Sort of abstract
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49297791548_8af709a712_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2i7h4Vf)
Mike
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Yes!
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Yes!
+ indeed!
Rob
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Thanks guys. Back streets are usually more interesting than the polished frontages.
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Have another :)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49310554177_f756d1b71e_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2i8ptNz)
Probably a thousand miles from the last one :)
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Thanks guys. Back streets are usually more interesting than the polished frontages.
Absolutely!!!
Peter
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Absolutely!!!
Peter
"+ indeed" as a certain Wise Man once said.
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Mike, I like the wire image. But it is more than an abstract. It is just wonderful photography and shows that paying attention to the light can make even a mundane subject come to life. I also like your second image but not as much as your first. Just be safe if you are going in the alleyways.
JR
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I usually have a big tough scary minder in the form of my wife :)
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Playing with physical camera movement at slower shutter
(https://photos.smugmug.com/MonochromeMagic/Infrared/i-G235JSw/0/9af3c5dc/XL/PC276212_edit-XL.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/MonochromeMagic/Infrared/i-GwV7xD6/0/99741614/XL/PC276148_edit-XL.jpg)
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Playing with physical camera movement at slower shutter
Pretty cool Matt. You shot those with the 645?
JR
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Perhaps the veils will rise and dance in the wind.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-8j3x4cD/0/3ad10315/M/Aug%2030-11%20St%20Jacob%20011%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Really rather lovely. A very gentle photograph which encourages me to look at it more than once. Not sure why though. Just elegant simplicity I guess.
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Pretty cool Matt.
JR
+1.
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Pretty cool Matt. You shot those with the 645?
JR
Thanks John.
Shot on an Olympus EPM1. Sshh....Don't tell anyone.... ;D
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Really rather lovely. A very gentle photograph which encourages me to look at it more than once. Not sure why though. Just elegant simplicity I guess.
Thanks Mike. this one is rougher, more industrial.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-ZkrQdcv/0/efbac8ef/M/Aug%2030-11%20St%20Jacob%20047%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Lights, camera, action...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Dt9HVzN/0/8dd99892/M/Dec%2018-11%20Distillery%20District%20152%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-GnvktPJ/0/95f99a1a/M/Dec%2018-11%20Distillery%20District%20149%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Two beautiful seasonal ones, John!
Rob
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Two beautiful seasonal ones, John!
Rob
Thanks Rob. Tis the season. I dislike the newer led lights. You can't get wonderful light streaks, instead you get intermittent lines.
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Two beautiful seasonal ones, John!
Rob
+1.
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Patterns may often be recognizable, but they can still have abstract qualities.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-fvgBXDs/0/4e2e43d7/M/April%2022-2013%20Allen%20Gardens%20072%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Front-St-Walk-Toronto/i-9PW8Qq7/0/58c05c89/M/Aug%205-12%20HB%20063%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Well seen, John.
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I don't normally do abstracts, but here's an exception.
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I don't normally do abstracts, but here's an exception.
Thanks Russ. This is pretty cool. I was half expecting to see that Ghost figure sitting on one of those cushy blue cloth cubes, a la Rodin, until I realized that is non-starter for a figure with no head or arms! But somehow I still imagine it!
JR
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Thanks, John. I couldn't resist either picture considering the way the pattern in the hallway was reflecting off the window. Sometimes luck is the best companion when you're shooting.
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few from Las Vegas
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continued
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reflections
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You've been busy, Armand. A lot of good ones in this group.
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You've been busy, Armand. A lot of good ones in this group.
Thank you. For the last 3 it was like finding a good fishing spot (from when I was still fishing), there was a large panel where bright commercials kept alternating, I just had to press the shutter when it looked appealing. The only problem was that they were changing quite fast and not really repeating so you didn't have many chances.
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That does make it challenging. I think the middle one of that group is my favorite.
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Tinker Bell.
Rob
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Tinker Bell.
Rob
Really cool Rob!! Well seen. Let me know when you get transported through the galaxy. Works on other levels too. Like small to large, movement and much more.
JR
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Good stuff, Armand and Rob.
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Less Coffee! Less Coffee!
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Really cool Rob!! Well seen. Let me know when you get transported through the galaxy. Works on other levels too. Like small to large, movement and much more.
JR
Actually, it's not the famous fairy at all: it's the backlight to the computer switch.
This stuff is all around you, if you look for it.
;-)
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Actually, it's not the famous fairy at all: it's the backlight to the computer switch.
This stuff is all around you, if you look for it.
;-)
That's the not so simple truth...love it.
Peter
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Very funny, Chris.
(And I saw it before I had my morning coffee.)
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That's the not so simple truth...love it.
Peter
Thanks, Peter!
Rob
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Very funny, Chris.
(And I saw it before I had my morning coffee.)
I can't agree guys. What we need is more coffee ;)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-NxFPKHv/0/40be8e9e/M/May%209-%202015%20St%20John%27s%20and%20Grimsby%20026%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-w86vpbX/0/3e356e67/M/JMRO2191%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Kind abstract; perhaps more something bought whilst someone was distracted:
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To call that an abstract is an understatement, Rob.
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Less Coffee! Less Coffee!
Great minds...
:-)
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Kind abstract; perhaps more something bought whilst someone was distracted:
Can I say I like that a hull lot? ;)
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Kind abstract; perhaps more something bought whilst someone was distracted:
Love it...true abstraction...
Peter
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Yes!! This thread is getting more lively.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-dmWV7fq/0/7d3d2936/M/Dec%202-%202013%20Guelph%20outing%20084%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Yes!! This thread is getting more lively.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-dmWV7fq/0/7d3d2936/M/Dec%202-%202013%20Guelph%20outing%20084%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Hey soos, John! Your grey scale is seriously out of kilter.
;-)
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Morning Visitor
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My first contributions of 2020.
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Very good way to start the year, Eric. I particularly like the first one.
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Very good way to start the year, Eric. I particularly like the first one.
+1 for 1.
Rob
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Thanks, Arlen and Rob.
I agree.
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+1 for 1.
Rob
Add +2
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I really enjoy the calm break on the surface in the first image....Just enough to establish the space.
Peter
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Thank you Russ and Peter.
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Thanks for looking.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
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Rusty Kind of Day
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Thanks for looking.
cheers,
Boudewijn Swanenburg
I love it!
It would look good in a huge print.
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Rusty Kind of Day
That's a fine group, Chris.
I'm a big fan of rust (visually, but not on my own cars.)
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on a similar note
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This is ice that formed in a shallow puddle in a parking lot. Sony A7-R3, Voightlander 110 mm macro.
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I like that, Peter.
Here is one that I call "Senility."
Explanation may be forthcoming in a few days. ;)
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"Box without key or lid yet golden treasure inside hid". Couldn't help it.
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"Box without key or lid yet golden treasure inside hid". Couldn't help it.
Very nice!
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Very nice!
+1.
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I like that, Peter.
Here is one that I call "Senility."
Explanation may be forthcoming in a few days. ;)
Breast, Eric? Ah, memory, ah, senility. :-(
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mixing
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Breast, Eric? Ah, memory, ah, senility. :-(
Not quite, Rob. But I'm glad you asked.
It's actually the result of what happened when I put the glossy paper into my printer the uncoated side up (Ah, senility!)
The printer left puddles of black ink all over, but it looked sort of interesting, so I left it sitting not-quite-flat for a couple of weeks to dry, which it almost did.
I was actually printing three B&W prints and the stack of paper went in wrong side up.
The results look sort of interesting, so I photographed the results, and I think I'll do some more experiments.
;D
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Juxtaposition. On a walk of course.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Rj3tctg/0/4f8a9886/M/JMR_0045%20%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Nicely seen and captured. There's a lot going on which to my eye works well.
The watermark really detracts :D
Mike
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We've had the watermark discussion several times already.
My only complaint for John is that he forgot to move his camera during exposure! ;D :D
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And for the curious, here are two of the three images that I printed on the wrong side of the paper. One of these two ended up like the one I posted ( I repeat that to make it easy to compare.)
Any guesses as to which of these was the intended image? The way the ink flowed while drying makes it very hard to be sure. I have no idea myself.
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"Box without key or lid yet golden treasure inside hid". Couldn't help it.
Excellent!
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Eric, that weary nipple at the bottom right is more evident today than it was the other day.
Is this a case of the Dorian Grays?
Rob
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Maybe Dorian snuck into my PC and played with LightRoom while I was out?
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Oh my, so much cryptic and mysterious images lately. Well, I can add some rhythm.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-hM5V9cb/0/a7e6b425/M/JMR_0052%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Reed
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And for the curious, here are two of the three images that I printed on the wrong side of the paper. One of these two ended up like the one I posted ( I repeat that to make it easy to compare.)
Any guesses as to which of these was the intended image? The way the ink flowed while drying makes it very hard to be sure. I have no idea myself.
Whatever you did, it worked out well. I particularly like Bullough's Pond.
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Reed
Very nice. I would have been tempted to post it in the Landscape Showcase section.
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Oh my, so much cryptic and mysterious images lately. Well, I can add some rhythm.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-hM5V9cb/0/a7e6b425/M/JMR_0052%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Good one, John.
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Reed
Good one, Rab. That's called "seeing."
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Whatever you did, it worked out well. I particularly like Bullough's Pond.
Thank you, Arlen.
That one will be in an exhibit I am having in March at the Brookline, MA, Senior Center.
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Thanks Russ and Arlen
Actually I thought of putting it on Landscape Showcase but I was curious about opinions :)
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Reed
Hi, Rab,
I think it works in both places. Yes, the subject is clear, so it's "landscape." But it's more about the lovely pattern, so it's "abstract."
Either way, I like it.
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I wonder what this once communicated.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49478094518_ea2eeb1ecd_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iodaH9)
Mike
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If you look carefully, maybe you'll spy a "cave drawing" of an ancient ungulate standing on a hillside.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/170377158/original.jpg)
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If you look carefully, maybe you'll spy a "cave drawing" of an ancient ungulate standing on a hillside.
I really like the color palette, Arlen. Is this really a cave? Had to look up ungulate and have to say it be-hooves me to learn such unusual words.
JR
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From a Wednesday walk with friends. Works great in Bw also.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-kS4D2Hs/0/734c639c/L/JMR_0085%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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I really like the color palette, Arlen. Is this really a cave? Had to look up ungulate and have to say it be-hooves me to learn such unusual words.
JR
Well if it helps someone learn something, then I guess it serves a useful purpose. :)
It's not a cave, but the ungulate that my mind's eye sees within the right part of the frame reminds me of a cave drawing. The pattern is actually a small part of the surface of a large candy cane-shaped vent from some underground structure, that someone went to the trouble to paint with multiple colors.
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From a Wednesday walk with friends. Works great in Bw also.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-kS4D2Hs/0/734c639c/L/JMR_0085%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
You always find such interesting patterns on your walks, John.
Taking a page from your playbook, my "cave drawing" image was also from a walk about.
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Oh my, so much cryptic and mysterious images lately. Well, I can add some rhythm.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-hM5V9cb/0/a7e6b425/M/JMR_0052%20copy1000-M.jpg)
To think I don't even play!
Sadly, though, it shows how limited photographers are when compared with painters: we get stuck with what's there.
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To think I don't even play!
Sadly, though, it shows how limited photographers are when compared with painters: we get stuck with what's there.
Interesting observation, Rob. OTOH, I have read and seen many reviewers on the net and in articles say that limiting your tools, or using small set of tools enables them to better focus on subjects they can never have thought of doing without those limitations. Such as when we choose to do a project using only one lens, or exploring only one area, etc.
JR
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Was just about to erase my card when I spotted this abstract which I had forgotten about. From my walk the other day.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-LpZFz3q/0/bf311f31/M/JMR_0113%20copycrop-1000-M.jpg)
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Nice, John.
And it reminds me a bit of this one of mine.
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Nice, John.
And it reminds me a bit of this one of mine.
That's a beaut. I don't recall seeing that one before Eric.
JR
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Was just about to erase my card when I spotted this abstract which I had forgotten about. From my walk the other day.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-LpZFz3q/0/bf311f31/M/JMR_0113%20copycrop-1000-M.jpg)
Nice!
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Interesting observation, Rob. OTOH, I have read and seen many reviewers on the net and in articles say that limiting your tools, or using small set of tools enables them to better focus on subjects they can never have thought of doing without those limitations. Such as when we choose to do a project using only one lens, or exploring only one area, etc.
JR
It's all I do these non-pro days; liberating, and focusses the mind. That said "these days" I am carrying nothing. It just doesn't seem to matter anymore. Doing pretty much the same old thing each time just creates more time at the computer, which I feel is better spent exercising the thinking part of the mind, and not just the reflexive actions of the eye. Yes, it's still a pleasure (photography), but requires something different, a bit more rewarding than that to crank it up into motion.
Rob
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Can you imagine that spring is about to burst?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-jfj5LCG/0/b7b0c22e/M/JMR_0057%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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Me being a winter person, I say no. Beautiful image, However. : )
Peter
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Can you imagine that spring is about to burst?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-jfj5LCG/0/b7b0c22e/M/JMR_0057%20copy1000-M.jpg)
I love it, John.
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I love it, John.
Thanks, Russ and Peter. I like winter most of the time, Peter. But this has been a winter of discontent for me. And this image and the other two abstracts is from the only outing I have managed this winter. I guess that's life.
JR
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I like that one a lot, too, John. And I hope spring brings a change, and that you are able to get out more. For me it looks maybe to be the opposite.
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Thanks, Russ and Peter. I like winter most of the time, Peter. But this has been a winter of discontent for me. And this image and the other two abstracts is from the only outing I have managed this winter. I guess that's life.
JR
Sorry to hear that, John. But as a fellow lover of winter, I find the image wonderful.
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Thanks everyone. We can only try.
This one has the appearance of organic entanglement. And although it is somewhat entangled, it is mostly in the point of view. It is a multi-exposure chaotic look which I like. On sunny days, I experiment a lot.
JR
Edit,posted bw version
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-z4R8BQ5/0/b70212f5/M/JMR_0154%20bwcopy-1000-M.jpg)
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Looking at this makes me think it's time to visit my optometrist.
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I like that one a lot, too, John. And I hope spring brings a change, and that you are able to get out more.
I share Arlen's sentiments.
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for the blurry fans out there
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Looking at this makes me think it's time to visit my optometrist.
Yea Russ, it is somewhat off. I was too lazy do it one at time and so moved the camera during five exposures. There would be less blur if I did one at a time. It can be effective and sometimes not. I should have posted the dark version.
JR
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I share Arlen's sentiments.
Thanks Eric. Like the singer, Bill Withers said, "There is always tomorrow."
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-9shD5Nm/0/99dc367d/M/JMR_0139%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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And while we are doing weird reflective stuff, here is a shot from yesterday.
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I had just parked my Prius at a trailhead to local woods. I was about to open the trunk to get my trekking poles out when I saw this, reflected in the rear window and spoiler of the Prius.
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Good seeing, Eric.
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Good seeing, Eric.
Really like it Eric. Always be on the look out.
JR
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Thanks guys.
Gotta remember to keep the camera in my pocket and my eyes open. ;)
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A sun ray reflection on the building across the street created a prism effect on my wall. #shotoniphone
Holy shit, Slobodan, are you in prison?
:-)
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Might have posted it before:
Rob
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His friends? I thought all of Rob's friends were here on LuLa. ;)
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His friends? I thought all of Rob's friends were here on LuLa. ;)
So did I! The rest are just acquaintances with whom I sometimes share an interrupted lunch somewhere.
:-)
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Holy shit, Slobodan, are you in prison?
:-)
It does purport to be so...
Peter
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Simple play of light and shadow with a few elements. Taken through bw-bold, in-camera digital filter.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-kWXcM8f/0/b53eaf10/M/JMR_0350%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
Or you can just take a shot on the wild side. Also taken with in-camera digital filter.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-TJ4HV7V/0/1f497b88/M/JMR_0376%20copy1000-M.jpg)
JR
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I really like both of them John, particularly the second. Sometimes wild works!
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As ever not sure it's abstract.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49606177281_f1f02740b0_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2izwCfD)
Mike
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As ever not sure it's abstract.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49606177281_f1f02740b0_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2izwCfD)
Mike
Whatever! It's delightful!
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As ever not sure it's abstract.
Mike
I like this very much...
Peter
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I like this very much...
Peter
Me too. It's complete and quite perfect.
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Me too. It's complete and quite perfect.
Quite cool Mike.
JR
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It was a very satisfying capture. I love the clear blue skies of California. I suspect the residents might prefer grey rain clouds for a few months.
Thank you for your kind comments.
Mike
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In case some of you are near Boston in March or April, consider visiting the Gallery 93 of the Brookline, Massachusetts Senior Center at 93 Winchester Street, where I will be showing some thirty prints. The exhibit runs from March 11 through April 30, 2020, and there is a reception from 4-6 pm on Thursday, March 12.
The gallery is open M-F 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
This image is on the postcard.
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Well done on the exhibition Eric.
May I ask what size will the prints be?
Mike
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Congrats, Eric; was offered one once and then they pulled it.
In my case, probably saved me a fortune on frames that today would outnumber my wall-space.
:-(
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Thanks Mike and Rob.
Mike: All prints are image size about 10"x15" in16"x20" frames, six in "Portrait" orientation, the rest in "Landscape."
Rob: I have accumulated about forty metal frames over the years for earlier exhibits, and I keep reusing them. Cutting mats and reframing is a nuisance, but it's a lot cheaper than buying new frames.
Our house is small, so 16x20" is the biggest size that looks right on our walls.
-Eric
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Wish I could make the show, Eric, but I'm gonna miss it. Congratulations in advance.
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Thanks, Russ.
It would be a long walk from Florida, so I can forgive you.
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A truly true abstract.
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A truly true abstract.
Yes!
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Many, many scenes in one frame.
Frightening, chaotic, but ordered.
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I'm not sure what you are abstracting the reality from in that photograph. To my eye it's no more abstract than my palm tree although I feel I refined my two elements down to their essential underlying elements of curve and shape.
But I'm not getting into any detailed discussion as it quickly reduces to discussing how many angels can dance on the head of pin ;D
A lovely image is a lovely image. That's enough for me.
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Wish I could make the show, Eric, but I'm gonna miss it. Congratulations in advance.
Indeed, congratulations Eric! And If I was anywhere close to Boston, I would be sure to visit.
JR
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Curves anyone?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-v2DBTFs/0/9908a382/L/JMR_0380%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Curves anyone?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-v2DBTFs/0/9908a382/L/JMR_0380%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Yes, good curves along with nice textures. I like it.
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Thanks Francois. This time a less curvy, more urban.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-jZmXpvB/0/54ec525d/L/IMG_0021%20cropcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Indeed, congratulations Eric! And If I was anywhere close to Boston, I would be sure to visit.
JR
Interestingly, I won't get a chance to see my own show for another month (it is being hung today.)
During my dialysis treatment last Friday, there came a phone call to inform me that I needed to get to Mass General Hospital in Boston as soon as possible, because they had a kidney for me! I have been waiting over five years for one, but never really expected to get one.
The operation was successfully carried out Friday evening and I was sent home yesterday. Now I have a raft of new medications to take every day (anti-rejection, ant-infection, anti-viral, etc.) many of which will be long-term. Right now I am on "house arrest" at home for a month (except for weekly visits to the clinic), while the new kidney and my system learn to coexist.
So my wife delivered the prints this morning and a good friend (photographer) is hanging the show for me.
My show runs through April, so I will get a chance to see it in a month.
I am, of course, jubilant to have finally gotten my transplant.
-Eric
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Many, many congratulations, Eric, and I pray that it all goes perfectly for you!
Rob
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That's great news Eric.
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Many, many congratulations, Eric, and I pray that it all goes perfectly for you!
Rob
May the light of good fortune continue to shine on you, Eric.
JR
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Thank you Rob, Chuck and John!
while I'm on "house arrest" for about a month, it's good to be able to keep up with friends on LuLa even if I can't get out with camera yet.
It's going very well so far.
Best, Eric
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This building is supposed to represent a giant pencil or artist's box. What you see here is some of its columns and the underside. It certainly is eye-catching.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-4dR2dqb/0/4f4dd97c/L/IMG_0023%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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I like your last two, John. They're abstract but there's a reality there with which the viewer can connect. Abstracts don't have to be fuzzy.
