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[SI] Reflections - my comments
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36675479 Bret Douglas A lot of interesting detail, but a dull color palette except the head of the beast. The blue rim light on the left is interesting and complimented by the blue glow on the right. The beast appears to have a bit of food or perhaps an egg attached to its mouth. There is an odd magenta artifact on the large muscle of the rear leg... aliasing I assume (damned digital). Not your best work. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669109 Bruce Murphy When I proposed this mandate I assumed somebody would have access to an optical bench and a few lasers, mirrors and so on. The light here is a little too garish, a stop less would have probably been better. Positives are the lighting of the engineer (physicist?) and the compliment of red and blue colors. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669125 Tom Hudson Neat composition with limited lighting and color. It is odd how the vapor is so dominant in the primary image but subdued in the reflection. I believe that's because the 'trailing off' in the main image enjoys a longer run. The whole is also slightly soft so I suspect a tripod was not used and the shot would have benefited with one. It is also a bit strange how the reflected lights in the water are more blocked up than the direct lighting (in particular in the two bunches of smaller lights to the right)... perhaps water motion did this... http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669126 Alan Browne Here I have the main subject in a direct reflection of itself in the glass below the subject. I've also presented a reflected image of a grid in front of the backlight, eg: the actual grid is not shown. I was trying to get an image where the refection of the object was visible via the object itself. I did do this, but the DOF was not sufficient resulting in an unpleasant image (more powerful strobes (or faster film) would have helped at this point to get a smaller aperture... alas...) http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669127 Steve McCartney Ugh. I think a new rulz prohibiting shots of the photographer shooting himself via a mirror should be put into force. Okay, having vented, the composition does have some interesting points such as the hairdresser (?) using the mirror for the de-rigeur look at how he did the back reflected into the mirror being used for the shot. Everything in this image is a reflection. Including the "ooh, aren't I clever" smile of the photog as he clicks this into eternity and a theft mirror reflected in the mirror on the other side of this upscale little salon! Yahoo! Can I go home now? http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669128 The Dave A shot where the reflection is not a dominating feature, yet most of the image is a reflection of the sky. The hazy light makes it all quite soft and dull. One thing that is neat about the reflections is that only (seemingly) the vertical objects stick out in the refections, and the horizontal parts are lost in the ripples in the water (except the top of elevated bridge section) Nice composition, but flat looking... the ship is lost in the horizon clutter. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669129 Bowser The dead black of the trees on the farside and their symmetrical "absent" reflection kill the shot more than make it. The detail of the sky reflected in the water is very nicely captured, however, as are the surface details of the river (pond, whatever). The shadow graph of sorts of the plants is niceley detailed... the little sprig on the upper right should have been cropped out at composition time (or hell, cheat in PS). The birds (and some other features seem to have halos around them suggesting a heavy hand with the sharpening. Overall light is very nice, but the dead black in the middle ruins it. Been there on slide film... http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669130 R. Schenck The subject is too dull to make out (some ornament on the wall over a framed... something) so the image has a hard time communicating. The fore framing by the two vertical bars is a strong point, but as we can't really read the subject, the whole just doesn't carry it. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669131 Eric Quesnel-Williams A great idea, but the reflection is very low key. I must note that the prop for the piano top is dischordant. The light and texture of the string board is great, and unfortunately not echoed in the mirror. (Was there a mirror or was this off of the lacquer? Concert pianos often have a mirror so people can see the hammers striking the chords ... or at least get some colorful image off of an otherwise dull looking instrument). http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669132 Quercus Cool subject. Only wimps use triggers. Big wimps use compound, real men shoot longbows. I like the flat green background for this subject but it's a shame that there are those vertical trim pieces. I dislike the cropping on the left (or really crop it down to the minimum where we know what the subject is without seeing much of it). The reflected image, except for its cluttered background, is great as it focuses all attention on the weapon. I believe this would have been a much stronger "reflection" image if the composition could have all but eliminated the weapon (eg: just show the shooter) on the left, and as presented just show the bow on the right. This image comes closest to the part of the mandate where I stated: "Kudos if the image somehow conveys different meanings in the direct image versus the reflected image." So Kudos for that. