*Challenge 26 in ginger's house

ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
edited November 25, 2004 in The Dgrin Challenges
Hole and torn wallpaper by dogs, Corgis, specifically. Photography by ginger
Is this what you all had in mind?
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After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 17, 2004
    Selecting Clothes for Lunch
    with and old boyfriend, and his new girlfriend. I hope these are OK.
    11/17/2004 a few moments ago, excuse me, I have to go get ready.
    ginger
    (Is there an emoticon for nervous?)

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    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • miketaylor01miketaylor01 Registered Users Posts: 318 Major grins
    edited November 17, 2004
    I like the wallpaper shot..
    The picture tells a story of the dogs being destructive in the house. Nice. thumb.gif
    Mike

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  • snapapplesnapapple Registered Users Posts: 2,093 Major grins
    edited November 17, 2004
    ginger_55 wrote:
    Hole and torn wallpaper by dogs, Corgis, specifically. Photography by ginger
    Is this what you all had in mind?
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    This is funny. Seems like he should at least be looking guilty instead of so happy.
    "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
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  • snapapplesnapapple Registered Users Posts: 2,093 Major grins
    edited November 17, 2004
    ginger_55 wrote:
    with and old boyfriend, and his new girlfriend. I hope these are OK.
    11/17/2004 a few moments ago, excuse me, I have to go get ready.
    ginger
    (Is there an emoticon for nervous?)

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    I like this one best. I like the light and the colors and the nice lines and folds of the materials. Very nice.
    "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
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  • aero-nutaero-nut Registered Users Posts: 693 Major grins
    edited November 17, 2004
    snapapple wrote:
    I like this one best. I like the light and the colors and the nice lines and folds of the materials. Very nice.

    I agree. The colors are definately what grab me.
    -Kendall

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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2004
    My Life's Bookcase:my people by ginger
    I keep these keepsakes behind glassdoors in an old bookcase. Many came to me as my parents died. Others are from my children. Some were picked by me, they all have memories. I am going to show them in different ways. I have a short window in which the light shines nicely in that room. I can't take more today, but I can on any sunny day. Nothing is moved, except for a book by Emerson that I have to find and put back. That was my father's.

    Comments, please, advice.........for other mornings. I cannot show the area around it, but I don't know whether to come in tight, go to something else, use the clothes instead. Any advice would be welcome.

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    Thank you for looking, comments?
    My grandmother did that oval oil painting right above this writing.
    My father was the little boy, long hair, on the left in the copied photo
    above here, too. A photo from my daughter's wedding is on the right.
    It has every member of my family who was alive at that time, 8 yrs ago.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2004
    Maybe, probably, I can't use sepia????

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 19, 2004
    Another Look: Self Critiques here
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    by ginger: generations and lifetimes, or Lifes Times
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 19, 2004
    Life's Times
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    Thought I would see how a frame did. g
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • judyfuessjudyfuess Registered Users Posts: 259 Major grins
    edited November 19, 2004
    Hi Ginger,
    The frame adds a lot to it!!! I really like this one.
    -judy

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    Thought I would see how a frame did. g
  • bikehikerbikehiker Registered Users Posts: 79 Big grins
    edited November 19, 2004
    Very nice ginger the frame helped, IMO
    Mike
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  • snapapplesnapapple Registered Users Posts: 2,093 Major grins
    edited November 19, 2004
    Ginger,
    I think the picture is very interesting. There is a lot to look at. I'm thinking, though, that it might be too much. I would try simplifying. Maybe make a small grouping of things. The bell in the upper left with the photo next to it and maybe another silver piece. I think I see a small box. That's just one idea though.

    Looking at the whole thing, the large round bowl is reflecting a lot of light. That bright spot is kind of distracting to me. Maybe that could be moved to the right side and tilted in so that it doesn't reflect. I think the thing that can make these indoor pictures special is the light. Ginette did a nice job with the silver hairbrush set on her bed. The sunlight was perfect. That's the kind of thing I'm thinking of.

    About the sepia, you'll have to get a ruling from Andy. He said b&w conversion was OK, but didn't mention sepia. I would think it was all the same thing, but I'm not the authority here.

    Try a couple of smaller versions and put them up. I'd like to see how it looks.
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 19, 2004
    Andy said that sepia was OK, it is toning, and already in the rules. I made a special thread and asked him.

    You know, that bookcase, well, I am ready to pass the stuff on,almost, but it has been like that, except a couple of books are gone, other than that it has been like that since we moved here in 1990, a few things have been added. But the silver tray mother got as a wedding present in 1939, it has been there in that place all that time.

    I cannot imagine winning this, but neither can I imagine moving that stuff until I give it to my kids. That tray goes to Sara, I almost took it to her this fall, but I guess I wasn't ready.

