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Two shots - same subject - different looks
Jun 8, 2012 11:53:09 #
docrob
Loc: Durango, Colorado
I practice creating images as often as I can.
So, I go up the road to Blue Lake Ranch B&B; I lay on the ground like a kid - kicking my heels - so happy to be able to do this and I play. And I practice. I practice everything about photography - I practice removing labels in the mind - I practice observing the light - I practice learning to open my heart - I practice focusing and finding the "correct" exposure - I practice laying down and I practice getting back up.
Some days really cool images emerge - other days not so much so. These will probably not make the cut to update my Beginner's Mind gallery - but I had fun and after all its only practice.
Nikon D200 / Tamron 90mm F2.8 macro lens / hand held - shot wide open - in camera multiple exposures - lots of fun and MORE practice processing in Photoshop.
C&C invited.
So, I go up the road to Blue Lake Ranch B&B; I lay on the ground like a kid - kicking my heels - so happy to be able to do this and I play. And I practice. I practice everything about photography - I practice removing labels in the mind - I practice observing the light - I practice learning to open my heart - I practice focusing and finding the "correct" exposure - I practice laying down and I practice getting back up.
Some days really cool images emerge - other days not so much so. These will probably not make the cut to update my Beginner's Mind gallery - but I had fun and after all its only practice.
Nikon D200 / Tamron 90mm F2.8 macro lens / hand held - shot wide open - in camera multiple exposures - lots of fun and MORE practice processing in Photoshop.
C&C invited.
Jun 8, 2012 12:38:14 #
Wow, the first one is, to me, just excellent! I love the crisp cool green. The touch of light, the splash of color. Yet another I wish for my wall. Awesome Rob! Jen
Jun 8, 2012 12:48:31 #
You are really good! Love the stuff you are taking and how you get there. I tried lying on the ground in the field last night. I was afraid my neighbor was going to have to call the Fire Department to help me get up.
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Jun 8, 2012 18:49:11 #
docrob
Loc: Durango, Colorado
tk wrote:
You are really good! Love the stuff you are taking and how you get there. I tried lying on the ground in the field last night. I was afraid my neighbor was going to have to call the Fire Department to help me get up.
:wink: well thats what the tripod is for - to help me get back up and so far, its working.
thanks for your generous words!
Jun 8, 2012 18:50:40 #
docrob
Loc: Durango, Colorado
1eyedjack wrote:
On my monitor both are a wee bit dark,but great captures..
yes, both are dark. Truth be told virtually none of my images have an evenly balanced histogram. The flowers seem to either be underexposed several stops or now and then I'll over expose 2-3 stops to get a different look.
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Jun 8, 2012 18:53:05 #
docrob
Loc: Durango, Colorado
JENNIFER wrote:
Wow, the first one is, to me, just excellent! I love the crisp cool green. The touch of light, the splash of color. Yet another I wish for my wall. Awesome Rob! Jen
glad to see you back Jen - hope the move went well. These are the first Columbine's of the year - I'll be going back and back and back till they are gone for the year. Then I guess on to what ever else is blooming - maybe day lily. I have a friend in Denver who propagates Day Lily so might get back to shoot those - and those do require some serious underexposures....... :wink:
Jun 9, 2012 11:39:58 #
docrob wrote:
I practice creating images as often as I can. br ... (show quote)
Like them both. Nice job!
Jun 9, 2012 11:41:36 #
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Jun 10, 2012 02:45:44 #
Regarding dark photographs: it is the dark that gives meaning to light. Darkness is required to carve light into its portions and shapes. Darkness and light can be equally obscuring. Complementary relationships between them create meaningful vision.
Yes, these pictures of flowers doc captured contain a lot of dark. Do they not remind one that our lives do not play out in endless blinding light, but rather are illuminated by shadows and obscurity playing across our fields of experience defining our limits, the very shape our lives take? Are they not like a mouthful of the finest rendering of the culinary art not filled with a simplistic one ingredient flavor, but a supporting medley of taste tones, balanced, to thrust the star ingredient forward onto the front of the stage?
Like avoiding picture composition cut in halves, balance is not about equality, but about well supported emphasis. The principle applies to more than lines crossing the frame. And the nice thing about principles as opposed, to rules, principles can be adjusted without violation with only question applying, "Does it work?".
Of course we can get into the matter of, "Work for whom?". Well, on that we can excuse photophiles losing their sense of a comforting world with out enough light. For my part I go happily out into night landscapes with its stars, lightening strokes, and dim human imitations carving out wondrous structures from the prevailing darkness. To me these flowers are wonderfully illuminated all the more so for the surrounding darkness.
Yes, these pictures of flowers doc captured contain a lot of dark. Do they not remind one that our lives do not play out in endless blinding light, but rather are illuminated by shadows and obscurity playing across our fields of experience defining our limits, the very shape our lives take? Are they not like a mouthful of the finest rendering of the culinary art not filled with a simplistic one ingredient flavor, but a supporting medley of taste tones, balanced, to thrust the star ingredient forward onto the front of the stage?
Like avoiding picture composition cut in halves, balance is not about equality, but about well supported emphasis. The principle applies to more than lines crossing the frame. And the nice thing about principles as opposed, to rules, principles can be adjusted without violation with only question applying, "Does it work?".
Of course we can get into the matter of, "Work for whom?". Well, on that we can excuse photophiles losing their sense of a comforting world with out enough light. For my part I go happily out into night landscapes with its stars, lightening strokes, and dim human imitations carving out wondrous structures from the prevailing darkness. To me these flowers are wonderfully illuminated all the more so for the surrounding darkness.
Jun 10, 2012 06:13:37 #
Wow! I love the way you captured the light. Both are nice shots but, the first one is my favorite.
Jul 28, 2012 19:56:49 #
I youu want my opinion i would invest in REMOTE FLASH avpoiding those horrible shadows created from macro zoom. I would also think about using a tripod a choosing a more realistic positioning of the subject; again standing above the subjuct clear dispays a sophmoric approach to you r photography.
Jul 28, 2012 23:34:40 #
docrob
Loc: Durango, Colorado
Keeper1029 wrote:
I youu want my opinion i would invest in REMOTE FLASH avpoiding those horrible shadows created from macro zoom. I would also think about using a tripod a choosing a more realistic positioning of the subject; again standing above the subjuct clear dispays a sophmoric approach to you r photography.
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