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I like your last two, John. They're abstract but there's a reality there with which the viewer can connect. Abstracts don't have to be fuzzy.
I agree. (But sometimes fuzzy works, too. Especially when John tries it.)
Here I was thinking that an Artist's Box should have paint dripping from the edge.
But it's a nice semi-abstract.
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Thanks Russ and Eric. You guys should look it up. It is the Ontario College of Arts building and has won many international architecture awards. What you don't see from my image is how the building actually looks. The checkered white area is actually the floor of the building and the building itself is a box on columns. Very unusual and it really has the feel of inviting people as they go to and fro right under the building.
JR
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Thank goodness the sun does not affect these pipes. Was on my walk happy as can be with my point and shoot camera. Took a few images and after a while realized the camera info screen was flashing something at me. What it could be? What, no card...nooo... Cell phone to the rescue. You know the one I never give a second thought to.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-BQ5fDsC/0/92c49596/L/20200315_184629%20gaspipes-copy1000-L.jpg)
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Love it, John. That's my kind of abstract.
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Thanks Russ. I know where you are coming from. I will save the ICM's for Eric, who shall no doubt prevail in his recovery. His LuLa persona sure is cheerful for such a tough personal situation.
JR
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I have started my daily walks again. I always manage to get at least one good image most days. Shadow play.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-cXRs7c6/0/03cdc34f/L/IMG_0053%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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Good shooting, John.
Yeah, I've started my morning walks again too, but for now I pretty much have to confine them to the river. Just unloaded this morning's shoot. We'll see if I can claim what you can claim.
Well, here's at least a shot at an abstract.
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...We'll see if I can claim what you can claim.
Well, here's at least a shot at an abstract.
I am sure you can Russ. You got the golden light and the lush greens. But I will say, it is much more difficult doing abstracts in your surroundings.
JR
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From yesterday's afternoon walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-bsVCBVm/0/c2df52b6/L/IMG_0019%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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Nice catch. Lovely cloud.
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Very nice.
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Good one, John.
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Good one, John.
Thank you, Russ, Eric and Mike. Always something to see.
JR
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This is for you fun-loving, car-loving, old timers. I know you are out there in the 'without prejudice' space. And even though I never did much care for cars, I really liked seeing this one. The red together with the chrome brightened up an otherwise dull day. You never know what you see on a walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-rDhmjkf/0/b74a8d7c/M/IMG_0006%20copy2-1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-VdmNbsq/0/7936eeb5/M/JMR_0427%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-9kWTxZF/0/fbb19b50/M/JMR_0432%20copy1000-M.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-xtBtknF/0/488f9aee/M/JMR_0421%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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That car was clearly designed for you, John.
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Elegant simplicity. Very nice.
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Elegant simplicity. Very nice.
Agreed.
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Thank you Eric and John!
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opposites
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NYC
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Great geometry and a study for leading lines and perspective!
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Thank you Francois!
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That's the most interesting view I've seen of that much-photographed bridge.
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One wall, many angles.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-rxCpz68/0/7b7e4fbf/L/JMR_0758%20bwcopy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Nice.
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Nikon D300S ,Mitutoyo M Plan APO 2x NA 0.28 200/0
1/250s iso100 60-stack
(https://pbase.com/bobfriedman/image/143231114/original.jpg)
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Ooh! I love it! Wild!
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Nice.
Thanks Eric. Low, almost ground level light.
JR
Low, almost ground level light.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-tMC2WJJ/0/c4ab02ae/L/JMR_0728%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Good one, John.
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That's the most interesting view I've seen of that much-photographed bridge.
Thank you Eric, you are too kind!
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Selfie
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rust and rivets
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Thanks Eric. Low, almost ground level light.
JR
Low, almost ground level light.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-tMC2WJJ/0/c4ab02ae/L/JMR_0728%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
I first thought is was an electron micrograph of the virus!
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A recent try to expand my interest in abstracts and minimalism.
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moody
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What to do on days like these:
JR
A set of stop light lights hanging in the middle of crosswalk, shot against trees.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-dnDcSbm/0/75e4dca8/M/March%2018-%202020%20Car%20walk_0415%20copy7-1000-M.jpg)
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I like it!
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Today is rain, rain, rain..., so another from yesterday's walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-5nmGP89/0/54931116/L/JMR_0930%20squarecrop1000-L.jpg)
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Today is rain, rain, rain..., so another from yesterday's walk.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-5nmGP89/0/54931116/L/JMR_0930%20squarecrop1000-L.jpg)
Excellent!
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mess
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Thanks Armand. At least these keep us going.
JR
shadow sentinel
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-k8ZLCsJ/0/17c4270d/M/March%2027-%202020%20Walk_0069%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Light portal
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-qLz4BB2/0/3ca5d656/M/March%2027-%202020%20Walk_0031%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Another day another lamp taken a week ago just before we were locked down. Sigh.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49715720161_56472006ec_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iKd4wZ)
Mike
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Another day another lamp taken a week ago just before we were locked down. Sigh.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49715720161_56472006ec_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iKd4wZ)
Mike
Nice shot; great possibilities for being the base to some exciting typography. I have always wished that I had the gift for typography: it looks so easy until you try to use something appropriate.
We had some really great stuff back in the 60s - 80s on billboards scattered around our UK cities. I think that great graphic designers etc. make a lot of photographers look better than they actually are.
Rob
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Light was bouncing off the this wall quite harshly. You can see it in the red.
JR
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John I see your sparkly colours and raise you this :)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49715720031_6fd6f06fe1_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iKd4uK)
Mike
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Guess I will have to work on it. For now this:
JR
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Good stuff, guys.
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Nice colours. You get these on your daily walks?
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Nice colours. You get these on your daily walks?
Yes. Last few are all from the last two weeks. I have to admit, at first I didn't think I would get much, but one thing leads to another. To me it's like warming up visually, then at some point I really start to see things. I am sure it is like that for most of us. I don't think seeing photographically is natural to us. Have to warm up to it.
JR
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Something new from along a road less traveled a couple of weeks ago.
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Nice one, Larry.
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Still my favourite thread on LuLa.
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Evening of the long shadows.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-29h85M3/0/08ce6077/M/March%2025-%202020%20Walk_0016%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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Evening of the long shadows...
Which reminds me of:
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Which brings to mind
(https://live.staticflickr.com/914/42155708545_2cbf921c06_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/27ea2t8)
Mike
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For the time being, the shadows prevail.
JR
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A number of recent successes, John. Good work.
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Excellent shadows, guys.
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I love shadows
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48723398298_cf6c399c51_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hew9Pm)
Mike
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I like shadows too :)
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More shadows....
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one more...
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Ah, yes, light and shadows:
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Indeed shadows
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49724764781_f36d2fbc9d_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iL1qbH)
Mike
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Thanks to Russ and Eric. Some interesting and fine work being posted.
Shifting somewhat to light and shadow as Slobodan has indicated,
I had a really good morning. And here is one.
JR
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I wish my daily walk could include such things. As you may know we are in the UK are restricted to walks near our own home and I live in a small village with little to inspire me - which I know is my failing :) Many people would love to live hereabouts but I find it limited photographically. I like the man made.
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From Miami archives of last year:
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A great shadow collection, guys.
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Another old favorite from my home town.
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More shadows....
I really like your court fence and stone circle shots. The circle shot, with shimmering light, in particular has a quality that exudes a feeling that I can't quite put my finger on.
JR
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I really like your court fence and stone circle shots. The circle shot, with shimmering light, in particular has a quality that exudes a feeling that I can't quite put my finger on.
JR
Thanks a lot. I dont shoot much for pleasure since I shoot commercially for a living. But both of those were taken as a welcome relief from the daily grind.
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Craig if you don't mind me asking do you still have a daily grind? In the UK I think much of commercial photography has ground to a halt. How is it with you?
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On the Street.
JR
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Darn it, I've got to start looking for shadows on my next mini-walk.
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Craig if you don't mind me asking do you still have a daily grind? In the UK I think much of commercial photography has ground to a halt. How is it with you?
Not now. I last worked 3 weeks ago. I have things that were booked ( its my busy season) but are now on hold due to business beig closed. I'm not sure how I'll deal with getting back to work again once this thing lifts. My wife and I are both in the age and physical condition group who are most affected by the virus and my 90YO mother also lilves with us. We need to be careful.
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On the Street.
JR
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The lamppost sings!
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Good eye, JR. Like 'em both!
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Thanks guys. Looks like I have to restrict my activities more.
JR
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Good eye, JR. Like 'em both!
+1
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Good eye, JR. Like 'em both!
+2.
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Walking backwards through some old images while trying the stay safe as the world burns.
From a series of playground equipment.
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Nice one, Craig.
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Nice one, Craig.
+ 1
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+ 1
Cool man.
JR
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+2 or 3
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+2 or 3
Thanks to all. I must admit I'm having some fun wallowing in the past :).
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Another from the same playground, this time in B/W
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Fun and imaginative seeing.
If we can all keep this up, maybe we'll get through the p*nd*m*c.
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Good stuff Craig. Feel like climbing?
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Good stuff Craig. Feel like climbing?
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Yes!
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The stairway is very good, John. A genuine abstract.
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bench
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/5247/5262921174_c84512c1f3_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/924R7f)
Mystical Horse in Storm (https://flic.kr/p/924R7f) by Alan Klein (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanklein2000/), on Flickr
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"Indian"
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Good seeing, guys.
As for John's stairs: Can I go down them instead of up? These days climbing stairs I get winded. :)
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Good seeing, guys.
As for John's stairs: Can I go down them instead of up? These days climbing stairs I get winded. :)
;D
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Good seeing, guys.
As for John's stairs: Can I go down them instead of up? These days climbing stairs I get winded. :)
Understood Eric. I will let you use these hand rails if you promise to get better and do those mini-walks you are obviously dying to do. One step at a time and ignore those deceptive zig-zags.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/ROM-Annex-Walk-August-2016/i-qZvSXvN/0/69ea91f3/M/Sept%2025-%202016%20Annex%20outing%20104%20copybw-1000-M.jpg)
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Here is an old one, long forgotten, I still like it :)
Snow toes:
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From the desert botanical garden in phoenix, AZ.
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From the desert botanical garden in phoenix, AZ.
Ouch!
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If you stand under these and they take a liking to you, they ignore the sun and follow you around ;)
JR
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If you stand under these and they take a liking to you, they ignore the sun and follow you around ;)
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-rcJm9t6/0/03fbe75e/M/April%206-%202020%20walk_0293%20bwcopy2-1000-M.jpg)
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Best one yet
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Best one yet
Thanks Craig. Abtracts or semi-abstracts kind of grow on you.
JR
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few
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This one reminds of me of the Louis Armstrong song "What a wonderful world."
JR
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to keep the theme
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Alcatraz:
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to keep the theme
Flying saucer? Very nice!
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Flying saucer? Very nice!
Thank you!
A couple more
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Winchester, Virginia
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Good one Peter. A real abstract.
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Magnolia Mill, Alma Colorado
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Backyard bonfire.
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Backyard bonfire.
I like this!
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I like this!
Yes, cool layers and swirls.
JR
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From the Lockdown Period:
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Mine is from 'social distancing' period. Kind of dark considering it came from an empty children's playground.
JR
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I like it, John. And I wouldn't have guessed it is a playground.
As a bonus, I think it qualifies as a true abstract. :)
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From the Lockdown Period:
As a biologist who in the lab has carefully adjusted more than my share of menisci, I appreciate your intriguing take on the subject, Rob.
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I am finally managing top open my eyes on daily exercise. It's not easy though as it is all too familiar and seemingly unchanging.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49813482873_b51d4da8dc_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iTR7YZ)
Mike
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As a biologist who in the lab has carefully adjusted more than my share of menisci, I appreciate your intriguing take on the subject, Rob.
Thank you, Arlen. My wife was into chemistry and worked as an analytical one for a brief period before she married me; as she did so so young, and the first child appeared promptly on schedule (quite whose schedule was never explained - nine months from the wedding seems sort of fast) her career didn't go very far! Which suited me just fine, being the selfish sonofab that I can sometimes be. I always maintained that she was needed more at home.
:-)
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Mine is from 'social distancing' period. Kind of dark considering it came from an empty children's playground.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-t8rx8Zb/0/ad184a01/L/JMR_2090%20bwcopy2-1000-L.jpg)
All children in playgrounds are empty: comes with the territory and age. (Crisis humour; forgive and forget.)
At first glance, the picture reminded me of those old wooden forms that grandmothers once used to stick into socks in order better to darn the heels. I never saw holes in socks other than at the heels; we were a sophisticated family and always trimmed our toenails. I wonder where all those clippings go after they get dumped into the waste bin? Does the secret service collect them and analyse them and build up a genetic file on everyone? Today, to avoid that, I dump them straight into the garden where I believe they feed the wolf spiders that I sometimes bump into by mistake. Perhaps they pose less risk than using the official bins?
:-)
P.S.
Just struck me: also reminiscent of one of Sieff's Derrières series photographs.
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I was nearing home on my walk during a light, on-and-off light drizzle, resigned to not getting anything today, when what came into my eye, this piece of wet and dry art work. Maybe I will play with it and make even more abstract.
JR
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Good one, John.
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Thanks for the comments, Russ, Rob and Arlen. Rob your life experiences always manage to find their way, not only into your images, but also into your critiques. Always welcome.
JR
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Our club cannot meet due to lockdown so we have started to use Zoom for remote meetings which gets about half the usual attendance which is good going.
We ran our first competition via Zoom this evening and it was a panels competition where 3 or more images are presented as one and to huge surprise this won.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49826444768_e163282d45_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iUZy6W)
They were intended as three individual prints - the print version of the panels allows for as many prints as you like on a common theme. I wouldn't have entered the projected competition which is what this was in effect. But I thought I'd enter anyway.
Mike
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Couple of new b&w abstracts from an outing in early March. Found along the road less traveled.
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Feel like sliding...
JR
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Gorgeous.
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Feel like sliding...
JR
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Nice one!
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Gorgeous.
+1.
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Thanks Mike, James and Eric. I guess I will let it remain a mystery for now.
JR
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I'm pretty sure it's not a bicycle.
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I'm pretty sure it's not a bicycle.
It's the contours on the hood of blue car. The design are reflections on the hood. I couldn't keep it a secret.
JR
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Our club cannot meet due to lockdown so we have started to use Zoom for remote meetings which gets about half the usual attendance which is good going.
We ran our first competition via Zoom this evening and it was a panels competition where 3 or more images are presented as one and to huge surprise this won.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49826444768_e163282d45_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iUZy6W)
They were intended as three individual prints - the print version of the panels allows for as many prints as you like on a common theme. I wouldn't have entered the projected competition which is what this was in effect. But I thought I'd enter anyway.
Mike
Very neat, I like it!
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This one I like, Armand. Reminds me of those trees with flaking bark.
JR
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This one I like, Armand. Reminds me of those trees with flaking bark.
JR
Thank you. That's what it is, didn't want to make it too abstract.
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It's the contours on the hood of blue car. The design are reflections on the hood. I couldn't keep it a secret.
JR
I thought it was chrome :)
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It's the contours on the hood of blue car. The design are reflections on the hood. I couldn't keep it a secret.
JR
I was right! Not a bicycle! ;D
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I was right! Not a bicycle! ;D
Thanks guys. Like a clock, Eric, you will be right at least twice a day! Wait...bad aphorism, we are now in the digital world ???
JR
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If a digital clock still has a working display, even if the timer is broken, it can still be right twice a day. :D
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Changed my route and found some pretty interesting subjects, at least to me. And now, "Color My World" as the group Chicago said, in their wonderful song by the same name.
JR
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Changed my route and found some pretty interesting subjects, at least to me. And now, "Color My World" as the group Chicago said, in their wonderful song by the same name.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-gvm7xwm/0/5c34ec1d/L/May%201-%202020%20Walk_0980%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Your Mondrian moment.
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another bw
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Shadow and light.
JR
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I finally got out with the little camera a couple of days ago.
Try this:
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I finally got out with the little camera a couple of days ago.
Try this:
Glad to see you are out and about. It looks pretty good to me. What little camera would that be?
JR
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I finally got out with the little camera a couple of days ago.
Try this:
Really mysterious and also pleasant at the same time!
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Thanks, John and Francois.
My little camera is a Canon G5X, and almost pocket camera.
I'm not strong enough yet to carry the Big camera yet. It's a Sony RX10 Mark 3.
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Thanks, John and Francois.
My little camera is a Canon G5X, and almost pocket camera.
I'm not strong enough yet to carry the Big camera yet. It's a Sony RX10 Mark 3.
So would that be the same as my G1X but the fifth version? Mine won't focus closer than four feet, otherwise it is fine camera with an almost crop size sensor.
JR
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This one really stood out and called my name. How could I resist.
JR
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And it planted your name in the lower right corner. ;)
My G5X won't focus closer than about four feet in its "normal" mode, but it also has a "Macro" setting that is excruciatingly difficult to turn on or off. I often get "interesting" effects when I forget which way I have it set.
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And it planted your name in the lower right corner. ;)
My G5X won't focus closer than about four feet in its "normal" mode, but it also has a "Macro" setting that is excruciatingly difficult to turn on or off. I often get "interesting" effects when I forget which way I have it set.
Is that a sort of stream of consciousness photography, Eric?
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Is that a sort of stream of consciousness photography, Eric?
Of course.
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Of course.
It's a horse of course. Could be worse. Maybe a curse. Enough already. I do my best photography when I have been out for a while, if that helps. This previous dark blue and shadow image is quickly becoming one my favourites. Closer to becoming a true abstract. I thought it was called non-representational imagery.
JR
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Would it be just as abstract upside down?
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Beautiful rainbow bright colors…
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Beautiful rainbow bright colors…
Thanks Francois. Once you get hooked on rainbows, it's hard to let them go or stop playing
with them. I turned this one right side up just for Eric and Rob. I don't want any confusion
about my random, stream-of consciousness abstracts ;)
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That's very nice.
.ecin yrev s'tahT
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I finally got out with the little camera a couple of days ago.
Try this:
Lovely picture.
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It's a good one, John.
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A little space with structure.
JR
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It would work well in an abecedarian series of photos. Got any other letters?
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Is it abecedarian (had to look that up)? No, it's a simple abstract brought to you by a structure, low sun and a guy with a camera.
JR
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Another good one, John.
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Nikon D2x ,Nikkor 200mm f/4D ED-IF AF Micro
1s f/8.0 at 200.0mm iso100 with Flash
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Nikon D2x ,Nikkor 200mm f/4D ED-IF AF Micro
1s f/8.0 at 200.0mm iso100 with Flash
Lovely. I am wondering if it was necessary to use your [flash] and was that just your preference?
JR
[edit 'flash' inserted]
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Lovely. I am wondering if it was necessary to use your and was that just your preference?
I think I missing something in your question? flash??
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I think I missing something in your question? flash??
Yes. Sorry I left out the word Flash. Wow! A 200mm macro, now that's a great lens for creating bokeh.
JR
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Not a true abstract, but certainly an abstraction of sorts.
JR
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Not sure about this one either as far as qualifying. But maybe...
(https://live.staticflickr.com/4635/39181840721_ec89e160a8_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22GnbaX)
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Not sure about this one either as far as qualifying. But maybe...
It's great. Next time you make so many pancakes, how about inviting us over? Those trapped bubbles look really eerie in bw. Nothing that a little syrup won't fix.
JR
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Not sure about this one either as far as qualifying. But maybe...
(https://live.staticflickr.com/4635/39181840721_ec89e160a8_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22GnbaX)
I love it!
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+1
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Something a little more abstract.
JR
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Detail of painted Amerindian ceramic pot.
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Nice one, Chris.
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+1
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Thank you, gentle men.
I needed a new project that was suitable for my confinement under house arrest during the pandemic, so I found a used macro lens for my Fuji X-T3 on the website of one of the New York retailers and have been happily experimenting with focus-stacking for the last couple of weeks.
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Thank you, gentle men.
I needed a new project that was suitable for my confinement under house arrest during the pandemic, so I found a used macro lens for my Fuji X-T3 on the website of one of the New York retailers and have been happily experimenting with focus-stacking for the last couple of weeks.
