Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: seamus finn on April 28, 2014, 05:50:30 am
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Or should it be end of the road ? But hardly, for boats.
Inspired by Kevin Raber's video the other day, I took up my camera for the first time in ages and headed out to a small village only five miles away on the coast. Not sure about the results, but I enjoyed taking pictures once again.
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I think #2 is very good. You show me enough so I feel I know the boat and where it is, but are close enough to show details well. Balancing the light on the water with the white on the boat is good. etc
It is beautiful and ugly at the same time.
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Your #3 is interesting ~!
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...Not sure about the results, but I enjoyed taking pictures once again.
For photographers, photography is so much more than just end results.
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Exactly. And there's something about this kind of wabi sabi that none of us can resist. Nostalgia? Maybe, but maybe something more profound.
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Ruskin penned a poem about the mythic charm of the prow of a boat heading to see. I lost my copy and have never been abe to find it on the web. But these shots evoke memories of a childhood growing up by the sea.
Finding the camera is a precursor to finding the MOJO I believe.
W
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I must admit to liking your landscape better.
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Not sure about the results, but I enjoyed taking pictures once again.
Already been said, but sometimes the point of photography is just to be there. When I was a kid with my first (my dad's) 35mm, often I couldn't afford film so I'd just go out and compose images, make light readings, etc.
Of the three I prefer the bottom one.
Mike.
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Not sure about the results, but I enjoyed taking pictures once again.
Which reminds me of my 8x10" days. I often went out with the camera without any film at all. It was so satisfying to frame scenes under the black cloth and see them in living color, even if upside down.
I find these all quite moving and evocative, especially #2.
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[quote Which reminds me of my 8x10" days. I often went out with the camera without any film at all. It was so satisfying to frame scenes under the black cloth and see them in living colour, even if upside down.][/quote]
Well, Eric, it tells us something about ourselves. By the way, you were lucky to find anything worth a shot - even with no film!
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Well, Seamus, most of the scenes I studied through the ground glass would not have made interesting prints. But back then an 8x10" print was a "big" print ("small" prints were what came from the drug store), and with 35mm through 4x5" cameras I could never see a potential "big" print until I developed the film and printed it. So the joy was really just being able to see just about anything in "full size" and in color!