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Gayle159626
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Like a lot of the other participants, I am also finding this challenge...very much a challenge! Which is good, cos it means I am stretching myself.
I think tilting the camera can definitely be overdone, and I am not planning on doing a lot of it once this is over, but it is good to see the world from a slightly different perspective. With both the shots I have posted, I also took more traditional apsects too, and gotta admit, I do prefer them to the tilted ones.
I have one more to get, hopefully tomorrow....and 3 spaces left in the exhibition category which I probably won't fill.
Tomorrow I am going to a local rainforest with a friend for a day long shoot. We're hoping for a dreary overcast day....so far the weather looks obliging. Little waterfalls, mossy rocks, white water and tree ferns are best photographed in dull conditions with a tripod. Gonna be a fun day, and a huge departure from my beach/fishing village/wind farm shoots of late.
Today I ordered a Sigma 15mm fisheye lens from B&H in New York. It retails in Australia for AUD$1400, I paid AUD$700 inc shipping from B&H. Even if I have to pay GST and customs fees, I'll have saved a bundle. Oh, and it was Angela and Olaf that are to blame for that purchase....their fisheye work in way too inspiring! And I have heaps of ideas in my head.
And that will be my last lens purchase for a very long time.
Gayle
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I think tilting the camera can definitely be overdone, and I am not planning on doing a lot of it once this is over, but it is good to see the world from a slightly different perspective. With both the shots I have posted, I also took more traditional apsects too, and gotta admit, I do prefer them to the tilted ones.
I have one more to get, hopefully tomorrow....and 3 spaces left in the exhibition category which I probably won't fill.
Tomorrow I am going to a local rainforest with a friend for a day long shoot. We're hoping for a dreary overcast day....so far the weather looks obliging. Little waterfalls, mossy rocks, white water and tree ferns are best photographed in dull conditions with a tripod. Gonna be a fun day, and a huge departure from my beach/fishing village/wind farm shoots of late.
Today I ordered a Sigma 15mm fisheye lens from B&H in New York. It retails in Australia for AUD$1400, I paid AUD$700 inc shipping from B&H. Even if I have to pay GST and customs fees, I'll have saved a bundle. Oh, and it was Angela and Olaf that are to blame for that purchase....their fisheye work in way too inspiring! And I have heaps of ideas in my head.
And that will be my last lens purchase for a very long time.
Gayle
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http://shot2shot.no-ip.com
Angela Johnson
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Gayle wrote:
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Can't wait to see your world through one
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Gayle, I'm flattered I inspired you! I just KNOW you'll love that lens, it's fantastic! So much fun to shoot with. When I first got mine, for a month it hardly ever came off the camera!
Can't wait to see your world through one
Dangela
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Since this is a challenge to help us learn new things, how about if people post some reasons to tilt a picture? Maybe that will help those with shooting block to be inspired.
Tracy Ferrero
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Gayle... sorry bout being off topic here... but there is GST in Australia now??? .... darn... now I'll havta start saving even harder for the next trip back ;0(
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Gayle159626
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Tracy, yep.....10% on all goods and services as from July 1, 2000. Only fresh food isn't taxed, and that means food you would have to cook.....pre-cooked stuff IS taxed. The introduction of GST here meant mass confusion for about the first 2 years but everyone is fairly well used to it now, and in a lot of cases, goods are cheaper. Especially things like electronic gear, cos that used to have a wholesale tax of 32%. But we're still way overcharged on stuff compared to the US!
Gayle
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Gayle159626
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Novelty value? As I said in a previous post, I prefer the non-tilted versions of the pics I have posted, although Planet Earth definitely looks like a rocky beach when it's right side up, and not at all like anyone is coming in for a landing.
And I can't help thinking that a good percentage of the entries would look better in a standard format, but maybe that's just me. Maybe I don't "get" the abstract value in some of them.
Gayle
'We don't make a photograph with just a camera. We bring to the act of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard and the people we have loved.' Ansel Adams
http://shot2shot.no-ip.com
And I can't help thinking that a good percentage of the entries would look better in a standard format, but maybe that's just me. Maybe I don't "get" the abstract value in some of them.
Gayle
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http://shot2shot.no-ip.com
ViewFinder
Leading Member
...do the business analyst, though it's not really what I do now... I don't know J2EE and I'm never doing telesales!
