Smokenmirrorss Loc: WV

I am shooting with a Canon 60D (67mm), out of the box, with an 18-135. I was using a Best Buy Rocketfish RF-CP67 polarization lens cover. I posted the picture metadata as well.

I took the picture for Day 87 of the Photo a Day on this web site (Nice people and fun there if you haven't visited). The pic is 20 meg or so, 18 MP reduce to an 8x5 jpg to post, 300dpi. It isn't Shopped or adjusted except for the bicubic reduction conversion to jpg. The sun was bright, temperature was a cool upper 50's. Mood was bored but trying to make the real world look better than it really does (what my daughter thinks of my photos).

I liked the placement of the clock in the frame, but had it been more to the left, I might have achieved better thirds with the clock, shadow and tree leaves. The tree leaves are not perfect and the clock is showing its age. I like the two together for that similarity and the brown shades they share. I really liked the reflection of the greenery in the background, but my favorite part of the entire picture is the sun's shadow on the hands of the clock. The nail heads and flecks of white under the brown paint add to my perspective of the picture.

I've worked in the public sector my entire adult life so I have thick skin - what does your eye see?

Thanks.

Father Time


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docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

Wow!
Well for starters, I admire your ability to rattle all that off in such a concise, logical way. Clearly what ever you do in the public sector you do it well.

As for the pic - to me you answered this for yourself when you said "mood was bored." That's what this image elicits from me. :roll:

Smokenmirrorss Loc: WV

Hmmm, thanks. That's true - I didn't actually "see" a lot of the details I shot today until I pulled them up in high def. The camera was doing the work and I was coasting - trying to find an interest. Are your best shots when you are personally motivated, or because you are excited by what you see, or both?

dfarmer Loc: St. George, Utah

I know what it is like working in the public sector and at 6:30 it's time for a gin and tonic. I like the photo.

Smokenmirrorss Loc: WV

I'm drinking a "Vesper" Martini - from the James Bond Movie - 6 parts gin, 2 parts vodka, 1 part Dry Vermouth (Lillith Blanc in the movie - just a nasty wine). I prefer Bombay Saphire with Absolute Citron - no time to shave a twist a lemon waiting for a sip after a day of public service.

docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

I've worked in the public sector my entire adult life so I have thick skin - what does your eye see?

Thanks.[/quote]

Wow!
Well for starters, I admire your ability to rattle all that off in such a concise, logical way. Clearly what ever you do in the public sector you do it well.

As for the pic - to me you answered this for yourself when you said "mood was bored." That's what this image elicits from me. :roll:[/quote]

Hmmm, thanks. That's true - I didn't actually "see" a lot of the details I shot today until I pulled them up in high def. The camera was doing the work and I was coasting - trying to find an interest. Are your best shots when you are personally motivated, or because you are excited by what you see, or both?[/quote]

An excellent question and thank you for the candor on your part to open this discussion. Curiosity is a driving force and excitiment is a necessary characteristic.....best photographs.....thats hard to narrow down...not always the best though often the most important are those images and times when there is no separation between subject and object when joy and gratitude flood me in what I call a Hallmark Movie Moment. And I guess that's what also motivates me - photography as a way of opening myself to adventure and other stuff......

damn, good question - thanks for asking it and letting my mind chew on it a bit.
:roll: :thumbup:

Smokenmirrorss Loc: WV

Wow!
Well for starters, I admire your ability to rattle all that off in such a concise, logical way. Clearly what ever you do in the public sector you do it well.

As for the pic - to me you answered this for yourself when you said "mood was bored." That's what this image elicits from me. :roll:[/quote]

Hmmm, thanks. That's true - I didn't actually "see" a lot of the details I shot today until I pulled them up in high def. The camera was doing the work and I was coasting - trying to find an interest. Are your best shots when you are personally motivated, or because you are excited by what you see, or both?[/quote]

An excellent question and thank you for the candor on your part to open this discussion. Curiosity is a driving force and excitiment is a necessary characteristic.....best photographs.....thats hard to narrow down...not always the best though often the most important are those images and times when there is no separation between subject and object when joy and gratitude flood me in what I call a Hallmark Movie Moment. And I guess that's what also motivates me - photography as a way of opening myself to adventure and other stuff......

damn, good question - thanks for asking it and letting my mind chew on it a bit.
:roll: :thumbup:[/quote]

That makes sense to me - you pursue your interests, your curiosities and joys. The "good" of the picture is in the eye of those that behold - the "good" for you is in the former? So my guess is (I looked at a couple of the posts you started) that you take hundreds of pictures on the same subject and the idea develops as you learn from each one and try again, move forward, adjust, and move forward again? Do you look at your work in detail as you develop it (the work I saw was exceptional), or do you keep moving forward with the ideas as they come to you and then critique after the creative session? Pick the best of the lot, reduce and select to your favorite? My problem with the creative process is and always has been that when I get past the point of creating, it becomes work.

Danilo Loc: Las Vegas

Following the "mood" of the thread, I'll just point out the the clock apparently does not work. Your metadata specifies 3:41 and the clock is "trying" to show 6:30.
I guess I'm saying: Better hold off on the martini!
Good post!

Smokenmirrorss Loc: WV

Danilo - nice catch. You are correct. I'd have to wait until July or so to get the shadow at 6:30. Thanks for the inspiration. Maybe a series from a marked spot over time - once a week or every two weeks at the same time of day!

Photoman74 Loc: Conroe Tx

:P
Sometimes the title envisions one image and the image does not fit. I expected old clock, old man, something really old.

Emmett Loc: Onalaska, Texas

"Shaken but not stirred"

Smokenmirrorss Loc: WV

Shaken - gotta water it down somehow - unless you wanna start a fire with it.

markar Loc: Michigan

Well, I like the shot. So there!

Smokenmirrorss Loc: WV

Haha - thanks. Love this web site - folks are nice. But, were you talking about the picture or the Martini? The Martini is really about 4 1/2 shots, but who's counting?

markar Loc: Michigan

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm. How about the picture and half of that Martini.
Got dizzy just reading the recipe for the Martini.