[SI] - Marginally Sane Bounce Commentary

Michelo
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822579
I like it. It's like someone is bouncing in from the future. You win
the Bounciest Kid Award.

Jim Kramer
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822622
Pretty weak. F/4? use a flash next time and show us some depth. You
win the Horniest Butterfly Award.

Ken Nadvornick
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822703
I still remain in awe of your B&W printing skills, mostly because I'm
borderline incompetent, but still, wow. Now where's the ball? ;-)
You win the Largest Size Differential Award. I'm assuming that the
Cougars won because Peace was just a bunch of pacifists and they
already have paw prints all over them?

Solomon Peachy
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822795
I love the timing and the colors, but we need to talk about your DOF
if you're going to shoot past your subject. :-) You win the Please!
Not the Face Again! Award.

Mardon
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822867
I love the scale on the box. 180mm? Why not a wide? You win the
Most Irritatingly Literal Award.

Paul Furman
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74967690
I am truly torn by this image. You win the Wet Rock Award.


That's right every one who participated is now an Award Winning
Photographer; the rest of you probably aren't.

Till next time...

"JimKramer" wrote in message
ups.com...
Michelo
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822579
I like it. It's like someone is bouncing in from the future. You win
the Bounciest Kid Award.


And I guarantee that no kids got hurt in the process. And the proof is that
I could reuse it later that day for my chiaroscuro picture. But then the
hair caught fire.oops!

Thank you for commenting.

Michel

On Mar 1, 7:25 pm, "JimKramer" wrote:

Ken Nadvornickhttp://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822703
I still remain in awe of your B&W printing skills, mostly because I'm
borderline incompetent, but still, wow. Now where's the ball? ;-)
You win the Largest Size Differential Award. I'm assuming that the
Cougars won because Peace was just a bunch of pacifists and they
already have paw prints all over them?

You don't know that for sure. For all you know Peace won out.
All I am saying is give Peace a chance.

And what's with posting images from 1955 anyway?
I mean, it's gotta be 1955 .... B/W print, white kids with glasses,
and not a black player in sight.

On Mar 1, 9:29 pm, "Annika1980" wrote:
On Mar 1, 7:25 pm, "JimKramer" wrote:



Ken Nadvornickhttp://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822703
I still remain in awe of your B&W printing skills, mostly because I'm
borderline incompetent, but still, wow. Now where's the ball? ;-)
You win the Largest Size Differential Award. I'm assuming that the
Cougars won because Peace was just a bunch of pacifists and they
already have paw prints all over them?

You don't know that for sure. For all you know Peace won out.
All I am saying is give Peace a chance.

Peace only wins out over a Cougar if the Cougar isn't hungry or
sombody with a big rock has got Peace's back. Now I'm thinking that
since Peace has already been toyed with (the paw prints) that Peace is
going to be dinner soon...

JimKramer wrote:
Michelo
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822579
I like it. It's like someone is bouncing in from the future. You win
the Bounciest Kid Award.

Ya, this one is pretty good.


Jim Kramer
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822622
Pretty weak. F/4? use a flash next time and show us some depth. You
win the Horniest Butterfly Award.

It has some good qualities, I like the soft focus plus motion.


Ken Nadvornick
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822703
I still remain in awe of your B&W printing skills, mostly because I'm
borderline incompetent, but still, wow. Now where's the ball? ;-)
You win the Largest Size Differential Award. I'm assuming that the
Cougars won because Peace was just a bunch of pacifists and they
already have paw prints all over them?

That is a pretty freaky shot, not that mine is less odd.


Solomon Peachy
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822795
I love the timing and the colors, but we need to talk about your DOF
if you're going to shoot past your subject. :-) You win the Please!
Not the Face Again! Award.

f/10 it's hard to miss. I'd rather see less cluttered background though
the subject is great.


Mardon
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822867
I love the scale on the box. 180mm? Why not a wide? You win the
Most Irritatingly Literal Award.

Well executed but icky commercial chemicals, bleck. I'm almost sneezing
from the perfumes just looking at it.


Paul Furman
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74967690
I am truly torn by this image. You win the Wet Rock Award.

Torn? Yup. Wet rock... with bad bokeh! I think it has kind of an
interesting rythm but not a masterpiece. I had the long lens on looking
for birds (condors) but ended up mostly shooting various closeups.


That's right every one who participated is now an Award Winning
Photographer; the rest of you probably aren't.

Well thanks for at least attempting some comments grin.


Till next time...

"JimKramer" wrote:

Ken Nadvornick
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822703
I still remain in awe of your B&W printing skills, mostly
because I'm borderline incompetent, but still, wow. Now
where's the ball? ;-) You win the Largest Size Differential
Award. I'm assuming that the Cougars won because Peace
was just a bunch of pacifists and they already have paw
prints all over them?

Hi Jim,

That you formed the mental image of a ball up there... somewhere... bouncing
around, without actually *seeing* it in the photograph, was in fact my
original intent. I have always been a fan of the photographically less
obvious. Although admittedly the reason two basketball players might be
leaping toward the roof ain't exactly oblique here, still, the viewer does
need to use their 'imagination' to figure out exactly if and how this
picture meets the mandate.

Thanks for the printing skills compliment. I appreciate that. Sometimes
one also gets a bit lucky in the juxtaposition of exactly the right
complimentary tones (or colors). This may be one of those cases, as the
negative printed essentially straight from the get-go. More than most, this
scan was also a relatively close representation of the original print,
requiring only minor digital hocus-pocus to hold an approximation of the
original print's 'feel'.