It's very sharp and rich in colour. I was wondering how you did this. But you gave the answer - photostacking. I gave up on that and Photoshop.
JR
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Some terrific new additions! Here's one from me, too.
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Nice one, David.
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Nice one, David.
Thanks, Eric.
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Eavesdroppers.
JR
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That's very effective indeed. Nice conversion.
If it was a solid blue sky I'd have thought colour could work too - but then I like pure blue skies :)
Mike
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Through a Glass Darkly
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And one from me:
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That's very effective indeed. Nice conversion.
If it was a solid blue sky I'd have thought colour could work too - but then I like pure blue skies :)
Mike
Through a Glass Darkly
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49926318793_85d303dcde_b_d.jpg)
Thanks Mike and Chris. To my eye it has more impact in BW. These sometimes come across as dark and foreboding, I think, because of the overarching limb-like shapes of the lamps, which can be suggestive. Of course Chris made me look up the reference to 'Through a Glass Darkly." I knew the phrase, but now know where it came from. Love it.
JR
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And one from me:
It does remind of a nest and eggs. My good bw's are few, but you seem to have it down pat.
JR
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Into the vortex, if you dare. I stole it from the old Time Tunnel series.
JR
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Ooh, Neat!
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Neptune's trash:
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Well I guess it's time to join Neptune's trash. Maybe with the tines of his fork?
JR
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A Gentle Breeze
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Well I guess it's time to join Neptune's trash. Maybe with the tines of his fork?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Nw9w9dn/0/c3c21cce/M/JMR_4320%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Thank you Chris. BTW, this image is the same subject as the vortex image.
JR
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A Gentle Breeze
I see you are trying multiple exposures. For a different look, try to shift the positions while maintaining the same axis point. So the image will rotate and shift ever so slightly without moving sideways or up and down.
JR
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A Gentle Breeze
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49935341682_2177cbbb03_w_d.jpg)
I see you are trying multiple exposures. For a different look, try to shift the positions while maintaining the same axis point. So the image will rotate and shift ever so slightly without moving sideways or up and down.
Full disclosure: I wasn't intentionally trying to produce a multiple-exposure image. I've been experimenting with focus stacking for a couple of weeks using a recently-acquired macro lens. I wanted to see if I could make a hand-held outdoor shot by cranking out ten fast frames, and still stack them correctly. I was curious whether the dedicated focus-stacking program I've been using (Helicon Focus) could align the frames properly under such trying circumstances. I waited until the air seemed still before pressing the shutter button, but there was still enough breeze to cause enough movement to confuse the software.
It was just a test. However, I liked the effect and my wife gave it her seal of approval, as well, so I decided to post it.
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Full disclosure: I wasn't intentionally trying to produce a multiple-exposure image. I've been experimenting with focus stacking for a couple of weeks using a recently-acquired macro lens. I wanted to see if I could make a hand-held outdoor shot by cranking out ten fast frames, and still stack them correctly. I was curious whether the dedicated focus-stacking program I've been using (Helicon Focus) could align the frames properly under such trying circumstances. I waited until the air seemed still before pressing the shutter button, but there was still enough breeze to cause enough movement to confuse the software.
It was just a test. However, I liked the effect and my wife gave it her seal of approval, as well, so I decided to post it.
Like the tree scenes in Predator.
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The abstracts march on...
JR
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Good one, John.
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Yes it is.
You do more with less material than anyone else here, IMHO.
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Good one, John.
Yes it is.
You do more with less material than anyone else here, IMHO.
Thank you Russ. And Eric, I guess I am having fun. No point if you can't enjoy it.
JR
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…You do more with less material than anyone else here, IMHO.
I agree 100% with Eric's comment!
Bravo.
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Vortex
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I love it!
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I love it!
It does have vibrant glow which comes to life in bw.
JR
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When I was photographing in April and May, the light seemed perfect for these kinds of shots. Now that summer is almost here, the sun is higher in the sky and the shadows longer. The light just doesn't strike or appeal to me in the same way. Perhaps I will wait for later in the day, or rise very early.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-2BtnDqJ/0/e318129d/M/May%2020-%202020%20Walk_0008%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
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on the water
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Life squared @ 3200 ISO.
JR
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See. When you shoot with a camera and lens that are working properly you get results like this. I've got one very similar, John. Guess I'll have to dig and see if I can find it. I never thought of it as an abstract, but if you guys are sure it is, I'll cave and agree with you.
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See. When you shoot with a camera and lens that are working properly you get results like this. I've got one very similar, John. Guess I'll have to dig and see if I can find it. I never thought of it as an abstract, but if you guys are sure it is, I'll cave and agree with you.
But I thought we agreed that in realm of photography these constitute abstracts, as long we acknowledge they are not true abstracts as in other arts. Every photographic site I know calls these abstracts. Slobadan's entries were architecture abstracts entered into an abstract catergory. See here:
https://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/14th/amateur/abstract
Doesn't matter Russ, I would live to see anything you have that is 'kind of abstract.' Maybe you have any eye for it.
JR
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Okay, John. Here are two. I've posted them on LuLa before. I'd guess they come as close to abstract as anything I normally shoot. The woman with the cat is real street. The hallway isn't. I'm sure that if I spend some time with my catalog I'll find more that might fall into the abstract category. But that's not the kind of thing I normally do.
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Life squared @ 3200 ISO.
Hmmm. I have one of those:
View from My Chair
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Frankly, I'd have trouble claiming this to be abstract, even by my rather generous definition of the term as it relates to photography. It is, quite literally, a view from my favorite chair. The next one, maybe. Although it's also an unmanipulated photograph―pretty much straight out of the camera except for some unexceptional post-processing.
Window Treatment
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But I thought we agreed that in realm of photography these constitute abstracts, as long we acknowledge they are not true abstracts as in other arts. Every photographic site I know calls these abstracts. Slobadan's entries were architecture abstracts entered into an abstract catergory.
JR
Hi John, The more I think about it the more I'd be inclined to call my own "abstracts" "surrealism." There is, of course, a distinct difference.
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Okay, John. Here are two. I've posted them on LuLa before. I'd guess they come as close to abstract as anything I normally shoot. The woman with the cat is real street. The hallway isn't. I'm sure that if I spend some time with my catalog I'll find more that might fall into the abstract category. But that's not the kind of thing I normally do.
I'd say those qualify. :)
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But I thought we agreed that in realm of photography these constitute abstracts, as long we acknowledge they are not true abstracts as in other arts. Every photographic site I know calls these abstracts. Slobadan's entries were architecture abstracts entered into an abstract catergory. See here:
https://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/14th/amateur/abstract
Doesn't matter Russ, I would live to see anything you have that is 'kind of abstract.' Maybe you have any eye for it.
JR
Lula is generally well-represented in the Spider Awards, for whatever reason :)
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Hi John, The more I think about it the more I'd be inclined to call my own "abstracts" "surrealism." There is, of course, a distinct difference.
Well, if you are trying to juxtapose elements within a scene and lead the viewer to see it as "surreal', or painterly, or as impressionist, or as objects, or shapes, or as light or combination of them, rather than as how we normally see or regard such scenes, then I would say that is a kind of abstract. There you have succeeded.
JR
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Hmmm. I have one of those:
View from My Chair
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/33539241826_ace148a977_b_d.jpg)
Frankly, I'd have trouble claiming this to be abstract, even by my rather generous definition of the term as it relates to photography. It is, quite literally, a view from my favorite chair. The next one, maybe. Although it's also an unmanipulated photograph―pretty much straight out of the camera except for some unexceptional post-processing.
Window Treatment
(https://live.staticflickr.com/1850/43737834465_12953615af_b_d.jpg)
Chris they are very nice images. I particularly like the view from the chair. However, I see the window image as an abstract, but not the view from the chair. Why, because to me the image shows a straight forward image of your rooms in the house as rooms with art. If your focus was on the corners of the room, or the shapes of the windows or how they created lights or shapes, then I would agree they are abstract. The view from the window isolates part of the tower and makes us see it, not as windows, but as shapes, tones lines and colours, even though we may recognize the true subject. The other possibility, as Russ suggested, is to depict the subject, in a surreal or other worldly manner.
We accept anything abstract or semi-abstract in the thread anyway. So post away, please!
JR
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We accept anything abstract or semi-abstract in the thread anyway. So post away, please!
OK, challenge accepted. What about these?
Shaded Window
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Hibiscus
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OK, challenge accepted. What about these?
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Once again very nice work. Like the subtlety of the underlying "other world." Abstract, yes as we are forced to see the world in another way. Like an illusion. The flower is superb but so recognizable that we see a close up of a flower.
Doesn't matter Chris, I am not the arbiter what is abstract or semi-abstract, just giving my opinion because you asked.
JR
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A little soft due to very high ISO and being handheld. For me the focus is on the pattern and the contrast between the blue and orange-yellow movement of the colours.
JR
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Yeah. I like that one. Strikes me as a flow of colors down a drain to the left.
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For me the focus is on the pattern and the contrast between the blue and orange-yellow movement of the colours.
This, I think, is genuinely abstract, even by the standard I would apply to painting. Well done.
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Yeah. I like that one. Strikes me as a flow of colors down a drain to the left.
Well you got it right, Russ. It is small rapids flowing over a rock looking like a drain motion as it moves over the rock. The yellow-orange comes from a ridge reflecting evening light onto the rapids. Thanks again.
This, I think, is genuinely abstract, even by the standard I would apply to painting. Well done.
Thanks Chris. I chose that image because I knew it was closer to a "true" abstract. I had a great day on my walk, but sure wish I had brought the tripod. In this one, the underlying subject is more obvious but still has an abstract quality, I think.
JR
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This, I think, is genuinely abstract, even by the standard I would apply to painting. Well done.
I agree. And very nice.
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Beyond the room
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Ghostly! I like it!
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In this one, the underlying subject is more obvious but still has an abstract quality, I think.
JR
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Whatever you label it, this one really strikes my fancy. Well done, John.
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Beyond the room
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Simply excellent, Francisco. A standout.
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+1
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Simply excellent, Francisco. A standout.
+1
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Simply excellent, Francisco. A standout.
Thanks so much Arlen!
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Thanks for your comments Eric, Russ & Armand
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Simply excellent, Francisco. A standout.
Yes, I agree. I really like the play of low light with the darkness.
JR
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A few dabs of blue will do you.
JR
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Good stuff, John.
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Beyond the room
Wonderful.
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Keith, John, thanks for your comments!
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A simple photo of a boat's wake on a lake.
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Elegant.
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Was allowed to visit my mother at the Lodge and while waiting I photographed this nearby building at a College Campus with my point and shoot.
The white wants to explore, but the black says, not so far.
JR
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Tip toeing...
JR
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/B0w85Qkl1IYr9woO2qpTW1Ti5_tKJX4qW-m2FxXKM-smgaKdbfOWeca1B7uCC0Fuv2J7MSjhqXRhx0gBsQCQXkACWi2JVImaNHcxbE7LlLb4SHp65twXdGTidk2oC9DvyLwz4WHzlQ=w2400)
A little too complex for my taste, but what the heck. I haven't posted to my favourite topic for a while. :)
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Definitely abstract, Peter. I like it.
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Definitely abstract, Peter. I like it.
Me too.
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Golden light.
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Believe it or not, both found along a river walk.
JR
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Of these last three, I can imagine what the actual scene looked like in the first two, but the third has no obvious connection with "reality" that my mind can conjure. SO it's the most "abstract" of the three and my personal favorite.
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Of these last three, I can imagine what the actual scene looked like in the first two, but the third has no obvious connection with "reality" that my mind can conjure. SO it's the most "abstract" of the three and my personal favorite.
Thanks Eric. Along the river they created garden plots with little fences. The fences were actually horizontally mounted wires covered in rainbow ribbons. And that's what I shot as I panned the camera. It was amusing watching the passersby wondering what I was doing!
JR
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"There goes that crazy John, who can't even hand-hold his camera steady." :D
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Four layers of shimmering light. The feeling of reflecting and bouncing light as the waves move is very nice Armand. An association with summer and water for sure.
JR
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Superb. For me it's either summer and the beach or Christmas with all the lights!
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Experimenting...
JR
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A successful experiment, John.
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Thank you John and Francois!
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Undulating waters.
JR
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Very nice, as usual.
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Chaos
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Excellent, David.
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+1
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A few dabs of blue will do you.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-wfV9P4F/0/cbf4592d/L/une%2015-%202020%20Lambton%20woods_0172%20copy1000-L.jpg)
I missed this one. Excellent, very painterly.
Speaking of painters, where has Peter Fiore gone? I seem to remember he had issues with the political discussions here on LuLa. Here's hoping it is just that and that everything is well with Peter and his family.
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Thanks Keith. I am sure Peter is busy.
JR
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We're off to who knows where...
JR
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Good one, John.
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Thanks Russ. One more and I think I will retire for awhile...so hot outside.
JR
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Another good one. Yes. Tell me about hot. I go out in the morning as close to first light as I can get out there, and by the time I get to the bottom of the porch steps I'm sweating. By the time I get to the golf course, which is my stopping point about three quarters of a mile down the river the sweat's rolling off my face and I'm drenched. But if I can come back with even one good picture it's all worth it. (I also need the exercise, and with the lockdown it's about the only way I'm going to get it.)
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A little more mysterious.
JR
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A little more mysterious.
JR
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Very fine.
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Very fine.
Thanks Eric. They are in facts roots. Uncanny that we both posted roots.
JR
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In the River
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Russ,
I was about to write that this would look good in Abstracts, and then I noticed that that was where I was (blush).
I like it a lot.
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Another nice one, Russ. If you flipped it vertically, you could really mess with our heads!
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In the River
Who needs oils?
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Another nice one, Russ. If you flipped it vertically, you could really mess with our heads!
He is just trying turn us upside down!
JR
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Who needs oils?
Interesting, Keith. After I got home, dried out, and brought this up on my computer I had a similar thought. I thought what I was looking at was about as close to a real abstract as you could get with a camera, and that to do better you'd need a brush and a canvas. A slight disturbance in the water was what brought the scene as close to a real abstract as it is.
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Yachts!
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Lots of yachts! And very interesting.
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Lots of yachts! And very interesting.
Interesting yes! But you shouldn't have told us what it is. It's a good abstract.
JR
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Serene green.
JR
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Top to Bottom
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Top to Bottom
Quite surreal and abstract. Moving water with dapples of light? It moves the eye as if flowing.
JR
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Squirrely
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Very good, Chris. Again, about as close as you can get to a real abstract with a camera.
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Top to Bottom
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Love this.. but there's a filter applied right? Topaz impression or something similar maybe?
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John, you hit the nail on the head. The water was crystal clear and the bottom was a patchwork of black volcanic rock and algae. James, yes there was additional processing employed until I came up with something I liked.
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Also from water movement. But unfortunately I was not able to paint mine as nice as Arlen's.
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You paint with your camera movements, and within its menus. With nearly always superlative results, like this last one, as far as I can tell.
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You paint with your camera movements, and within its menus. With nearly always superlative results, like this last one, as far as I can tell.
Thanks Arlen. The last blue image is just undulating water and reflections, probably of sky and clouds. These two are patterns created by foam running from waterfall, resting and coalescing on the shore of a stream. That was natural colour with a little contrast added to heighten the contrast. You can even see a little blue and yellow.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-CLCRnKk/0/5ad1b73a/L/JMR_0577%20copy1000b-L.jpg)
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From my "hanging around the house" series.
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These two are patterns created by foam running from waterfall, resting and coalescing on the shore of a stream. That was natural colour with a little contrast added to heighten the contrast. You can even see a little blue and yellow.
JR
They are both enchanting, and that near-black-and-white-but-not-quite look suits them well. I'm having a hard time deciding which one I like best.
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From my "hanging around the house" series.
It is quite mysterious. Whatever it is, I think it needs a tourniquet.
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Fleeting movements.
JR
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The Dancing Waters of Burano:
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And they are all really fine Larry. So much colour!!
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Lovely water abstracts, guys.
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Thanks, JR! You're the master of the abstract, IMHO!
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Echoes...
JR
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Nice.
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Nice.
Thank Eric...Eric... what more echoes?
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A rainy day abstract:
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Good seeing, Slobodan.
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Refraction
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Refraction
Yes! From a cursory look at small level, I thought it was a leaping leopard with frost filter. A visual symbiotic relationship between environment, fish, water and colour. Wonderful.
JR
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Wild and wonderful.
I also saw the leopard and wondered if it was about to leap out of the water to attack the photographer.
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The skies must have a foil.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Guelph/i-j94xJhT/0/6f03a826/L/Aug%2012-2020%20Guelph%20Arboretum_0448%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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Thanks, John and Eric. And you guys are not the only ones who have seen a leopard in that picture. But I guess knowing what it was kept me from recognizing that possibility.
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The skies must have a foil.
JR
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I love it when dramatic clouds and good foils come together.
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Somewhere in Alaska
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Charming.
Your champagne glass before you drank it? ;)
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Weathered
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Weathered
Great textures and colors! The sort of thing that would catch me eye.
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Great textures and colors! The sort of thing that would catch me eye.
+1.
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Good shooting, Armand.
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Thank you Peter, Eric and Russ!
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Admit it Armand you painted that, latch and all. Then you dried it up and scraped it until it looked just so. Right? I especially like the latch image.
JR
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From last night's walk to the grocer.
JR
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This one took a first place in a local Photo Competition in the Abstract division. Whoopie for me but I'm a hundred clams richer.
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Nice one, Chris.
Congratulations!
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Metolius Mirage
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Good one. Wants a big print.
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Arlen’s shot is lovely. Chris’s shot is beautiful. And it looks as if John finally cleaned the Vaseline off his lens.
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Arlen’s shot is lovely. Chris’s shot is beautiful. And it looks as if John finally cleaned the Vaseline off his lens.
True. But I'm sure John has a lifetime supply of Vaseline.
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Thanks guys, I appreciate the feedback. I do plan to see what it looks like in print.
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Good one. Wants a big print.
These images always make me think about how much blur is acceptable before it gets too muddy. From a distance it has more painterly quality, so I think Eric is right. The pattern of colour and touch of blue balance beautifully.
JR
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True. But I'm sure John has a lifetime supply of Vaseline.
If Russ would only walk a little on the 'dark side', then things would all fall in place. I have laid out this path if you dare.
(Secret sauce: Glasses for straight images; no glasses for ICM. Watch out for "Alice in wonderland rabbit holes 8))
JR
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These images always make me think about how much blur is acceptable before it gets too muddy. From a distance it has more painterly quality, so I think Eric is right. The pattern of colour and touch of blue balance beautifully.
JR
Hey, at least I didn't use any vaseline. ;D
But actually, since yesterday I had already decided that it might be a tad too soft, and have added just a slight touch of texture to it.
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My cameras tend to see like Russ, but my own eyes these days tend to see like John's ICM photos. :(
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The flow of blue and pink.
JR
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~Lumine
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The light in my garden.
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The light in my garden.
Lovely.
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Lovely.
Yes. This is also Lumine.
JR
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Very fine shots, John, Patricia, and JNB.
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I have been a little knotty lately. See for yourself.
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The flow of blue and pink.
JR
Missed it at first, John. Very nice.
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The light in my garden.
Very nice indeed.
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The flow of blue and pink.
JR
Missed it at first, John. Very nice.
Me, too. The interplay of lines and colors is very appealing.
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Me, too. The interplay of lines and colors is very appealing.
Thanks Russ and Arlen.
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Striking a balance with shapes and lines.
JR
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-PFwScfs/0/3874ca39/L/JMR_2246%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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Both good.
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Here's one from me, at last.
Taken this summer, but I have no idea what the actual subject was.
(it was taken on a walk where I shot several Lady Slippers. This is clearly not one of them.)
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Here's one from me, at last.
Taken this summer, but I have no idea what the actual subject was.
(it was taken on a walk where I shot several Lady Slippers. This is clearly not one of them.)
I think I have an idea of what it is. But it does remind me of jagged, moss covered rocks, something old slowly being reclaimed by the earth. The soft light makes the vertical pattern come out nicely.
JR
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Parts of it look to me like the trunk of a fallen tree that someone has taken an axe or a chainsaw to.
