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Dark Clouds Over Manhattan
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Rhialto
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wow.. Now I know where to spend my spare time. I can look at pictures here forever..
Stan,
Today I was in MOMA QNS and I saw same clouds and was terrible sorry I
didn't take my camera with me. You did it!
It would be funny to campare shots!
Vlad Kovalev
Today I was in MOMA QNS and I saw same clouds and was terrible sorry I
didn't take my camera with me. You did it!
It would be funny to campare shots!
Vlad Kovalev
Paul Larson
Forum Enthusiast
It has a Surreal feel ….very good shot…………..
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Paul
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Paul
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morris
Guest
At least no funnels.
I like the light.
Morris
I like the light.
Morris
These looked pretty ominous on the way home today.
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Stan Abraham
Jim Mountford
Senior Member
Nice, you need to bring the horizon down a scotch. You won't loose a thing with the leading lines of the tracks.
Peace
Jim
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Peace
Jim
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I believe in the KISS principle, 'Keep It Simple Stupid' The more junk you carry, the less effective you'll be because you're always worried about the mechanics, instead of focusing on the subject.
See my gallery at:
http://www.pbase.com/sailingjim/galleries
Toad
Leading Member
Jim:
Don't quite agree - the foreground gives this shot significant interest. I understand that classic rules of composition would call for a less centered horizon, but rules are made to be broken - yes?
Lovely shot Stan.
Best
Toad
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Jim Mountford
Senior Member
I looked at it for a long time before I decided it need a scoch less forground.........all in all, its an excellent shot. I wouldn't have minded making it myself, .................with a scoch less foreground.
Peace
Jim
I believe in the KISS principle, 'Keep It Simple Stupid' The more junk you carry, the less effective you'll be because you're always worried about the mechanics, instead of focusing on the subject.
See my gallery at:
http://www.pbase.com/sailingjim/galleries
Peace
Jim
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I believe in the KISS principle, 'Keep It Simple Stupid' The more junk you carry, the less effective you'll be because you're always worried about the mechanics, instead of focusing on the subject.
See my gallery at:
http://www.pbase.com/sailingjim/galleries
stanabraham
Leading Member
stanabraham
Leading Member
Hi Vlad,
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Stan Abraham
I work for Citibank in the big green building in LIC. I have not been to the Queens MOMA yet. Is it worth going to? Maybe we can meet for a photo shoot one day, if you are interested.
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Stan Abraham
stanabraham
Leading Member
Hi Paul,
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Stan Abraham
Thanks for the comment. The day had a surreal feel to it with heavy duty clouds shifting in and out of the airspace above the city. I had to take out the camera while waiting for a train and ended up letting a few trains go by to get this shot.
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Stan Abraham
stanabraham
Leading Member
Hi Morris,
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Stan Abraham
Thanks for the comment. I try to carry my coolpix camera to work in case anything interesting happens. I could not resist taking this image of the clouds just before sunset as the colors were very strange and the clouds looked very scary.
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Stan Abraham
stanabraham
Leading Member
Hi Guys,
This shot was taken from the train tracks while I was waiting for my train. I used my coolpix 4500 set to focus on infinity and took a series of shots, trying to get a mix of the clouds and tracks. Three of the shots are at http://www.shutterfreaks.com/gallery/albuo41 . The rest were not exposed well enough to process.
In the posted image I was trying to get the right edge of the bottom track to come out of the corner of the image and could not angle the camera any other way while trying to keep the horizon level.
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Stan Abraham
This shot was taken from the train tracks while I was waiting for my train. I used my coolpix 4500 set to focus on infinity and took a series of shots, trying to get a mix of the clouds and tracks. Three of the shots are at http://www.shutterfreaks.com/gallery/albuo41 . The rest were not exposed well enough to process.
In the posted image I was trying to get the right edge of the bottom track to come out of the corner of the image and could not angle the camera any other way while trying to keep the horizon level.
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Stan Abraham
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jacques
Guest
Hi stana,
Not only a great sky, which color is almost the same as that of the sky scrapers, but the golden light scattered at some clouds and the fine curve in the tracks, make this a very fine photograph,
jacques.
