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VisualXpressionsVisualXpressions Registered Users Posts: 860 Major grins
edited August 14, 2007 in The Dgrin Challenges
Well, the bug shot or the window... both shots were accidents... The beetle landed on the roof in the wet paint while I was shooting my daughter and her friend... the window was a fluke, did not know I captured the reflection until I got home... any way my daughter loved the silver bug so she created a couple more... I don't shoot macro so these may not be that great... I'm trying to narrow it down to the window or "Garden Terminators"
Any comments or suggestions are welcome and most appriciated...
garden terminator #1.
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garden terminator #2.
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garden terminator #3.
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garden terminator #4.
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garden distruction by reproduction #5.
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window to the soul #6.
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garden terminators or the window? 18 votes

garden terminator #1.
0% 0 votes
garden terminator #2.
0% 0 votes
garden terminator #3.
0% 0 votes
garden terminator #4.
0% 0 votes
garden distruction by reproduction #5.
11% 2 votes
window to the soul #6.
88% 16 votes

Comments

  • GreensquaredGreensquared Registered Users Posts: 2,115 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2007
    The window is my favorite of these, but I think it needs a little straightening.

    Good luck!
    Emily
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  • indiegirlindiegirl Registered Users Posts: 930 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2007
    Sorry, dude. The window has it over the bugs. The window seems a bit caddywhompus. (Spell that word! I dare you!)

    Jesse
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  • pyroPrints.compyroPrints.com Registered Users Posts: 1,383 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2007
    indiegirl wrote:
    Sorry, dude. The window has it over the bugs. The window seems a bit caddywhompus. (Spell that word! I dare you!)

    Jesse

    C-A-D-D-Y-W-H-O-M-P-U-S ... did I get it? =c)

    Anyhow... WINDOW, WINDOW, WINDOW!

    PS: are you really stooping to bug porn? rolleyes1.gif
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  • indiegirlindiegirl Registered Users Posts: 930 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2007
    pyroPrints.com wrote:
    PS: are you really stooping to bug porn? rolleyes1.gif

    Well, you know what they say about bug porn...
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  • pyroPrints.compyroPrints.com Registered Users Posts: 1,383 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2007
    indiegirl wrote:
    Well, you know what they say about bug porn...

    Laughing.gif, I really don't lol =c)
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  • Pat664422Pat664422 Registered Users Posts: 225 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2007
    Perhaps there's something wrong with me, because I voted for the bug love. To me it's the highest quality pic and it doesn't involve crusty bugs, although the garden terminators is a cute concept. My wife says she likes the window shot though.
  • stirfrystirfry Registered Users Posts: 242 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2007
    indiegirl wrote:
    Well, you know what they say about bug porn...

    Well, um .. my sweet innocent 5 year old :wow way impressed that bugs carry their babies on their backs like we do.

    Um, ne_nau.gif sure, sweets. They suuuuure do mwink.gif. And I'm immature enough to admit that I like the bug porn picture Laughing.gif.

    Is the picture of the window cropped? I'd love to see a bit more of the brick on the side, but overall I really like that picture. I think it's way cool how you caught that reflection unexpectedly - I love those kind of surprises in the darkroom iloveyou.gif the crookedness doesn't bother me at all. In fact, I find it a bit endearing ... imperfect in keeping with the rest of the frame. Cool shot!

    I'm not wild about the name though - to me "soul" implies a humanistic aspect, which I don't see in the picture. Eyes. People. That is what I expect to see from a piece titled with "soul". Maybe a window looking into people or reflecting people. Your picture strikes me as more of a window to the world or something along those lines, JMHO YMMV.
  • FeliciaFelicia Registered Users Posts: 385 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2007
    stirfry wrote:
    Well, um .. my sweet innocent 5 year old :wow way impressed that bugs carry their babies on their backs like we do.

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  • VisualXpressionsVisualXpressions Registered Users Posts: 860 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2007
    Thanks for all the great comments! Yes, I would stoop to bug porn if that’s what it takes, besides if Japanese beetles are not eating something they are doing it, or appear to be... I did straighten the window, but left it a little skewed on purpose because it really was crooked... I don't much like the window title either, and will probably come up with a new one if I use the shot... I might try and fix the caddywhompusness (I don't think this is a word) of the window... any way, very stiff competition...
    http://www.vxphotography.smugmug.com/
  • peterst6906peterst6906 Registered Users Posts: 267 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2007
    VisualXpressions wrote:
    Thanks for all the great comments! Yes, I would stoop to bug porn if that’s what it takes, besides if Japanese beetles are not eating something they are doing it, or appear to be... I did straighten the window, but left it a little skewed on purpose because it really was crooked... I don't much like the window title either, and will probably come up with a new one if I use the shot... I might try and fix the caddywhompusness (I don't think this is a word) of the window... any way, very stiff competition...

    If I was to make any comment about the bug ones, it would only be that I find the shadows too hard and the hightlights in the silver paint too bright in camparison.

    So, if it was me, I think I would re-shoot and put a diffuser between the sun and the bugs to soften the light and reduce the hard shadows. I think you could get a lot more creative by controlling the light a bit more.

    Although, while the title of the images informs me that these are Arny Schwarzabugs, the images themselves don't identfy strongly (for me) with the terminator theme.

    Regards,

    Peter
    It's not my camera's fault, I'm just visually illiterate
  • urbanariesurbanaries Registered Users Posts: 2,690 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2007
    VisualXpressions wrote:
    I might try and fix the caddywhompusness (I don't think this is a word) of the window... any way, very stiff competition...

    not that I want to help a competitor, :D

    but it seems like if you did the vertical lens correction in CS2/3, that would help "push" the top of the window back. It isn't the crookedness/settling of the window itself that bugs me, but that the top seems tilted to the camera. Makes me dizzy! But a shot worth un-caddywhompussing.
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