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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #420 on: November 19, 2013, 05:33:25 pm »

The second one is a classic amateur cliché, but a walk in the mountains is also a classic amateur cliché, perhaps only a Marina waiting in the hut of Pian del lago could make it an authentic experience... :'(


We can dream!

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #421 on: November 20, 2013, 12:22:08 pm »

It's been pissing down most of the past three or four days, so I haven't gone out other than to eat.

So out of guilt and panic, I compromised the honour of this bottle yet once again this afternoon. God, it's freezing here in Mallorca.

Rob C


P.S. It's reproducing even more blurred than ever now. What a drag.

I really don't understand this. I have just opened the very same file here, outwith Lula and on the same computer used to send the image to LuLa, and it's as crisp as you'd want on the bottle and the lettering of the titles.
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #422 on: November 20, 2013, 12:58:58 pm »

It's been pissing down most of the past three or four days, so I haven't gone out other than to eat.

So out of guilt and panic, I compromised the honour of this bottle yet once again this afternoon. God, it's freezing here in Mallorca.

Rob C


P.S. It's reproducing even more blurred than ever now. What a drag.

I really don't understand this. I have just opened the very same file here, outwith Lula and on the same computer used to send the image to LuLa, and it's as crisp as you'd want on the bottle and the lettering of the titles.


WOW! Bondage photographs on LuLa ... Going the Newton road now?

Rob - what I want now from you is:

- The Ansel Coke
- The Weston Coke
- The Sieff Coke
- The HCB Coke
- The Lagerfeld Coke
- The Salgado Coke
- The Burtynsky Coke
- The Daguerre Coke
- The Gursky Coke
... The Photographers Coke ..

And a final "Rob Special" Super Duper LuLa Coke !

Cheers
~Chris

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #423 on: November 20, 2013, 03:21:18 pm »


WOW! Bondage photographs on LuLa ... Going the Newton road now?

Rob - what I want now from you is:

- The Ansel Coke
- The Weston Coke
- The Sieff Coke
- The HCB Coke
- The Lagerfeld Coke
- The Salgado Coke
- The Burtynsky Coke
- The Daguerre Coke
- The Gursky Coke
... The Photographers Coke ..

And a final "Rob Special" Super Duper LuLa Coke !

Cheers
~Chris

 ;)





Patience Chris, it's raining.

Never thought about a Newton input; I do have his Taschen mini Sumo; well, ten grand's a lot of money for a trestle table and a big piece of firewood-to-be. But though he didn't seem to have discovered the naughty delights of Coke (the cola) he certainly had a way with medical instruments.

Anyway, what bondage? It's a reference to the Customs & Excise man.

I'm currently trying to find a lady who has a large-brimmed black hat and an equally black veil; with the right hat she and I might go far.

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #424 on: November 21, 2013, 09:42:12 am »

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #425 on: November 21, 2013, 11:09:53 am »

Anyway, what bondage? It's a reference to the Customs & Excise man.

The bottle is in subdued and in bondage with his/her mistress looking from behind. :P

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #426 on: November 21, 2013, 11:14:01 am »

The bottle is in subdued and in bondage with his/her mistress looking from behind. :P


Basically, what you are saying is that you can't really trust a bottle, and that sometimes a bottle is more than a bottle.

That rings bells.

No wonder Helmut left them alone.

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #427 on: November 27, 2013, 03:05:27 pm »

Unlike Helmut, on the other hand, I can't leave it alone. But at least I can say that I never pick it.

I spent a few minutes sending a cellpic of our wind-killed mimosa to my daughter this afternoon, and that made me so depressed that I instantly shot another Coke.

Am I suffering delusions, or did Coke not really produce bottles with the name writ large much higher up than the base, where a tiny one hides at the moment? Are these tiny ones just for foreign, non US, manufacture? I'm positive I remember a more stylish version.

Let's hope this one's crisp.

Rob C

P.S. 'fraid it isn't, but it is, if you see what I'm saying.
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #428 on: November 27, 2013, 03:12:26 pm »

Rob - if you go on like this the Coke Company will discover you and give you a lot of money and ask for an exhibition.
I start increasingly liking your Coke project.

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #429 on: November 27, 2013, 04:05:56 pm »

My first Tintype



Cheers Daniel

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #430 on: November 27, 2013, 04:07:30 pm »

Melbourne CBD







Cheers Daniel

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #431 on: November 27, 2013, 05:51:34 pm »

Rob, re our discussion about hosting images and possible blur problems, if you like you could email me the above coke image. If it arrives in my inbox sharp I could upload it to my own site and then post it here to see if the problem goes away.


Thanks, Keith, have done that now.

Other than the image itself, I see a big difference in the © symbol, which should be quite clean on my file here too, but isn't. I fondly imagine that the lettering will be sharp even if the picture is crap!

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #432 on: November 27, 2013, 05:54:14 pm »

Melbourne CBD







Cheers Daniel


Re. my own problems, your buildings look perfectly crisp to me! Can't be my computer, I guess.

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #433 on: November 28, 2013, 01:30:24 am »


Re. my own problems, your buildings look perfectly crisp to me! Can't be my computer, I guess.

Rob C

Its a fuji 14mm 2.8 at f5.6 (if I remember right)




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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #434 on: November 28, 2013, 04:39:04 am »

Keith,

I've just managed to screen my website image of this B/W Coke alongside the image in LuLa; they are not even the same size: my website one appears smaller! Maybe that's why it looks as if the copy/title is more sharp on my site.

I despair of this technology!

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #435 on: November 28, 2013, 05:59:07 am »

Rob - we can work on the sharpness problem when I'm in Mallorca between X-Mas and New year.
I'm quite a nerd at solving all sorts of technical or computer problems of unknown origin.

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #436 on: November 28, 2013, 06:14:56 am »

funny.

I knew it was a coke bottle from the very start!
Of the two above, I prefer #2 for its creamy goodness.
I guess I never noticed any crummyness in the uploads Rob makes.
My favorite scenes I make are often fuzzy.
Fuzzy-good word.
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #437 on: November 28, 2013, 10:32:35 am »

Keith, thank you a million for resolving my sanity problem; I had started to think that it stretched beyond my glaucoma (which now feels sort of semi-stable  - as in semi-virgin) and into my head.

I remember you mentioning this 'hosting' thing before, but I hadn't really undertsood what it implied. Doh!, as they write in some quarters.

I'll reread the e-mail on the topic and try again.

Thank you so much, not least for helping me regain face!

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #438 on: November 28, 2013, 10:37:35 am »

Rob - we can work on the sharpness problem when I'm in Mallorca between X-Mas and New year.
I'm quite a nerd at solving all sorts of technical or computer problems of unknown origin.


Hi Chris,

Thanks for the offer - maybe you can come up with some other sharpening advice too; I usually just do it by looking at the monitor, but perhaps there's a deeper science! I am happy with the way my prints look, but that's something else.

;-)

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #439 on: November 28, 2013, 10:43:38 am »

funny.

I knew it was a coke bottle from the very start!
Of the two above, I prefer #2 for its creamy goodness.
I guess I never noticed any crummyness in the uploads Rob makes.
My favorite scenes I make are often fuzzy.
Fuzzy-good word.


What first shook me about it at first, Rocco, was the fuzzyness of the captions; I know my PS6 is pretty old, but I thought that it wouldn't matter, and in effect, it didn't - there was a further factor I hadn't understood.

Hey, I feel too old a dog for these new tricks!

Woof!

Here are some more old pooches:

http://youtu.be/dm6qw_yeo6o

Rob C
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