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669133 Bob Hickey Urban landscapist Bob presents an image that is more about form and shadows than reflections. The reflections presented here are the kind that usually elicit cries to "put on a polarizer, damnit!" than, "hey, cool reflections, dude." On a positive note the complimentary lines of the shelter top and the rails and implied slope of stairs is nice, and I guess they're reflective of one another in form. Yeah, I'm stretchin it here. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669134 Mike Henley Hmm. Well Mike, I really didn't know you were a drag queen... so to speak. this image is good news if this is the best that a cell phone camera can do. Meets the mandate and the pose is interesting... I guess. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669135 Vic Mason I don't get this from a reflections point of view. Or for that matter, any point of view. There is some artifact reflected in the bottom of the glassed over art, but it is vague. I'm assuming the yellow frame holds a mirror, and the artwork is close to where the camera was, but it's really not clear what is happening here. The various hotspots and shadows also indicate a technical effort that hasn't panned out. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36675478 Doug Payne Great effort but with the moon so high it is hard to get enough light off the surface to balance with the direct light from the moon (which is over-exp here). This shot also goes in line with the mandate challenge: "Kudos if the image somehow conveys different meanings in the direct image versus the reflected image." http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36679106 Al Denelsbeck Decidedly strange image... I get the impression that the object on the left above the flare is a car carrying trailer of some type and that you've gotten multiple images of it as strobed by the lights on police car... but hard to tell overall. The only reflection (other than those lights off of the trailer) is a faint reflection of the police car and another from the flare. So, interesting shot, but not sure a mandate meeter... http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36679107 Graham Fountain Usually long shutter shots are in higher contrast scenes than this, so this is original in that context. Reflections aren't a large part of the image here, so the mandate is not strongly met. Where there are reflections they are somewhat lost in what is overall a cluttered image. I get the impression the image is tilted to the right a tad. I also get the impression of frost on the leaves which is a bit odd as the setting seems tropical... http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36758673 Jim Kramer This shot reminds me of results I've had from playing with all kinds of reflectors, lighting from under a glass table, and so on. I'm guessing some kind of carbonated water and something holding the rubber duck above the water and a flash below the, er vessel. Whatever it is, very strange indeed as the depth of the water (if that's what it is) gives the impression of being deeper than the vessel... strange indeed. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- [SI] rulz: http://www.aliasimages.com/si/rulz.html -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch. |
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Alan Browne wrote:
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669128 The Dave A shot where the reflection is not a dominating feature, yet most of the image is a reflection of the sky. The hazy light makes it all quite soft and dull. One thing that is neat about the reflections is that only (seemingly) the vertical objects stick out in the refections, and the horizontal parts are lost in the ripples in the water (except the top of elevated bridge section) Nice composition, but flat looking... the ship is lost in the horizon clutter. First off, thanks for taking the time to comment. A couple comments: I agree that it is a bit flat, it was an extremely hazy late afternoon. I shot off a couple pictures without the ship while the span was up and waiting and a couple after the span had gone back down, but chose this one for the shoot-in. Seemed to have a little more interest, I thought, even though you do almost have to purposely look for the ship as it's not readily obvious. -- The best part about having kids is making them. |
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Alan Browne wrote:
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669128 The Dave A shot where the reflection is not a dominating feature, yet most of the image is a reflection of the sky. The hazy light makes it all quite soft and dull. One thing that is neat about the reflections is that only (seemingly) the vertical objects stick out in the refections, and the horizontal parts are lost in the ripples in the water (except the top of elevated bridge section) Nice composition, but flat looking... the ship is lost in the horizon clutter. First off, thanks for taking the time to comment. A couple comments: I agree that it is a bit flat, it was an extremely hazy late afternoon. I shot off a couple pictures without the ship while the span was up and waiting and a couple after the span had gone back down, but chose this one for the shoot-in. Seemed to have a little more interest, I thought, even though you do almost have to purposely look for the ship as it's not readily obvious. -- The best part about having kids is making them. |
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Alan Browne writes:
