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 gr8fzy1
 
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
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< on 11/16/2009 12:46 AM >
|  | | | I saw heating/cooling technician working on something at the library, then scaled the fence when the left and snapped this shot of the new heating/cooling system. Any thoughts? Composition? Exposure? Subject matter?
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Sgt Marshall
Location: Paris
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| |  | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 1 on 11/16/2009 9:23 AM >
| | | | Are you shooting a product catalogue?
In that case the photo is fine.
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TurboZutek
   
King Dick
Location: Scotland
Gender: Male
Giant octo-penised rapephant
| |  | | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 2 on 11/16/2009 10:32 AM >
| | | | You cut off the concrete plinth a little at the left and right.
Apart from that; it's very much a picture of an air conditioner? It works in a 'documentary' sense, as a record of an air conditioner.
Chris...
We all had ostriches. My dad had an ostrich farm! I remember one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success, so we all went out and celebrated… by killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit. |
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| | | | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 3 on 11/16/2009 6:14 PM >
| | | | Posted by turbozutek
You cut off the concrete plinth a little at the left and right.
Apart from that; it's very much a picture of an air conditioner? It works in a 'documentary' sense, as a record of an air conditioner.
Chris...
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Yeah, my back was on the fence, so the concrete got cropped.
Not the best image I know, I was more concerned with your opinion on exposure and what not.
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TurboZutek
King Dick
Location: Scotland
Gender: Male
Giant octo-penised rapephant
| | | | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 4 on 11/16/2009 7:42 PM >
| | | | Exposure seems to be OK. I can make out the shadows beside the central spider-gear and I can see the detail inside the caged part, so yeah that's good.
Aperture selection looks alright as the depth of field allows for seeing as much detail in the foreground as the background, which works well for the documentary style of shot.
What possibly lets it down a bit in documentary style is that the angle doesn't allow me to read the text on the stickers, but not really a big deal. So no major problems on the above points.
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It's still just an air-conditioner. There isn't much to grip the viewer.
Chris...
We all had ostriches. My dad had an ostrich farm! I remember one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success, so we all went out and celebrated… by killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit. |
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pryor
Location: saint louis, mo
Gender: Male
| | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 5 on 11/16/2009 7:53 PM >
| | | | top left corner distracts me for some reason, as well as the tree.
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Jeff!
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 6 on 11/16/2009 8:49 PM >
| | | | exposure is fine. but honestly everything else is meh.
boring subject, poor composition (crooked and incomplete)
not worth climbing the fence for
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| | | | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 7 on 11/16/2009 11:22 PM >
| | | | Posted by turbozutek
Exposure seems to be OK. I can make out the shadows beside the central spider-gear and I can see the detail inside the caged part, so yeah that's good.
Aperture selection looks alright as the depth of field allows for seeing as much detail in the foreground as the background, which works well for the documentary style of shot.
What possibly lets it down a bit in documentary style is that the angle doesn't allow me to read the text on the stickers, but not really a big deal. So no major problems on the above points.
BUT
It's still just an air-conditioner. There isn't much to grip the viewer.
Chris...
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Thank you Turbo, I'm trying like hell to get used to manual mode on my camera and your words bring me hope.
Softly creeping through
Empty hallways decades old,
glimpsing history. |
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| | | | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 8 on 11/16/2009 11:26 PM >
| | | | Posted by thechariot
top left corner distracts me for some reason, as well as the tree.
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I see your point. I liked the tree in the shot before, but now that I'm looking at it again, it seems off...like the tree was photoshoped in. The upper left is noticeable too, I think it has to do with the dark roof line and the brass deposits running down the walls, gives that corner almost a Vignette look.
Softly creeping through
Empty hallways decades old,
glimpsing history. |
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| | | | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 9 on 11/16/2009 11:26 PM >
| | | | Posted by Jeff!
boring subject, poor composition (crooked and incomplete)
not worth climbing the fence for
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practice is always worth climbing the fence for.
Softly creeping through
Empty hallways decades old,
glimpsing history. |
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Lingerer_of_Silence
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 10 on 11/17/2009 3:30 AM >
| | | | Man, you are fucking awesome, I love those machines and I love your shot. Mainly 'cause i make Experimental Noise Industrial Music using natural objects like machines and iron bars.. http://www.myspace.com/nightofsolitude
10/10, great exposure and levels, very well done. Try to do a cool photoshop experiment with it, like try to make it look like it's from a post-apocalypse era. Love the shot!!
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| | | | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 11 on 11/17/2009 4:11 PM >
| | | | Posted by Lingerer_of_Silence
Man, you are fucking awesome, I love those machines and I love your shot. Mainly 'cause i make Experimental Noise Industrial Music using natural objects like machines and iron bars.. http://www.myspace.com/nightofsolitude
10/10, great exposure and levels, very well done. Try to do a cool photoshop experiment with it, like try to make it look like it's from a post-apocalypse era. Love the shot!!
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Someone who appreciates air conditioners?
Softly creeping through
Empty hallways decades old,
glimpsing history. |
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Jeff!
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 12 on 11/17/2009 5:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by Lingerer_of_Silence
Man, you are fucking awesome, I love those machines and I love your shot. Mainly 'cause i make Experimental Noise Industrial Music using natural objects like machines and iron bars.. http://www.myspace.com/nightofsolitude
10/10, great exposure and levels, very well done. Try to do a cool photoshop experiment with it, like try to make it look like it's from a post-apocalypse era. Love the shot!!
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desmet
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
| | | | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 13 on 11/17/2009 6:34 PM >
| | | | So, so, so insanely boring. Shot looks fine, but...boring and...boring.
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Protios
Location: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia
Gender: Male
To get where you're going, Remember where you've been
| | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 14 on 11/18/2009 9:12 PM >
| | | | I think I might have tried shooting it in Landscape instead of Portrait. To me I don't really care so much what's above or below this particular subject, but what's beside it looks to be more interesting. Did you shoot any Landscape?
To get where you're going
Remember where you've been |
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hydrotherapy
Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
| | | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 15 on 11/18/2009 9:37 PM >
| | | | Posted by Lingerer_of_Silence
Try to do a cool photoshop experiment with it, like try to make it look like it's from a post-apocalypse era. Love the shot!!
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From the horribly dystopia where once human civilization crumbles, all we are left with is air conditioning units? What?
Same as everyone else said- documentary and crooked. Nailing those architectural straights are a must when shooting minimally.
Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. |
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| | | | Re: One shot from the library.
<Reply # 16 on 11/19/2009 4:44 PM >
| | | | Posted by hydrotherapy
Nailing those architectural straights are a must when shooting minimally.
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Noted, I'll work on that Hydro.
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