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★ Wed C&C (No Theme) Thread, Ed. 170, Jul/13/2011 ★

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Fun street (not literally) photo. As to your question: I'm drinking more Ouzo and listening to Obama less. That's good for the Greek economy and my sanity.
 
I agree with previous comment.

Also : those ultra-long exposures of silky water very often show just that and nothing much else.
And so it is refreshing that you included the gritty and textured shoreline.

As an aside:

I would love to do stuff like that too (most recently : at a zillion breathtaking waterfalls in iceland), but I never remember to take ND filters that are dark enough to allow for such exposures. I tried it at 1 sec and that was already blown beyond belief at ISO 100 and F22. I've kept the RAW on my CF Card because I just hope that Lightroom will be able to find some details in the whiteness. But I am not optimistic.
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This family portrait would have looked even more contained if the older daughter had also been crouching : they would have looked almost like trapped within a cage, whose confines were defined by the guardrail.

As it is now and expanding upon that thought, one could metaphorize here, and see the older daughter as someone breaking free and frankly not giving a damn, my dear, while dad and younger daughter are a bit trapped in their business of recording their life in pictures, video, drawings or words. The older daughter, carefree, lets her hair out in the wind and enjoys the soda and the view, while the others let the actual view pass them by, because of their efforts to remember it.

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... how the little pool of very blue water in the front symbolizes hope for the scorched earth.

Otherwise, it is a good landscape shot with nice tones and colours, a quiet and confident but classic composition (that would have been too empty in the front part if it had not been for the water) and excellent exposure.

This is a prime example of a landscape that would definitely NOT look as good in B&W.

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Roel Hendrickx

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I totally like the creativity here.
Those large and not rounded pieces of colour serve well as landscape down below.
The red contrails are a nice finishing touch.

Maybe you could consider redoing this, in a slightly more sophisticated way, with the airplane suspended maybe 10-20 cm above the ground on nylon wires, and maybe with just one or two little fluffy cottonball clouds below and around it?

But don't take that suggestion as "should have been better" C&C, because I totally like the already existing shot shown here.

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Roel Hendrickx

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Great composition with repetition of shape and line elements.

Something looks oddly posterized in the out-of-focus area. I sometimes get that in silver efex, though I don't remember if there's any one cause; perhaps reduce the Structure adjustment a little?
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Looks really neat to me. Love the overall lighting, and the framing of the sky. The only thing I might do is darken the flashed area, which to me looks a little uneven compared to the rest.

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John Krumm
Juneau, AK
 
I like it alot but I think that it could be stronger by putting more emphasis on the little lake. Something to really hold the viewer's attention would Strengthen the image IMO.

If you could go back right now I'd probably reccomend either trying to get closer to the lake, and framing it more towards a corner of the image (rule of thirds style rather than centered) or else trying zooming in on it more (again probably putting it more towards a corner.

Still a great image though
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Chris
 


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Larry Lynch
Mystic, Connecticut

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I like it a lot!

If you can get back to it, shoot it again in richer light and from a lower angle (thats what I would try,,,,)
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Larry Lynch
Mystic, Connecticut

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I like it,

good use of repetitive patterns, good asymmetric composition and good DOF control.

+ the B&W conversion works very well.

Very good shot indeed
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I have tried many times doing that kind of shots with my daughters and I come well short of producing such a result.

A very good shot.

Apart from the fact that you convey well the joy of the girl, what appeals to me are those nicely out of focus chains, gives a nice perspective.

PS: Can't wait what you've produced in Iceland
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I have been reading the "Stone" book from Andy Goldworthy recently (I actually recommend it highly) . Obviously I couldn't resist making piles of stones (plunices more precisely) while working at the Cordon Caulle Volcano recently.

Lots of fun.





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Guillaume,

I am wading through my Iceland pictures right now.

Due to time constraints, I will have to leave Reykjavik, the classic tourist attractions (Geysir, Blue Lagoon, GollFuss) and an extensive shoot of Icelandic horses for later, but I will try to post the largest part of my photos online by the end of this night.

Those will be pictures from a 5-day, and over 100 km long hike (Laugavegurinn Trail and Skogarfoss extension), in three galleries.
I need to rush this, because I head out for the Baltic Sea by Saturday.

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Roel Hendrickx

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my E-3 user field report from Tunisian Sahara: http://www.biofos.com/ukpsg/roel.html
 
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