I'v got to revisit the places I found lady slippers in June and see if I can find it again,
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Parts of it look to me like the trunk of a fallen tree that someone has taken an axe or a chainsaw to.
I'v got to revisit the places I found lady slippers in June and see if I can find it again,
Hey, regardless, enjoy the walks. I think I have only seen one lady slipper. I know lots grow in the Niagara Peninsula if you can bear the bugs when they come out.
JR
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Incongruent. But it fits nicely with the theme of trying to balance all the elements. I can crop this image six ways to Sunday and still come up with a good composition. And I did just that in the field, which is the way I like to work. It expands your horizons, so to speak. I am sure others have their way of 'seeing'.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-sHbrFXv/0/f6bdd164/XL/JMR_2448%20cropcopy-1000-XL.jpg)
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Incongruent. But it fits nicely with the theme of trying to balance all the elements. I can crop this image six ways to Sunday and still come up with a good composition. And I did just that in the field, which is the way I like to work. It expands your horizons, so to speak. I am sure others have their way of 'seeing'.
JR
Really good! I enjoy these kind of 'graphic' design images. I tend to frame 'classically' when I'm not really thinking about it. Lately, I've tried to be more open to asymmetry, discord, and tension.
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Incongruent. But it fits nicely with the theme of trying to balance all the elements. I can crop this image six ways to Sunday and still come up with a good composition. And I did just that in the field, which is the way I like to work. It expands your horizons, so to speak. I am sure others have their way of 'seeing'.
JR
Excellent: Patterns, colors and shapes, I like it a lot!
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Another good one.
My field technique is something like this: I wave the camera around until I see something that might be interesting. Then I just press the "Compose" button. ;D
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Really good! I enjoy these kind of 'graphic' design images. I tend to frame 'classically' when I'm not really thinking about it. Lately, I've tried to be more open to asymmetry, discord, and tension.
Of course, the irony is if you want to show those themes in a photograph you have to bring order and structure to them in the photograph.
Another good one.
My field technique is something like this: I wave the camera around until I see something that might be interesting. Then I just press the "Compose" button. ;D
I have to try that some time Eric. I have to say I sometimes dream of photographing by blinking my eyes in the dream. So perhaps that is what you mean.
Thanks Francois.
JR
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I've found my Mystery Abstract.
It is indeed a fallen tree. It looks as if some inexperienced woodsman attempted unsuccessfully to cut the tree down after it was dead but still standing. It eventually fell down of its own accord.
I went for a walk this afternoon in the nearby woods where I had seen ladyslippers in May. I was out for over an hour, following every trail that I might have gone on that day. I was about to give up, when I finally found it, about 6 feet from where I parked my car!
Here is the original "abstract," so you don't have to go looking for it, and below it is today's image, which I think shows the scene better.
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I've found my Mystery Abstract.
It is indeed a fallen tree. It looks as if some inexperienced woodsman attempted unsuccessfully to cut the tree down after it was dead but still standing. It eventually fell down of its own accord.
I went for a walk this afternoon in the nearby woods where I had seen ladyslippers in May. I was out for over an hour, following every trail that I might have gone on that day. I was about to give up, when I finally found it, about 6 feet from where I parked my car!
Here is the original "abstract," so you don't have to go looking for it, and below it is today's image, which I think shows the scene better.
Your abstract was gnawing at me until I finally realized what it reminded me of - pipes of an organ!
JR
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Good eye, Eric. That's an abstract all right.
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I've found my Mystery Abstract.
It is indeed a fallen tree. It looks as if some inexperienced woodsman attempted unsuccessfully to cut the tree down after it was dead but still standing. It eventually fell down of its own accord.
I went for a walk this afternoon in the nearby woods where I had seen ladyslippers in May. I was out for over an hour, following every trail that I might have gone on that day. I was about to give up, when I finally found it, about 6 feet from where I parked my car!
Here is the original "abstract," so you don't have to go looking for it, and below it is today's image, which I think shows the scene better.
Excellent stuff, Eric!
In your second shot, are the cutting marks some sort of cannibalism on a human femur? :D
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Thanks guys.
And Francois: I assumed that those grooves were made by a kid who had borrowed his dad's chainsaw. I suspect the chainsaw was to heavy for him to hold it up while cutting all the way through the fallen tree. But maybe it was good enough to work OK on his little sister. 8)
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On another industrial walk just a few blocks from the house.
(edit: added a third image)
JR
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-GNvR7Cc/0/721d88fb/L/JMR_2776%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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The first of these is especially good, John.
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The first of these is especially good, John.
I agree.
(Even though it was taken with your sharp lens.)
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Thanks Russ and Eric. But if you don't knock it off I will set my giant pet spider on you guys ;)
JR
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That one is superb. And I have no idea how you did it.
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Thanks Eric. Here is one taken as I walked toward an underpass. i could not pass up this strong graphic look of shadow, light and shapes. Looks great in BW also.
JR
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Another good one, John -- that can fairly be called an abstract.
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Another good one, John -- that can fairly be called an abstract.
Yes it can. Excellent.
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I like the "spider" abstract!
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Yes it can. Excellent.
Thanks again. Another take. As I said one could easily frame some subjects many ways.
JR
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I like the "spider" abstract!
Thanks for the comments, John B.
JR
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Beautiful symmetry and contrasts!
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Beautiful symmetry and contrasts!
Thanks Francois. Two from my recent trip to Campbellford.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-KgfBcjB/0/58fa418a/L/JMR_3567%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-6vFtQgF/0/45863248/L/JMR_3539%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Who was riding in that small boat just about to go over the falls?
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Who was riding in that small boat just about to go over the falls?
It's Monet without his glasses trying to tell Manet everything is just fine - come on in!
JR
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Good shooting, John. The last one is more than abstract. It's mysterious.
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Very!
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Good shooting, John. The last one is more than abstract. It's mysterious.
In that case, I will continue the mystery with this variation on a theme so to speak. Thanks Russ and Eric.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-2gNkmkL/0/5d072f63/L/JMR_3536%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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It must a DUCK, cause it sure has wheels ;D
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I've been experimenting with b/w macros aiming towards high key abstracts. It's still a work in progress, but here is a recent set. Please feel free to leave your thoughts, and thanks for stopping by. - Bob
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Just one I played with and can't recall where it was taken. Reminds me of fire, even though the colours are not the same.
JR
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Here's a new one from the side of the road when I was chasing the fall color on the back side of the Sierra Nevada a week ago. In some ways, it was the best "find" of the day since the skies were smokey and many of the trees just turning from green to yellow.
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From today's walk at Glen Haffey.
JR
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John, your best shots occur when your lens and camera are functioning properly.
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John, your best shots occur when your lens and camera are functioning properly.
John, it must be that HCB never shot a blurry photo, even though all of his were hand-held. ;D
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Here's a new one from the side of the road when I was chasing the fall color on the back side of the Sierra Nevada a week ago. In some ways, it was the best "find" of the day since the skies were smokey and many of the trees just turning from green to yellow.
Now there's an abstract, Larry.
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John, it must be that HCB never shot a blurry photo, even though all of his were hand-held. ;D
John, your best shots occur when your lens and camera are functioning properly.
We went through this already. Semi abstract and impressions are abstract enough. 8) That image was actually composed of multiple exposures. Now this one is a combination of the two.
JR
Wispy autumn
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Coke bottle.
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Flow.
JR
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CT gone mad
(https://armandtanase.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p4014617622-5.jpg)
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Autumn shadows.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-mCNLzBs/0/3c0fec54/L/JMR_6327%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Wind Dancer
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Sun flare and camera motion.
JR
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Hi John, I like your Autumn Shadows but then you dropped the camera again.
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Hi John, I like your Autumn Shadows but then you dropped the camera again.
Naw. He just replaced the battery in his camera vibrator.
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Yes, I recharged the batteries and my spirits.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-mdWxt8c/0/1f625026/L/Oct%2016-%202020%20Grindstone%20Creek_0399%20copy4-1000-L.jpg)
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Yes, I recharged the batteries and my spirits.
JR
There's something about this one that I really like.
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Linear ! ;)
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Good one!
That large glass of spirits helped a great deal.
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Sometimes you just try things.
JR
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There's something about this one that I really like.
Me, too. That one is different and very interesting, John.
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Leaf Me Alone
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When something strikes you photograph it even if you think it is not much, this is the way I felt about this image.
JR
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I could see playing around with this one in several ways (viewpoint, cropping, etc.)
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I could see playing around with this one in several ways (viewpoint, cropping, etc.)
Yes and even with a slightest move in any direction, the final image could be totally different…
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Thank you Eric and Francois. Yes this one is amenable to cropping and creating even more new configurations.
JR
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Tidal Surge
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(https://armandtanase.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p4034544783-5.jpg)
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Boathouse Reflection
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Boathouse Reflection
That's wild! I reckon it could work in b&w also.
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Lovely zig-zags.
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Boathouse Reflection
Really cool, Chris!
JR
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A few new ones from the roadside:
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Fascinating roadside. Good stuff.
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Salmo River.
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Two excellent ones, Scott.
My favorite is the first.
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Sunlit siding on a detached garage, captured during this afternoon's walk on an unseasonably warm day here in Rockville, Maryand.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50581050076_250e73538f_c_d.jpg)
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Sunlit siding on a detached garage, captured during this afternoon's walk on an unseasonably warm day here in Rockville, Maryand.
Beautiful!
JR
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A few new ones from the roadside:
All of them are quite intriguing. I think I like the first one the best.
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Here's a new one from me.
Any guesses?
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looks like formed paper/cardboard for shipping - maybe a printer head or a medical device ?
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That's Eric's fingerprint. And that big dark area is his indelible family trait. Is it casting mark form bottom of a metal object?
JR
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Well, Degrub wins the grand prize, but yes, John, my fingerprints are all over it.
It's actually the custom packing insert for a vacuum cleaner we just bought. It is the most elaborate piece of custom packaging I have seen. Here are some other variants:
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you could have a series with a close up lens or macro !
Views of the vacuum box canyon ;)
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you could have a series with a close up lens or macro !
Views of the vacuum box canyon ;)
I may try that. I haven't had the heart to throw the "model" away yet.
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I like your second image of the second set best. To me it has the best flow. It allows the understated sheen to dominate while still showing the shapes, textures and shadow areas.
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Thanks, John. I think I agree.
I'll keep a copy of that handy as I work on any more versions.
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Salmo River.
HA! Many's the time I've admired that river on my way to and from the coast. Gorgeous at nearly any time of the year.
You've shown it well.
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Well, Degrub wins the grand prize, but yes, John, my fingerprints are all over it.
It's actually the custom packing insert for a vacuum cleaner we just bought. It is the most elaborate piece of custom packaging I have seen. Here are some other variants:
A perfect example of why this is my favourite thread on the forum. Well seen and imaged! Looks like something from "Bladerunner".
Seeing is the hard part, right?
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A perfect example of why this is my favourite thread on the forum. Well seen and imaged! Looks like something from "Bladerunner".
Seeing is the hard part, right?
I never expected to find inspiration in a hunk of molded cardboard, but once I saw it ...
(The vacuum cleaner works fine, but is visually uninspiring.)
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Early New Years celebrations 8)
JR
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I can read lots of different scenes into that.
Nice!
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On a bright sunny winter day.
JR
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Young Swan
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Fine shot, beautifully processed.
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Koi
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The sea-monster of the bayou?
Nice catch.
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Carp diem.
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A couple from a while ago.
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Acid Sunrise (Bored and needed something to do) Obviously composited.
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It looks interesting Chris. Exotic is the word that comes to mind. Now here is mine, not as exotic, but certainly a bit surreal. A simple double exposure in the field. My PS skills are so, so.
JR
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Excellent, Michael!
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Excellent, Michael!
Yes, well done.
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+1
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Yes, well done.
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Thank you.
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Yes, well done.
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Make that one more well done.
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From my walk at Humber Bay. Echoes of movement.
JR
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From my walk at Humber Bay. Echoes of movement.
JR
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Stunning and could also be used as an illustration for physic course!
Well seen.
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Stunning and could also be used as an illustration for physic course!
Well seen.
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One of your best!
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Thank you gentlemen. If you jump in, your get to travel back in time, just like the old time tunnel show 8)
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That's a wonderful image John
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For some time now, I have been trying to photograph the Gaura (Butterfly Bush) in our garden.
I found it impossible trying to get enough of it in focus without the background. I tried shallow and deep DOF's and nothing worked.
Today I tried completely out of focus at f1.8 and this was the result.
I am interested to see what you guys make of it...
To me, it perfectly captures the "feel" I get when we sit on our veranda and watch the sunrise every morning.
(They must be viewed as large as possible!)
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Both are very effective. I think you found just the right approach for these.
Bravo!
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You have to see these large to appreciate the "look." Keep looking!
JR
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Urbanscape.
JR
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Just enough hints for it to say "City."
Bravo!
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Shadowy figures.
JR
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Reflecting the sky.
JR
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Good catch, John. I like it.
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Good catch, John. I like it.
Thanks Arlen. This was done with in-camera filter where it pulls out one colour -blue in this case from sky- accentuates it and renders the remainder as BW, all super saturated. Almost like blocked up dense colors. Works good on graphic style images such as this one. Not so much for other types of images.
JR
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That's a cool effect, and this was a good application for it.
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Good catch, John. I like it.
+1.
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Thanks guys. And I really like this one, not only for its simplicity but also because it reminds me of Kodachrome
"...Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon [Pentax] camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama don't take my Kodachrome away!"
from Paul Simon
JR
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Nice!
(I never did like ektachrome.)
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A tunnel I have driven numberless times; this one is in Hokkaido on the way to Rausu in Shiretoko National Park. I did an exhibit on tunnels and the Zoom Lens Effect in Tokyo a few years ago; the reaction was warm and friendly. Namaste, Blain (hair some u) Harasymiw.
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A tunnel I have driven numberless times; this one is in Hokkaido on the way to Rausu in Shiretoko National Park. I did an exhibit on tunnels and the Zoom Lens Effect in Tokyo a few years ago; the reaction was warm and friendly. Namaste, Blain (hair some u) Harasymiw.
Cool. If by chance you are time travelling, let us know. You look like you are in a hurry to anywhere and yet I am sure you want to stop somewhere. LuLa is as good a place any.
JR
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A fine tunnel shot.
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Eric Myrvaagnes, thank you and thank you for sharing the URL to your website, brilliant photography. The images that truly spoke to me are POS_25, POS33, POS35, POS45, POS51, POS52, and numerous others. I bookmarked your website, and I am sure to visit again. Namaste, Blain in Japan🇯🇵
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Thanks for the kind comments.
My website has some bugs at the moment, which I hope to have squashed within a few more days.
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Perhaps (?) the last of snow in my area.
JR
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We've still got a little snow, but the forecast for tomorrow is sunny and temperatures in the 70s (F)!
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No snow. All gone. Just grey and black... a geometric and tonal exercise...if you will...
JR
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Window and wall; light and shadow - and that's all.
JR
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I'm not commenting each image every time.
I just watch and like them :)
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Thanks for your interest Rab. I am sure the other posters appreciate it.
JR
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Some days are more colorful and abstract than others.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Kt3kwgs/0/c7ad79b6/L/JMR_2194%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-7jhv453/0/6fce10b2/L/March%2011-%202021%20Local%20Walk_0064%20copy1000-L.jpg)
This one is just a play on the original green colors.
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I think I know your secret, John.
You just press the "auto-find-good-image" button on your custom camera and it wanders around your neighborhood snapping only the best stuff, returning when its film chip needs to be replaced. Of course, you have optional buttons you can also set before it goes out: Color or BW, ... , and dials to specify camera wiggle (degree and direction), etc. :D
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must be an Australian brand since it does the "wiggles" ;)
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I think I know your secret, John.
You just press the "auto-find-good-image" button on your custom camera and it wanders around your neighborhood snapping only the best stuff, returning when its film chip needs to be replaced. Of course, you have optional buttons you can also set before it goes out: Color or BW, ... , and dials to specify camera wiggle (degree and direction), etc. :D
Thank you Eric and Degrub (sorry I don't know your name.)
Eric, my biggest influence by far was Freeman Patterson, a Canadian photographer and teacher. You are probably familiar with him as he traveled to the US often to teach and give seminars. Epecially in the New England states. He is now in his eighties, still teaching and leading workshops in New Brunswick. He published a book back in the eighties called, "Photography and the art of seeing." That was a big influence on me. There was nothing like it back then, as it was about aesthetics and learning to see and photograph as a way to express oneself and not simply take post cardy pictures. This pandemic has constrained the way we work, travel and play. I think what I have learned from FP and fine artists, coupled with these constraints have helped me see images I otherwise would have walked by. Look at the fine work Keith has produced. On it goes, I hope.
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It was very cold and windy, so I cut my walk short. What to do now? I reviewed my images and said that won't do. So I got out the crayons that my kids discarded - and this is the result!
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I never drew that neatly with crayons.
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Eric, you should have saved your hockey sticks and used them to draw straight lines. On my daily walk series I used Lego water colours and pastels, ha, ha.
JR
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There comes a time when one has to put away the crayons. So light and shadow play today.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-8kLtPBb/0/b783bc81/L/JMR_2768%20bwcopy3-1000-L.jpg)
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Really interesting, John. And the two work well together, with the lines from the top image seeming to continue into the bottom one. Did you do that intentionally?
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Really interesting, John. And the two work well together, with the lines from the top image seeming to continue into the bottom one. Did you do that intentionally?
I would like to say yes, but I didn't notice the continuity until you mentioned it. Thanks for the comments, Arlen.
JR
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Really interesting, John. And the two work well together, with the lines from the top image seeming to continue into the bottom one. Did you do that intentionally?
Just what I was thinking.
Also, it's nice to see you found a subject with its wiggle built-in (no need to wobble the camera.)
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Just what I was thinking.
Also, it's nice to see you found a subject with its wiggle built-in (no need to wobble the camera.)
Thanks Eric, whistle wiggle while you work...
JR
Sometimes I like to put a new slant on things.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-26sQBNX/0/8246e1b2/L/JMR_3297%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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Photographed during the great San Francisco earthquake, no doubt.
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Photographed during the great San Francisco earthquake, no doubt.
I humbly admit I backed into a crazy skateboarder.
JR
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When are we most like light and shadow. Depends on time of day and season.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-m2Dk3V7/0/9732891f/L/JMR_3148%20bwcopy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Which are we most like light and shadow. Depends on time of day and season.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-m2Dk3V7/0/9732891f/L/JMR_3148%20bwcopy2-1000-L.jpg)
I love this one, it plays with my mind and lets me imagine different geometries!
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I love this one, it plays with my mind and lets me imagine different geometries!
Thanks Francois. It did the same for me.
JR
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That's just what a good abstract should do: invite you yo play mind games.
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The shadows make it.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-wfbk6D5/0/61cb09cf/L/JMR_3154%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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This is nice, too.
I like the fact that there is no clue to the actual size. Teacup or building? Could be either, or in between.
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This is nice, too.
I like the fact that there is no clue to the actual size. Teacup or building? Could be either, or in between.
Thanks Eric. It's the ribs of largish motorboat.
JR
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You might want to revisit it and try some camera wiggle.
It might be interesting, or might not.
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I'm not certain whether this qualifies as abstract. It's a macro of a dogwood tree flower bud, a little more than 1 cm in diameter. Literally, I suppose it's representational, but if I hadn't shot it myself I wouldn't have been able to identify it.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51089501290_3658ea84c3_c_d.jpg)
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It's a fine, well-composed, interesting image.
Whether it is "sufficiently abstract" to deserve the label is a question I'm not interested in.
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It's a fine, well-composed, interesting image.
Whether it is "sufficiently abstract" to deserve the label is a question I'm not interested in.
And I agree...
JR
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Then who am I to argue?
Thanks for the comments, Gentle Men.
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A gentle glow makes what looks like building blocks come to to life.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-73N3LDb/0/e26d1e6e/L/JMR_3554%20cropcopy1000-L.jpg)
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Nice.
Did you buy that set of blocks at Toys'R'Us?
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Nice.
Did you buy that set of blocks at Toys'R'Us?
