The dock 7/1/15 by Alex X, on Flickr
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Photo of the Day July 2015
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The dock 7/1/15 by Alex X, on Flickr
Sensuality.
Another re-edit from me, involving a re-crop and using luminosity masking to highlight the stamen and pollen spores. Using Photoshop CC 2015 at export, I can get this up to about 1300mm (51 inches) wide, before you see any deterioration of the image. No need to be using any plug-ins or external programs to resize it up to that sort of dimension, Photoshop alone is more than good enough these days.
Another re-edit from me, involving a re-crop and using luminosity masking to highlight the stamen and pollen spores. Using Photoshop CC 2015 at export, I can get this up to about 1300mm (51 inches) wide, before you see any deterioration of the image. No need to be using any plug-ins or external programs to resize it up to that sort of dimension, Photoshop alone is more than good enough these days.
Have you seen the flower pix of Robert Mapplethorpe?
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That is great. The contrast of the guy in his waterproofs against the darker surrounding area is great.
Thanks a lot. That's actually my girlfriend in her orange-reddish softshell jacket. I've used a flash plus used the natural light coming from the top to show the size of the place.
Oops... in my defence she has her back to the camera and I think in that location Orange is a good choice regardless of being a boy or girl...
Haha that's a not a problem at all! Actually she's quite short and yes, orange helps in environments like that where you want to see someone!
I hadn't seen Mr Mapplethorpe's floral imagery before, so I am very grateful for your enquiry, Doylem. Now he knew how to play with light! There's a real love of getting various forms to seduce your eyes in amongst his imagery, that speaks volumes to me. The thing that really has me intrigued and thinking about how it was achieved is the apparent simplicity of the light and forms at play in his images. Don't get me wrong, simplicity can be the simplicity of using a large window as a light source, but sometimes it can be very complex to achieve the aforementioned simplicity, with numerous artificial light sources, as well as bounce and block cards being used to get the light exactly where one wants it. I tend to muddle around with the simplicity of a large expanse of windows that are easily used at home, for a giant light box effect that @MacRy mentioned using a few days ago. Thank you again, Doylem!
Last year in late September, I did a quick lap of our garden, testing my new iPhone out and I had mention made on Facebook of my images appearance being similar to a few photographers whom I did not know the works of. I very soon studied their works, trying to see how they manipulated light and form to achieve their various looks.
Absolutely loving the mystery that the darkness provides! I love an image that has some total darkness to it because we want to know what is in the shadows and our mind starts automatically filling the blanks, creating and strengthening the story of the image even further than what we initially saw. I hope that makes sense?
Thanks, Ken, but I can't come to having the word 'genius' used to describe my imagery! I see myself more as a neophyte, rather.
Absolutely loving the mystery that the darkness provides! I love an image that has some total darkness to it because we want to know what is in the shadows and our mind starts automatically filling the blanks, creating and strengthening the story of the image even further than what we initially saw. I hope that makes sense?
Thanks a lot! It does make perfect sense actually, even though the dynamic range of D610 allowed for the whole scene to be lit I think you are completely right about how we might perceive the image, that's what I was going for with the one bright point in the middle. Thanks once again ;-)
well you know, it comes back to the joke about the engineer fixing the machine for $1000... when the bill was queried, it was $1 for having the hammer, $999 for knowing where to hit with it....Thanks, Ken, but I can't come to having the word 'genius' used to describe my imagery! I see myself more as a neophyte, rather.
same applies here...
Neophyte possibly, all I can say is you did well and you are well on your way to Initiate stage...send us a postcard... let us know what the view is like from there!
I'm expecting a similar response from Miss AFB tonight when I show her.
Same here. I'm not going to show her this one. She's still having stimulating dreams about this encounter:
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Youngest came out with a quintessential 3 year old comment last night when showing her Jupiter and Venus in alignment in the sky :
A: "Dad, where is your car?"
D: "At the airport, why?"
A: "When we get back home, can we drive to Jupiter because we haven't been there yet."
I nearly fell over laughing.
Are they penguin bats or have you rotated the image?Same here. I'm not going to show her this one. She's still having stimulating dreams about this encounter:
