Shooting with film and scanning the negative with a DSLR for the first time, much to learn... 
Kodak Ultramax 400 por Daniela M Alves, no Flickr
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Photo of the day : January 2014
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Found an old HDD i thought i lost, still works
Ars Electronica Center von sebastian.hiller auf Flickr
Ars Electronica Center von sebastian.hiller auf Flickr
That's it, I want springtime again. Positively tired of the "hey, it will warm up all the way to balmy -5 ºC next week" routine
After the rain by FriskyFreeze, on Flickr
After the rain by FriskyFreeze, on Flickr
Not much to shoot but snow:
Awesome structure!
Looks like meringue, makes me hungry
I'd be curious to stick around and see how it looked under different light.
A quaint little modernist building I found last week in Port Adelaide, South Australia.
Quaint by playswithlight, on Flickr
Quaint by playswithlight, on Flickr
Critique appreciated
My thoughts the lighting and colours are very good but the shot is lacking interest or a dramatic flair.
If your subject is the overall scene, my eyes zero in on the log and then stop and the rest is lost. I suggest having everything in focus including the rocks out in the water. You would also want the log positioned so that it's pointing outwards to create a leading line that draws your gaze further into the frame. But then you need something out there for your eyes to rest on once they get out into the frame. A person sitting on the rocks or standing in the surf and looking out to the horizon would be cool.
If your subject is the log itself, a tighter composition that eliminates the background hills and just about everything else would be good. This would include the colour, texture and character of the knotted (right) end of the log against the smooth wet sand taken at a low angle (nothing else in the frame). If the sand is wet enough and the light is right, you might even get lucky to catch some reflection of the log.
That's my theory anyway.
~ Peter
We got our snow...
I know others are more accustom to the white stuff, but it is a rare event for us.
GLS_3900 - Version 2 by wwsakall, on Flickr
I know others are more accustom to the white stuff, but it is a rare event for us.
GLS_3900 - Version 2 by wwsakall, on Flickr
Enjoy your snow. I think I'll become a specialist at photographing rain. That's all we are getting.
Posted something similar about a year ago. Shot it again, this time on a tripod. Kept it in color rather than converting to B&W.
The reason I decided to shoot it again is that I find it to be an ambiguous subject without many visual cues that causes my brain to interpret it in several different ways. In reality, it's a corner of my bedroom. But the perspective creates an optical illusion where it can also be seen as the corner of a box.
More abstractly it can be seen as a human pelvis (the physician in me talking). I actually see it as a pelvis in two very different ways.
I see all of these "versions" of the photo whenever I look at it. Makes it visually interesting for me.
Here is a snap of my bedroom showing the corner in question.
The reason I decided to shoot it again is that I find it to be an ambiguous subject without many visual cues that causes my brain to interpret it in several different ways. In reality, it's a corner of my bedroom. But the perspective creates an optical illusion where it can also be seen as the corner of a box.
More abstractly it can be seen as a human pelvis (the physician in me talking). I actually see it as a pelvis in two very different ways.
I see all of these "versions" of the photo whenever I look at it. Makes it visually interesting for me.
Here is a snap of my bedroom showing the corner in question.
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I really do have to spend some time in Dublin, such a visually interesting place. I love your 'Dublin' series ...
Posted something similar about a year ago. Shot it again, this time on a tripod. Kept it in color rather than converting to B&W.
The reason I decided to shoot it again is that I find it to be an ambiguous subject without many visual cues that causes my brain to interpret it in several different ways. In reality, it's a corner of my bedroom. But the perspective creates an optical illusion where it can also be seen as the corner of a box.
More abstractly it can be seen as a human pelvis (the physician in me talking). I actually see it as a pelvis in two very different ways.
I see all of these "versions" of the photo whenever I look at it. Makes it visually interesting for me.
Here is a snap of my bedroom showing the corner in question.
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The image is like a painting, very open to interpretation. The uneven surface is quite reminiscent of the brush strokes. And while you as a physician see human pelvis, the rest of us just see a crotch
On a more serious note, the only thing I found a bit distracting was the blur in the upper left corner, not sure if intentional. ______________________
Another snap from a warmer time for today. I was shooting this with a GoPro, so had to guess framing. It was shot from a small cove you cannot get to by land, so my "real" camera did not go there. In retrospect I would have included the full view of snorkelling googles at the bottom, but it is what it is.
Firopotamus, Milos by FriskyFreeze, on Flickr
Awesome structure!
Looks like meringue, makes me hungry
I'd be curious to stick around and see how it looked under different light.
Well, it's in my backyard so I guess I did stick around. Took a quick pic today, but didn't turn out very well.
The image is like a painting, very open to interpretation. The uneven surface is quite reminiscent of the brush strokes. And while you as a physician see human pelvis, the rest of us just see a crotch
Thanks for the kind words
The blur on the left crosses the line between intentional and necessary. While the perspective of the shot makes it seem like everything was in roughly the same plane, that isn't the case. To get the right perspective on the different lines in the image I had to shoot at an angle/perspective where everything couldn't be in focus, even when stopped down.
Regarding the crotch...
I see it in two very different perspectives. I asked my wife to look at the photo and she saw it in the same two ways. She loves this image and likes it in color specifically because it makes the "crotch" aspect more obvious.
Human pelvis #1
For this the viewpoint is from directly above with the legs extended. The diagonal lines represent where the thighs meet the pelvis. The vertical line represents the two thighs meeting--their medial aspects coming together.
Human pelvis #2
For this the viewpoint is now looking at a woman with her legs up in stirrups for a gynecologic exam. The diagonal lines are the medial aspects of the thighs. The vertical line is the perineum. You can imagine arcs added around the vertical line to represent the labia majora/minora.
Because of the ambiguity, I see all of these when I look at the photo. I can blink causing my brain to do a reset and what I see changes.
Probably too much information. But one of the reasons this photo is so interesting to me (and my wife!).
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Thanks, MacRy. Here's another. A different POV for one I posted recently. This one is a single frame, single exposure, worked on in Photoshop with lots of gradient masks and other treatments for lots of bits of this picture. This is a building I will be revisiting for all manner of differing light conditions and POV's of.
Elder, Smith and Co., Limited 02 by playswithlight, on Flickr
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Fantastic detail and light to this one! I swear I'm there.
Thanks Peter! I actually like to see motion blur in a photo like this and feel it brings it alive. I'd be happy if there was more. As long as the log is sharp, seeing a blur of a little sparrow and snow going everywhere sounds like a fun photo.
Thanks for sharing how you do it!We actually had some snow today, but sadly it didn't settle
More than here then. Our rain turned slightly to sleet for a couple of minutes and faded away.
I really should start paying more attention to the shots posted here...all I saw was the corner of a ceiling / corner of a box. What have I been missing all this time?
Snowy Pubs/Bars
This is a shot of a strip of Pubs/Bars in my town. It looks like they had some of their patrons clear the walkway.
Downtown Hampton, Va. Snow day 1/28/2014 by wwsakall, on Flickr
This is a shot of a strip of Pubs/Bars in my town. It looks like they had some of their patrons clear the walkway.
Downtown Hampton, Va. Snow day 1/28/2014 by wwsakall, on Flickr