Sometimes Eric, I think you are just trying to push my button.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-7d77VH4/0/294e9820/L/JMR_3602%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Careful !
That is a $ 7,000 red dot.
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I tried, but nothing happened (but it left a smudge on my computer screen.) :(
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Natural patterns aplenty.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/171541440/original.jpg)
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Wild!
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And the entire critter, though just 13 mm long, is only a little less wild.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/171542995/original.jpg)
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Wild!
Yes wild. But I must say I like the whole critter image even more.
JR
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So do I, John. But it's not often one gets to see the astonishing close up patterns and details in small bugs like this.
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I agree Arlen. Let the patterns and colors play on.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-RchzSWh/0/b524636b/L/JMR_3799%20copy4-1000-L.jpg)
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And the entire critter, though just 13 mm long, is only a little less wild.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/171542995/original.jpg)
Did you say 13 feet long??? 8)
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I agree Arlen. Let the patterns and colors play on.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-RchzSWh/0/b524636b/L/JMR_3799%20copy4-1000-L.jpg)
Ah! Less terrifying than Arlen's.
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Ah! Less terrifying than Arlen's.
Agreed. It seems to be beautifully saying "wake up, happy days are here again." Or something like that. :)
The more I look at it, the more I like it, as I imagine it hanging on a wall. Substantial unprintable colors, but soft proofing suggests it would still look good on, say, Ilford Gold Fibre Silk baryta (no longer available), or even, though more subdued, on Epson Hot Press Bright.
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Agreed. It seems to be beautifully saying "wake up, happy days are here again." Or something like that. :)
The more I look at it, the more I like it, as I imagine it hanging on a wall. Substantial unprintable colors, but soft proofing suggests it would still look good on, say, Ilford Gold Fibre Silk baryta (no longer available), or even, though more subdued, on Epson Hot Press Bright.
My friend here, says I should thank you guys for your interest and comments. Thank you!
JR
Look what the digital age has wrought.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-vxpnnNm/0/3a49207f/L/JMR_3845%20panocopy6-1000-L.jpg)
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That's just the sort of thing you often find on your daily walk, John?
Very nice!
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Quite intriguing. I know we probably shouldn't ask, but this is one where I feel the need for a clue as to what it is, or how it was done, if you care to shed light on the mystery.
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Nice.
Did you buy that set of blocks at Toys'R'Us?
these LEGOS came from toys r US
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Quite intriguing. I know we probably shouldn't ask, but this is one where I feel the need for a clue as to what it is, or how it was done, if you care to shed light on the mystery.
Here is the original image, I believe it is a tinsel ornament that the kids hung in the park along with all kinds of other things. I deleted the image that actually looks like tinsel because I did not like it, and it is not what I was after. This is what I have left - the one I liked. I really wanted a blur because the tinsel was moving. But without a tripod I could not hold it steady enough. So I moved the camera!
I mirrored the image and pano-stitched it. Then mirrored, flipped, and pano-stitched it again. Then I tried the polar coordinate, distortion filter on it. I didn't like it, so I tried selecting two colors and that worked for me. I noticed the futuristic digital like face and cropped it to emphasize the eyes and face. I don't use PS or Lightroom, so no history. Just experimentation until I see something I like.
So Eric, I did take this on my walk, kind of... 8)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-bQ8KwQf/0/8ac8d1b3/M/JMR_3845%20copy1000-M.jpg)
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The original shot is fascinating, but what you did with it is superb.
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Here is the original image, I believe it is a tinsel ornament that the kids hung in the park along with all kinds of other things. I deleted the image that actually looks like tinsel because I did not like it, and it is not what I was after. This is what I have left - the one I liked. I really wanted a blur because the tinsel was moving. But without a tripod I could not hold it steady enough. So I moved the camera!
I mirrored the image and pano-stitched it. Then mirrored, flipped, and pano-stitched it again. Then I tried the polar coordinate, distortion filter on it. I didn't like it, so I tried selecting two colors and that worked for me. I noticed the futuristic digital like face and cropped it to emphasize the eyes and face. I don't use PS or Lightroom, so no history. Just experimentation until I see something I like.
So Eric, I did take this on my walk, kind of... 8)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-bQ8KwQf/0/8ac8d1b3/M/JMR_3845%20copy1000-M.jpg)
Well, you get a "bravo" from me. Starting from something unsatisfying but with potential, you kept modifying it until it became not only very interesting, but unique. No one has ever made something quite like this, and likely no one else ever will. Pretty much the definition of creativity.
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Thanks Arlen.
Played with this one a bit. the colours are true, but I elected to present as half black and white.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-5GGVtfH/0/e5085aa9/L/April%2022-%202020%20Walk_0700%20halfbw-copy1000-L.jpg)
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No doubt taken as a single shot with your new half-monochrome half-color Johnrikon .
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Time for a change.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-dCnzLMD/0/ad0ace48/L/JMR_4220%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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reminds me that the summer olympics are right around the corner !
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Bravo, John!
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Bravo, John!
reminds me that the summer olympics are right around the corner !
Thanks guys!
JR
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Excellent, John.
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Well seen and nicely presented.
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Thanks again for recognizing the
undulations... I mean for the congratulations, Chris and Eric ;)
JR
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I decided this is a little more abstract...lines and colours and even some noise.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-5RKdX7J/0/1cb3c036/L/JMR_4389%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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I decided this is a little more abstract...lines and colours and even some noise.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-5RKdX7J/0/1cb3c036/L/JMR_4389%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
Wow, that's abstract! I need to rev up my brain.
Well done!
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Another excellent one indeed.
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Wow, that's abstract! I need to rev up my brain.
Well done!
That's exactly how I see abstracts and semi-abstracts. Have to rev up the brain to notice things I normally pass by. Thanks Francois and Eric.
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Here are two more.
The first one I call "The Great Sand Heron.
The second I can't come up with a good moniker, so I'll just call it "Abstract # 29671."
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How about "Fish in a Pond"?
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Beautiful tonality and expressions!The first speaks for itself, but the second kind of reminds of something being born. Excellent!
JR
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Thanks, Frans and John.
Hm. I like "Fish in a pond" much better than Abstract #...
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I like them, as usual
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Thanks, Rab.
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This is not marble. Any ideas?
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This is not marble. Any ideas?
I have similar images myself. Scum and froth on water? Possibly coffee with some cream - what opposites!
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I have similar images myself. Scum and froth on water? Possibly coffee with some cream - what opposites!
JR
Your first guess is correct.
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Your first guess is correct.
Peter are you familiar with the PS module the governs layers? If you duplicate the layer and then use the multiply or overlay command I think you can really enhance contrast and bring out the dark patterns.
JR
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Ripples of colour.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-HgGsFLP/0/b3650aef/L/IMG_0038%20copy4-1000-L.jpg)
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I love this one. The ripples and alternating colors look like a sea with waves coming from two different directions.
Well done.
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Really wild!
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A Gradient in Seattle
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A Gradient in Seattle
Good eye. I like it James, especially the highlighted white areas in the water. But I suspect, if the highlights were not there you would not have taken the shot.
JR
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I agree with John R.
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A Gradient in Seattle
Very subtle, just enough to be noticed by a keen eye!
Well done.
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A school of frantic fish trying to navigate the seaweed...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-8bHnk28/0/3bb59d66/L/May%2016-%202021%20Breuckner%20Gardens_0086%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Is this an example of ICMUW? (ICW Under Water?)
I like it.
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Yes, that's it Eric. UW imagery! Why didn't I think of that.
JR
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Reaching up...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-75ChfLh/0/63ed434c/L/JMR_8209%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
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Good eye. I like it James, especially the highlighted white areas in the water. But I suspect, if the highlights were not there you would not have taken the shot.
JR
Yes! It’s always nice when someone else appreciates exactly what you found interesting in a shot. Thanks! And thanks also Eric and Francois :)
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Ripples of colour.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-HgGsFLP/0/b3650aef/L/IMG_0038%20copy4-1000-L.jpg)
This one is striking.
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A school of frantic fish trying to navigate the seaweed...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-8bHnk28/0/3bb59d66/L/May%2016-%202021%20Breuckner%20Gardens_0086%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Fascinating crosshatch ICM. Two (or more) exposures?
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Fascinating crosshatch ICM. Two (or more) exposures?
Thank you James for your comments. The second image is indeed a kind of crosshatch. But it is two images in rapid succession in a circular motion. It is truly experimental and no two results are the same. It is a slightly more predictable if you do two single exposures where you plan where certain elements in a scene will appear. Like this one where greens and reds were combined for a single image. Incidentally, one is ICM, a kind of background for the green yews. It too is very striking. And note how the overlap turned some elements purple.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-C2B5JnK/0/60575b5e/L/JMRO8762%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Along the inlet and shores of Humber Bay, Toronto.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-q88wVxw/0/416b6ca5/L/JMR_8201%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
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I'll just say that this was taken at the beach.
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Just playing with the camera 8)
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-VG7NMjX/0/ed722681/L/JMR_8628%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-czBZH8t/0/04e10586/L/JMR_8619%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
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All excellent, James and John and Peter.
(Hey! Never noticed we had so many saints on LuLa!)
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Both are wonderful but the last one is mind-boggling, especially the "weaving" pattern.
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Both are wonderful but the last one is mind-boggling, especially the "weaving" pattern.
Thanks Francois and Eric. My Sainthood remains intact. To echo the claim, check out my accordion halo.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-qztGFHp/1/e20841bf/L/IMG_0009%20blue3-1000-L.jpg)
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Stairway to Paradise?
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Stairway to Paradise?
Could be a corrugated wall with a light. But what do you do on blue days? I suppose I could have cloned out the black opening lines, but this way it shows you can find abstracts, or at least interesting subjects anywhere.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-dTDSKrz/0/a82220c2/L/March%2011-%202021%20Local%20Walk_0090%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Good one.
I have a couple of recent ones in a similar spirit that I'll post in a few days (not yet processed.)
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Thanks Francois and Eric. My Sainthood remains intact. To echo the claim, check out my accordion halo.
JR
Now, there's no possible discussion about your Sainthood :D
Very nice geometry with this accordion shot!
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Labyrinth
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51205928267_83159a8029_c_d.jpg)
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All excellent, James and John and Peter.
(Hey! Never noticed we had so many saints on LuLa!)
;D
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Labyrinth
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51205928267_2d6fa17e6c_c_d.jpg)
Nice tonality - that would look great in a 48x48 framed on a wall in a clean, modern house.
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Nice tonality - that would look great in a 48x48 framed on a wall in a clean, modern house.
+1.
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+1.
+2. All your images appear to be ultra sharp.
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All your images appear to be ultra sharp.
That was a 34-frame focus stack of a miniature chrysanthemum that was about 4 cm in diameter, shot with a macro lens at approximately 1:2 magnification.
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That was a 34-frame focus stack of a miniature chrysanthemum that was about 4 cm in diameter, shot with a macro lens at approximately 1:2 magnification.
All that work and you didn't bother to clone out the little fiber/hair in the top left center? ;)
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All that work and you didn't bother to clone out the little fiber/hair in the top left center? ;)
Really? Where is it that fibre, I can't see it? I withdraw my favourable comments 8) Wow, 34 images! I never had a good experience with photostacking. Could be because I almost always take an interpretive approach to my macros and not a documentary one. I usually only want one or two elements within my macro images to be sharp.
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All that work and you didn't bother to clone out the little fiber/hair in the top left center? ;)
I didn't even notice that! Fixed now in my edited post.
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Wow, 34 images! I never had a good experience with photostacking. Could be because I almost always take an interpretive approach to my macros and not a documentary one. I usually only want one or two elements within my macro images to be sharp.
The Fuji X-T4 I used to make that image has an excellent feature (which I believe is shared by some if not all of the medium-format Fujis) that allows you to set the nearest and farthest points you want in focus, and, based on the aperture you have selected, automatically shoots the number of frames required to create the stack. I sometimes tweak that in Helicon Focus to soften some background features even more. For this picture, however, I knew in advance that I wanted everything visible to be sharp.
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The Fuji X-T4 I used to make that image has an excellent feature (which I believe is shared by some if not all of the medium-format Fujis) that allows you to set the nearest and farthest points you want in focus, and, based on the aperture you have selected, automatically shoots the number of frames required to create the stack. I sometimes tweak that in Helicon Focus to soften some background features even more. For this picture, however, I knew in advance that I wanted everything visible to be sharp.
Thanks for the information Chris. But when my Pentax dies, it looks I will settle for a Nikon, which I believe has a similar feature set.
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This one is very close to just curves of colour, wispiness.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-6V2j5RN/0/6d9440ee/L/IMG_0037%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Nice wisps.
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Nice wisps.
Thanks again. The phlox flowers turned out similar to the lavendar fields.
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Thanks Francois and Eric. My Sainthood remains intact. To echo the claim, check out my accordion halo.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-qztGFHp/1/e20841bf/L/IMG_0009%20blue3-1000-L.jpg)
I really like this one!
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(https://armandtanase.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p2495564043-5.jpg)
(https://armandtanase.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p2495564032-5.jpg)
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Both fine and elegant.
My choice is the second, for quiet simplicity.
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Both fine and elegant.
My choice is the second, for quiet simplicity.
Let me disagree. Yes the second image does have quiet simplicity, but the first image has a lot of character. We don't have to toss a coin because we have both images! And thanks for the comments on my image Armand.
JR
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Here are a few new ones (at last) from me. Inside a car on a rainy day.
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Here are a few new ones (at last) from me. Inside a car on a rainy day.
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down...you know the song. I like the second image. But these would be more effective if the raindrops were more in focus.
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What! Some colour of course.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-Nwk52TW/0/5003755e/L/April%208-%202021%20Queensway%20walk_0422%20blocks7-1000-L.jpg)
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Hey, there is one of those forming in the Bay of Campeche right now, though it is of the low pressure kind ;D ;)
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What! Some colour of course.
JR
Well done but I'm dizzy now ;-)
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It's an abstract of a roulette wheel:
"Round and round the red streak goes, and where she stops, nobody knows."
(Andyou can substitute other colors for "red.")
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Thanks guys. It's cyclone John spinning away from the orbit of a rainbow. You know, like Jack and the Beanstalk, only I stole some prismatic colours and ran away before the arc fell on me.
JR
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Sunstroke
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51246563402_57efeaa532_c_d.jpg)
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Nice, Chris.
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Perfect blue and white diagonal lines. It's a pleasant shot.
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Nice, Chris.
Indeed, good seeing. I hope this has enabled to store energy to keep posting 8)
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I hope this has enabled to store energy to keep posting 8)
Yes, I'm all charged up.
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Adobe in Shadow & Light.
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Adobe in Shadow & Light.
Simple yet effective.
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Simple yet effective.
JR
+1.
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Trying Nic Silver Effex Pro
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-3c23qfq/0/cb2d62af/O/April%201-%202020%20Walk_0117%20bwcopy800.jpg)
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MOMA ?
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MOMA ?
If this is directed at me, I had to look that up. Museum of Modern Art? No. It's just a parking garage attached to an office building.
JR
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Hodge Podge...You will never guess anyway.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-KqrdjSk/0/e60daa5f/L/JMR_0387%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Simple yet effective.
JR
+1.
Thanks Gents! Just got back with more to share soon :)
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Hodge Podge...You will never guess anyway.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-KqrdjSk/0/e60daa5f/L/JMR_0387%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Your signature on a check for me for $1000? :-\
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Your signature on a check for me for $1000? :-\
Why so low. You are on the right track if you want to play 20 questions. It's graffiti against wall. It becomes unrecognizable because it is composed of over 20 images on one frame. The effect softens the horizontal lines which are actually mortar lines on a wall. Yep, that's the colour they chose.
JR
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It is delightful.
And I'm sure your "film-saving" technique lets you get thousands of images on a single memory stick. ;)
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Beautiful and puzzling at the same time.
Well done.
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Similar to James', but with a little colour and less minimalistic.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-v5zHGJL/0/c966fcac/L/JMR_2136%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
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Similar to James', but with a little colour and less minimalistic.
JR
It works perfectly!
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Similar to James', but with a little colour and less minimalistic.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-v5zHGJL/0/c966fcac/L/JMR_2136%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
I like it. Blue sky always makes for a great background for abstract color and texture studies.
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Evening sky
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Beautiful study of pink/violet tones. I love it.
Bravo.
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Beautiful study of pink/violet tones. I love it.
Bravo.
+1.
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I thought I would give this a more ethereal treatment as if to help the light try to envelop the scene with almost overexposed look.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-2ZDGzMT/0/d00b67ed/L/JMR_0819%20bwcopy3-1000-L.jpg)
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Nice one!
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Well seen, you seem to find/make excellent subject everywhere…
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Well seen, you seem to find/make excellent subject everywhere…
Yes he does.
I think he has a catalog of a thousand spectacular subjects within a dozen steps of his front door. ;)
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Yes he does.
I think he has a catalog of a thousand spectacular subjects within a dozen steps of his front door. ;)
John is a very lucky man! ;D
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John is a very lucky man! ;D
Thank you gents. But it's all just practice, and more practice, in the art of seeing. On this one I woke up, raised my head and noticed the three light sources peering through the door. Funny how, if we are in hurry or a routine that has purpose, we seldom notice these kinds of phenomena.
JR
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Abstract enough?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-HSF4CBD/0/bb4b5612/L/JMR_1003%20bwcopy4-1000-L.jpg)
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Yup.
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Yup.
Mulling it over, I think it looks best in its original form.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-3vR5GLD/0/c64134da/L/JMR_1003%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
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I like both versions and, of course, abstract enough!
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Thank you Francois and Eric. Abtracting right along...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-vxPhfqG/0/38d4e43a/L/JMR_1020%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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Spectacular!
It reminds me of the first 360° panoramic mirror domes. We could take just one shot (IIRC, with a Nikon CoolPix) and then use software to create something barely usable. Of course, back then, it wasn't meant to create abstracts.
Well done, John.
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Thank you Francois and Eric. Abtracting right along...
Exceptional!
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Wow! This one is wild!
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Wow! This one is wild!
Thank you guys. I can't take all the credit. This is actually a very beautiful green, white and blue sculpture. What I did was to visually abstract some it in my composition, pointing skyward, trying to balance the darks and lights with the shapes. I could have spent an hour or two there but had to go.
JR
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It's probably worth coming back to for more variants.
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A different take:
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-cCKh6xB/0/81ca5eee/L/JMR_1016%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Ah, #2 in the Psychedelic Series.
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Both versions are superb.
And they make me curious to see the original scupture.
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Both versions are superb.
And they make me curious to see the original scupture.
It's a sculpture called Pine Sanctuary in Missisauga, Ontario. When I discovered it I thought it was one of the best public sculptures I have ever seen. Whimsical, colourful and somewhat abstract all at the same time. No two shapes repeat themselves. It is, rather loosely and figuratively, representive of pine trees in the forest. You can do wonderful things with it if you come back at different times of the day. Here it is:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-X2jLmqw/0/23f85aff/L/JMR_1351%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-PTcXv8s/0/05ecfffa/L/JMR_1383%20copy1000-L.jpg)
You may recall back in 2019 I posted a couple from a different outing.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-jsfKBx8/0/c2460d99/L/Aug%2014-%202019%20Riverwood%20Cons_0307%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-HkfgrLw/0/ba1ee3e2/L/JMRO9681%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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That is great public art, and a fantastic photographic source.
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(https://armandtanase.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p2817255258-5.jpg)
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That is great public art, and a fantastic photographic source.
Yes indeed.
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(https://armandtanase.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p2817255258-5.jpg)
Nice one, Armand!
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Nice one, Armand!
I do like this one!
JR
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Thank you Eric and John!
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+2, just curious, was that at the top of the MBARI tidal tank ?
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+2, just curious, was that at the top of the MBARI tidal tank ?
It was in proper Monterey Bay, I think between Carmel and Point Lobos.
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Reflection of the Setting Sun on a Polished Wooden Table
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51322041122_7a61cc3e39_c_d.jpg)
Flagstones in the Rain
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51327506494_f2368623c8_c_d.jpg)
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The first one, sunlight on a polished table, is wonderfully minimalist. I love it.
The second one has more textures and, for me, is less abstract and doesn't let my imagination play as much as the first shot.
Well done for both!