Not only a great sky, which color is almost the same as that of the sky scrapers, but the golden light scattered at some clouds and the fine curve in the tracks, make this a very fine photograph,
jacques.
Jim Mountford
Senior Member
I have been thinking about the image and what I would do, is with PS tools, outline the main buildings in the skyline, and make them a bit lighter, to give the effect of sunlight striking them. Not too much, but enough to make them stand out just a bit more.
Just a thought.
Peace
Jim
I believe in the KISS principle, 'Keep It Simple Stupid' The more junk you carry, the less effective you'll be because you're always worried about the mechanics, instead of focusing on the subject.
See my gallery at:
http://www.pbase.com/sailingjim/galleries
Just a thought.
Peace
Jim
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I believe in the KISS principle, 'Keep It Simple Stupid' The more junk you carry, the less effective you'll be because you're always worried about the mechanics, instead of focusing on the subject.
See my gallery at:
http://www.pbase.com/sailingjim/galleries
It's very good idea, and we will do it! But after my vacation. The day after tommorow I'm leaving NYC for 2 weeks.
And I don't think we will have good shots together.
It's highly intimate process to hunt the picture, for me at least. Probably you undestand what I mean. A very good poet I like told "The best my poetry I created in a cafe on a napkin". I feel same way. Just a game. I see something interesting and want to capture it. And I know for better result I have to improve two things only (thanks digital era): the skill to see and the skill to capture
MOMA has an exibit now - "Matisse Picasso" until May,19. I liked it and now I know I like Matisse more then Picasso.
After vacation I will back to MOMA area for a shot - there is a very good view I found (BTW - it includes the Citibank big green building
I will contact you after my vacation.
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Thank you,
Vlad Kovalev
And I don't think we will have good shots together.
It's highly intimate process to hunt the picture, for me at least. Probably you undestand what I mean. A very good poet I like told "The best my poetry I created in a cafe on a napkin". I feel same way. Just a game. I see something interesting and want to capture it. And I know for better result I have to improve two things only (thanks digital era): the skill to see and the skill to capture MOMA has an exibit now - "Matisse Picasso" until May,19. I liked it and now I know I like Matisse more then Picasso.
After vacation I will back to MOMA area for a shot - there is a very good view I found (BTW - it includes the Citibank big green building
I will contact you after my vacation.
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Thank you,
Vlad Kovalev
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jacques
Guest
Hi Jim,
I don't know where you want to go, but in my eyes it's a very fine photograph.
And in photography we have to wonder about the viewing angles, way of composing of other people, we may like, we may dislike, well I think we realy may write we don't like a way of viewing on this forum, as people are posting and asking for other people's opinions, but I don't think we can prescribe how others should recrop, recompose and ... their photographs.
I think I most probably will be one of the most blunt perons in the way I write I don't like a photograph or just don't like the way it's presented, think the last thing will lift me over the threshold for writing a responce or not in cases I don't like a posting, but I hardly ever will tell people how I would have taken the photograph.
IN my eyes Stan is doing wonderfull photographs, not just of one subject, but has interest in photographing many subjects, trying to master the light and is hard working on composition, his way of looking at light, his way of building up a composition, not mine, but most certainly at least as valueble as mine way, and yours and of how others are walking the path of discovery the way to capture 2D slices of the 3D world.
In many of your recent post I read, you are trying to convince people to look at the world as you do, placing one's own photographies on a world wide viewable gallery is more, well in my idea should be more, like telling : he this is the way I look at the world'. Writing replies is more about: 'he I realy like to see there is an other way to look at the world, well it maight be not mine, but I feel it's realy interesting as well'.
IMHO this is the way we have to look at each other creativity, or being in a bad mood at the lack of creativity, well as we see it. Writing "wow', splendid, amazing etcetera as comments why should we do it, as I think no one is looking for this kind of feedback, I think we do have the right to write, we just don't like it, but we realy don't have the right to tell people to do it differently.