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669109 Bruce Murphy When I proposed this mandate I assumed somebody would have access to an optical bench and a few lasers, mirrors and so on. The light here is a little too garish, a stop less would have probably been better. Positives are the lighting of the engineer (physicist?) and the compliment of red and blue colors. Not so much a stop with the 52-second exposure, more a need to go through the whole process again and be even *more* stingy with the dry ice vapour. Unfortunately, I couldn't convince the various folks assisting to go through the process of carefully pouring it over all the beam-paths again. To a certain extent, I needed to know in advance which bits of the setup had large amounts of reflected light even without the vapour too. This was the final in a series of four shots taken set up like this, varying the manually controlled blue light[1] and the amount of dry ice over the beams. The blue light here was a Schott lamp and a pair of blue laser safety goggles. Before this, the blue lamp was some blue plastic and a normal incandescent bulb, but this was stopped after the two fused together in a cloud of foul-smelling smoke. *sigh* Much fun, anyway Oh, and the setup is actually a working digital holography system, rather than something constructed for the occasion. I'll have to check whether the person in question prefers physicist or engineer, but we're in an engineering lab. B [1] "Turn it on!" *pause* "Now turn it off!" |
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Alan Browne writes:
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669109 Bruce Murphy When I proposed this mandate I assumed somebody would have access to an optical bench and a few lasers, mirrors and so on. The light here is a little too garish, a stop less would have probably been better. Positives are the lighting of the engineer (physicist?) and the compliment of red and blue colors. Not so much a stop with the 52-second exposure, more a need to go through the whole process again and be even *more* stingy with the dry ice vapour. Unfortunately, I couldn't convince the various folks assisting to go through the process of carefully pouring it over all the beam-paths again. To a certain extent, I needed to know in advance which bits of the setup had large amounts of reflected light even without the vapour too. This was the final in a series of four shots taken set up like this, varying the manually controlled blue light[1] and the amount of dry ice over the beams. The blue light here was a Schott lamp and a pair of blue laser safety goggles. Before this, the blue lamp was some blue plastic and a normal incandescent bulb, but this was stopped after the two fused together in a cloud of foul-smelling smoke. *sigh* Much fun, anyway Oh, and the setup is actually a working digital holography system, rather than something constructed for the occasion. I'll have to check whether the person in question prefers physicist or engineer, but we're in an engineering lab. B [1] "Turn it on!" *pause* "Now turn it off!" |
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"Alan Browne" wrote in message .. . http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36675479 Bret Douglas A lot of interesting detail, but a dull color palette except the head of the beast. The blue rim light on the left is interesting and complimented by the blue glow on the right. The beast appears to have a bit of food or perhaps an egg attached to its mouth. There is an odd magenta artifact on the large muscle of the rear leg... aliasing I assume (damned digital). Not your best work. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669109 Bruce Murphy When I proposed this mandate I assumed somebody would have access to an optical bench and a few lasers, mirrors and so on. The light here is a little too garish, a stop less would have probably been better. Positives are the lighting of the engineer (physicist?) and the compliment of red and blue colors. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669125 Tom Hudson Neat composition with limited lighting and color. It is odd how the vapor is so dominant in the primary image but subdued in the reflection. I believe that's because the 'trailing off' in the main image enjoys a longer run. The whole is also slightly soft so I suspect a tripod was not used and the shot would have benefited with one. It is also a bit strange how the reflected lights in the water are more blocked up than the direct lighting (in particular in the two bunches of smaller lights to the right)... perhaps water motion did this... http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669126 Alan Browne Here I have the main subject in a direct reflection of itself in the glass below the subject. I've also presented a reflected image of a grid in front of the backlight, eg: the actual grid is not shown. I was trying to get an image where the refection of the object was visible via the object itself. I did do this, but the DOF was not sufficient resulting in an unpleasant image (more powerful strobes (or faster film) would have helped at this point to get a smaller aperture... alas...) http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669127 Steve McCartney Ugh. I think a new rulz prohibiting shots of the photographer shooting himself via a mirror should be put into force. Okay, having vented, the composition does have some interesting points such as the hairdresser (?) using the mirror for the de-rigeur look at how he did the back reflected into the mirror being used for the shot. Everything in this image is a reflection. Including the "ooh, aren't I clever" smile of the photog as he clicks this into eternity and a theft mirror reflected in the mirror on the other side of this upscale little salon! Yahoo! Can I go home now? http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669128 The Dave A shot where the reflection is not a dominating feature, yet most of the image is a reflection of the sky. The hazy light makes it all quite soft and dull. One thing that is neat about the reflections is that only (seemingly) the vertical objects stick out in the refections, and the horizontal parts are lost in the ripples in the water (except the top of elevated bridge section) Nice composition, but flat looking... the ship is lost in the horizon clutter. