** CSLR Challenge 114 - Centred Composition

Much appreciated. Hope this challenge helps us break some rules and yet make a great photograph.

Cheers

flowersand said:

...on another of your great shots. Good topic for the new challenge,
as well.
--Mary Anne

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thefly said:

Vikas,

You misspelled center.
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Thanks Pops and yes indeed, you are right, we follow the British Spelling in India and have been taught thus in school. Was just checking on the net and actually there are tons of spelling differences between UK and US english.

For Example (besides centre vs center... incidentally there is a Rockville 'Centre' in NY)

Flavour vs Flavor
Aluminium vs Aluminum
Honour vs Honor
Colour vs Color
Speciality vs Specialty
Fibre vs Fiber
Realise vs Realize

Etc........

Cheers, Vikas.

Pops said:

Holy Thesaurus, Lee

Give the guy a break.

Vikas is Indian which used to be part of the British Empire and they
can spell it Centre! It's just us silly Americans that spell it
Centered.

Besides, I think it was Mark Twain that said only the very dull can
find only one way to spell a word - or something like that.

Or Artemus Ward who said, "It is a pity that Chaucer, who had
geneyus, was so unedicated; he's the wuss speller I know of."

BTW, Gallery set up looks perfect which I expect from V.

Pops
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'Remember, The wind is your friend.'
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Appreciate your voting for my photo and thanks for the wishes.

Look forward to your entries for the current challenge.

Cheers, Vikas.

Dulcina said:

congrats on the win Vikas, I know i voted for your photo =)

Nice topic, I think it'll be fun to try to come up with something
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Much appreciated. Regarding processing do it in CS3 with the black and white setting (which allows you to control the individual channels) and that works wonderfully for me. Just keep experimenting with what looks best.

Cheers, Vikas.

CJ in CA said:

I would love to learn your secrets of processing - your black and
white images have such great tones and depth.

Looking forward to all the wonderful images your new topic is sure to
generate!

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CJ
Please visit my gallery - comments, critiques always appreciated!
http://www.pbase.com/cj_in_ca

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Kongratulationz Vikas yoo must be gettin sik ov winnun? Well dun!

India, UK and Oztralya togetha out-number the US so.... we get to decide how to spell things... so Centre it is! ;-)

Now I have to think 'Rule of ONES' instead of 'Rule of thirds' ... lol

Regards Bob
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MelBob

I'm not racing anybody up any hill. I'll just be glad to get there in my own good time.

For all you challengers who just don't get it.

Yesterday the sun set behind downtown Atlanta as seen from the top of Stone Mountain. But the skies were cloudy. Tonight the sun will still be close and we're expecting clear skies. The Atlanta Photo Strollers, a Flickr group, is climbing to the top of the mountain. Fly and I will be there.

Pops
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'Remember, The wind is your friend.'
Charter member of Atlanta CSLR Challengers Society

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'Remember, The wind is your friend.'
Charter member of Atlanta CSLR Challengers Society

I found three. This is going to be tough for me.
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http://blog.359degrees.org/

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http://blog.359degrees.org/

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
-k2

I can trace my forefathers (of which I had several...)... to Sir Robert Ayton whom, it is argued, wrote the original words (later taken and modified by Robert Burns) to Ald Lang Syne!
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/ayton_robert.htm

Having regard to these 'facts' my attraction to 25 year olds and indeed.... 30 year olds for whom those more fortunate than I (LOL...) seem to have in abundance?..... is thusforth entirely understandable!

Regrettably, alas, myself maketh do with 18 Y.O. of which I have few in number. ;-)

Your obedient servent... Sirless Bob
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MelBob

thefly said:

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Please visit my gallery at http://www.flickr.com/photos/graphicdetails/
and offer your comments. I love a good critique!

Sorry, Fly!

I don't get it: which
is which??

I'd appreciate your
elaborating on the
subject.

Thanks and regards,
Daniel

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First we need a bump...Second, I love a good story, so I repeat from comments:

Actually, Bob, (and thanks Sharon), I was lost in Oceanside Ca, talking to my brother back east and he was making fun of the fact that I won't buy a GPS Navigation System.

I was insisting that it's kind of fun to be lost, you never know what you'll see or find and then I told him, "Hey, there's a place up ahead, Harbor City Cafe', looks interesting, I think I'll stop and it's time to eat anyway."

It was a lovely place full of nice and friendly people. Good food too. But just outside the front door, off to the side, there was a patch of flowers and I went, Son of a Gun, those are pretty...especially the one off to the side all by itself.

So, under a gray and leadened sky, in blustery wind, I squatted there in the grass, getting as close as I could with the lens, shooting off a few images....this one was with the on board flash, I did not take the time to set up with the 580EX.

As to the self portrait, I had pretty much pulled an all-nighter, needed to shave and clean up having driven a couple of hundred miles and worked myself silly....but for the longest time I've wanted to do a Michael Puff kind of Portrait...and if I stopped and showered and what not, I knew I would not do it....so I popped the tri-pod, used the ever handy tiny remote control, stood there and fired off a few.

Most of them came out pretty decent.

More or less...lol

Best Wishes, Traveller

There was a few internal jokes in the last challenge, a thread that was really a leftover from the challenge before that again. Kinda fun but you didn't miss too much
-k2

Traveller said:

As to the self portrait, I had pretty much pulled an all-nighter,
needed to shave and clean up having driven a couple of hundred miles
and worked myself silly....but for the longest time I've wanted to do
a Michael Puff kind of Portrait...and if I stopped and showered and
what not, I knew I would not do it....so I popped the tri-pod, used
the ever handy tiny remote control, stood there and fired off a few.

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and I appreciate your effort. Don't know why I'd never seen you before...

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~ Lydia
Life is good... even when it's not.

We usually get an interesting story to enjoy in the bargain.

Pops
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'Remember, The wind is your friend.'
Charter member of Atlanta CSLR Challengers Society

KiKi said it well.
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http://www.359degrees.org
http://blog.359degrees.org/

...I still do not know
which is which !!

;-))

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db.