Is it just me ?
Sep 24, 2019 19:06:33 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
People in landscape photos can certainly help with scale and interest, but they aren't always available or willing to pose. I thought of carrying a mannequin around with me, but was afraid it would scare my 12-pound dog 
ROFL, Linda. It may be the same mannequin I had dreamed could help me drive in the car pool lane.
Sep 24, 2019 19:08:44 #
Sep 24, 2019 19:23:40 #
Markag wrote:
It's important to use the "quote reply" option when directing a question or comment to a single person within a multi-page/multi-response topic. In other words, some "what?" We have no idea what you're talking about I'd really like to see some.
Sep 24, 2019 19:25:13 #
Katydid wrote:
Weren't they all the rage in the Bay Area when car pool lanes were first created? ROFL, Linda. It may be the same mannequin I had dreamed could help me drive in the car pool lane.
Sep 24, 2019 19:29:28 #
quixdraw wrote:
There are a lot of historical buildings around here, both preserved and in ruins. I've often thought of populating one or more with period Ghosts. The simplest idea, a translucent figure in the window of an abandoned hotel. Execution is not a problem, either in camera or with software. Cast, costumes and logistics more so. I would not regard this as either Landscape of Architecture, but something more in the fantasy realm.
Ghosts would be great!
Sep 24, 2019 19:32:22 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
It's important to use the "quote reply" option when directing a question or comment to a single person within a multi-page/multi-response topic. In other words, some "what?" We have no idea what you're talking about
Sorry. My first time posting this kind of thing. Likely my last. Photography might just be too emotional for me. It certainly isn't funny.
Sep 24, 2019 19:40:17 #
Markag wrote:
Please don't be put off. I apologize for my part in the silliness. Discussion of photography may not be funny in the way you mean, but it is a hobby that brings great joy to many of us. I hope you'll continue to share and enjoy.Sorry. My first time posting this kind of thing. Likely my last. Photography might just be too emotional for me. It certainly isn't funny.
Sep 24, 2019 19:58:25 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Please don't be put off. I apologize for my part in the silliness. Discussion of photography may not be funny in the way you mean, but it is a hobby that brings great joy to many of us. I hope you'll continue to share and enjoy.
I've taken thousands of photos in my time. Many wouldn't mean a thing to you or anyone else but I can view them and remember everything about them. The event, the people, the conversations, the locations. Even the difficulty of capturing them. Probably the reason I don't appreciate a desert rock landscape. Nothing living, no emotion to it. Looks like death to me.
Sep 24, 2019 21:35:19 #
Markag wrote:
I've taken thousands of photos in my time. Many wouldn't mean a thing to you or anyone else but I can view them and remember everything about them. The event, the people, the conversations, the locations. Even the difficulty of capturing them. Probably the reason I don't appreciate a desert rock landscape. Nothing living, no emotion to it. Looks like death to me.
Man, it is subjective for nearly all of us. We "like what we like" and "See what we see"- just a question of appreciating our online friends and what is important to them. Why does anyone post what they do? Mostly, IMO, we'll never know or even understand. Ride on!
Sep 24, 2019 21:40:52 #
Markag wrote:
What wrecks the photo I mentioned earlier of the 1852 grocery store is a damned neon "open" sign in one of the windows. Yeah, Photoshop could take care of it but it just ain't the same.
Only if one was there to be aware of the difference.
If I wasn't there or been there before, I wouldn't know that a neon sign was removed from the window, so it wouldn't matter.
Sep 24, 2019 21:43:52 #
You might ask - in return for an "old times" photo, they might be willing to unplug and take down the sign for a few minutes. Many lighted signs are temporary installations.
Sep 24, 2019 21:44:35 #
Markag wrote:
Sorry. My first time posting this kind of thing. Likely my last. Photography might just be too emotional for me. It certainly isn't funny.
I'll add my apologies to Linda's if my post has caused you grief. I certainly meant no harm. I do think though, that a little occasional levity, even in the Main section, is not inappropriate.
Sep 24, 2019 21:47:49 #
quixdraw wrote:
You might ask - in return for an "old times" photo, they might be willing to unplug and take down the sign for a few minutes. Many lighted signs are temporary installations.
A great solution. Simple. As happens, there's an elementary school close by. I printed the photo, gave it to the school for their fund-raising auction. Photo sold for a good number to the son of the current store owner. He didn't care a bit about the sign.
Sep 24, 2019 22:21:47 #
Markag wrote:
What wrecks the photo I mentioned earlier of the 1852 grocery store is a damned neon "open" sign in one of the windows. Yeah, Photoshop could take care of it but it just ain't the same.
As a history teacher that sign would add to the story, 1852 store still doing business. But if all you wanted was the building then photoshop out the sign.
I remember a term applied to the habit of Nat Geo photographers putting someone in bright colorful clothing into a lot of their landscapes to show scale and emphasize the "wilderness" feel of the rest of the image. I recall they nick named it "The Red Shirt School of Photography". Others like the outdoor magazines and Life, Look and The Saturday Evening Post also did it quite often.
Sep 24, 2019 22:30:59 #
robertjerl wrote:
As a history teacher that sign would add to the st... (show quote)
Interesting - was at a little known and amazing pictograph site. Others, after the fact had made their own contributions for a more recent couple of hundred years. Infuriating to site owner and visitors - regarded as vandalism. Anthropologists recording and cataloging the site, simply regarded it as another valid layer of history.
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