The Function of Light

[RSL]

The function of light is...

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Russ, before you edited it, I thought I saw double (i.e., two identical jpegs) and figured out it must be the function of drinks

[RSL]

Slobodon, No, you weren't seeing pink elephants. I screwed up first time by not putting any text into the post. Whoever designed the software made the decision that you simply must have some text. Just posting a picture won't cut it. When I got the error message it looked as if the thing didn't go up. I opened a second tab in the browser to check, and, sure enough, it wasn't there. So I added a word or two and tried posting again. That time the text and two copies of the picture were there. So I clobbered the whole fiasco and started over.

You learn something new every day.

[Rob C]

The function of light is...

To make an empty bar look more busy? To distract the customer from the reality? To paint a prettier picture than the one that lives in the dark?

Candles always give a romantic glow unless they are burning the house down; insurance exclusion?

Rob C

[michswiss]

I don't think the shot itself is spectacular, but it sure does communicate.  What a depressing scene.

[stamper]

Slobodon, No, you weren't seeing pink elephants. I screwed up first time by not putting any text into the post. Whoever designed the software made the decision that you simply must have some text. Just posting a picture won't cut it. When I got the error message it looked as if the thing didn't go up. I opened a second tab in the browser to check, and, sure enough, it wasn't there. So I added a word or two and tried posting again. That time the text and two copies of the picture were there. So I clobbered the whole fiasco and started over.

You learn something new every day.

I too fell foul of that a few days ago. Russ you have plenty of detail in the image which has been rendered very nicely. The tones, highlights and black are nicely displayed. As stated the subject isn't possibly the best but what you have done you have done very well. I am on the wagon at the moment so it ain't tempting!

[Rob C]

I too fell foul of that a few days ago. Russ you have plenty of detail in the image which has been rendered very nicely. The tones, highlights and black are nicely displayed. As stated the subject isn't possibly the best but what you have done you have done very well. I am on the wagon at the moment so it ain't tempting!

As long as you're riding shotgun, who's going to argue?

Rob C

[Rob C]

I don't think the shot itself is spectacular, but it sure does communicate.  What a depressing scene.

On many levels. Maybe the shot is more spectacular than you first thought...

Rob C

[jeremypayne]

... What a depressing scene.

Why is it depressing to you?  I don't see where that comes from.

Are sports bars depressing to you by their nature?

[RSL]

... What a depressing scene.

Jennifer, You feel it's depressing because it's not pretty. But it's truth, and if you believe John Keats, truth is beauty, beauty truth.

What it actually is is a study in the way lateral light gives you good mid-tones. It's a fair demonstration of that in color, but much better in B&W.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Why is it depressing to you?  I don't see where that comes from.

Are sports bars depressing to you by their nature?

Perhaps not… but empty ones probably are… with a single soul there being ignored by the bartender… her back turned… while he longingly looks in her direction, probably wanting to spill his guts to someone… anyone… anyone but the half-empty glass in front of him.

Depressing enough, Jeremy?

[jeremypayne]

Perhaps not… but empty ones probably are… with a single soul there being ignored by the bartender… her back turned… while he longingly looks in her direction, probably wanting to spill his guts to someone… anyone… anyone but the half-empty glass in front of him.

Depressing enough, Jeremy?

Alternate narrative ... she just put a burger in front of him and he is happily watching her cute backside as she wipes down the counter.  It's a beautiful sunny day and he's on top of the world, happily consuming some protein, salt and fat while contemplating all the nice backsides he's ever seen and placing the barkeep in her proper place on that heirarchy.

I like sports bars and as a former salesman, I found refuge in many a bar like that in between sales calls.  I don't find it depressing in the least ... just a ordinary scene from an ordinary bar on an oridnary day. 

Any emotional content someone adds to this image come more from the viewer's mind than the image itself, IMO.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

...It's a beautiful sunny day and he's on top of the world…

...as a former salesman…

Why doesn't it surprised me that a having a sunny disposition comes with the territory for a salesman?

P.S. A note to myself: do not buy a used car (or camera) from Jeremy   

[Rob C]

Why doesn't it surprised me that a having a sunny disposition comes with the territory for a salesman?

P.S. A note to myself: do not buy a used car (or camera) from Jeremy   

Damn!

I've just put the finishing touches to the website - added most of the few remaining (reasonable) old shots I've got, leaving myself little alternative but to shoot again, and when I got back here, you'd already replied to Jeremy; beaten to the punch yet again!

But it isn't really funny. There's a truth hidden within all that perspective of opposite views. As for myself, and for all of my life, I viewed more or less all of these places as last chance saloons. It was my greatest difficulty in business: whereas most ADs I knew loved those places it took wild horses etc. and I found the rictus on my face almost impossible to maintain.

Sports bars. This is the second coincidence of today. There's one such title applied to a bar I saw this afternoon during my postprandial stroll to keep the heart working. I hadn't noticed the place before - my first thought was that it must mean that one has to pole vault in order to get service. What on Earth does it mean? Surely not what I'd suspected?

Rob C

[jeremypayne]

Sports bars. This is the second coincidence of today. There's one such title applied to a bar I saw this afternoon during my postprandial stroll to keep the heart working. I hadn't noticed the place before - my first thought was that it must mean that one has to pole vault in order to get service. What on Earth does it mean? Surely not what I'd suspected?

Rob C

A bar where one goes primarily because they have subscriptions to all the satellite TV sports packages and play all the big sporting events on large screen TVs.

[stamper]

Perhaps not… but empty ones probably are… with a single soul there being ignored by the bartender… her back turned… while he longingly looks in her direction, probably wanting to spill his guts to someone… anyone… anyone but the half-empty glass in front of him.


Depressing enough, Jeremy?

Or maybe he is gay and he is wishing it was a man's ass and where they heck is everyone else? Am I in the wrong bar??? 

[Rob C]

Or maybe he is gay and he is wishing it was a man's ass and where they heck is everyone else? Am I in the wrong bar??? 

That's an acute observation, stamper, except that I don't believe that Russ would have put a foot inside one were it the case - other than for observational purposes, of course. Which leaves the debate as open as my cardio's report on my treadmill test results on Thursday: still don't know it it's worth spending the moolah on a new set of wheels or prioritise the kids' inheritance plan instead; all he'd say was that one has to make the best of things. Thank you.

;-(

Rob C

[Rob C]

A bar where one goes primarily because they have subscriptions to all the satellite TV sports packages and play all the big sporting events on large screen TVs.

Dear God, that's worse than I'd imagined!

Rob C

[Riaan van Wyk]

What it actually is is a study in the way lateral light gives you good mid-tones.

I realy like this Russ. Being on the b&w learning path I guess I can't comment on the tones, but the photo as a whole is appealing, everything ( composition, processing) seems to "gel" perfectly for me.

[jule]

Any emotional content someone adds to this image come more from the viewer's mind than the image itself, IMO.

What is the image itself? I think the image itself is only ink on paper unless it is seen by a viewer; whereby they think and then respond emotionally in accordance with their genetics, personality and experience.

One cannot view an image and not add emotional content from our mind. The image itself is visual data upon which we respond.

Julie



Julie