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Yes Francois, let your imiagination run away...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-XSBCscj/0/3a2ce239/L/IMG_0146%20copy5%20crop2-1000-L.jpg)
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Yes Francois, let your imiagination run away...
JR
I love this one too with these fiery orange streaks…
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I love this one too with these fiery orange streaks…
Careful Francois. Stay back you might get burned. This is more approachable. Less fiery, more abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-xwFZBbp/0/51b965bc/L/IMG_0147%20copy4-1000-L.jpg)
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Less fiery, but wonderful just the same.
At first glance, I thought the amber strands in the background might be tortured, unrolled film.
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Less fiery, but wonderful just the same.
At first glance, I thought the amber strands in the background might be tortured, unrolled film.
That's good Arlen. Tortured film! I saw a video in which the photographer stated we should let the viewer make his own interpretation of the scene. So I am not going to tell.
JR
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Is the "Tortured Film" high on meth?
Really great, wild image.
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Is the "Tortured Film" high on meth?
Really great, wild image.
Where would any of us be without our very own "tortured" sensibiliites 8) They produce rather nice images if I do say so myself. But I am quite frankly leaning more and more to less tortured on the whole.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Cultural-Hotspots-Etobicoke/i-HSvbrsG/0/e758fa94/L/JMR_1608%20paletteknife-1000-L.jpg)
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Another fine one. Left side tortured, right side very sedate.
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Foundation.
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I didn't care for the thumbnail, but the enlarged image i s surprisingly mesmerizing.
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I didn't care for the thumbnail, but the enlarged image i s surprisingly mesmerizing.
Yes it is. Bigger is better. :)
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What? Is Peter having cemented rock party where people go to get stoned? I want in just to show I know how to get stoned too!
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Rockwood-Conservation-Scotts/i-gPpVLxt/0/a09eee63/L/JMR_0654%20bwcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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semi
(https://armandtanase.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p2891747623-5.jpg)
(https://armandtanase.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p2823780749-5.jpg)
(https://armandtanase.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p2823780918-5.jpg)
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What? Is Peter having cemented rock party where people go to get stoned? I want in just to show I know how to get stoned too!
JR
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You have everything in this shot: architecture, geometry, mineral/geology, archeology, etc… No wonder that you're talking about being stoned!
Well done, John.
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Maybe not abstract; but shape, color, form, and line
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All fascinating, John, Armand and Todd.
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Closeup of scales on a butterfly's wing.
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I like this very much. I also like the fact that everything is not tack sharp. Lovely color tones.
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Makes a great abstract!
Lovely.
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Makes a great abstract!
Lovely.
Yes it does. What is C smoothing 4? A type of filter or processing?
JR
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Garden delights.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-xKcJwkg/0/390d3b4c/L/July%2030-%202021%20RBG_0142%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-QkFLk6Q/0/964ba3c6/L/July%2030-%202021%20RBG_0113%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Both nice.
My pick is the horizontal.
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Both nice.
My pick is the horizontal.
Not really fair Eric. My vertical image cries foul and thinks you were lying down when you picked the horizontal image ;) But I feign disinterest and just say thanks 8)
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Yes it does. What is C smoothing 4? A type of filter or processing?
JR
It's a focus stack and these terms are added to the output file name by Helicon to identify the processing parameters.
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A fly's eye view, no doubt.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-3L9jssS/0/dae6d010/L/JMR_2471%20copycrop1000-L.jpg)
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Ooh! Nice.
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Somewhat abstract, in any event.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-mmwwdX7/0/10e512e8/L/JMR_2735%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Nice layered palettes.
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Nice layered palettes.
Thanks my thoughts also when I composed the scene.
JR
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Ooh! Nice.
More than nice… :D
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More than nice… :D
You mean nicer ;) Thanks Francois and Eric for all your comments.
JR
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You mean nicer ;) Thanks Francois and Eric for all your comments.
JR
Three or four years ago, I was in Italy and met a guy who claimed his job was "aumentaror" (or something similar). I asked him about his job and he told me that he was in advertising and that he had to describe products or people as being bigger, the biggest, the ultimate biggest, etc… ;D
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Ultimate Biggerest Nicerest of All!!! ;)
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Ultimate Biggerest Nicerest of All!!! ;)
Eric, add "extreme" and you're ready for a new career! :D
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Agua fría
(Raindrops hitting the edge of a flagstone patio.)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51368409931_78dcf763a1_c_d.jpg)
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That is mesmerizing.
Great catch.
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+1
Jonathan
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Yes, quite abstract.
JR
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High key abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-86JRzSC/0/7cbc4c78/L/JMR_4214%20bwhighkey-1000-L.jpg)
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Groovy!
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Groovy!
Yea, right man, thanks. I have to photograph these, cause that's where it's at, know what I mean man...
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-pzPTGMj/0/4c91c795/L/JMR_4380%20pano5-bw2-1000-L.jpg)
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This one is superb - a chalice made out of petals! B&W processing is top-notch and very appropriate for the subject.
Bravo!
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This one is superb - a chalice made out of petals! B&W processing is top-notch and very appropriate for the subject.
Bravo!
+1.
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Maybe the "chalice" will absorb this creation.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-72SBJDz/0/b33c8630/L/JMR_4467%20pano6-1000-L.jpg)
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Ooh! The Fiery Furnace!
Good one.
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Ooh! The Fiery Furnace!
Good one.
Thanks Eric. Yea, you're right, lets get out of Dante's Inferno and go into the Garden of Eden.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-7RMmGKj/0/2ed5ba5b/L/JMR_4677%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Thanks Eric. Yea, you're right, lets get out of Dante's Inferno and go into the Garden of Eden.
JR
Weird, I never noticed such beauties in Death Valley… :D
Bravo for your "chalice" set!
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Weird, I never noticed such beauties in Death Valley… :D
Bravo for your "chalice" set!
Thanks Francois. This did start life in a garden.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-kQNzVLq/0/1c053f3d/L/JMR_4693%20polarsphere5-1000-L.jpg)
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Another nice one.
Somebody poured a lot of colored dyes into Niagara Falls.
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Thanks Francois. This did start life in a garden.
JR
Not quite. The dyes are in nature's garden. The software stretches and bends the colours.
This one is more Monet-like, ICM not software
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-m79XGmZ/0/adb2ae03/L/JMR_4770%20copysoft-1000-L.jpg)
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Another nice one.
Somebody poured a lot of colored dyes into Niagara Falls.
Yes, beauty in colors and lines…
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I think I will throw you guys for a loop.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-B8cSLmH/0/9b5b79b1/L/JMR_4820%20panopolar3-1000-L.jpg)
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Those must be the flowers called "Loopines." ;)
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Those must be the flowers called "Loopines." ;)
Oi
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I love those "Loopines"… :D
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I love those "Loopines"… :D
I do too. (and not just because of the excellent name I provided. ;) )
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I do too. (and not just because of the excellent name I provided. ;) )
Thanks guys. Since you are all LuLa buddies, just grab a partner and swing him around by the arm like we did when were kids. Only make sure he has camera in the free hand. See easy!!
JR
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+1. ;)
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One more variation on a theme, not
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini .
Just plain old JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-wvTG2hx/0/3f751c6b/L/JMR_4693%20polarsphere4-1000-L.jpg)
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One more variation on a theme, not Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini .
Just plain old JR
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You're becoming more popular than Rachmaninoff ;D
But it's deserved…
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What I sometimes do when the forest is full of harsh light. Experiment!
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-L83b3sZ/0/ee8704f1/L/JMR_5720%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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And the experiment was a success! I like it. And would not have guessed it was harsh forest highlights.
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I often enjoy photographing in forests in soft, overcast light, but in harsh forest highlights I don't bother.
I might try sometime soon, however, but I think I will need dancing lessons from John R before I do. :)
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I often enjoy photographing in forests in soft, overcast light, but in harsh forest highlights I don't bother.
I might try sometime soon, however, but I think I will need dancing lessons from John R before I do. :)
Thanks Arlen and Eric for the comments.
JR
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On walk today and spotted something on wall that had some pattern potential. Here it is.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-RW7HdS5/0/41ea3df8/L/IMG_0035-%202021copy1000-L.jpg)
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(https://armandtanase.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p3014269373-5.jpg)
(https://armandtanase.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p3014269587-5.jpg)
(https://armandtanase.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p3014269387-5.jpg)
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Excellent set Armand. I especially like the last lichen image.
JR
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Yes, an excellent set.
My favorite is the first, because I have no idea what it really is.
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Thank you John and Eric!
Eric, that's pine bark eaten by the the pine beetle.
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Thanks, Armand.
I suspect you found it this way, rather than bringing a bunch of pine beetles with you to chew up the bark for a photo op. ;)
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Woke up from a nap and what did I espy on the ceiling? Light-ening of course 8)
JR
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A most enlightening nap.
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From naps to abstracts under the bridge.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-JjVgD6h/0/5b997131/L/IMG_0298%20squarecopy-1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-25qHWvx/0/acb94cac/L/IMG_0297%20cropcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Woke up from a nap and what did I espy on the ceiling? Light-ening of course 8)
JR
Hard to identify the first one but I'm slow and it's going to take some time. The second is is a geometry lesson, I love it.
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Hard to identify the first one but I'm slow and it's going to take some time. The second is is a geometry lesson, I love it.
Thanks Francois. It's the blade of ceiling a fan, and I guess light bouncing from it.
JR
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Thanks Francois. It's the blade of ceiling a fan, and I guess light bouncing from it.
JR
OK, now it's obvious after your explanation!
Thank you, John.
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I don't care what objects were in front of the camera.
I find the first image absolutely gripping: Sterile rigidity to the right, and dynamic life force to the left.
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Under the canopy, taking cover from the rain, what did I see? Well I will let you guess.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-XQGn8L2/0/874633ca/L/JMR_6736%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Them is real strange rain drops, but real purty. ;)
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Them is real strange rain drops, but real purty. ;)
Rain you say, oh chum...Herewith is the wet side...
A little soft...I'm a little unsteady these days. Could kick myself for not bringing the tripod.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-qT4p7Hs/0/2c0f28fc/L/JMR_6763%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Those are a couple of the best-looking chair abstracts that I can remember seeing.
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John built that chair just so he could photograph it.
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The second one is even better…
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Thanks Arlen, Eric and Francois. I was going to post a third and make it a trio, but I thought may as well make it a quartet since they all came from the same chairs.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-6XT47bf/0/54f2b11f/L/JMR_6753%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-c5VtTWX/0/ee6a42da/L/JMR_6736%20pano1e-1000-L.jpg)
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All very nice. My current favorite is the fourth.
I now declare John R "Chair of the Chair Photo Department!"
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For me, the last two are the best of this "chair" set. The last one is really wild with those modified shapes.
I second Eric's suggestion about your nomination ;D
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For me, the last two are the best of this "chair" set. The last one is really wild with those modified shapes.
I second Eric's suggestion about your nomination ;D
Thanks guys. I have always wanted to be the "Chair" of something - not!
Despite the rain, it was bright outside and it was the beautiful soft light which drew me to the chairs in the first place. You can see them here under the canopy, a kind of open air giant softbox tent. They do concerts in the summer.
JR
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Clearly the chair designer was a photographer.
The way they stack is clearly for the benefit of photography.
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Thanks guys. I have always wanted to be the "Chair" of something - not!
Despite the rain, it was bright outside and it was the beautiful soft light which drew me to the chairs in the first place. You can see them here under the canopy, a kind of open air giant softbox tent. They do concerts in the summer.
JR
Not abstract but still a very nice and classical composition.
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On my walks I must have went by this scene at least 10 times without noticing anything. Then I heard a whisper, I know the light is almost flat, and I am not really abstract, but my graphic qualities are at least worthy of a try. So I took this photograph.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-PNLBKFJ/0/d2b1d4d6/L/IMG_0581%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Lovely. Great composition.
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On my walks I must have went by this scene at least 10 times without noticing anything. Then I heard a whisper, I know the light is almost flat, and I am not really abstract, but my graphic qualities are at least worthy of a try. So I took this photograph.
JR
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Wonderfully diverse vertical elements!
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Wonderfully diverse vertical elements!
Lovely. Great composition.
Thanks Francois and Eric. Got to try. Yesterday it was very sunny so I tried high contrast to bring out contrast, lines and light.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-G6vTct5/0/5c5b9f07/L/IMG_0701%20bwcopy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Another good one John.
Here are a couple of new ones of mine:
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Thanks Francois and Eric. Got to try. Yesterday it was very sunny so I tried high contrast to bring out contrast, lines and light.
JR
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A great study of contrast. I like it very much…
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Nice ones, Eric. I especially like the second. When I blow it up, I see abstracts within an abstract.
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Nice ones, Eric. I especially like the second. When I blow it up, I see abstracts within an abstract.
As thumb nails, they sure look like images of galaxies. See, Eric is always on a journey.
JR
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Thanks, Arlen and John.
(My spaceship for journeying is really quite down to earth. ;) )
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Perhaps too colorful and bright. But it is abstract and I do like the color combination.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-vn3bk7g/0/1e039a3f/L/IMG_0733%20copy4-1000-L.jpg)
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Not too colorful for me, John.
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Not too colorful for me, John.
Thanks Eric. I actually did reduce the saturation. that's what you get when you hit Auto settings.
Here is a more mysterious abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-QPrNLGd/0/b9e2e013/L/IMG_0776%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
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Today's take from a visit to a long-abandoned waste treatment plant.
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Well, D.P. Moynihan, the fact is I like both John's and Peter's, for different reasons.
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Thanks Eric. I actually did reduce the saturation. that's what you get when you hit Auto settings.
Here is a more mysterious abstract.
JR
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Lovely patterns but still mysterious.
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Thanks guys.
I like Peter's image also. May I suggest making the images smaller. Can't get it on my 25" screen! It is well seen as the green and mottled white nicely separates itself from the main subject. I see a man, perhaps accompanied by a second person walking a dog. Not that I look for meaning is such abstracts, but this one jumped out at me once I reduced the image to where I could view the whole.
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So hear are a few of mine in black and white to start things off.
Eric
like the 'Miro' BulloughsPondAbstract.jpg very much
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Thank you, Pieter.
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Thanks guys.
I like Peter's image also. May I suggest making the images smaller. Can't get it on my 25" screen! It is well seen as the green and mottled white nicely separates itself from the main subject. I see a man, perhaps accompanied by a second person walking a dog. Not that I look for meaning is such abstracts, but this one jumped out at me once I reduced the image to where I could view the whole.
If I see anything in the image it's a woman with a long dress, perhaps with the train held up behind her.
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If I see anything in the image it's a woman with a long dress, perhaps with the train held up behind her.
Yes, I see that now. Perhaps we approach things visually starting from different sides!
JR
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Horizontals in the sky.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-kDvh5vn/0/ddc59481/L/JMR_3515%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Horizontals in the sky.
JR
I like your version of Rhein II ;D
That said, the silver(s) & blue combination is elegant.
Well seen.
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The very subtle shadows keep it from being too sterile.
Nice work.
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The very subtle shadows keep it from being too sterile.
Nice work.
Thank you Eric and Francois. Eric I think you have a point. The highlights on the flashing and the shadows do add interest. I noticed the highlights but not the shadows when I took the image. I always tell people, the lens sees all even if you don't.
JR
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Spinnerama colours.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-6WgNQd6/0/bf2eea4f/L/April%2015-%202018%20spinner2-1000-L.jpg)
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Another of your wild ones that I can't imagine how you shot it (or created it.)
Nice.
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Another of your wild ones that I can't imagine how you shot it (or created it.)
Nice.
Spinnerama is a photograph of a spinning fidget spinner. That's why it has a soft, almost out of focus look. OTH, this one was created in software.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-DGhVxx7/0/3e36908f/L/Sept%209-%202021%20RBG_0102%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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You have an enormous assortment of crayons in your box, and a very steady hand in using them! ;)
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Green.
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Nice, Peter.
(But I probably would have called it "Red" just to confuse people.)
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Splashes of colour.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Glen-Haffey/i-bPrL5NJ/0/7073e8c2/L/Oct%206-%202021%20Glen%20Haffey_0051%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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I like those splashes. And it reminds me of a girl in my neighborhood who has hair kind of like that.
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I like those splashes. And it reminds me of a girl in my neighborhood who has hair kind of like that.
it reminds me the Alpenflage camouflage pattern… ;D
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I like those splashes. And it reminds me of a girl in my neighborhood who has hair kind of like that.
Have you noticed John R wandering around your neighborhood with his camera?
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Have you noticed John R wandering around your neighborhood with his camera?
So that's how he does it. :)
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Found this in a conservation area. What happened to all the colour leaves?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-PHSc9m8/0/5ce38bc5/L/JMR_8397%20lowkeynik3b-1000-L.jpg)
Disappearing links
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-vbvnRkk/0/ec687a14/L/JMR_8537%20bw-fullspectruminverse-1000-L.jpg)
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The leaves were so exhausted after all the effort it took to weave themselves into that chain in the last image that they lost all their color.
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A little rhythm and contrast.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-n72DHgQ/0/b8b8c4f9/L/JMR_9284%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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A little rhythm and contrast.
JR
I like the light on those "blades"!
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I like the light on those "blades"!
Thanks Francois. Careful though, don't stare too long, or you will get caught up in a whirlwind 8)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Glen-Haffey/i-n9T83VW/0/3d01badc/L/Oct%2011-%202021%20Glen%20Haffey_0102%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Thanks Francois. Careful though, don't stare too long, or you will get caught up in a whirlwind 8)
I'm very careful but with this last one, I'm already feeling dizzy…
Great shot!
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Dancing
dirvishes
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-x924nbv/0/3e5ff55e/L/July%2011-%202021%20RBG_0146%20cropcopy-1000-L.jpg)
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Puzzling but so elegant!
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Puzzling but so elegant!
Thanks. It's a mystery! So is this one.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-cZx572x/0/1a09f4b0/L/20200725_183104%20bwpano8-1000-L.jpg)
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I think that one is a self-portrait, lower half, taken from a few feet behind you.
(How did you do that, anyway? ;) ) I like it.
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I think that one is a self-portrait, lower half, taken from a few feet behind you.
(How did you do that, anyway? ;) ) I like it.
A tall and skinny self portrait. I like it too.
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Lighted by the Blinds
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51598044392_9b7303af75_c_d.jpg)
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Lighted by the Blinds
Excellent Chris. Good eye! It's great the way it is, but may I suggest that you bring out the blue in the white light even more. Just for effect, as a beautiful counterpoint to the orange-yellow light.
JR
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. . . may I suggest that you bring out the blue in the white light even more. Just for effect, as a beautiful counterpoint to the orange-yellow light.
Good suggestion. I confess I didn't invest much time post-processing it. I shot it in the bathroom, right after waking up this morning, and coffee took priority over color.
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Good suggestion. I confess I didn't invest much time post-processing it. I shot it in the bathroom, right after waking up this morning, and coffee took priority over color.
I'm with you, coffee gets first preference! 8)
PS maybe second too!
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A tall and skinny self portrait. I like it too.
Thank you gentlemen. Damn robots, they always like to show off their legs. This is what they really look like. Kind of androgynous:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-fn6nKMh/0/362151e7/L/20200725_183104%20crop-pano4-1000-L.jpg)
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The one in front has a real toothy grin.
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Robots get my head spinning…
Interesting shot.
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Sunlight reflected on a ceiling.
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Sunlight reflected on a ceiling.
Good eye. The diagonal movement is quite suitable for this subject.
JR
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Us floor, ceiling and wall guys have to stick together. We are so few that we may fade into abstractions;)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-mmc2Pzr/0/af405125/L/IMG_2460%20bluetone3-1000-L.jpg)
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Yes indeed. Walls and floors and ceilings are natural sources for good abstracts.
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How about semi-abstract roads and clouds that criss-criss?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-wtb7TRH/0/66222f98/L/IMG_0105%20sepia-bw2-1000-L.jpg)
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That'll do nicely.
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Having coffee this morning and what should I see? Prismatic effects coming through door window. Got so excited I left the chain in, which is shadow from the outside screen door.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-b9rpMrH/0/c79059c1/L/JMR_0626%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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I like. (Including the chain.)
