**MINI CHALLENGE #794** Your Favorite Compositions

Great set!

One of my favorite images, Val!

Val,

Beautiful image. One of the my favorite lakeside towns in Europe. We have a longtime good friend who lives in Innsbruck, so we visit Hallstatt about every decade when we visit Hans.

Best,

Den

Exhibits, close, composition is still everything!













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Elliott

digitcallous said:

Dtop, thank you for adding your excellent compositions, I like them all! Your b&w shots are outstanding; how do you process them to get that 'moody' feel?

Kit

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Thank you. I'm not very sophisticated with post processing. I mostly use layers to adjust levels for various areas of the photo. It is essentially very accurate burning and dodging as was done for making prints in the film days. I don't like paying a lot for very complicated photo software so I just use Photoshop Elements. That limits me too, I'm sure.

I try my best to take whatever catches my now slowly failing eyes ...





KB

Exhibit





Daybreak, Jerome, AZ





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Elliott

KB, I like how these pictures are framed. The mannequin in the first is kind of freaky looking! For the second one, I presume it is a reflection. So my question is: how did you manage to not be reflected in the shot?

Kit

Elliot, that's a nice sunrise.

Kit

Exhibit

Ben and Cooper's 1st Sunrise, Ocean Grove, NJ, 10 years ago







Their mother said, "they won't get up, your wasting your time". They were ready and loved it, we go together every time we rent a house together

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Elliott

digitcallous said:

Elliot, that's a nice sunrise.

Kit

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Thanks,

If you view original size you will see a single star in the sky.

Great images, as usual. The first one is truly excellent.

Excellent topic for a mini challenge, and excellent sample images too! Here are my contributions (all exhibitions), I hope you enjoy.

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1. This intimate scene was captured during a wedding at a very old and colorful temple in the city of Chennai, southern India. I like the tight framing, which shows only the groom's hands and some elements of the sacred ceremony, conveying a sense of mystery.

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2. I encountered this peculiar bird while exploring the backcountry of southern Brazil by mountain bike. The setting sun provided me with a warm, monochromatic palette. The bird's well-defined silhouette in the center of the image acts as a cornerstone, balancing what would otherwise be a chaotic image of twisted lines. This became my favorite image of the entire trip.

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3. A classic alpine landscape, captured near Füssen, in southern Germany. I like the three well-defined planes, and how the soft light and flowers in the foreground bring a sense of tranquility to an environment that can often be hostile. In my opinion, a balanced and pleasing composition.

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4. There’s something about this image that calms me. Maybe it’s the warm sunset light, or maybe it’s just the memory of a beautiful day in the mountains of southern Brazil. The composition, in my opinion, conveys the feeling of being up there: the connection with the still-preserved forest.

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5. This image is part of a nearly year-long project observing a pair of burrowing owls in the backcountry of southern Brazil. On this occasion, the owl appears to be showing disdain for the human observing it, while its habitat begins to smoke in the background due to an illegal fire. A moderate aperture was used to highlight the owl, but not turn the background into a complete blur.

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6. From this particular angle, this tree looks like inanimate human legs. This image makes me reflect on our interaction with nature, and how we haven't been kind to our distant cousins, the trees.

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7. This image represents all the animals killed during a criminal fire that occurred in rural southern Brazil in 2021. Crops, farm animals, and wildlife died as a result of the rapid spread of the fire during the 2021 dry season.

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Sorry for bringing some sad images. I wish you all a good day.

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Gear list: eyes, brain, hands and a couple of cameras.
Instagram: @rodrigo_pasiani
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rodrigo_pc/albums/72157697391983321

A bit simplistic, but... here are the entries


Chimping


Squatting


Riding into the sunset

And a few exhibits:


Same structure, different angle


Billboard


Ice cream




Woodstock and livestock



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Dak

exhibitions, NYC





















--
Elliott

digitcallous said:

KB, I like how these pictures are framed.

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Thank you.

digitcallous said:

The mannequin in the first is kind of freaky looking! For the second one, I presume it is a reflection. So my question is: how did you manage to not be reflected in the shot?

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I was shooting over a tall fence and bushes behind it of one of the small structures built by the company in a compond on Governors Island a place for retreat they say. I had to raise my arm overhead for the shot and luckily my hand was covered by the wood portion of the structure. That place and most of Governors Island is changing last I went they were building motel like structures 2 storeys maybe higher. I plane to go back there soon to try to record the "progress" .....

KB

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Kit

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I saw the star the first time I looked at your photo in full screen. I also like the lights from neigborhoods in the distance.

Kit

Rodrigo, these are stunningly beautiful images with very interesting stories behind them! Thank you so much for your contributions to this MC. By the way, I thought the tree trunks look like legs before I read your description.

Kit

Dak, these make an excellent collection of compositions. I had to look up what 'chimping' means; and yes I do it.

Kit

digitcallous said:

Dak, these make an excellent collection of compositions.

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Thank you.

digitcallous said:

I had to look up what 'chimping' means; and yes I do it.

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Well, obviously I was not chimping when doing the shot but rather using live view. In my defense, the inspiration actually was when I was looking at a photograph taken using live view (focus on ultrawides is iffy and tends to end up better with contrast-based AF near the edge where depth of field is staggeringly smaller than in the middle). And when the camera switched out of play mode and back into live view, I found the display so much more interesting…

I don't know whether better photographers have fewer of those unplanned "wait, that's what I should actually be shooting" moments. I've had a few.