Same subject, three takes

bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
edited December 23, 2011 in Street and Documentary
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  • toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins
    edited December 20, 2011
    Great concept

    I'm liking #1. The people are more discernible than the letters in the others.

    The contrasting colors also add contrast

    Nice job bd

    Why do I think the concept is great? From yesterday
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  • RSLRSL Registered Users Posts: 839 Major grins
    edited December 20, 2011
    BD, I like #1 a lot. #2, of course, is #1 in black and white, and I think the color version is the better of the two. #3 looks as if it was printed from a negative that was kept closed in a notebook for several years next to a page with writing that etched the negative. All in all it's an interesting shoot.
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited December 21, 2011
    Damn you, BD--I just had to know what the writing was about so I flipped the image and still don't know. lol3.gif Maybe some medical research? Of the three, I prefer the first in color. Nicely done.
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited December 21, 2011
    Thanks all. I'm still not sure myself. I like 1 and 3. But that's me. And you're close, Richard - it has to do with stem cell research.
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited December 21, 2011
    I guess that would depend on what you want your viewers to focus on.
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited December 22, 2011
    rolleyes1.gifroflIndeed.
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    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
  • Quincy TQuincy T Registered Users Posts: 1,090 Major grins
    edited December 22, 2011
    Between 1 and 2, I really can't decide. I feel as though the optometrist is going back and forth between two indiscernible lenses and I cannot make up my mind which is better haha.

    As for #3, I believe that's an entirely different image.
  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited December 22, 2011
    I like the concept of working the scene as you have -- it is very instructive.

    I wish you had shot #3 from exactly the same place/angle as the first. The letters get lost and it is not as clear what it is as in the first. Color in this case as the letters are the main interest and the red highlights that.
  • damonffdamonff Registered Users Posts: 1,894 Major grins
    edited December 23, 2011
    cool idea
  • moose135moose135 Registered Users Posts: 1,420 Major grins
    edited December 23, 2011
    Sword and Scales wrote: »
    Between 1 and 2, I really can't decide. I feel as though the optometrist is going back and forth between two indiscernible lenses and I cannot make up my mind which is better haha.
    Same here - I think I'm leaning toward #2, and I'm not generally a B&W guy, but to me I like it a little better than the color version. I'm not feeling #3 at all.
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