Have seen many nice, excellent and also bad photographs of your hand, sometimes I wrote a comment and some times I didn't. Are the photographs I call 'bad' realy bad, well in my eyes they are, but that only subjectivity, they may be the finest ever made.
Hope you do take some moments to read and to write a comment on this, as all is KISS, even making photographs,
jacques.
I don't know where you want to go, but in my eyes it's a very fine photograph.
And in photography we have to wonder about the viewing angles, way of composing of other people, we may like, we may dislike, well I think we realy may write we don't like a way of viewing on this forum, as people are posting and asking for other people's opinions, but I don't think we can prescribe how others should recrop, recompose and ... their photographs.
I think I most probably will be one of the most blunt perons in the way I write I don't like a photograph or just don't like the way it's presented, think the last thing will lift me over the threshold for writing a responce or not in cases I don't like a posting, but I hardly ever will tell people how I would have taken the photograph.
IN my eyes Stan is doing wonderfull photographs, not just of one subject, but has interest in photographing many subjects, trying to master the light and is hard working on composition, his way of looking at light, his way of building up a composition, not mine, but most certainly at least as valueble as mine way, and yours and of how others are walking the path of discovery the way to capture 2D slices of the 3D world.
In many of your recent post I read, you are trying to convince people to look at the world as you do, placing one's own photographies on a world wide viewable gallery is more, well in my idea should be more, like telling : he this is the way I look at the world'. Writing replies is more about: 'he I realy like to see there is an other way to look at the world, well it maight be not mine, but I feel it's realy interesting as well'.
IMHO this is the way we have to look at each other creativity, or being in a bad mood at the lack of creativity, well as we see it. Writing "wow', splendid, amazing etcetera as comments why should we do it, as I think no one is looking for this kind of feedback, I think we do have the right to write, we just don't like it, but we realy don't have the right to tell people to do it differently.
Have seen many nice, excellent and also bad photographs of your hand, sometimes I wrote a comment and some times I didn't. Are the photographs I call 'bad' realy bad, well in my eyes they are, but that only subjectivity, they may be the finest ever made.
Hope you do take some moments to read and to write a comment on this, as all is KISS, even making photographs,
jacques.
Gerwyn Gibbs
Senior Member
Jim Mountford
Senior Member
Jacques, I respect your opinions, but please notice, I said a scoch, which means very little, and I said "here is an idea" not telling him how to do it, or any such thing, and I said I would be proud of the photograph as well.
My opinions are that, nothing else, and my opinion is there are way to many flower, caged animal, ducks and the like here. If someone doesn't like my opinion, fine, they can move on, if they want to take it for what it is, fine, learn something from it or disagree with it. And I will continue posting the way I have and if someone doesn't like it, tuff. It is opinion and nothing more.
Peace
Jim
I believe in the KISS principle, 'Keep It Simple Stupid' The more junk you carry, the less effective you'll be because you're always worried about the mechanics, instead of focusing on the subject.
See my gallery at:
http://www.pbase.com/sailingjim/galleries
My opinions are that, nothing else, and my opinion is there are way to many flower, caged animal, ducks and the like here. If someone doesn't like my opinion, fine, they can move on, if they want to take it for what it is, fine, learn something from it or disagree with it. And I will continue posting the way I have and if someone doesn't like it, tuff. It is opinion and nothing more.
Peace
Jim
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I believe in the KISS principle, 'Keep It Simple Stupid' The more junk you carry, the less effective you'll be because you're always worried about the mechanics, instead of focusing on the subject.
See my gallery at:
http://www.pbase.com/sailingjim/galleries
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jacques
Guest
OK Jim,
Well I like your explanation to me, as I cann't read the real fine nuances in th eEnglish language, the only thing I noticed, was you were going on and on. And please feel free to tell what you think and feel, I can agree or disagrre with those feelings, but also the feelings I don't have myself can be interesting,
jacques.
Well I like your explanation to me, as I cann't read the real fine nuances in th eEnglish language, the only thing I noticed, was you were going on and on. And please feel free to tell what you think and feel, I can agree or disagrre with those feelings, but also the feelings I don't have myself can be interesting,
jacques.
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