    Thanks for looking and commenting. I know if I asked, I should take advice, I just can't move the stuff. I could have gone for another photo, but I am kind of done.

    The light was on there then, as much as it gets on there, so I had no problems photographing it at a low ISO. There is a table that gets light just before that. For about 1/2 an hour at the most. That is what I started with, I did not do a still life thing there either. And my mantle.........it still has Christmas stuff on it. I don't want to go there. I does get a ray of light in a certain place for a short period.

    I went upstairs this morning, I didn't come up with anything. Except the fact I had a lot of sand in my 50mm canon lens, but I didn't come up with any photos. And nowhere else gets light like in Ginette's photo, and I don't do that kind of thing, particularly not now.

    At least I figured our an entry. If I started moving stuff in that bookcase, well it is scary to think of where that might take me.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • SandySandy Registered Users Posts: 762 Major grins
    edited November 19, 2004
    I like your pictures shelf, it has a very warm, lovely feeling. Great shot G.
  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited November 20, 2004
    I like the...
    Sepia shots of the shelves best. The frame gives it a nice developed photograph look, but I think its not allowed for the contest. What would be an interesting alternative, is to bring the wood color to the fram, that is absent in the sepia photo. A deep brown wood frame that is slightly ornate.

    MainFragger
  • mgoundmgound Registered Users Posts: 108 Major grins
    edited November 20, 2004
    I could look at this for hours. Must be hundreds of stories you could tell us all about the items on the shelves
    ginger_55 wrote:
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    Thought I would see how a frame did. g
    Land on your right foot. Don't forget it!
  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited November 20, 2004
    mgound wrote:
    I could look at this for hours. Must be hundreds of stories you could tell us all about the items on the shelves
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    I love the light in this image, Ginger, and I also saw Andy's comment that sepia toning was acceptable - Some digital cameras can shoot directly to sepia B&W, so sepia should not be any problem for this challenge.

    The shelves are full of very interesting heirlooms, but the shelves seem crooked - not level - to me, and like Snappy said - the bright light reflected from the silver bowl needs to be dealt with. I think you are very close to an excellent contender here, but not quite a winner yet without dealing with the reflection and the tight cropping and crooked shelves.

    Maybe the light will come back tomorrow - you can do it, I know!
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 20, 2004
    Now what would I do about crooked shelves? They were not put in crooked.

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    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2004
    Bear: Photo November 20, 2004
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    My mother's bear

    g
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • judyfuessjudyfuess Registered Users Posts: 259 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2004
    wow!!! This is one of those timeless shots!!! As much as I love it, I think I like the shelf better. Great Shot!!!

    Judy

    PS - how do you put the frame on the pictures?
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    My mother's bear

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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2004
    November 22,2004 Behind Closed doors, again
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    Which one?

    g
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2004
    Smaller, easier to compare?
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    My husband likes the sepia, I like the color, except I am worried that it has a blue cast. I tried to get it out, but that upset some things that needed the blue.

    Bill set up tungston lights for me, he covered all outside light, but by the time I got to these.......... the windows were open, the tungsten lights were still on, so it was a mishmash of lighting. Worked better than either alone, but I don't know what one would call it.

    ginger (I was a complete mess, am going to try to make an avatar of what this did to me...........glowing!)
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • tmlphototmlphoto Registered Users Posts: 1,444 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2004
    Ginger, I like the sepia one best.
    Thomas :D

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  • judyfuessjudyfuess Registered Users Posts: 259 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2004
    I also like the sepia one best. I get a little distracted with the colored one. (Both are great shots!!)
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2004
    Paint
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    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2004
    Wall
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    Nov 19 2004
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited November 23, 2004
    ginger_55 wrote:
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    Nov 19 2004

    Ginger - I like these abstact shots of your peeling paint quite a bit, altho they do not seem in perfect focus to me. These type of images seem so simple when viewed, but are difficult to capture and carry off artistically. Well done!
    The bad new is that I do not care for the curved drop shadows in your 2nd frame very much - too too overpowering for your lovely image in my humble opinion.
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2004
    Pathfinder, the focus thing is a problem. I did not think they worked when I took them, just forgot about them. Then I got so bored with the bookcase, I played with the abstracts today.

    I wish it were light in that room right now, darn. We leave tomorrow for my daughter's and don't get back til Sunday night. If I don't get those retaken tomorrow, I will change the frame thing. It just happened, I liked it, but looking again, I guess it is a bit much.

    Thanks for commenting. I will try to fix the thing, but I do have a lot to do.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • SandySandy Registered Users Posts: 762 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2004
    Sepia shelf shot is the best, although I do like the bear too.
  • judyfuessjudyfuess Registered Users Posts: 259 Major grins
    edited November 24, 2004
    Hi Ginger,

    I like the one below "Man and Woman" (I couldn't read the name) .. It has a lot of character to it.

    -judy
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