Silhouette #4

DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
edited April 25, 2012 in Other Cool Shots
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Always nice to get your impressions either way :D Thanks, Michael
Michael

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  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,325 Major grins
    edited April 21, 2012
    Very nice, Michael. The combination of the bird and the mechanical apparatus is striking. It's an unusual shot....to say the least....that I find appealing.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins
    edited April 21, 2012
    +1. Nicely seen and well taken.
    Rags
  • N3QWN3QW Registered Users Posts: 61 Big grins
    edited April 21, 2012
    DaddyO wrote: »

    Always nice to get your impressions either way :D Thanks, Michael


    Great idea and well executed!!!:D
  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited April 22, 2012
    torags wrote: »
    +1. Nicely seen and well taken.

    15524779-Ti.gif Well done!
    Eric ~ Smugmug
  • travelwaystravelways Registered Users Posts: 7,854 Major grins
    edited April 22, 2012
    Fantastic - I love it!!!
    Tatiana - Seeing the world through my camera
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  • JuanoJuano Registered Users Posts: 4,890 Major grins
    edited April 22, 2012
    Great timing to get the bird in the right place!
    Cristóbal


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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,974 moderator
    edited April 23, 2012
    Cool point of view. I like it.
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  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited April 23, 2012
    black mamba wrote: »
    Very nice, Michael. The combination of the bird and the mechanical apparatus is striking. It's an unusual shot....to say the least....that I find appealing.

    Tom
    Thanks for saying Tom :D It was the potential for appealing in those very aspects you mention that kept me pressing forward to this result. Really glad you like it. I need to come up with a frame for it and frames are not my best suit. As if I had one of those :cry Am hoping this one will get the job done for further assessment / comment display without doing a disservice. I think it looks ok but I am bias as hell mwink.gif

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    Michael
  • lensmolelensmole Registered Users Posts: 1,548 Major grins
    edited April 23, 2012
    Very interesting abstract,I am guessing and old tractor I certainly like the bird,but have you considered taking a bit off the top just enough to cut off part of the wheel, and still have the bird, just a thought.

    Lensmole
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  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited April 23, 2012
    This is great thumb.gif
    Mary
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  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited April 23, 2012
    torags wrote: »
    +1. Nicely seen and well taken.

    Thanks for saying Rags :D Very nice
    Michael
  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited April 23, 2012
    N3QW wrote: »
    Great idea and well executed!!!:D
    Thank you :D Very pleased you like this piece
    Michael
  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited April 23, 2012
    Earache wrote: »
    15524779-Ti.gif Well done!
    Appreciate your positive feedback Eric. Sweet to get thumb.gif
    Michael
  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited April 23, 2012
    photo-funtasia wrote: »
    Fantastic - I love it!!!

    Tatiana, I thank you for that :D Very nice of you to say
    Michael
  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited April 23, 2012
    Richard wrote: »
    Cool point of view. I like it.

    Am pleased you like this one Richard :D You know I don't mind working the angles if I can get something different to work with.
    Michael
  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited April 23, 2012
    Juano wrote: »
    Great timing to get the bird in the right place!

    Juano... :D I thank you for your nice comment. Would you be disappointed if I was to say that I didn't have to wait for the bird headscratch.gif Not sure I am ready to discuss such things but I had to be honest with you cause it is important you know. Rule of thumb I use any more... "If it looks to good to be true it may very well be a composite". I recently tried to gather my thoughts on composites and shared them with another dgrinner. Those thoughts are a work in progress and I am quite torn concerning composites.
    Michael
  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited April 25, 2012
    lensmole wrote: »
    Very interesting abstract,I am guessing and old tractor I certainly like the bird,but have you considered taking a bit off the top just enough to cut off part of the wheel, and still have the bird, just a thought.

    Thanks for saying :D and I am pleased you find it interesting. Thats the key part thats let know I am going in a good working direction. Good guess on the device. Its a fairly ancient road grader. Actually the first one I have ever seen like it. Really bare bones machine. I can image it as one of the first of its sort out there helping to prep America's very first roads across the landscape. Since it is close to my location I will go back and try for better if I can manage them. Was raining that day and I had a hell of time keeping the gear dry and lens obstruction free. Ultimately the rain won out.

    I hadn't thought so far as to look at cropping the top of that "steering wheel" off a small bit for this piece. A couple of the original compositions had the top off in order to fit other details in. This one I felt offered the best chance of being visually balanced and left the clipping to the left right and bottom. But it is possible that having all the round wheels clipped would be another way of being uniform and visually pleasant without losing a thing in final value. Thanks for pointing to the potential and I am looking at just that now thumb.gif
    Michael
  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited April 25, 2012
    Dogdots wrote: »
    This is great thumb.gif

    :D Nice thing to say Mary Kim. You know I thank you much for the support with this workup.
    Michael
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