The Getty Villa

SeefutlungSeefutlung Registered Users Posts: 2,781 Major grins
edited July 13, 2006 in Holy Macro
Snaps from the Getty Villa in Malibu, California can be found here. (Faces of the Getty)

http://garyayala.smugmug.com/gallery/1654748

Gary

PS- The Getty Villa is a museum modeled after a Roman country estate, housing J. Paul's collection of antiquities.

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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    Seefutlung wrote:
    Snaps from the Getty Villa in Malibu, California can
    be found here. (Faces of the Getty)

    http://garyayala.smugmug.com/gallery/1654748

    Gary

    PS- The Getty Villa is a museum modeled after a Roman
    country estate housing J. Paul's collection of
    antiquities.

    Wow that makes you sit up and take notice doesn't it.
    What a stare ! Those eyes eek7.gif gawwwwwd !
    Nicely captured Gary......... Skippy (Australia)
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    Wow some great portraits !
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  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    Nice! I haven't been back to visit my "old friends" at the Getty since it re-opened. Looks like they've done a magnificent job of displaying and lighting. Can't wait to go! I was thinking as I was looking at your gallery, how cool it would be to go back and photograph the patrons as they observe these haunted souls. It would be interesting to inter-mingle their expressions along side of the scupture. Great job, Gary! clap.gif
  • SeefutlungSeefutlung Registered Users Posts: 2,781 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    Skippy wrote:
    Wow that makes you sit up and take notice doesn't it.
    What a stare ! Those eyes eek7.gif gawwwwwd !
    Nicely captured Gary......... Skippy (Australia)

    Thanks Skippy. Many ancient cultures, i.e. Greeks and Romans, would liven up their sculptures by inlaying bright pieces of stone, gems and/or shells into the eyes ... well many even brightly painted their statues also.

    The Getty Villa was a very interesting place.
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    Gary.
    Hello.
    I like the picture but I see it a little bit too dark. May be it's my monitor...
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  • SeefutlungSeefutlung Registered Users Posts: 2,781 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    Wow some great portraits !

    Thank you Awais ... portraits were easy at the Getty Villa, my subjects were very cooperative and still - lol
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  • USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    Gary awesome shot as always very cool gallery too.
    Also love the Brodway gallery too

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  • SeefutlungSeefutlung Registered Users Posts: 2,781 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    saurora wrote:
    Nice! I haven't been back to visit my "old friends" at the Getty since it re-opened. Looks like they've done a magnificent job of displaying and lighting. Can't wait to go! I was thinking as I was looking at your gallery, how cool it would be to go back and photograph the patrons as they observe these haunted souls. It would be interesting to inter-mingle their expressions along side of the scupture. Great job, Gary! clap.gif

    300 tickets are released everyday at 9am ... you can reserve a ticket online. I thought about shooting the viewers as well ... "inter-mingling" the living with those frozen in time ... but the sculptures were calling to me and candid shots of the partons would have been a much more difficult task ... so I took the path most traveled.
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    The other day, when I was photographing the curches in Setubal you said something like I was gooing to curches very often now.
    This gave me an ideia: photograph all the churches in Setubal.
    Today I have been talking to a priest to ask him permission to photograph the church.
    I'll have to go back there on tuesday to "re-talk".
    But the 1.st impression was: Well, you know security ... May be if...
    I will insist.
    Can you photograph works of art in America ?
    Can you photograph art inside a museum ?
    Regards Gary. thumb.gif
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  • SeefutlungSeefutlung Registered Users Posts: 2,781 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    Antonio Correia wrote:
    The other day, when I was photographing the curches in Setubal you said something like I was gooing to curches very often now.
    This gave me an ideia: photograph all the churches in Setubal.
    Today I have been talking to a priest to ask him permission to photograph the church.
    I'll have to go back there on tuesday to "re-talk".
    But the 1.st impression was: Well, you know security ... May be if...
    I will insist.
    Can you photograph works of art in America ?
    Can you photograph art inside a museum ?
    Regards Gary. thumb.gif

    Very Good Antonio, a portfolio of Setubal churchs!!!!

    There isn't any law in the United States which states that one cannot photograph art for private use. There are copywrite laws which will not allow a person to commercially exploit another person's art.

    Museum photography is all a matter of the individual museum. Some museums allow photography and some do not. In some museums you can photograph certain rooms but cannot photograph other rooms. I think that most museums will allow non-flash/non-tripod photography.
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    Seefutlung wrote:
    Very Good Antonio, a portfolio of Setubal churchs!!!!

    There isn't any law in the United States which states that one cannot photograph art for private use. There are copywrite laws which will not allow a person to commercially exploit another person's art.

    Museum photography is all a matter of the individual museum. Some museums allow photography and some do not. In some museums you can photograph certain rooms but cannot photograph other rooms. I think that most museums will allow non-flash/non-tripod photography.

    That sounds reasonable ...
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  • SeefutlungSeefutlung Registered Users Posts: 2,781 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    USAIR wrote:
    Gary awesome shot as always very cool gallery too.
    Also love the Brodway gallery too

    Fred

    Thanks Fred ... always appreciate a kind word or two.
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  • THE TOUCHTHE TOUCH Registered Users Posts: 535 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    Love the gallery Gary!

    Looks like you had some awesome lighting to play with! thumb.gif
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  • SeefutlungSeefutlung Registered Users Posts: 2,781 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    THE TOUCH wrote:
    Love the gallery Gary!

    Looks like you had some awesome lighting to play with! thumb.gif

    The lighting was pretty standard overhead museum type stuff. I did burn in some shadows to build up the drama ... trying to bring the stone and bronze to life.

    Thanks for looking.
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  • THE TOUCHTHE TOUCH Registered Users Posts: 535 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    Seefutlung wrote:
    The lighting was pretty standard overhead museum type stuff. I did burn in some shadows to build up the drama ... trying to bring the stone and bronze to life.

    Thanks for looking.

    Well you did a great job doing it. My first thought while looking at the gallery was how close they were to actual portraits of people.
    Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein :bash

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  • SeefutlungSeefutlung Registered Users Posts: 2,781 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2006
    THE TOUCH wrote:
    Well you did a great job doing it. My first thought while looking at the gallery was how close they were to actual portraits of people.

    Most of the statues were of people (not Gods or fictional characters) ... this person's wife, so-n-so the merchant, thiis person's son, et cetera (lol ... slipping into Latin) ... so in actuality I did take portraits of people ... or maybe we're saying the same thing...
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  • DavidSDavidS Registered Users Posts: 1,279 Major grins
    edited July 12, 2006
    I really enjoyed your gallery. Very nice!
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  • SeefutlungSeefutlung Registered Users Posts: 2,781 Major grins
    edited July 13, 2006
    DavidS wrote:
    I really enjoyed your gallery. Very nice!

    Thanks Davd and I appreciate you taking the time to view my snaps.
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