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Us floor, ceiling and wall guys have to stick together. We are so few that we may fade into abstractions;)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-mmc2Pzr/0/af405125/L/IMG_2460%20bluetone3-1000-L.jpg)
I really like this one, John. A very compelling arrangement of the shapes and tones.
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I really like this one, John. A very compelling arrangement of the shapes and tones.
Thank you Arlen. Ironically this was taken near some abstract paintings at the McMichael gallery north of Toronto where the 'Group of Seven' paintings are housed. You may know of them. Steve Martin, the American comedian, thinks very highly of them and collects some of Lauren Harris' works.
JR
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Pavement.
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What's a few splashes of paint - art of course!
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-Rz4cZ82/0/bfce7076/L/JMR_1045%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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I like that. It's cheerful.
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I like that. It's cheerful.
:) :) Ah but little do you know what that really is.
JR
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:) :) Ah but little do you know what that really is.
JR
A car windshield after it hit a big bird, which caused it to crash into a field of flowers?
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A car windshield after it hit a big bird, which caused it to crash into a field of flowers?
Very clever, but no cigar.
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Pavement.
I like this one a lot, Peter. And it looks like it would be right down Eric's alley. Figuratively and literally.
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I like this one a lot, Peter. And it looks like it would be right down Eric's alley. Figuratively and literally.
That's just Peter winking at us 8)
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I do like "Pavement." It's very "down to earth."
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Autumn Winds
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172097628/original.jpg)
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That is truly gorgeous, Arlen!
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That is truly gorgeous, Arlen!
Yes, yes. Next time the winds will take you away.
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Thanks a lot, Eric and John. I wasn't sure about it when I first saw it on the computer, but the more I looked at it and played with it, the more it grew on me. I'm pretty happy with it now.
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What's in an abstract anyway...
See the next post from whence this subject came.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-z2NfNv9/0/68404083/L/JMR_8388%20pano4%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Or one can try to be more creative with mundane subjects and transform them. I did get lucky with this one. I found it in a conservation area.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-QJC2Hdk/0/565a2630/XL/IMG_1628%20pano1c-1000-XL.jpg)
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The neon trees are quite nice, but that red whirling dervish is stunning!
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The neon trees are quite nice, but that red whirling dervish is stunning!
They are both images of outdoor porch umbrellas, situated in picnic area of conservation area. Who knew that I would spend most of my time that day with umbrellas!
JR
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The neon trees are quite nice, but that red whirling dervish is stunning!
Stunning is the right word for it! Very well done, John.
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Thank you Arlen and Eric. Even the umbrellas thank you 8)
JR
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Consider this abstract
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A natural abstract. Good.
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An unnatural abstract! Again, from my morning walk.
Arizona Fall to Winter Abstract
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Nice.
That's what I see when I go out without my glasses.
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Harbinger of things to com, Eric!
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Harbinger of things to com, Eric!
I like it a lot. How many exposures?
JR
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Thanks, John, it printed very nicely, too.
I started with a 10 frame multi-exposure in camera, but took your advice trying to hold on point to get minimal movement.
Worked with the exposure and saturation on that, and experimented with a couple different masked overlays (color and exclusion) of the original image above.
I wanted a tad more definition in the dark tree trunk, so added a pin light overlay of a frame with no ICM at low opacity to provide just a hint of the darker branches.
So that's 11 exposures total. The 8x10 prints turned out great, so going to try a 20x30 canvas print in the next few days. Might put a frame around it! :)
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"I ain't taking no rainbow ride..." from a song by Andy Kim.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-JPzDzCv/0/5d9ce437/L/JMR_2874%20copy4-1000-L.jpg)
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Slip slide and away...
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-HsStJPL/0/67458f2e/L/JMR_3515%20copy5d-1000-L.jpg)
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I really like the Rainbow Ride one.
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Love those smooth lines and excellent color combination.
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Thanks Eric and Francois.
JR
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my first abstract in some time.
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Nice.
Cheerful.
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Leftovers
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172140762/original.jpg)
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Leftovers
Gorgeous. Looks like a painting...iced over?
JR
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Gorgeous. Looks like a painting...iced over?
JR
+1 and same question.
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Thanks, John and Eric. I agree with your assessment of what it resembles, but no ice or paintings were involved. (Though we have had a few freezing nights recently.) Just some some of our remaining autumn leaves that had potential, and that I played with until eventually I got to something that looked interesting and appealing to me.
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Good job of "playing with."
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Thanks, John and Eric. I agree with your assessment of what it resembles, but no ice or paintings were involved. (Though we have had a few freezing nights recently.) Just some some of our remaining autumn leaves that had potential, and that I played with until eventually I got to something that looked interesting and appealing to me.
Even better! I never do that 8)
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Leftovers
a marvel!
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Thanks, Pieter, I appreciate your thoughts on it.
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Somewhere in Alaska (not that it matters).
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I couldn't find it on my map of Alaska, but I do like it!
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I couldn't find it on my map of Alaska, but I do like it!
Very cool Peter. Who ever thought one could find something cool in Alaska 8)
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Very cool comment, John. ;)
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Very cool comment, John. ;)
I have not yet perfected the motion abstraction process..
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I have not yet perfected the motion abstraction process..
And you may never. ICM does have a side in which things are never quite perfect and the movement doesn't lend itself to reliable results. This is pretty good. But your white areas demonstrate why I avoid the sky 90% of the time. It is hard to balance these areas with the rest of the image. Bright skies draw all the attention.
JR
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Light and airy, if you will...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-XnsT7cG/0/5163c6c7/L/JMR_3720%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Cotton candy smooth… I love it!
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Nice.
And it looked exactly the same when I put my glasses on.
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…And it looked exactly the same when I put my glasses on.
Same here ;)
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Thanks for the comments guys. This is the universe, where black holes meet antimatter and spit out wine into a glass. A great demigod appeared, drank the wine, and the rest I will leave to your imagination ;)
JR
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Ah! That explains it perfectly. ;)
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Yellow SC Trees. Experiment with Nikon 1 v2. Not the universe, but pleasing, I think.
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A pleasing part of the universe.
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Yellow SC Trees. Experiment with Nikon 1 v2. Not the universe, but pleasing, I think.
Quite pleasing. I like how you isolated a small section and made it come to life. What shutter speed did you use?
So you bought a V2? My brother had the V1. I tried and really liked how quick and versatile the camera was.
My universe was wine at the bottom of a glass. Of course, I had to drink most of it first!
JR
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Why not take inspiration from Van Gogh.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Glen-Haffey/i-Xw8DPg5/0/70c4dac1/L/JMR_7611%20copy3-1000-L.jpg)
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Ooh! A fiery furnace!
Nice one.
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Quite pleasing. I like how you isolated a small section and made it come to life. What shutter speed did you use?
So you bought a V2? My brother had the V1. I tried and really liked how quick and versatile the camera was.
My universe was wine at the bottom of a glass. Of course, I had to drink most of it first!
JR
I've had the v2 for a few years and like having a camera held to my face, though not the EVF lag. I take it whenever I don't want the heavy 850 kit or want a low profile camera that does acceptably well, esp with super resolution or Gigapixel, but this is ~10x15 inches, plenty for online posting. Exp: 1/30 sec, f/16, ISO 160, @100 mm. We'd had enough wine the night before, so my universe was a little wobbly ;)
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I've had the v2 for a few years and like having a camera held to my face, though not the EVF lag. I take it whenever I don't want the heavy 850 kit or want a low profile camera that does acceptably well, esp with super resolution or Gigapixel, but this is ~10x15 inches, plenty for online posting. Exp: 1/30 sec, f/16, ISO 160, @100 mm. We'd had enough wine the night before, so my universe was a little wobbly ;)
Well this is interesting. You really have to whip the camera around to get a blur at 1/30. I generally shoot at between 1/8 to 1/4 of sec. I occasionally do go outside those parameters when I think I may want a more soft or blurry effect.
JR
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Well this is interesting. You really have to whip the camera around to get a blur at 1/30. I generally shoot at between 1/8 to 1/4 of sec. I occasionally do go outside those parameters when I think I may want a more soft or blurry effect.
JR
That is my experience as well, but at 100 mm (270 mm equivalent), it works quite nicely to leverage a telephoto in this way.
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I don't know what happened. My time tunnel started oscillating and dividing like a cell. Guess I won't be using it until Dr. Who is able to diagnose it.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-HKz6zNS/0/f8b2404c/L/Oct%2011-%202021%20Ferris%20Park_0022%20bwpano3c1000-L.jpg)
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I think you have a highly artistic gremlin living inside your lens.
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Theoretically, I think that is what it looks like as you approach the event horizon of a black hole. Looks like you turned back just in time, or we wouldn't be seeing this.
I really like your Van Gogh inspiration, too; it's gorgeous.
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Wildfire!
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Ooh! I like that a lot!
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Theoretically, I think that is what it looks like as you approach the event horizon of a black hole. Looks like you turned back just in time, or we wouldn't be seeing this.
I really like your Van Gogh inspiration, too; it's gorgeous.
Thanks Arlen. The Van Gogh may be my favorite of the year, so far.
I think you have a highly artistic gremlin living inside your lens.
Thanks Eric. I have to imagine that I must be back in time for dinner.
JR
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Wildfire!
How can you post this without a fire extinguisher. For shame. But you're forgiven because cool shots extinguish photographic fires 8)
JR
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Eric and John 🙏🏻
I like these abstracts. In the right mood, they can lead to unexpected places.
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Maybe keep these going. Really, they are just spirits running through the forest.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-MbVS7tg/0/7309f0d1/L/Nov%202-%202021%20High%20Park_0028%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Nice!
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You're still on a roll, John.
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I don't know what happened. I was photographing this moving cloud when all of a sudden this big overhead beam appeared and this is how it turned out ;)
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-nM2ttVR/0/a9328d1b/L/IMG_0064%20bwcopy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Interesting shot.
I'm glad you weren't standing directly under the beam when it came down. It would definitely sting a bit.
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I don't know what happened. I was photographing this moving cloud when all of a sudden this big overhead beam appeared and this is how it turned out ;)
JR
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I like the split view concept!
Well done.
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I don't know what happened. I was photographing this moving cloud when all of a sudden this big overhead beam appeared and this is how it turned out ;)
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-nM2ttVR/0/a9328d1b/L/IMG_0064%20bwcopy2-1000-L.jpg)
for a brief moment I thought that you'd posted one of my images...
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I'll throw this one in under the sensu lato definition of abstract.
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+1
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Surface Tension
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51758682807_e9f6ebe660_c_d.jpg)
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Good one!
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Surface Tension
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Oh yes, tension is everywhere in this shot. I like it a lot and B&W is prefect for such a graphic image.
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Pavement Abstract
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Pavement Abstract
Now that's real "street."
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Now that's real "street."
:) :) :)
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Wildfire!
abstracts of this abstractions seem fairly abstract
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51774254425_a2151327fd_c.jpg)
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words fail me.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51692519990_9e2097ebef_o.jpg)
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Fine ones, these last two, Michael!
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Fine ones, these last two, Michael!
Thank you.
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It's a gray dull day in Toronto and I am in the mood to make it more colourful.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-LrXw2V6/0/49c77d16/L/IMG_0004%20copy8e1000-L.jpg)
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Golly!
Down here in Massachusetts our gray skies never look that interesting!
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It's a gray dull day in Toronto and I am in the mood to make it more colourful.
JR
And you succeeded most pleasingly!
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I also need some colors in the sky…
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Untitled
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Well seen and processed!
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You guys on LuLa better behave, or like me, have fun when you can't sleep!
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-R8LQ3M8/0/5a16f9ac/L/April%2028-%2012%20RBG%20051%20copy4e1000b-L.jpg)
To think that snake started life as a soft, colorful, wispy abstract.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-n6sMVpn/0/789c64fc/L/April%2028-%2012%20RBG%20051%20copy4b-1000-L.jpg)
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Abstract but with a great imagination!
Well done, John.
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Abstract but with a great imagination!
Well done, John.
+1.
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more impressionism than abstract?
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51807039022_462f008079_c.jpg)
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Looks like a nice abstract to me.
Want to call it "abstract expressionist?"
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Looks like a nice abstract to me.
Want to call it "abstract expressionist?"
+10
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Green
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I like it.
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I like it.
a perhaps successful "abstract"
this image was not the result of any intentional action. i never could have thought of capturing the wheels this way...
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51829316584_0886e0c10c_o.jpg)
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That one is really wild. I love it!
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That one is really wild. I love it!
Im still staring in disbelief at the very sharp albeit incomplete outlin of the ftont wheel.
this defies any sense i have of time space and movement.
i may need to check the camera settings....and try to replicate the "effect".
Thank you.
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If you figure out how you did it, you could publish your "How To" article and sell it for a small fee. ;)
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Here are a couple of new ones from me.
First is actually an icy pond;
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And one more:
Pattern of sun on wall through Venetion blind.
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Pattern of sun on wall through Venetion blind.
I like this one very much, Eric. My wife catches me 'tuning out' sometimes... it's often because I'm staring at some combo of light and shadow in our home. :)
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Thank you, JNB.
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Thank you, JNB.
You abstractionists are like a cult - albeit a good cult, like people who like discordant jazz music 8) Not that I would know ;)
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You abstractionists are like a cult - albeit a good cult, like people who like discordant jazz music 8) Not that I would know ;)
You have NO IDEA what music we listen to at our cult meetings!!! :D
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Playing with colours, shapes and shadows.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-FRLTk7B/0/7bd09fb4/L/Haliburton%20area%20330%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-ZSQkTXK/0/36c166f3/L/Haliburton%20area%20333%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Two very nice images!
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Yes! Both!
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Found in a Phoenix, AZ office complex.. Shot with Fuji GFX 100S, fringer autofocus adapter, and Contax 645 CZ80/2 lens, handheld with IBIS.
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I like it.
(But I'm embarrassed to admit that I couldn't tell that it was shot in Arizona.)
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Found in a Phoenix, AZ office complex.. Shot with Fuji GFX 100S, fringer autofocus adapter, and Contax 645 CZ80/2 lens, handheld with IBIS.
I quite like this. All 100 megs worth.
JR
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You have try things once in a while. Interesting that if inverted the image looks like a forest fire against a dark sky.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-kVCHBnx/0/f5bcb4c6/L/Feb%203-%202015%20Bellfountain%20027%20panodistort1000-L.jpg)
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Playing with colours, shapes and shadows.
JR
Very nice!
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From last week. Still looking for a title--suggestions welcome.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172327338/original.jpg)
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How about "The sound of one foot kicking?"
Or: "The Meaning of Life, Part 9?"
I like it, whatever you call it.
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Thanks, Eric. I knew I could count on you to come up with some imaginative suggestions. :)
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Love this image. Especially the gradations of grey and white with some flecks of highlight. This reminds me of micro images of the cells of the human body. So my suggestion for a title is 'cellular.'
JR
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Found in a Phoenix, AZ office complex.. Shot with Fuji GFX 100S, fringer autofocus adapter, and Contax 645 CZ80/2 lens, handheld with IBIS.
Eric and John, TYVM for your positive comments..
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Thanks a lot, John. I think the title might be coming together--maybe something like "the meaning of cellular life". :D
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The hungry will recognize this!
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Cream in soup?
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Cream in soup?
Bingo!
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Bingo!
I never would have gotten that. I thought it was egg yolk. Guess I have never eaten cream of soup.
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Simple light and shadow shapes.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/RBG-impressions/i-p6kr7Z6/0/b91f5d21/L/JMR_4944%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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The Foot Of Man... part 2
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Simple light and shadow shapes.
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Superb image, this is the snow I like!
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The Foot Of Man... part 2
Man on the moon? I like it a lot.
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The Foot Of Man... part 2
And the Tire of Man.
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And the Tire of Man.
where both man and tire tread.....
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And the Tire of Man.
Thank you.
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About 2 years ago I posted a couple of abstracts here that have finally made it to the top of my "to print and frame" list. Getting framing materials is often taking quite a long time during the pandemic-related shortages. But now that they are done, I thought some of you might like to see how they turned out. Temporarily hanging on a bedroom wall with light from north-facing windows.
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Nice framing for both fine images.
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Nice framing for both fine images.
They look really good Arlen - like paintings. The borders and frames suit the images nicely. Well done.
JR
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Thanks, guys.
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this should be riveting...
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Wild! I like it.
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this should be riveting...
Electric!
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Electric!
thank you, gentlemen.
the grocery delivery business has become far more colorful in recent years..
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"winter in bubblelandia"
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51920867219_efb64772a9_c.jpg)
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Neat one!
How did you train those fishes all to emit bubbles at the same time?
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That's really abstract and mysterious. My imagination runs and runs when I see something like that.
Excellent, bravo!
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The dividing line
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The dividing line
Clean lines and soft colors.
Well seen!
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Clean lines and soft colors.
Well seen!
+1.
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Your on a role with this set !
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Dirt
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That's really abstract and mysterious. My imagination runs and runs when I see something like that.
Excellent, bravo!
Francois + Eric
Thank you.
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Peter,
That is some really wild dirt!
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Oh my. David, Chris and Peter. I go away for a awhile and what do I see: things have moved to the wild side. Interesting...
JR
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Fault Lines
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51934353579_fe48a1e7fb_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2n8g8Xi)
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I like that!
(Whose "fault" is that? ;) )
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Neat one!
How did you train those fishes all to emit bubbles at the same time?
the fish were well paid. believe me.
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Us rooftops and walls just hang around waiting for the clouds to roll by. Something has to hold them up until the wind blows ;)
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-7FrMRmH/0/e5d9a446/L/March%2010-2022%20nearby%20assortment_0095%20bwcopy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Another nice one!
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I like those "corners"… You can see them as rooftops or just the shape of the sky.
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Blob.
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A botched paint job becomes an piece of art…
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"I forgot to read the paint can label."
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The Writing on the (Garage) Wall
At a certain time of the afternoon this time of year, the sun streams through one of our garage windows, hits the clear and red plastic covers of the left taillight on my car, and is reflected back onto the wall.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51978051466_d5bf608d5b_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nc86P9)
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The Writing on the (Garage) Wall
At a certain time of the afternoon this time of year, the sun streams through one of our garage windows, hits the clear and red plastic covers of the left taillight on my car, and is reflected back onto the wall.
Oh yes, excellent!
JR
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Really superb and totally abstract!
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+1.
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semi realist ..semi abstract. or vice versa
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51996416764_d67758b341_c.jpg)
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semi realist ..semi abstract. or vice versa
I quite like that, especially the blue and yellowish glow of the light. I don't htink it would work as well if the light gave off white glow.
JR
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I agree completely with John R.
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Superb shot with that light and shapes/lines.
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Superb shot with that light and shapes/lines.
Thank you.
four exposures..three of which I could not process properly to achieve anything like what I saw ..and accrately captured on the fourth
the wood wall or fence>? adn the light were a part of an Outdoor Dining Areas set up during the "pandemic"
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I quite like that, especially the blue and yellowish glow of the light. I don't htink it would work as well if the light gave off white glow.
JR
Im assuming it was a tungsten filament light source....but Lghtroom's tungsten white balance was...well unmentionably bad.
Thank you
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I agree completely with John R.
Thanks!
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Light, shadow, shape and color. That's photography.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-pLvLbKC/0/4a64fca5/L/IMG_0082%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Light, shadow, shape and color. That's photography.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Pictorials/i-pLvLbKC/0/4a64fca5/L/IMG_0082%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
im getting dizzy trying to id the shapes...
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no as yet titled.
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I like that one, Michael.
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Though most would not consider this an abstract, to me it has abstract qualities.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-zHk2HrC/0/e938f5d6/L/JMR_6458%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Though most would not consider this an abstract, to me it has abstract qualities.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-zHk2HrC/0/e938f5d6/L/JMR_6458%20copy1000-L.jpg)
Maybe more expressionistic
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Perhaps abstract expressionist?
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Thanks for the comments gentlemen. Maybe one more ism than the other, but this whole thread has always included all kinds of abstracts, expressionism, and anything close enough.
JR
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Museum Facade (National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., 2014)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52022897913_5827a58828_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2ng5X6K)
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Thanks for the comments gentlemen. Maybe one more ism than the other, but this whole thread has always included all kinds of abstracts, expressionism, and anything close enough.
