Venice California

bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
edited May 17, 2010 in Street and Documentary
I live so near, that I've decided to start a Gallery of this place.
Locked in the 60's in so many ways and yet always moving forward.
I know many Photogs have given it a go but I haven't :D
I hope it will grow into something worth viewing and the link is here:

Venice Cali

Heres one of my 1st stabs at it

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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2010
    To angled. Or not enough.... rolleyes1.gif

    And to short on dynamic range. i..e.muddy! Up the exposure some or set the white point! thumb.gif

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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2010
    bfjr wrote: »
    I live so near, that I've decided to start a Gallery of this place.
    Locked in the 60's in so many ways and yet always moving forward.
    I know many Photogs have given it a go but I haven't :D
    I hope it will grow into something worth viewing and the link is here:



    Heres one of my 1st stabs at it

    Interesting scene, Ben, but...I'd like to see it as you saw it - with the lines squared off. I also think the figure in the window looks a bit overprocessed/sharpened, and I'd open up the rest of the scene a bit as it does, as Don suggest, seem a bit...muddy.

    But even if what you need isn't in this exposure, I'll be that guy hangs out in that window.
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2010
    DonRicklin wrote: »
    To angled. Or not enough.... rolleyes1.gif

    And to short on dynamic range. i..e.muddy! Up the exposure some or set the white point! thumb.gif

    Don
    bdcolen wrote: »
    Interesting scene, Ben, but...I'd like to see it as you saw it - with the lines squared off. I also think the figure in the window looks a bit overprocessed/sharpened, and I'd open up the rest of the scene a bit as it does, as Don suggest, seem a bit...muddy.

    But even if what you need isn't in this exposure, I'll be that guy hangs out in that window.

    Thanks for quick feedback. I thought that myself but needed second opinions.
    Window watcher in deep shade, my only excuse. Anyway here's a redo:
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2010
    bfjr wrote: »
    Thanks for quick feedback. I thought that myself but needed second opinions.
    Window watcher in deep shade, my only excuse. Anyway here's a redo:
    866908793_qhQLv-XL.jpg

    Or this? :D

    866908793_qhQLv-XL.jpg
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2010
    bdcolen wrote: »
    Or this? :D
    Ok good template

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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2010
    bfjr wrote: »
    Ok good template

    866944383_sGnnb-XL.jpg

    Yup!mwink.gif
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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2010
    bfjr wrote: »
    Ok good template

    866944383_sGnnb-S.jpg
    And the B&W version of this take?

    :D

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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2010
    Venice California
    Thanks, BD. But I was looking for the full circle final from bfjr! ;)

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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2010
    Good point.
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2010
    DonRicklin wrote: »
    Thanks, BD. But I was looking for the full circle final from bfjr! ;)

    thumb.gif

    Don

    Full Circle is then

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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2010
    bfjr wrote: »
    Full Circle is then
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    Truly much better than the OP!

    I also like the Color version! thumb.gif

    :D:D:D

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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited May 15, 2010
    Of the different versions here, I prefer BD's color version because the guy in the window stands out more.
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  • ejg1890ejg1890 Registered Users Posts: 47 Big grins
    edited May 16, 2010
    bfjr wrote: »
    Full Circle is then

    867112864_Mhme8-XL.jpg

    To be honest with you I prefer the original b&w. The building now looks to white (new b&w).

    Here are several of mine from Venice Beach

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  • ejg1890ejg1890 Registered Users Posts: 47 Big grins
    edited May 16, 2010
    I just received a private message stating I had crossed etiquette lines for posting photos in someone elses thread. If I did cross the line I didn't mean anything by it. I have been active on several other boards and photos are frequently posted in threads that have been started by other people as long as the photos were along the same line.
  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited May 16, 2010
    ejg1890 wrote: »
    I just received a private message stating I had crossed etiquette lines for posting photos in someone elses thread. If I did cross the line I didn't mean anything by it. I have been active on several other boards and photos are frequently posted in threads that have been started by other people as long as the photos were along the same line.

    Don't know who sent that, didn't know we had etiquette police :wow

    I do not have any problems with your images here. :D

    Having said that, your images would get much more play in their own post, and perhaps that's what
    your PM'er meant.

    Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
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  • ejg1890ejg1890 Registered Users Posts: 47 Big grins
    edited May 17, 2010
    bfjr wrote: »
    Having said that, your images would get much more play in their own post, and perhaps that's what
    your PM'er meant.


    Actually I wasn't thinking of "play". Like you I live near Venice and enjoy taking the camera down there.
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited May 17, 2010
    ejg1890 wrote: »
    I just received a private message stating I had crossed etiquette lines for posting photos in someone elses thread. If I did cross the line I didn't mean anything by it. I have been active on several other boards and photos are frequently posted in threads that have been started by other people as long as the photos were along the same line.

    In general, unless the original poster has specifically requested that others post similar shots ("Post your ____ shots here") we prefer that you start a new thread. That way, both the OP's pics and yours will receive the attention they deserve. One possible exception is if you are trying to make a specific point about the OP's post and another image helps make that point. deal.gif
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