Doors and Windows

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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited August 26, 2004
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    wxwax wrote:
    This the style I seem to enjoy, PF. Not sure why. Maybe it's the purity, orderliness and simplicity? I love the context of windows and doors cut into a wall that could stretch on forever.
    Maybe this is another version of the simplicity and orderliness you are describing. Kind of quirky too I think

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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited August 26, 2004
    I have another from today.....

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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited August 26, 2004
    pathfinder wrote:
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    Maybe this is another version of the simplicity and orderliness you are describing. Kind of quirky too I think

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    Yes, this is also nice. Is it shot head-on like the other one? Maybe the wide angle gives it a bit of curve? I think I like the head-on, totally square approach. I very much like the poster in the window, not so crazy about the lampost, I know I'd love the shot without the lamp. How many times have we seen the perfect shot, only to have an unmovable obstruction intruding on the composition?
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited August 26, 2004
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    wxwax wrote:
    Yes, this is also nice. Is it shot head-on like the other one? Maybe the wide angle gives it a bit of curve? I think I like the head-on, totally square approach. I very much like the poster in the window, not so crazy about the lampost, I know I'd love the shot without the lamp. How many times have we seen the perfect shot, only to have an unmovable obstruction intruding on the composition?
    I think this was shot just off center because the post would have been in the middle if I had not shot from the side slightly. I actually thought that the lamp post was a nice secondary element, that without it the image might be too plain. I'd be interested in some one else's view about this, since we seem to see it slightly differently.:duel rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif

    I found another church door this evening. And like you noted previously the sign says "LOCKED" You are right - Churches are not the sanctuary they were in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif

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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited August 26, 2004
    Waxy
    Do you really prefer this

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    To this?


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  • SeeMoonSeeMoon Banned Posts: 355 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2004
    If I may say so; WITH the lamppost! When i saw the picture for the first time i thought it even made the shot and that i could learn from this, because i probably would've left it out. But it looks so much better with.
  • RocketManRocketMan Registered Users Posts: 236 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2004
    a few more
    these were all shot in New Orleans, my camera at the time was only a 2Meg d480 so...
    this is my fav. and no I wasn't tippsy when I shot it, but the guy who built it may have been!:D
    shot in the French quarter (note the bottom of the door for a clue as to how much the house had settled and leaned over the years)
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    abandoned house in the Graden distict
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    detail of doorway on Market Street
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    shot in the second oldest cemetary in the city
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  • iswoolleyiswoolley Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
    edited August 27, 2004
    Fes, Morocco
    Took this about 5 years ago at the Royal Palace in Fes. It was my first "door" photo, and now I keep half an eye out every time I pass an interesting door. With this one I wanted to crop quite closely to try and make the image more abstract. Any suggestions/comments gratefully received.

    Shot with a Canon T90 and 20mm lens.

    Iain
  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited August 27, 2004
    SeeMoon wrote:
    If I may say so; WITH the lamppost! When i saw the picture for the first time i thought it even made the shot and that i could learn from this, because i probably would've left it out. But it looks so much better with.
    Thank you so much SeeMoon - it is so nice to have our opinion validated... is it not?thumb.gif
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited August 27, 2004
    RocketMan wrote:
    these were all shot in New Orleans, my camera at the time was only a 2Meg d480 so...
    this is my fav. and no I wasn't tippsy when I shot it, but the guy who built it may have been!:D
    shot in the French quarter (note the bottom of the door for a clue as to how much the house had settled and leaned over the years)
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    RM
    Rocketman I like this one a lot - You might try to get in closer and concentrate on only one door or two..
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited August 28, 2004
    pathfinder wrote:
    Waxy
    Do you really prefer this
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    To this?
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    Hmmm, I see your point. nod.gif
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited August 28, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    Hmmm, I see your point. nod.gif
    You are quite genreous, Sir!

    Don't feel bad waxy - you opinion was mine exactly when I shot this - I thought boy, I wish I could get around that damned lamp lost!. But when I began looking at images on the lightbox in PS, I realized that maybe it was workable with the lamp post.

    Interesting isn't it how we never really know how our shots will turn out until we can see them on the big screen. At least that is a frequent experience for me....
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited August 28, 2004
    pathfinder wrote:
    Interesting isn't it how we never really know how our shots will turn out until we can see them on the big screen. At least that is a frequent experience for me....

