Still thinkin' "minimal" thoughts

wholenewlightwholenewlight Registered Users Posts: 1,529 Major grins
edited March 22, 2005 in The Dgrin Challenges
Shot this shot on Sat but didn't get it in the challenge (seems kind of minimal to me). Liked it after I got looking at it closer.

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and simply . . .

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Opinions welcome.
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john w
http://cspics.smugmug.com/

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2005
    This is kind of hard to explain because you have to be in my head to see it (& thats a weird place believe me)

    This is how i photograph...not how anyone else does it...its a personal thing & mine may well not be your idea of a photograph either.

    If you want 'punch' in your shots you have to get right out of your comfort zone..& i dont mean find something dangerous but do stuff with your camera that you would/shoud never do. Hell i have floated mine in plastic bags...hung it from in trees...set the timer & suspended it from my motorbike handlebar underway...taped it to a stick & used it as a 10 foot extension tripod to get a bug in a tree.

    Its all such an individual thing. I really find objects in the house boring beyond belief. I dont have the experience to offer anything tech on a photo other than the obvious but i know what i see that is mundane & i know what i see & think 'holey smoking duckshit batman...look at that !!!!'

    Remember this is just an opinion from someone whom has really only got 18 months dig experience...take it with a grain of salt & maybe wait till one of the pro's dial in with something that may hold more substance.

    Good luck.
  • wholenewlightwholenewlight Registered Users Posts: 1,529 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2005
    Interesting thoughts. Not normally a still-life, around-the-house-shooter. And yet for the purposes of a "photo challenge", my sensitivity switch gets turned on and I start looking at objects differently (in my daughters home in this case). With this shot (1st one), I saw the ball on a "lego" table and thought hmmm . . . after playing around with light, camera angle, etc, I was sufficiently amused.

    20 years ago I used to have a small studio and my shots were so mundane (weddings, boring portraits, etc) that I eventually got more interested in other adventures. Now I'm packing a slr around with me again. mwink.gif
    Humungus wrote:
    This is kind of hard to explain because you have to be in my head to see it (& thats a weird place believe me)
    Viewed your site (wandering "into your head"??) - interesting stuff - especially like this one:

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    Thanks for your observations.
    john w
    http://cspics.smugmug.com/

    I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
    Edward Steichen

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