* Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #864 / Revived #084 on 2024 11 06 *

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Bryan
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Nov. 10, 2024, 8:17 a.m. Nov. 10, 2024, 8:17 a.m.
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@minniev has written:

@Rich42 has written:

Blue Vase

I had to wait 6 months for the sunlight to come in our bedroom window like this. I like the contrast of the bureau top.

Window muntins are a photographer's friend.

Those rich blues are almost like paints.The blue works well with the orange tones of the table, and both work well with the pale pebbled backdrop. But yes the secret weapon is the set of diagonal lines of various widths that divide the frame into slanted quarters, guide the eye, and parralel one of the branches of the flowers. Quite nice.

Yes some awesome shades in the flowers - reminds me of my grandmother's pansies when I was young - and the vase is good too and well matched.
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Bryan
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Nov. 10, 2024, 8:22 a.m. Nov. 10, 2024, 8:22 a.m.
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@AlanSh has written:

Last night, my club tried their hand at indoor light painting. For some of us, it was the first time. I found it a fun thing to do, but not something I'd ever put in an exhibition at the level we were playing (have a look here for some really good examples www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv7prndj0qo).

Anyway, here's some that I took. Feel free to comment - but not to edit please.

This was me (with remote shutter in hand) twirling a light around my head

Our Chairman wanted a new logo for our club

We then tried dark lighting around the piano

Finally, I tried to "ghost" a person.

Alan

Nice effects, especially the first and the last. Was good to see Gjon Mili's photos of Pablo Picasso light painting
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Bryan
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Nov. 10, 2024, 8:27 a.m. Nov. 10, 2024, 8:27 a.m.
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@minniev has written:

@Kumsal has written:

Multiply reflected subject

Fascinating image, and it works well in monochrome. The fact that the fellow is reflected twice is a little disorienting but makes the photo that much more interesting. The interspersed rectangles and lines offer balanceee. But the most interesting character is the woman who is barreling straight into the graffiti-covered window on her bike. Very well done.

I cant process whether the woman is seen through a window, another reflection, or a mural. There seems to be a wall behind ruling out a window. The angles seem wrong for a reflection and it seems too bright for a mural / painting.
Well spotted / captured none the less.
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Bryan
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Nov. 10, 2024, 8:39 a.m. Nov. 10, 2024, 8:39 a.m.
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@Kumsal has written:

@Bryan has written:

Proposal

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Acceptance

Please don't edit without permission

Very good photos.
A pleasure to look at.

Thanks Kumsal and everyone else. Your comments have made me reflect a bit more on what I actually capture. I have many shots of Rainbow Lorikeets so I tend to take them for granted...
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xpatUSA
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Nov. 10, 2024, 2:07 p.m. Nov. 10, 2024, 2:07 p.m.
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@MikeFewster has written:

@xpatUSA has written:

@DanHasLeftForum has written:

@minniev has written:

Let me have a go. No, Dan didn't answer this earlier (and his use of colour in his own shots doesn't show much awareness of the issue.) There is no such convention.

Yes he did answer the question but it seems you missed it.

You did not miss it, @minniev, because no direct answer was given.

Hi Xpat. That was from me not minniev on this occasion.

Ta, Mike. Please call me @xpatUSA or, better yet, 'Ted' to avoid mis-spellings.

I'm not real good at clearing quotes from deeply-nested exchanges as can occur between some around here ...
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Kumsal
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Nov. 11, 2024, 9:42 p.m. Nov. 11, 2024, 9:42 p.m.
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@Bryan has written:

@minniev has written:

@Kumsal has written:

Multiply reflected subject

Fascinating image, and it works well in monochrome. The fact that the fellow is reflected twice is a little disorienting but makes the photo that much more interesting. The interspersed rectangles and lines offer balanceee. But the most interesting character is the woman who is barreling straight into the graffiti-covered window on her bike. Very well done.

I cant process whether the woman is seen through a window, another reflection, or a mural. There seems to be a wall behind ruling out a window. The angles seem wrong for a reflection and it seems too bright for a mural / painting.
Well spotted / captured none the less.

On the left side of the underpass there is a large mirror so that cyclists can see who is coming from the other side.
The walls to the right and left of the underpass are reflective and have neon tubes in them.
That's why there are multiple reflections.
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MikeFewster
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Nov. 11, 2024, 10:01 p.m. Nov. 11, 2024, 10:01 p.m.
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@Kumsal has written:

@Bryan has written:

@minniev has written:

@Kumsal has written:

Multiply reflected subject

Fascinating image, and it works well in monochrome. The fact that the fellow is reflected twice is a little disorienting but makes the photo that much more interesting. The interspersed rectangles and lines offer balanceee. But the most interesting character is the woman who is barreling straight into the graffiti-covered window on her bike. Very well done.

I cant process whether the woman is seen through a window, another reflection, or a mural. There seems to be a wall behind ruling out a window. The angles seem wrong for a reflection and it seems too bright for a mural / painting.
Well spotted / captured none the less.

On the left side of the underpass there is a large mirror so that cyclists can see who is coming from the other side.
The walls to the right and left of the underpass are reflective and have neon tubes in them.
That's why there are multiple reflections.

Thanks for the explanation. I couldn't work it out either. I had been trying to figure the letter inversions to decide what was a mirror and what wasn't but I couldn't make sense of why a mirror would be there.
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MikeFewster
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Nov. 11, 2024, 10:03 p.m. Nov. 11, 2024, 10:03 p.m.
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@xpatUSA has written:

@MikeFewster has written:

@xpatUSA has written:

@DanHasLeftForum has written:

@minniev has written:

Let me have a go. No, Dan didn't answer this earlier (and his use of colour in his own shots doesn't show much awareness of the issue.) There is no such convention.

Yes he did answer the question but it seems you missed it.

You did not miss it, @minniev, because no direct answer was given.

Hi Xpat. That was from me not minniev on this occasion.

Ta, Mike. Please call me @xpatUSA or, better yet, 'Ted' to avoid mis-spellings.

I'm not real good at clearing quotes from deeply-nested exchanges as can occur between some around here ...

Thanks Ted. One of the reasons I tend to use the whole message when I reply is because of the frequency with which quotes are misleadingly taken out of context.
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MikeFewster
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Nov. 12, 2024, 8:51 p.m. Nov. 12, 2024, 8:51 p.m.
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@ChrisOly has written:

on the edge

Skinner's Bluff, Ontario, Canada

There's much in this image that is different. It breaks expectations for landscape shots but it all comes together. Has to be looked at large.
The horizon splits the scene almost in two with completely different textures and tones in both. The foreground rock is well over to the left with a point that carries the eye also to the left and a mere sliver of blue ocean and land on the left. You might expect the whole image to feel way out of balance but it doesn't.
There is just enough red in the tree foliage right of the rock plus the extra weight in the clouds, top right, to bring this off.
Same for the tones. The mass of pale blue with the light cloud texture is opposed by the dark, dense area of the forest and rock of the bottom half.
As a vision of Autumn, this photo could hardly be more different to the photo from minniev's classic this week. It is" on the edge" in more ways than one. But it works.

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