Dog

bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
edited May 7, 2012 in Street and Documentary
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  • seastackseastack Registered Users Posts: 716 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2012
    Ha! That is awesome.
  • toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2012
    Hehehe.... I like this better than your cross dressing Dachshund... :D
    Rags
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2012
    torags wrote: »
    Hehehe.... I like this better than your cross dressing Dachshund... :D

    So so I.rolleyes1.gif This one, if I may say so, is a keeper.
    bd@bdcolenphoto.com
    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2012
    Oh this is too good!
    One of your better dog shots I think. Great conversion too.
    Liz A.
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  • lensmolelensmole Registered Users Posts: 1,548 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2012
    Hilarious- crazy

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2012
    I don't know but when I view that image I get flash backs of Anthony Hopkins in "Silence of the Lambs".
    Harry
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2012
    Lol!
    bd@bdcolenphoto.com
    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
  • lensmolelensmole Registered Users Posts: 1,548 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2012
    I just have to know what is in the dogs mouth? a ball,shoe or what?

    Lensmole
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2012
    This IS Street Photography
    bdcolen wrote: »
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    I was hoping that someone would say this for me, but as no one has:

    This image, of a dog with a toy in his mouth in a park, is as good and example of what constitutes street photography as you are going to get here:

    1. It was shot in public

    2. It is unposed

    3. It does at least one of the following - It makes you happy, sad, glad, depressed, euphoric; it makes you laugh, cry, scream, mutter, curse. Which is to say, it stirs your emotions in some way

    4. It is at least somewhat ambiguous, allowing you to decide what it's about

    5. It evokes a WTF?!?!

    6. It includes, or is made up of, interesting compositional elements.

    7. It is presented as shot, but for some standard sharpness and contrast adjustment and perhaps some basic burning and dodging - and perhaps it has been converted to black and white.

    Now not every street photo will have all these qualities - I believe this one does, but any worth posting will have one or more of them; otherwise the photo is just a snapshot taken in a public place.
    bd@bdcolenphoto.com
    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
  • toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2012
    lensmole wrote: »
    I just have to know what is in the dogs mouth? a ball,shoe or what?

    Rumor has it, there bd's teeth. You should see the other shot of bd sands teeth, Harry refused to post.

    (just kidding)
    Rags
  • lensmolelensmole Registered Users Posts: 1,548 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2012
    torags wrote: »
    Rumor has it, there bd's teeth. You should see the other shot of bd sands teeth, Harry refused to post.

    (just kidding)

    Whatever is in its mouth ,this image transcends . Awesome capture! IMO

    Lensmole
    http://www.lensmolephotography.com/
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,952 moderator
    edited May 4, 2012
    Terrific image, BD. I love it.

    You do realize that many people who are not members of this forum or students of yours are going to assume that it's Photoshopped. rolleyes1.gif
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2012
    Richard wrote: »
    Terrific image, BD. I love it.

    You do realize that many people who are not members of this forum or students of yours are going to assume that it's Photoshopped. rolleyes1.gif

    Sadly true, Richard.:-)
    bd@bdcolenphoto.com
    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
  • M38A1M38A1 Registered Users Posts: 1,317 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2012
    That one made me laugh.... thumb.gif

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  • seastackseastack Registered Users Posts: 716 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2012
    I keep coming back to this. Just great. Perfect even, and I'm not usually a fan of verticals. I could easily see this in a Magnum book.

    And the paw prints on the pavement even! Damn. Really wish I'd taken this one.
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2012
    Thanks, Seastack and everyone else. If one person confuses it with an Elliot Erwitt, I'll die happy.
    bd@bdcolenphoto.com
    "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 May 7, 2012
    With those tracks coming up behind him, Monster might have been an even more appropriate title. An image with a combination of all the right things to make it a truly wonderful shot. I'll certainly agree with seastack, and echo the greatest bit of flattery I've received: "Publication worthy." :)
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