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Title: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Telecaster on March 03, 2014, 09:53:29 pm
This photo is right in my appreciation wheelhouse. It's a lovely example of how cameras & lenses can see things differently than we can. IMO photos that do this are more interesting & compelling than those that simply mimic our visual perception. Good job, Mr R.

-Dave-
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: gjanee on March 03, 2014, 10:43:13 pm
Agreed.  This picture shows us motion, and our minds easily fill in the rest.  And besides, it's just lovely to look at.
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: dennbel on March 03, 2014, 11:22:55 pm
Kinda OOF. Hahaha just kidding. This is great!
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: BernardLanguillier on March 03, 2014, 11:37:15 pm
Very nice image!

Cheers,
Bernard
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on March 04, 2014, 02:01:07 am
Works greatly.
As I like to say and quote myself:
Sharpness is for rookies - real men blur!
Cheers
~Chris
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Rob C on March 04, 2014, 03:22:52 am
Michael, Ernst Haas would have been proud of you!

;-)

Rob C
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: fdisilvestro on March 04, 2014, 03:48:04 am
Michael, Ernst Haas would have been proud of you!

;-)

Rob C

Right! I was just going to write that it reminded me of Ernst Haas bullfight
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Rob C on March 04, 2014, 04:54:55 am
Right! I was just going to write that it reminded me of Ernst Haas bullfight


Francisco, do you think this means we might both be photo junkies? Hey, let's, obviously, include Michael in there!

;-)

Rob C
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: fdisilvestro on March 04, 2014, 05:26:40 am

Francisco, do you think this means we might both be photo junkies? Hey, let's, obviously, include Michael in there!

;-)

Rob C

HAHAHA!! I guess so ;-)

Francisco
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Alan Klein on March 04, 2014, 08:13:10 am
I don't see your picture???   Just got a new computer.  Maybe my settings are off but I do see avatars.  Suggestions?
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Rob C on March 04, 2014, 09:46:37 am
I don't see your picture???   Just got a new computer.  Maybe my settings are off but I do see avatars.  Suggestions?

It's Michael's cover shot to which we refer...

Rob C
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: uaiomex on March 04, 2014, 10:53:58 am
Another good example of how smaller formats can produce more interesting imagery than pixel perfect uber expensive dbacks. Congrats
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Alan Klein on March 04, 2014, 10:55:31 am
How do you get back to the cover page from this forum page?  
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on March 04, 2014, 10:59:21 am
How do you get back to the cover page from this forum page?  

"Luminous Landscape Home" in the grey bar in the upper right corner
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Alan Klein on March 04, 2014, 12:59:30 pm
Tks.
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Rand47 on March 04, 2014, 01:19:04 pm
Michael,

The more I look at this photo, the more drawn to it I become.  Any chance of a print run?

Rand
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Rob C on March 04, 2014, 03:23:56 pm
Michael,

The more I look at this photo, the more drawn to it I become.  Any chance of a print run?

Rand


Why, did you want to shoot it at a 1/5th of a second?

Just jokin' (not Just Jaeckin - that's another 60s hero of mine).

;-)

Rob C

P.S. Just looked him up: all that wiki reveals is his film stuff; that wasn't what he used to be about at the time: he did great fashion in British Vogue.
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: michael on March 04, 2014, 04:06:19 pm
It's part of an incredible series of impressionistic images taken recently at a a bull fight. But the last time I posted a bull fight image here, about 10 years ago, I received countless aggressive emails from the anti-bullfight crowd, and so I am likely not going to publish them here, or do an article, which I had considered, on how to do this type of shooting.

To many crazies out there.

Michael

Ps...Note to crazies. I personally hate bull fighting. But I find photographing them to be fascinating. I also recognize that it's an intrinsic part of Mexican culture, which neither I nor anyone from outside the country will likely ever change.
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: NancyP on March 04, 2014, 11:25:02 pm
I like it! I wouldn't have thought "bull fight", I thought "polo" or "barrel race" at first. I take it that this is the picador.
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Colorado David on March 05, 2014, 12:29:52 am
I thought polo at first too, but the boots aren't right for polo.  It's a beautiful image.  Maybe you go shoot a series at a polo match to avoid the bullfight crazies.
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Rob C on March 05, 2014, 03:15:38 am
It's part of an incredible series of impressionistic images taken recently at a a bull fight. But the last time I posted a bull fight image here, about 10 years ago, I received countless aggressive emails from the anti-bullfight crowd, and so I am likely not going to publish them here, or do an article, which I had considered, on how to do this type of shooting.

To many crazies out there.

Michael

Ps...Note to crazies. I personally hate bull fighting. But I find photographing them to be fascinating. I also recognize that it's an intrinsic part of Mexican culture, which neither I nor anyone from outside the country will likely ever change.



Michael, if you have the images, then you may as well stand by them and produce. I hate the 'fights' too.(Fights? What fights? It's one dumb, cloak/cape-chasing poor sod of an animal against all the odds. The real fight would be man and bull and no cloak/cape decoy.) I've never been, and turn away when they appear on bar tv. Interestingly, many of the locals in the bars simply turn their backs to the screen too and enjoy another drink. I'm not sure, because it's a subject I hesitate to broach, what with being the inevitable estranjero and feeling I have no real right to criticise another host culture, but I think what's happening here isn't about morality but simply boredom with it all: seen one - you've seen 'em all. Strangely, the same logic fails to hold with crowd football-watching, which fills bars every time one of the big teams is active.

But obviously you know your public best, and I'm happy to go with that; just hate to miss nice pictures.

;-)

Rob C
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Utah on March 05, 2014, 06:09:53 pm
Take up Ice fishing (just kidding.......)
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Rob C on March 06, 2014, 03:31:40 am
Take up Ice fishing (just kidding.......)


That's far too dangerous: you could fall in and drown, or freeze to death before you drown, which might be a small mercy of sorts.

Rob C
Title: Re: Horse & Rider #3
Post by: Hans Kruse on March 06, 2014, 05:05:10 am
It's part of an incredible series of impressionistic images taken recently at a a bull fight. But the last time I posted a bull fight image here, about 10 years ago, I received countless aggressive emails from the anti-bullfight crowd, and so I am likely not going to publish them here, or do an article, which I had considered, on how to do this type of shooting.

To many crazies out there.

Michael

Ps...Note to crazies. I personally hate bull fighting. But I find photographing them to be fascinating. I also recognize that it's an intrinsic part of Mexican culture, which neither I nor anyone from outside the country will likely ever change.


My advice: Ignore the crazies!