    Oh yes, I know what you mean. You can't tell if it worked or not until you see it writ large. Plus, The camera LCD can be quite deceptive. It's funny how an image can look good on a tiny monitor (or as a thumbnail) and not work at a larger size - and vice versa.
    Sid.
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  • nikon90nikon90 Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited August 29, 2004
    This is a great thread!!thumb.gif I know I have a bunch of doors and windows somewhere in a box just not on my computer. This is one I do have on here. We were delievering in Oakland, CA and it was kind of a strange sidestreet. I saw this and I thought it was neat because someone nailed a bumper on the window.
    Terri

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  • PerezDesignGroupPerezDesignGroup Registered Users Posts: 395 Major grins
    edited August 29, 2004
    San Juan, Puerto Rico...Geez I miss that place. 1drink.gif

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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited August 29, 2004
    I'd like to visit PR someday (but not in hurricane season!) Nice shots, pdg, esp. the first one.

    Here's an old door shot I had forgotten.

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    Sid.
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  • SeeMoonSeeMoon Banned Posts: 355 Major grins
    edited August 29, 2004
    San Juan, Puerto Rico...Geez I miss that place. 1drink.gif

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    Nice! Beautiful colors! clap.gif
  • KMCCKMCC Registered Users Posts: 717 Major grins
    edited August 29, 2004
    More Charleston doors
    Charleston, S.C. is without doubt one of my favorite places on earth; so I thought I'd add a few more doors from that great city:

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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited August 29, 2004
    San Juan, Puerto Rico...Geez I miss that place. 1drink.gif

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    Doors in hispanic cultures frequently are decorated or colorfull or both. Lovely.

    I found some more windows today with reflections again...
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    The other pane looking the other way...
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  • RocketManRocketMan Registered Users Posts: 236 Major grins
    edited August 30, 2004
    pathfinder wrote:
    Rocketman I like this one a lot - You might try to get in closer and concentrate on only one door or two..
    Thanks, hope to get back down that way again some time next year if not before and spend more time thinking thru my shots, finding this site has been a real inspration to really think about composition and not just madly click away!

    RM
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited August 31, 2004
    Doors are so much fun to find and to share

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    And a red door is always a good thing...

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  • snapapplesnapapple Registered Users Posts: 2,093 Major grins
    edited August 31, 2004
    Love em
    pathfinder wrote:
    Doors are so much fun to find and to share

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    And a red door is always a good thing...

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    Pathfinder,
    I love red doors too. These are wonderful.
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  • snapapplesnapapple Registered Users Posts: 2,093 Major grins
    edited September 4, 2004
    Windows in Julian
    We took a drive up to the mountains to Julian. We had not been there since the wildfire last October. I took some pictures of the devastation of the forest, then took a few shots of doors and windows in the town. Thanks to our wonderful firefighters, the town was saved and these windows are there for your enjoyment.
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  • snapapplesnapapple Registered Users Posts: 2,093 Major grins
    edited September 4, 2004
    The Julian Cafe
    This is the door to the Julian Cafe

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  • snapapplesnapapple Registered Users Posts: 2,093 Major grins
    edited September 4, 2004
    The Last Original Soda Fountain
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited September 4, 2004
    snapapple wrote:
    We took a drive up to the mountains to Julian. We had not been there since the wildfire last October. I took some pictures of the devastation of the forest, then took a few shots of doors and windows in the town. Thanks to our wonderful firefighters, the town was saved and these windows are there for your enjoyment.
    Big Boy
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    Miners Diner
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    Looks like a cool town 1drink.gif
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited September 16, 2004
    snapapple wrote:
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    Reminds me of a doorway I saw in Chattanooga last fall to one of the local museums.
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited September 16, 2004
    I finally was out for a little shooting today - overcast and grey - a good day to capture doors and windows again1drink.gif Several people liked red doorways - here is another one - this time to a church.

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    And you canot have a red door without a green door also....

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  • PerezDesignGroupPerezDesignGroup Registered Users Posts: 395 Major grins
    edited September 16, 2004
    Outstanding pics, Pathfinder! I love 'em thumb.gifthumbthumb.gif
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited September 16, 2004
    Outstanding pics, Pathfinder! I love 'em thumb.gifthumbthumb.gif
    I am glad you enjoyed them - I have always enjoyed images of doors and windows and architectural details and thought it was time to resurrect this thread. Feel free to contribute with your new camera - DO I remember correctly that you have a new camera?rolleyes1.gifA 300D if my memory serves, so show us your stuffthumb.gif
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