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669129 Bowser The dead black of the trees on the farside and their symmetrical "absent" reflection kill the shot more than make it. The detail of the sky reflected in the water is very nicely captured, however, as are the surface details of the river (pond, whatever). The shadow graph of sorts of the plants is niceley detailed... the little sprig on the upper right should have been cropped out at composition time (or hell, cheat in PS). The birds (and some other features seem to have halos around them suggesting a heavy hand with the sharpening. Overall light is very nice, but the dead black in the middle ruins it. Been there on slide film... http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669130 R. Schenck The subject is too dull to make out (some ornament on the wall over a framed... something) so the image has a hard time communicating. The fore framing by the two vertical bars is a strong point, but as we can't really read the subject, the whole just doesn't carry it. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669131 Eric Quesnel-Williams A great idea, but the reflection is very low key. I must note that the prop for the piano top is dischordant. The light and texture of the string board is great, and unfortunately not echoed in the mirror. (Was there a mirror or was this off of the lacquer? Concert pianos often have a mirror so people can see the hammers striking the chords ... or at least get some colorful image off of an otherwise dull looking instrument). http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669132 Quercus Cool subject. Only wimps use triggers. Big wimps use compound, real men shoot longbows. I like the flat green background for this subject but it's a shame that there are those vertical trim pieces. I dislike the cropping on the left (or really crop it down to the minimum where we know what the subject is without seeing much of it). The reflected image, except for its cluttered background, is great as it focuses all attention on the weapon. I believe this would have been a much stronger "reflection" image if the composition could have all but eliminated the weapon (eg: just show the shooter) on the left, and as presented just show the bow on the right. This image comes closest to the part of the mandate where I stated: "Kudos if the image somehow conveys different meanings in the direct image versus the reflected image." So Kudos for that. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669133 Bob Hickey Urban landscapist Bob presents an image that is more about form and shadows than reflections. The reflections presented here are the kind that usually elicit cries to "put on a polarizer, damnit!" than, "hey, cool reflections, dude." On a positive note the complimentary lines of the shelter top and the rails and implied slope of stairs is nice, and I guess they're reflective of one another in form. Yeah, I'm stretchin it here. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669134 Mike Henley Hmm. Well Mike, I really didn't know you were a drag queen... so to speak. this image is good news if this is the best that a cell phone camera can do. Meets the mandate and the pose is interesting... I guess. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669135 Vic Mason I don't get this from a reflections point of view. Or for that matter, any point of view. There is some artifact reflected in the bottom of the glassed over art, but it is vague. I'm assuming the yellow frame holds a mirror, and the artwork is close to where the camera was, but it's really not clear what is happening here. The various hotspots and shadows also indicate a technical effort that hasn't panned out. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36675478 Doug Payne Great effort but with the moon so high it is hard to get enough light off the surface to balance with the direct light from the moon (which is over-exp here). This shot also goes in line with the mandate challenge: "Kudos if the image somehow conveys different meanings in the direct image versus the reflected image." http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36679106 Al Denelsbeck Decidedly strange image... I get the impression that the object on the left above the flare is a car carrying trailer of some type and that you've gotten multiple images of it as strobed by the lights on police car... but hard to tell overall. The only reflection (other than those lights off of the trailer) is a faint reflection of the police car and another from the flare. So, interesting shot, but not sure a mandate meeter... http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36679107 Graham Fountain Usually long shutter shots are in higher contrast scenes than this, so this is original in that context. Reflections aren't a large part of the image here, so the mandate is not strongly met. Where there are reflections they are somewhat lost in what is overall a cluttered image. I get the impression the image is tilted to the right a tad. I also get the impression of frost on the leaves which is a bit odd as the setting seems tropical... http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36758673 Jim Kramer This shot reminds me of results I've had from playing with all kinds of reflectors, lighting from under a glass table, and so on. I'm guessing some kind of carbonated water and something holding the rubber duck above the water and a flash below the, er vessel. Whatever it is, very strange indeed as the depth of the water (if that's what it is) gives the impression of being deeper than the vessel... strange indeed. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- [SI] rulz: http://www.aliasimages.com/si/rulz.html -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch. Thanks for the comments, I have so many shots of green glass buildings, I can't stand looking at them any more, so this one is a subway entrance leading into a green glass building. Also I wanted to test a Sears Mini 35, which is a rip of a Minox 35, except they actually work. Terriffic little camera. Bob Hickey |