JR
its quite a fine image regardless of what words are attached to it.
people of a "non photographic bent often ask me the What Do You Photograph..question and its quite staggering...
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Fine shot, Chris.
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Museum Facade (National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., 2014)
Fabulous Chris. Excellent us of use of bright sunlight to create shadow relief. This must be the work of Douglas Cardinal, the same one that designed the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
JR
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Not as good or as or powerful as Chris' image, but one of these days I am going to clone and paste a black crow to this shot.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-wNJq5xX/0/4568cc56/L/JMR_6480%20bwcopy1000-L.jpg)
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This must be the work of Douglas Cardinal, the same one that designed the Canadian Museum of Civilization [now the Canadian Museum of History].
Correct, along with many collaborators, and the two buildings have similar curvilinear elevations. The architectural process is described in detail on the museum's website (https://americanindian.si.edu/main/visit/washington/architecture-landscape/.cshtml):
Some basic parameters for the building structure were dictated by the 4.25-acre trapezoidal site, the building restrictions for the National Mall, and an active creek bed flowing below the site. These challenges were addressed initially by the design team of GBQC and Douglas Cardinal, Ltd., which included consultants Douglas Cardinal (Blackfoot), Johnpaul Jones (Cherokee/Choctaw), Donna House (Diné/Oneida), and Ramona Sakiestewa (Hopi).
The building’s distinctive curvilinear form, evoking a wind-sculpted rock formation, grew out of this early work, forming the basis for the architecture. Following this conceptual design work, the project was further developed by Jones, House, and Sakiestewa, along with the architecture firms Jones & Jones, SmithGroup in collaboration with Lou Weller (Caddo) and the Native American Design Collaborative, and Polshek Partnership Architects. This extended collaboration resulted in a building and site rich with imagery, connections to the earth, and layers of meaning. The building is aligned perfectly to the cardinal directions and the center point of the Capitol dome, and filled with details, colors, and textures that reflect the Native universe.
This is arguably the most difficult public building in Washington's "monumental core" to photograph. It's impossible to get a good angle on the entire structure from street level and the rooftops of the few nearby buildings which offer an unobstructed view are off-limits to the general public. You need to walk around it to get a sense of the entire structure, which is well-depicted in this graphic from the museum's website:
(https://americanindian.si.edu/sites/1/dynamic/downloads/downloads_filename_106.jpg)
I used to work directly across the street from the museum, and watched it being constructed. I've shot it from various angles, but the image I posted earlier in this thread, made in 2014, is my favorite.
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Shot in a Church Parking lot
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(https://americanindian.si.edu/sites/1/dynamic/downloads/downloads_filename_106.jpg)
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Yes Chris the two structures are quite similar. See here:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/OTTAWA/i-88T68cR/0/7b0bef12/M/IMGP9887%20bwcopy1000-M.jpg)
And this fabulous church Cardinal designed:
http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/reddeer/
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Vestibule
A natural stone abstract/painting? Shot with a Samsung Galaxy S7.
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Vestibule
A natural stone abstract/painting? Shot with a Samsung Galaxy S7.
Reminds me of petrified wood.
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Very nice colors and shapes/lines.
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Thanks, gentlemen. I'll admit to modest enhancement :-[
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Definitely a winner.
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Thanks, Eric.
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I thought why not make this more "abstract" looking.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Etobicoke-Valley/i-khtkWJV/0/85be52dc/L/IMG_0707%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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I like that, John.
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I like that, John.
👍🏻
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I like that, John.
Thanks David and Eric.
JR
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Mysterious!
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That looks to me like a Frambolius Bandersnatch (not to be confused with the Frumious Bandersnatch.)
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I tried a little ICM today. I can understand the appeal.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52092515714_50a49cbfd0_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nneL3E)
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Intriguing and strange!
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That looks to me like a Frambolius Bandersnatch (not to be confused with the Frumious Bandersnatch.)
Could be! In reality it's a screw-up making a focus stack of a photomicrograph of a stamen--I stacked two sets of images and this was the result.
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That is a beauty.
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I tried a little ICM today. I can understand the appeal.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52092515714_50a49cbfd0_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nneL3E)
I think that's pretty good, Matt. Two ways to do this. I see this as more abstract. But you can also do semi-abstact images. I like both kinds.
JR
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Apropos, once again from Neil Young:
It's these expressions
I never give
That keep me searching
For a heart of gold
And I'm getting old
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-fxqrqCW/0/d19466b8/L/JMR_0002%20copy1bw-1000-L.jpg)
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Ghostly creature and with appropriate words to go with it!
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+1.
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Transformational.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-GPFnMjw/0/b10dd875/L/JMR_0430%20copy4-1000-L.jpg)
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A straight shot from one of your forest walks, no doubt.
I like it a lot.
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This also reminds me of the Damascus steel patterns and lines. Colors add to the exotic look.
A very nice shot!
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This also reminds me of the Damascus steel patterns and lines. Colors add to the exotic look.
A very nice shot!
A straight shot from one of your forest walks, no doubt.
I like it a lot.
Thanks Eric and Francois for your comments. I hate to disappoint but I must confess to doing more with this image than meets the eye. I did take both images on the same walk. It's a composite of two images using a technique I learned at a workshop. You can see both images below. I like both images in their own right but wanted to try the technique to see what I could come up with.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Nr44ndM/0/1bd3c959/L/JMR_0459%20copy1000-L.jpg)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-mMFcB88/0/fc33f2b7/L/JMR_0430%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Your technique is just as involving as the Damascus steel ;D
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Transformational.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-GPFnMjw/0/b10dd875/L/JMR_0430%20copy4-1000-L.jpg)
I like it a lot, too. But be careful; you are treading into "creative" art territory. :)
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I like it a lot, too. But be careful; you are treading into "creative" art territory. :)
You know Arlen, I would never do that 8)
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-wC87BTr/0/e86194a3/L/JMR_0560%20pano2-1000-L.jpg)
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Elegant. I could see it hanging in a gallery.
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Elegant. I could see it hanging in a gallery.
+1.
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Thanks Arlen and Eric. No more room on my walls. Perhaps I will get one of those monitors that looks like a frame and hang it on the wall 8)
JR
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Radiation
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/172708128/original.jpg)
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Radiation
"Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships lying In the yellow haze of the sun...all in a dream"
Yes Arlen, this reminds me of the Neil Young song quoted above.
JR
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The orange glow is just perfect for radiation…
Well done.
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Thanks, Fracois. In naming it, my mind played with the alternate meanings of radiation.
"Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships lying In the yellow haze of the sun...all in a dream"
Yes Arlen, this reminds me of the Neil Young song quoted above.
JR
Interesting that the image brought that song into your mind, John. It is a classic. You might enjoy this short video, where the song is played and someone has set a series of artworks and photos to the music. I liked it, anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqi0GzA4gjw. Though the subject of my image is quite a bit more prosaic than that.
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Reflections of summer tourists along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal (Potomac, Maryland):
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52207385153_fc7508c4af_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nxouJe)
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While waiting for my windshield to be changed, I spotted this...and thought, why not.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-bNPMhNp/0/0c8a8a1c/L/IMG_1147%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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A pretty pattern, John, but I think maybe you need to get your windshield cleaned.
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but I think maybe you need to get your windshield cleaned.
On the other hand, leave your windshield as it is. As a filter you can put it to good use (as seen here). ;D
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On the other hand, leave your windshield as it is. As a filter you can put it to good use (as seen here). ;D
Thanks for the comments Arlen and Francois. These are cans of some kind of lubricant stacked up like a pyramid. The beauty of ICM, is that with practice, you develop a sense of how some subject matter may appear if a certain technique is used. The first image was an upward movement, but this second example is a side or horizontal movement. Neither image is that great, but it leads to trying ICM on different subjects, however mundane.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-V3rZ73N/0/8b161e04/L/IMG_1146%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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So you carry a camera with you even into the windshield repair shop? That's dedication.
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So you carry a camera with you even into the windshield repair shop? That's dedication.
Sort of Arlen. If I think I may be waiting for awhile, then I will bring my point and shoot Canon G1X.
JR
Up, down or rest. Can't decide.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-FCTXNTJ/0/7d95a8fc/L/IMG_1189%20copy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Shadow play - literally.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-BvSkQcn/0/b0a18b24/L/JMR_1664%20copyoriginal-1000-L.jpg)
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Simple and beautiful… In fact, it's so nice that I don't even try to understand what it is!
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Simple and beautiful… In fact, it's so nice that I don't even try to understand what it is!
+1.
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+1.
In that case, I will leave it a mystery. Thank you Francois and Eric for your comments.
JR
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This thread seems to be getting no love lately. Time for a contribution.
Final Fate
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That is terrific, Arlen!
Minimalist but very elegant.
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Thank you, Eric, I'm glad you like it.
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Very special & unusual and I like it…
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Oh yes, a beam of light trying to penetrate the cosmos. Maybe we will be able to see something besides the noise.
JR
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Thanks, Francois and John.
John, you don't know how close you came to what is behind this image. I came across some accidental shots on my phone, captured as RAW using the LR Mobile app, taken in a very dark room. At first this one seemed black, with a slight white streak from a window ledge. But when I brought the exposure way up, I could see that there was a pattern of colorful background sensor noise. I played with it a while, and finally came up with what you see. It made me think how noise is a manifestation of randomness and entropy, throughout the universe. And how everything is trending relentlessly in that direction, and eventually randomness is all that will remain. The "last" "photon" burning out into the universal noise: maybe that is the final fate.
And honest, no pharmacologic assistance was involved in imagining this scenario. :)
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Make of this what you will. Let's just say I didn't really like what I saw, but did see that it might make a good abstract.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-77m6N5Q/0/2c198d9f/L/IMG_1508%20copy4-1000-L.jpg)
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And indeed it did! I'm not sure what you saw that displeased you, but I see nothing not to like in your rendering of it.
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And indeed it did! I'm not sure what you saw that displeased you, but I see nothing not to like in your rendering of it.
Thanks Arlen. It's graffiti. So I abstracted a portion and used ICM to render it unrecognizable. Just shapes and colours.
JR
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I'm confidant that your version is much better than the original.
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I'm confidant that your version is much better than the original.
+1.
I like it a lot!
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The reflecting pool?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-bpXvJsK/0/53174ef2/L/IMG_1256%20pano2-1000-L.jpg)
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👍🏻
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The reflecting pool?...
Very nice.
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The reflecting pool?
Love it!
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Love the graphic and the sense of slow motion in this one!
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Painter’s Tape
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52313185098_7558268438_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nGJKnd)
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Painter’s Tape
That is wonderful Chris. I was immediately drawn to the cool contrast between the blue, black and white colors. And of course the abstract-like design. On my second visit I finally noticed the man outside the window. And that is the way a good image should be.
JR
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On my second visit I finally noticed the man outside the window.
Yes, that's the painter. My initial thought was to snap him while he was bending down to work on one of the lower panes of glass, but it occurred to me that he might not be pleased with the old man on the other side of the door aiming a big camera in his face while he was working; I decided I was satisfied with the spectral figure standing on his stepladder.
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Igloos, or are they? My first post in this thread. Comments are very welcome.
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Nice one, Frans!
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Igloos, or are they? My first post in this thread. Comments are very welcome.
Well done!
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Well done!
Very interesting. Frost on car surface, something like that?
JR
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Thanks guys! Heavily edited rivets on an old steam locomotive.
Here's another one from the same subject.
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Fantastic shots (both). Indeed, very abstract and open to many interpretations.
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Tack Sharp
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52319452652_bec74afb6f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nHhSuu)
Well, the image needs to stand or fall on its intrinsic merits, but this is the backstory: my wife plants "bee balm" flowers in our back yard to attract pollinators. (Hummingbirds like them, as well.) These spiky protrusions are what is left after the flowers have withered.
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In the middle of nowhere...Nevada, from last March. The one on the right was a real lemon...;-)
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You guys have been really busy posting new images to this thread since I last checked a week ago. And every one of them is first rate. Bravo to each of you!
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You guys have been really busy posting new images to this thread since I last checked a week ago. And every one of them is first rate. Bravo to each of you!
Yes, Bravo to each of you!
JR
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Indeed!
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Didn't realize there was so much interest in abstract images. Be careful what you ask for. I'm reminded of the response of an old guy, accosted by a pollster inquiring who he preferred in an upcoming election: "Oh, I never vote. It only encourages them."
Amber Waves
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52325442914_52fa5430bd_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nHPzbS)
Backstory: this is a focus-stacked macro of a plastic mesh "sock" (that's the most accurate term that comes to mind) which enclosed a small electronic appliance that was recently shipped to me.
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Amber waves is quite nice. But the momentum is on, so the show must go on...
What can I say, sometimes shapes like to tango/tangle in the sun.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-S8QR2zZ/0/88f86fc9/L/IMG_1681%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Amber waves is quite nice. But the momentum is on, so the show must go on...
What can I say, sometimes shapes like to tango/tangle in the sun.
JR
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The diagonal line on the right gives a 3D effect that I like very much. These squares/rectangles/triangles form a good collection of basic geometric shapes.
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No harm was done to anything in the making of this picture
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No harm was done to anything in the making of this picture
Great capture of a stealth aircraft in flight.
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Looks good Rab. One more for the show...
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-XbsPZmV/0/d5b5a0a1/L/IMG_2101%20copybw1000-L.jpg)
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No harm was done to anything in the making of this picture
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Shy bird!
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;D
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Many great images since I last checked in!
Thanks for showing them.
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Off the Grid
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52351114743_5faf4c7520_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nL69wB)
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Or: Hot off the griddle. ;)
Nice one!
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Off the Grid
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I like it a lot but after a minute or two, the zigzags make my brain overheat (granted, some days, it doesn't take much)!
Bravo.
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I like it a lot but after a minute or two, the zigzags make my brain overheat . . .
That's exactly the reaction I was aiming for!
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That's exactly the reaction I was aiming for!
Touché! :D
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Not getting in the middle of that fencing match-phew 8)
Something a little tame and whimsical.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-xsnPzPk/0/797dbe42/L/JMR_3145%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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The fires of Hell?
Nice!
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The fires of Hell?
Nice!
Yes Eric, the fine magenta/pinks are just to lure you into the sea of boil and toil.
JR
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Slip, slide and away... from Paul Simon
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-Mx2fJwK/0/fb19bffc/L/IMG_1819%20copy2cd-1000-L.jpg)
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Ooh! Nice!
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Wonderful shot with that swirling pink "thing"!
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I experimented with two exposures on one frame using ICM and offset the second exposure, and this is the result. Kind of abstract even though the subject is recognizable.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-CqsgL46/0/5e26631d/L/JMR_4049%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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Wormhole
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The wave? Just kidding, of course!
Very nice lines and shapes…
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Very cool.
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Very cool.
But not quite -273°C ;)
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The wave? Just kidding, of course!
Very nice lines and shapes…
Thanks Francois :)
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Looking out from the window of our spaceship, we see,
Space...the last frontier, I mean - wormhole, the last frontier. Excellent Rab!
JR
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Looking out from the window of our spaceship, we see, Space...the last frontier, I mean - wormhole, the last frontier. Excellent Rab!
JR
Thanks John :)
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Vertigo?
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Abstracts/i-GcwBVBX/0/f2eb3178/L/JMR_4062%20pano7bw-L.jpg)
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Vertigo?
JR
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Not yet but I'm on the verge... ;D
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Comments?
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I rather like this Peter. I like how the upper half, sky-like and darkish, is reproduced slightly in the bottom half by what looks like a small puddle or body of water in a white desert. It's the fluidity of the movement between the top and bottom half, and the more subtle grey tones around the white body that moves the eye. A kind of fluidity and simplicity in contrasts.
JR
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Translucence
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52473393703_71039f178b_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nWTRNx)
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Exquisite with these different translucences, materials and reflections.
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Exquisite with these different translucences, materials and reflections.
Yes, all that come through.
JR
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Texture.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Camera-Impressions/i-DM3Q94p/0/41f9ec58/L/Oct%2027-%202022%20Rockway_0314%20spring1000-L.jpg)
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Exquisite with these different translucences, materials and reflections.
Yes, all that come through.
Texture.
When somebody asks me what kind of subjects I typically photograph, I reply "light, shadow, contrast, and color."
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Kind of abstract, but also minimalist.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/On-the-Road/i-k2XwkkJ/0/7b8a1607/L/IMG_0054%20bwcopy2-1000-L.jpg)
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Kind of abstract, but also minimalist.
I agree, both.
I like the composition, but I think it might be oversharpened. There seem to be some halos.
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I agree, both.
I like the composition, but I think it might be oversharpened. There seem to be some halos.
Thanks for the comments Chris. Not sure what you are seeing, but I can't see any Halos. If you are referring to the white areas around the perimenter, that's not halos. Its concrete edges that are blown out by the sun.
JR
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From High Park where an early snow storm fell on the remaining colours.
JR
(https://photos.smugmug.com/High-Park-Toronto/i-29Vv9zS/0/227c12cf/L/JMR_0501%20copy1000-L.jpg)
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My brain is overwhelmed… well, almost!
Well done, John.
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Bravo, John!
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Way to go, John. Thanks for posting!
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Way to go, John. Thanks for posting!
Thanks Francois, Eric and Thomas.
JR
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Abruzzo region, Italy:
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Abruzzo region, Italy:
Well done! Nightmarish!
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I love that one, Slobodan!
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Yes, it is a quite compelling pattern. Well done.
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Well done! Nightmarish!
Come to think of it, it does exude an eerie quality.
JR
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Another natural abstract from Abruzzo, Italy:
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Here are couple of mine
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Very nice and geometric lines/shapes…
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Just wondering if anyone has heard from John R? Over the last few years he has almost single-handedly kept this thread active with his excellent abstracts, but he hasn't posted here in over two months. I sent him a private message a few weeks ago, but no reply. Hoping he is alright, and just on hiatus for a while.
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I'm still missing John R, and hoping for his return. In the meantime, in the spirit of keeping this thread active, I'll add a recent image of mine.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/173445126/original.jpg)
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I miss John R as well.
But yours is a wonderful tribute, Arlen!
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I miss John R as well.
But yours is a wonderful tribute, Arlen!
Well said on both points!
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Thanks a lot, Eric and Francois. I hope we can keep this thread going.
Eric, as the founder and patron of this topic, maybe you have some images to contribute? I know the ones in your book, which I have, are first rate.
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I'm still missing John R, and hoping for his return. In the meantime, in the spirit of keeping this thread active, I'll add a recent image of mine.
(https://pbase.com/art1/image/173445126/original.jpg)
i love this image,
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Thanks, Michael, I appreciate your thoughts.
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When I saw this one, it struck me as rather Eric-esque.
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I love this one.
And I am deeply honored!
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Unidentifed Flying Lenses
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52752299616_7b89de282c_o.jpg)
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I'm still missing John R, and hoping for his return. In the meantime, in the spirit of keeping this thread active, I'll add a recent image of mine.
your image brought this to mind.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52751782647_f061fed38a_o.jpg)
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I love this one.
And I am deeply honored!
And it's well deserved!
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Unidentifed Flying Lenses(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52752299616_7b89de282c_o.jpg)
Really spectacular shape combinations. Reflections are interesting and the offset lines intriguing.
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And it's well deserved!
It is indeed.
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I'm still missing John R, and hoping for his return. In the meantime, in the spirit of keeping this thread active, I'll add a recent image of mine.
your image brought this to mind.
The do seem to share some DNA.
And your UFLs is excellent.
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Really spectacular shape combinations. Reflections are interesting and the offset lines intriguing.
Thank you. when processing the image..it took me several minutes to remember what it was that I had captured.
it is raindrops on plasitc wrap over a box with at large UPC code sticker...
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Michael,
That is now one of my top favorites. Bravo!
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Michael,
That is now one of my top favorites. Bravo!
thank you.
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Is this abstract enough for this thread? I took this in my mom's yard of some freshly emerging skunk cabbage.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52818871352_8b601437db_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2otqwgJ)
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I like it, with all the bends and curves.
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Burnt Tree Trunk
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Quite an interesting pattern, Chris.
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Burnt Tree Trunk
The suffering of this tree is visible (or not?). Patterns and lines can tell many stories.
Well done.