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Originally posted by DJH:
Great stuff, Haroon. I like the spinning prayer wheels image in particular. The image but one after that - is that a temple incense burner, or an industrial extruding machine?

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Its a huge burner, its the one infront of the jokang (main temple) in lhasa.

Obligatory close-up of something symetrical in nature shot I took this weekend. Looks great before reduction to 50k jpeg I think

Jonathan

Shayman - is that the Giant's Causeway?

Haroon, I agree, that pic of spinning prayer wheels is great. To get the blurred effect, I imagine you needed a longish exposure. Was that intentional?

Dan

Well spotted DJH. Giant's Causeway it is. Great place for a bit a amateur photography. Why the need for the bus though is anyones guess. It can only be half a mile from the road. You could probably even do it in a wheelchair.

Jonathan

Last one for a while ... any comments welcome.

Cheers

David

"any comments welcome"

You're gonna get busted by the cropping police

Maybe, but there is next to no cropping when the image is taken with a 6x12 back on a 4x5 camera.

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Originally posted by Dan M:
Haroon, I agree, that pic of spinning prayer wheels is great. To get the blurred effect, I imagine you needed a longish exposure. Was that intentional?

Dan

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Most definately was intentional - movement of life (the people going around and the wheels), prayer, ascendance (into the white lights) were all part of it. The people of Tibet really did move me spiritually, first time in my life like that. Don't remember the exposure, but wasnt that long as it was handheld.

DJH great pic, at first i thought hey it should be landscape rather than portrait, due to the outcrop of land on the left cutting in on the mountains .. makes my eye think where the rest? But im coming round to it as i notice the pebbles at the front and my eyes get led to the mountains. good stuff, good stuff

This thread is just one big inedible scan after another, Brrp, and there aren't enough of them !

Fritz Von Florencesaysit'sthattimeagaininnit

This is more a test shot with some film Vuk highly recommended a while back, but the picture is growing on me.

Joe

Nerd info: Nikon F3HP, 35mm f/1.4 probably at f/4, Agfa Scala 200x, and a bit of sepia toning in Photoshop

[This message was edited by Joe Petrik on TUESDAY 10 February 2004 at 23:12.]

Alex,

Thanks. It must be the B&W film. I took an almost identical shot with colour film and it left me cold, whereas this one makes me feel cold.

Joe

Hey stumpy thats a cracking picture. Whats its normal size - does it look good in a frame?

andy c

Thought I'd resurrect this thread with another landscape - no cropping either;

Two nice shots.

Pics from a newbie:

I'm not sure whether I like this one more in Color:


Or B&W:


Here's my homage to Vuk:


BTW, these were taken in the Beaches in Toronto.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

P.S. Nerd info: Shots were taken with a Canon PowerShot G3 Digital, and tweaked just a bit with PS-Elements.

[This message was edited by Mike Hanson on Tue 16 March 2004 at 22:24.]

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Mike,

Colour I think is the way you want to go. The contrast between the rocks and slush isn't as readily obvious in the B&W shot since the two parts of the image tend to merge without colour cues helping you distinguish them.

Joe

You might think I went a bit nuts with the saturation control in Photoshop, but the over-the-top colour is courtesy of the film and a polarizing filter, which tends to increase saturation.

Joe

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Nerd info: Nikon F4, 105mm F/2 DC, Ektachrome 100VS (=very saturated), polarizer

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Originally posted by Joe Petrik:
Colour I think is the way you want to go. The contrast between the rocks and slush isn't as readily obvious in the B&W shot since the two parts of the image tend to merge without colour cues helping you distinguish them.

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Thanks for the feedback, Joe. I had had that thought as well. I've got one printed up in B&W, and it's a bit better as a hi-res print, but I think I still prefer the color.

BTW, I love the tulips, and the red border adds an especially good touch!

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

Mike,

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I had had that thought as well. I've got one printed up in B&W, and it's a bit better as a hi-res print, but I think I still prefer the color.

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For me, B&W photography captures adjectives, adverbs and verbs much better than it captures nouns -- if you know what I mean -- so any picture of a thing, like your rocks and ice picture, seems to work better in colour, where the different hues help make the thing more readily apparent. Action, moods and emotions, on the other hand, just seem so perfectly suited to B&W.

Joe