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"Alan Browne" wrote in message .. . http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36675479 Bret Douglas A lot of interesting detail, but a dull color palette except the head of the beast. The blue rim light on the left is interesting and complimented by the blue glow on the right. The beast appears to have a bit of food or perhaps an egg attached to its mouth. There is an odd magenta artifact on the large muscle of the rear leg... aliasing I assume (damned digital). Not your best work. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669109 Bruce Murphy When I proposed this mandate I assumed somebody would have access to an optical bench and a few lasers, mirrors and so on. The light here is a little too garish, a stop less would have probably been better. Positives are the lighting of the engineer (physicist?) and the compliment of red and blue colors. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669125 Tom Hudson Neat composition with limited lighting and color. It is odd how the vapor is so dominant in the primary image but subdued in the reflection. I believe that's because the 'trailing off' in the main image enjoys a longer run. The whole is also slightly soft so I suspect a tripod was not used and the shot would have benefited with one. It is also a bit strange how the reflected lights in the water are more blocked up than the direct lighting (in particular in the two bunches of smaller lights to the right)... perhaps water motion did this... http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669126 Alan Browne Here I have the main subject in a direct reflection of itself in the glass below the subject. I've also presented a reflected image of a grid in front of the backlight, eg: the actual grid is not shown. I was trying to get an image where the refection of the object was visible via the object itself. I did do this, but the DOF was not sufficient resulting in an unpleasant image (more powerful strobes (or faster film) would have helped at this point to get a smaller aperture... alas...) http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669127 Steve McCartney Ugh. I think a new rulz prohibiting shots of the photographer shooting himself via a mirror should be put into force. Okay, having vented, the composition does have some interesting points such as the hairdresser (?) using the mirror for the de-rigeur look at how he did the back reflected into the mirror being used for the shot. Everything in this image is a reflection. Including the "ooh, aren't I clever" smile of the photog as he clicks this into eternity and a theft mirror reflected in the mirror on the other side of this upscale little salon! Yahoo! Can I go home now? http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669128 The Dave A shot where the reflection is not a dominating feature, yet most of the image is a reflection of the sky. The hazy light makes it all quite soft and dull. One thing that is neat about the reflections is that only (seemingly) the vertical objects stick out in the refections, and the horizontal parts are lost in the ripples in the water (except the top of elevated bridge section) Nice composition, but flat looking... the ship is lost in the horizon clutter. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669129 Bowser The dead black of the trees on the farside and their symmetrical "absent" reflection kill the shot more than make it. The detail of the sky reflected in the water is very nicely captured, however, as are the surface details of the river (pond, whatever). The shadow graph of sorts of the plants is niceley detailed... the little sprig on the upper right should have been cropped out at composition time (or hell, cheat in PS). The birds (and some other features seem to have halos around them suggesting a heavy hand with the sharpening. Overall light is very nice, but the dead black in the middle ruins it. Been there on slide film... http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669130 R. Schenck The subject is too dull to make out (some ornament on the wall over a framed... something) so the image has a hard time communicating. The fore framing by the two vertical bars is a strong point, but as we can't really read the subject, the whole just doesn't carry it. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669131 Eric Quesnel-Williams A great idea, but the reflection is very low key. I must note that the prop for the piano top is dischordant. The light and texture of the string board is great, and unfortunately not echoed in the mirror. (Was there a mirror or was this off of the lacquer? Concert pianos often have a mirror so people can see the hammers striking the chords ... or at least get some colorful image off of an otherwise dull looking instrument). http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669132 Quercus Cool subject. Only wimps use triggers. Big wimps use compound, real men shoot longbows. I like the flat green background for this subject but it's a shame that there are those vertical trim pieces. I dislike the cropping on the left (or really crop it down to the minimum where we know what the subject is without seeing much of it). The reflected image, except for its cluttered background, is great as it focuses all attention on the weapon. I believe this would have been a much stronger "reflection" image if the composition could have all but eliminated the weapon (eg: just show the shooter) on the left, and as presented just show the bow on the right. This image comes closest to the part of the mandate where I stated: "Kudos if the image somehow conveys different meanings in the direct image versus the reflected image." So Kudos for that. