This is hilarious. You've made a good acquarium capture (those are not easy for various reasons) of a hideous looking giant fish with a severe underbite and jutting jaw nose first into a compositional triangle. On the lower left you have two gentlemen with underbites and jutting jaws looking back at him with suspicion but the same expression. The eerie blue toning common to aquarium lighting is well caught and adds to the authenticity of the scene. Would not be as interesting if you'd tried to correct that lighting. Made me smile.
April 26, 2023
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No need to delete, we are OK to talk here about our grand successes, our dismal failures, and the 95% that falls in the middle of those categories. This doesn't bother my eyes. My compositional weakness is pictures with a bunch of stuff in the frame so I feel right at home here. You've got a great big gnarly tree with loads of personality (eucalyptus? something we don't have here). If said tree is your subject, Linda may be right that backing off and using an even larger aperture if available might give you more separation from the background to show off the wonderful curlicues of the tree limbs. You've got it in the right position, I think and it's sharply rendered. Choosing which parts of your image to have sharp and which ones to try to blur is an ongoing journey we are all on. The second part of that journey is figuring out, given our own array of equipment, how best to achieve what we want.
Lowering highlights a bit in PP might give you more definition in the sky if you decide you want it.
There is a smaller picture hiding in the frame too.
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As usual, brilliant colors and pleasing geometrical lines and forms. These are some of the most interesting (and geometric) ICM abstracts I've seen. Most folk who use ICM well seem to be seeking impressionistic outcomes (or maybe that's just where I hang out). Visually very engaging. I see the little jaggies in the second capture like the ones in the guitar capture and am wondering if those little formations are from a light source that vibrates like neon? Fascinating..
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The little textural variations in the second image are from the pulse width modulation of the LEDs, which takes place at a higher frequency than the periodic changes to neon tubes, which usually occurs at mains frequency or twice that. When picking the shutter speed, it helps to have some idea of the way the light sources are modulated.
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Thank you. I like to do ICM with subjects that are not static, and using non-incandescent light sources fills that bill.
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That explains the interesting textural element. Of course the electrical specifics go right over my head but I get the general idea. Very interesting that you've found a way to make artistic images out of frequency variations.
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Mondrian - ish
. . . and a more prosaic view of the scene. You take what you get. Different day, different dumpster.
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The more I look at it, the more I like it. I also can't help but feel like it is missing that little something extra. The designer in me wants that yellow to touch the frame top. Still, wonderful capture of colors and quite a stunning transformation from blah to beautiful.
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All of the Las Vegas Neon and Photocalligraphy series depended on that.
www.kasson.com/gallery/las-vegas-neon/
www.kasson.com/gallery/photocalligraphy/
But you can aliso get interesting effects by leaving the camera still and moving the subject:
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Thank you!
Rich
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0 mm, f/1.00
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Coastal Optical 60/4 IR-VIS-UV. The GFX cameras record garbage for FL and aperture when you use a dumb adapter.
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Wandering the streets of Seattle. Museum of Pop Culture.
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Reminds me of summer as a kid when we travelled in the car. A quiet, colourful scene. Love the sense of stillness.
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I really like the quiet. Is it early morning or evening? The single car on he street is more effective than if the street were completely empty.
Rich
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I agree completely, but must confess that I had not even (consciously) noticed the jawline of the spectators, before MinnieV mentioned it. My bad.
My own personal point of extra appreciation here, is that the image creates a sense of reversal of roles. It looks like the fish, while in captivity, enjoys the greatest sense of freedom, whereas the visitors are locked in a claustrophobic and tight space, that seems much more cramped. The composition creates that illusion extremely well. -
*It is interesting to compare this image with Roel's of this week. Completely different subjects however the underlying composions are similar and they produce similar responses in a viewer, well, this viewer anyway.
Both ar dominated by horizontal lines and some bands of different colour. Consequently, both suggest peacefulness. Roel has toys without users, Linda has a pedestrian symbol. In both, a point is made about the lack of humans in a scene where we might expect them.
They differ sharply in the use of colour. Roel's feels bleak, Linda's is full of the promise of a day to come.
There is a slight suspicion that Linda's scene might be dystopian but so many of the horizontal lines are from very early morning shadows that we put that possibility aside. The curtain has gone up. We admire the bare bones of the set while we wait for the characters to emerge. * -
Re the image, I agree with you. You first Open Cube, why do you dislike it and if so, why did you post it?
