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Photo Of The Day - December 2017

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Captured - twigs and leaves in a spider web.

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stillcrazyman

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needfx said:
you are courteously invited to zoom on this picture
(click on it to take you to flickr, one more click on it to zoom)
it is dumbfounding, I am still dumbfounded


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Alright, I clicked on it. I zoomed in. I scanned all over the image. I see patterns in the rocks. But I don't think that's what you were referring to. How about a clue ?
 
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stillcrazyman said:
Nice.
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cheers!

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Alright, I clicked on it. I zoomed in. I scanned all over the image. I see patterns in the rocks. But I don't think that's what you were referring to. How about a clue ?
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There is nothing of particular interest, the quality of the image altogether though is spectacular. If there is somethong of note, is a nice little circle on the water by the edge of the rocks :)
 
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Alexander.Of.Oz

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I'm studying a Diploma of Photography at the moment, and our current assessment is on movement and depth of field, one of the challenges was to pan with something and get good detail to it with a nicely blurred background. Everyone has gone off and done this with cars, motorbikes, trains, trams, trucks, pushbikes, etc... Pretty obvious really, and not all that inspiring for me. I settled on people in movement, particularly through the activity of parkour, so went to a monthly jam session in a parkour training facility in the city yesterday. I got some great expressions of movement, with some subtle blurring to the background as they aren't moving as fast as vehicles. I had to get in nice and close to achieve any background blurring and experiment with shutter speed, aperture and ISO balances, as we are required to shoot on manual mode for the entirety of the course. I won't use this one as a submission piece, but I really like the inferred sense of movement it has, with this guy bouncing off a wall to then pass over a vary tall vaulting-horse.

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Canon 6D, Canon 24-105mm f/4 L, Manual
ISO 800, 45mm, f/4, 1/60
 
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Hehe...why? :)
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Not for the qualification, just for personal interest and self development, it's primarily to get myself to think deeper about what I'm doing photographically and how I'm doing it. I achieve and learn a lot from having challenges where I have to produce something, which otherwise I wouldn't be motivated to do. So there's that too. The way this course is structured, there's a lot of assessments along the way, which will force me to get out of the house, and allow me to think and stretch my wings creatively, especially if I'm wanting to develop my landscape, architectural and long-exposure stuff. Plus, there's the modules on lighting and portraiture which I'm really looking forward to playing with when we get up to that. The idea of being mentored with a couple of well known specialists in architecture really has great value for me, and this is a way of achieving that easily.

I know there's a metric $h!t ton of youtube videos out there showing you how to do everything about photography, and that may have worked for you, but it doesn't work for me very effectively. Where's the critical eye, feedback and guidance from a tutorial video? If it's just me assessing my own images, I'm going to miss a lot of things that could otherwise be improved on, regardless of how analytical I am.

The architecture protog's here in Adelaide don't share their knowledge freely, unless you are indentured to them as their personal slave for years, and even then they drip feed you tit-bits and hold back a large part of their knowledge because you may be a possible threat to their livelihoods in the future, going by the feedback from others that have tried to crack this field of photography that I've spoken to. Most of them have now moved interstate or overseas to achieve their dreams of breaking into architectural photography, with varying successes. It's not a sharing environment here.

One thing I am also hoping to develop is my style of photography, rather than just emulating others works, as I am currently stuck at this point of doing. I reckon that through exploring and taking things deeper, this may occur as a natural process. Fingers crossed. :D
 
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Alexander.Of.Oz said:
Not for the qualification, just for personal interest and self development, it's primarily to get myself to think deeper about what I'm doing photographically and how I'm doing it. I achieve and learn a lot from having challenges where I have to produce something, which otherwise I wouldn't be motivated to do. So there's that too. The way this course is structured, there's a lot of assessments along the way, which will force me to get out of the house, and allow me to think and stretch my wings creatively, especially if I'm wanting to develop my landscape, architectural and long-exposure stuff. Plus, there's the modules on lighting and portraiture which I'm really looking forward to playing with when we get up to that. The idea of being mentored with a couple of well known specialists in architecture really has great value for me, and this is a way of achieving that easily.

I know there's a metric $h!t ton of youtube videos out there showing you how to do everything about photography, and that may have worked for you, but it doesn't work for me very effectively. Where's the critical eye, feedback and guidance from a tutorial video? If it's just me assessing my own images, I'm going to miss a lot of things that could otherwise be improved on, regardless of how analytical I am.

The architecture protog's here in Adelaide don't share their knowledge freely, unless you are indentured to them as their personal slave for years, and even then they drip feed you tit-bits and hold back a large part of their knowledge because you may be a possible threat to their livelihoods in the future, going by the feedback from others that have tried to crack this field of photography that I've spoken to. Most of them have now moved interstate or overseas to achieve their dreams of breaking into architectural photography, with varying successes. It's not a sharing environment here.

One thing I am also hoping to develop is my style of photography, rather than just emulating others works, as I am currently stuck at this point of doing. I reckon that through exploring and taking things deeper, this may occur as a natural process. Fingers crossed. :D
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Enjoy. Hope you get everything out of the course you are hoping for.
It's good to push oneself from time to time or we can get stuck in a rut.
 
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