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669133 Bob Hickey Urban landscapist Bob presents an image that is more about form and shadows than reflections. The reflections presented here are the kind that usually elicit cries to "put on a polarizer, damnit!" than, "hey, cool reflections, dude." On a positive note the complimentary lines of the shelter top and the rails and implied slope of stairs is nice, and I guess they're reflective of one another in form. Yeah, I'm stretchin it here. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669134 Mike Henley Hmm. Well Mike, I really didn't know you were a drag queen... so to speak. this image is good news if this is the best that a cell phone camera can do. Meets the mandate and the pose is interesting... I guess. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669135 Vic Mason I don't get this from a reflections point of view. Or for that matter, any point of view. There is some artifact reflected in the bottom of the glassed over art, but it is vague. I'm assuming the yellow frame holds a mirror, and the artwork is close to where the camera was, but it's really not clear what is happening here. The various hotspots and shadows also indicate a technical effort that hasn't panned out. http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36675478 Doug Payne Great effort but with the moon so high it is hard to get enough light off the surface to balance with the direct light from the moon (which is over-exp here). This shot also goes in line with the mandate challenge: "Kudos if the image somehow conveys different meanings in the direct image versus the reflected image." http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36679106 Al Denelsbeck Decidedly strange image... I get the impression that the object on the left above the flare is a car carrying trailer of some type and that you've gotten multiple images of it as strobed by the lights on police car... but hard to tell overall. The only reflection (other than those lights off of the trailer) is a faint reflection of the police car and another from the flare. So, interesting shot, but not sure a mandate meeter... http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36679107 Graham Fountain Usually long shutter shots are in higher contrast scenes than this, so this is original in that context. Reflections aren't a large part of the image here, so the mandate is not strongly met. Where there are reflections they are somewhat lost in what is overall a cluttered image. I get the impression the image is tilted to the right a tad. I also get the impression of frost on the leaves which is a bit odd as the setting seems tropical... http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36758673 Jim Kramer This shot reminds me of results I've had from playing with all kinds of reflectors, lighting from under a glass table, and so on. I'm guessing some kind of carbonated water and something holding the rubber duck above the water and a flash below the, er vessel. Whatever it is, very strange indeed as the depth of the water (if that's what it is) gives the impression of being deeper than the vessel... strange indeed. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- [SI] rulz: http://www.aliasimages.com/si/rulz.html -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch. Thanks for the comments, I have so many shots of green glass buildings, I can't stand looking at them any more, so this one is a subway entrance leading into a green glass building. Also I wanted to test a Sears Mini 35, which is a rip of a Minox 35, except they actually work. Terriffic little camera. Bob Hickey |
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From: Alan Browne
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36675479 Bret Douglas A lot of interesting detail, but a dull color palette except the head of the beast. The blue rim light on the left is interesting and complimented by the blue glow on the right. The beast appears to have a bit of food or perhaps an egg attached to its mouth. There is an odd magenta artifact on the large muscle of the rear leg... aliasing I assume (damned digital). Not your best work. Thanks for taking the time to comment. It would be nice if more folks did that. Ironically, my pic was taken at a place called Reflection Riding. I was parked in the middle of a big field, trying to lure a hawk when this grasshopper landed on the hood of my car. Too bad my car wasn't cleaner. I grabbed the extension tubes and slapped them on the 20D along with the Super 70-200 f/2.8L for this shot. I thought it was pretty cool for a quick grab shot. I couldn't decide on the orientation to present so I went with the vertical shot to make it look like he was looking in a mirror. |
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http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/36669131 Eric Quesnel-Williams A great idea, but the reflection is very low key. I must note that the prop for the piano top is dischordant. The light and texture of the string board is great, and unfortunately not echoed in the mirror. (Was there a mirror or was this off of the lacquer? Concert pianos often have a mirror so people can see the hammers striking the chords ... or at least get some colorful image off of an otherwise dull looking instrument). Yes, the prop for the piano *is* quite dischordant (pun alert), but this is pretty much the only pleasing angle I was able to get with the camera I had. It has a fixed 35mm lens...I usually would have used something a tad more tele. There is no mirror here, it its simply the strings reflecting off the lacquer. Thanks for your comments!!! -- http://www.pbase.com/eqw |
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