Just fooling around

bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
edited April 9, 2010 in Street and Documentary
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2010
    Very nice fooling around on a beautiful April day! And faraway is not a place.

    Really digging your color shots these days, B.D. It's as if you actually did open a door and step through it with that "best color shot I'm ever going to take." I like both the white cat and the two shoes especially from this set.

    Are these all GF1+20mm f/1.7? If so, that rig really is da bomb for you in so many ways.
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited April 5, 2010
    Suzy Creamcheese, what's got into you? rolleyes1.gifroflrolleyes1.gif(ask your parents).

    Love the color in #1 and #5 has color and great light. clap.gifclapclap.gif There are some interesting interactions between shadows and the edges of the peeling whateveritis in #4. Had me looking at it for quite a while.
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2010
    rutt wrote:
    Very nice fooling around on a beautiful April day! And faraway is not a place.

    Really digging your color shots these days, B.D. It's as if you actually did open a door and step through it with that "best color shot I'm ever going to take." I like both the white cat and the two shoes especially from this set.

    Are these all GF1+20mm f/1.7? If so, that rig really is da bomb for you in so many ways.


    Thanks, Rutt - Yup - GF1 and 20 1.7 - definitely good little camera. With some I've even been setting it for square before shooting.
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  • Wil DavisWil Davis Registered Users Posts: 1,692 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2010
    V. nice, but…

    I think there's too much in the one with the bricks & shoes…

    The cat's out of focus (bummer…)

    Wow, I'm surprised that the Edward G. look didn't crack the lens!

    The peeling paint doesn't do much for me (too many things, not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at/for…)

    Uh oh, just look at those flares!

    …so what's with the colour thingy, anyway… headscratch.gif

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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2010
    Richard wrote:
    Suzy Creamcheese, what's got into you? rolleyes1.gifroflrolleyes1.gif(ask your parents).

    Love the color in #1 and #5 has color and great light. clap.gifclapclap.gif There are some interesting interactions between shadows and the edges of the peeling whateveritis in #4. Had me looking at it for quite a while.

    MY parents? Surely you confuse me with someone a generation...younger. rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2010
    Wil Davis wrote:
    V. nice, but…

    I think there's too much in the one with the bricks & shoes…

    The cat's out of focus (bummer…)

    Wow, I'm surprised that the Edward G. look didn't crack the lens!

    The peeling paint doesn't do much for me (too many things, not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at/for…)

    Uh oh, just look at those flares!

    …so what's with the colour thingy, anyway… headscratch.gif

    thumb.gif

    - Wil

    Thanks for the comments, Wil - I was a bit bummed by the flare. On the other hand, the sun was smack in the lens, so I really don't have any complaint.

    And the cat was meant to be out of focus. mwink.gif
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited April 5, 2010
    bdcolen wrote:
    MY parents? Surely you confuse me with someone a generation...younger. rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif

    Not you, silly, the youngsters. I'm sure you caught the reference. mwink.gif
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2010
    Richard wrote:
    Not you, silly, the youngsters. I'm sure you caught the reference. mwink.gif

    Oh! Right! "Never mind!" (And that's a reference for you younguns.rolleyes1.gif )
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  • richardmanrichardman Registered Users Posts: 376 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2010
    I like the Out of Focus cat!
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2010
    bdcolen wrote:
    And the cat was meant to be out of focus. mwink.gif

    You handled that quite well rolleyes1.gif
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  • FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited April 7, 2010
    Fun set to look at, BD. Sort of like a fresh breath of Spring.

    My favorite is the first one of the three girls on the grass.

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  • PattiPatti Registered Users Posts: 1,576 Major grins
    edited April 7, 2010
    bdcolen wrote:
    Oh! Right! "Never mind!" (And that's a reference for you younguns.rolleyes1.gif )

    Are you channelling Gilda Radner now? :D
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  • TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited April 7, 2010
    I like #1 a great deal. Cropped smaller, as Wil suggests, would take away the impact of the scene. It would just be shoes on the bricks.

    I don't see much point in the shots of the girls, but that girl in the middle of the black and white has something weird going on. If that's her left hand (on the right as we look at the photo), she's some kind of contortionist.
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2010
    TonyCooper wrote:
    I like #1 a great deal. Cropped smaller, as Wil suggests, would take away the impact of the scene. It would just be shoes on the bricks.

    I don't see much point in the shots of the girls, but that girl in the middle of the black and white has something weird going on. If that's her left hand (on the right as we look at the photo), she's some kind of contortionist.

    Thanks, Tony - I agree with you that # one needs to be what it is or it isn't anything. As to the second, there is no "point," other than it was a lovely spring Sunday afternoon. Nothing profound there. mwink.gif
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