And for the record, care to guess who got the rebound? Not who you might
think. The ball bounced over the head of both players and into the corner
to the left. Once the ball hit the floor #32 lost the size advantage and
#10 gained the speed advantage - and the ball. Things are not always as
they seem...

Final score? Peace Lutheran: 42 Zion Lutheran Cougars: 23. (These are
12-year-old, 7th grade kids.)

Ken

(Who at 6-feet, 6-inches and 230 lbs. is more than painfully aware of all
the loose basketballs *he* lost over the years to those damn little fast
guys. Ouch, he remembers.)

"Annika1980" wrote:

And what's with posting images from 1955 anyway?
I mean, it's gotta be 1955 .... B/W print, white kids with
glasses, and not a black player in sight.

Heh, heh... the game played a lot closer to Dr. Naismith than to the NBA,
eh?

Ken

On Mar 1, 11:33 pm, Paul Furman wrote:
JimKramer wrote:
Michelo
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822579
I like it. It's like someone is bouncing in from the future. You win
the Bounciest Kid Award.

Ya, this one is pretty good.

Jim Kramer
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822622
Pretty weak. F/4? use a flash next time and show us some depth. You
win the Horniest Butterfly Award.

It has some good qualities, I like the soft focus plus motion.

Ken Nadvornick
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822703
I still remain in awe of your B&W printing skills, mostly because I'm
borderline incompetent, but still, wow. Now where's the ball? ;-)
You win the Largest Size Differential Award. I'm assuming that the
Cougars won because Peace was just a bunch of pacifists and they
already have paw prints all over them?

That is a pretty freaky shot, not that mine is less odd.

Solomon Peachy
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822795
I love the timing and the colors, but we need to talk about your DOF
if you're going to shoot past your subject. :-) You win the Please!
Not the Face Again! Award.

f/10 it's hard to miss. I'd rather see less cluttered background though
the subject is great.

Mardon
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822867
I love the scale on the box. 180mm? Why not a wide? You win the
Most Irritatingly Literal Award.

Well executed but icky commercial chemicals, bleck. I'm almost sneezing
from the perfumes just looking at it.

Paul Furman
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74967690
I am truly torn by this image. You win the Wet Rock Award.

Torn? Yup. Wet rock... with bad bokeh! I think it has kind of an
interesting rythm but not a masterpiece. I had the long lens on looking
for birds (condors) but ended up mostly shooting various closeups.

That's right every one who participated is now an Award Winning
Photographer; the rest of you probably aren't.

Well thanks for at least attempting some comments grin.

Hey considering the volume of coherent text I've had to produce of
late and the fact that my head feels like slightly runny Jello, just
before someone drops the bowl and my personal dissatisfaction with the
volume of entries; I thought my comments were insightful and obviously
constitute a clear and present danger.

Till next time...- Hide quoted text -

On Mar 2, 1:16 am, "Ken Nadvornick"
wrote:
"JimKramer" wrote:
Ken Nadvornick
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822703
I still remain in awe of your B&W printing skills, mostly
because I'm borderline incompetent, but still, wow. Now
where's the ball? ;-) You win the Largest Size Differential
Award. I'm assuming that the Cougars won because Peace
was just a bunch of pacifists and they already have paw
prints all over them?

Hi Jim,

That you formed the mental image of a ball up there... somewhere... bouncing
around, without actually *seeing* it in the photograph, was in fact my
original intent. I have always been a fan of the photographically less
obvious. Although admittedly the reason two basketball players might be
leaping toward the roof ain't exactly oblique here, still, the viewer does
need to use their 'imagination' to figure out exactly if and how this
picture meets the mandate.

Thanks for the printing skills compliment. I appreciate that. Sometimes
one also gets a bit lucky in the juxtaposition of exactly the right
complimentary tones (or colors). This may be one of those cases, as the
negative printed essentially straight from the get-go. More than most, this
scan was also a relatively close representation of the original print,
requiring only minor digital hocus-pocus to hold an approximation of the
original print's 'feel'.

And for the record, care to guess who got the rebound? Not who you might
think. The ball bounced over the head of both players and into the corner
to the left. Once the ball hit the floor #32 lost the size advantage and
#10 gained the speed advantage - and the ball. Things are not always as
they seem...

Final score? Peace Lutheran: 42 Zion Lutheran Cougars: 23. (These are
12-year-old, 7th grade kids.)

What you mean that Anni was right and we should have given Peace a
chance? :-)

Ken

(Who at 6-feet, 6-inches and 230 lbs. is more than painfully aware of all
the loose basketballs *he* lost over the years to those damn little fast
guys. Ouch, he remembers.)

Wow, someone I can look up to while I'm looking up to, I realize It's
all a matter of perspective, but at 6' 4" it's easy to look down on
most of the world, unless of course I've just failed to properly
navigate one of those low doorways ;-)

Paul Furman wrote:
Solomon Peachy
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/74822795
I love the timing and the colors, but we need to talk about your DOF
if you're going to shoot past your subject. :-) You win the Please!
Not the Face Again! Award.

f/10 it's hard to miss. I'd rather see less cluttered background though
the subject is great.

It's always tricky when your subject moves faster than the autofocus can
track. As for the background... it is a shame the one of the best
shots I took that day ended up with a dumpster in the background, but
beggars can't be choosers.

I had better "bounce" candidates, but I prefer to submit new stuff if at
all possible...

- Solomon [Finally starting to come up against the limits of my D70]
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