Seriously, though, we've been exploring options for moving... France is a possibility at the moment...
Phil
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Seriously, though, we've been exploring options for moving... France is a possibility at the moment...
Phil
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and offer your comments. The fastest way for me to learn is when you tell me what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, what you like and what you don't. I welcome all opinions.
WARNING: 10D-itis is contagious!!!!!!!
--Like a lot of the other participants, I am also finding this
challenge...very much a challenge! Which is good, cos it means I am
stretching myself.
I think tilting the camera can definitely be overdone, and I am not
planning on doing a lot of it once this is over, but it is good to
see the world from a slightly different perspective. With both the
shots I have posted, I also took more traditional apsects too, and
gotta admit, I do prefer them to the tilted ones.
I have one more to get, hopefully tomorrow....and 3 spaces left in
the exhibition category which I probably won't fill.
Tomorrow I am going to a local rainforest with a friend for a day
long shoot. We're hoping for a dreary overcast day....so far the
weather looks obliging. Little waterfalls, mossy rocks, white water
and tree ferns are best photographed in dull conditions with a
tripod. Gonna be a fun day, and a huge departure from my
beach/fishing village/wind farm shoots of late.
Today I ordered a Sigma 15mm fisheye lens from B&H in New York. It
retails in Australia for AUD$1400, I paid AUD$700 inc shipping from
B&H. Even if I have to pay GST and customs fees, I'll have saved a
bundle. Oh, and it was Angela and Olaf that are to blame for that
purchase....their fisheye work in way too inspiring! And I have
heaps of ideas in my head.
And that will be my last lens purchase for a very long time.
Gayle
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'We don't make a photograph with just a camera. We bring to the act
of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen,
the music we have heard and the people we have loved.' Ansel Adams
http://shot2shot.no-ip.com
Please visit my gallery at http://pbase.com/lonnit
and offer your comments. The fastest way for me to learn is when you tell me what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, what you like and what you don't. I welcome all opinions.
WARNING: 10D-itis is contagious!!!!!!!
--
Please visit my gallery at http://pbase.com/lonnit
and offer your comments. The fastest way for me to learn is when you tell me what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, what you like and what you don't. I welcome all opinions.
WARNING: 10D-itis is contagious!!!!!!!
I think in some cases there's really not something to "get" and it was just more of an issue that the person took it tilted b/c that was the assignment. In this challenge I wanted to inspire some growth in adding another way to think about holding the camera, that could be very effective with the right subject. Not every shot can be tilted - there has to be a good reason for doing so. Those who have thought about their reasons have produced some very excellent shots!
Lonnit
--Gayle
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'We don't make a photograph with just a camera. We bring to the act
of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen,
the music we have heard and the people we have loved.' Ansel Adams
http://shot2shot.no-ip.com
Please visit my gallery at http://pbase.com/lonnit
and offer your comments. The fastest way for me to learn is when you tell me what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, what you like and what you don't. I welcome all opinions.
WARNING: 10D-itis is contagious!!!!!!!
Ed Hahn
Well-known member
Whew. The weather held off long enough to give us enough light, and not to make the capture too perilous for the subject...
http://www.pbase.com/image/31743212
I thought about this shot last Monday, and spent the week making arrangements with the rider (friend of a friend). This pretty much came out the way I wanted, except that I couldn't put it at a race track. OTOH, I was able to have the subject ride around in circles and get lots of exposures.
All comments welcome (but please put them on the pBase page!)
Thanks!
ed
http://www.pbase.com/image/31743212
I thought about this shot last Monday, and spent the week making arrangements with the rider (friend of a friend). This pretty much came out the way I wanted, except that I couldn't put it at a race track. OTOH, I was able to have the subject ride around in circles and get lots of exposures.
All comments welcome (but please put them on the pBase page!)
Thanks!
ed
palaeolight
Active member
Fit something that just wouldn't fit into a normal width of a frame into a picture, it's longer going from corner to corner than side to side.
Jeff
Jeff
OK. I'm reasonably satisfied with my most recent entry. As the subject of this message implies, I tilted the image to emphasize the grandeur of the statue. This is also my first attempt at using duotones.
FretNoMore
Veteran Member
Of my three entries so far only one (Vertigo) has a tilt that I feel adds something, the idea here being that the person that "sees" this picture is dizzy or out of balance and therefor tilted or about to fall. That is maybe a "legitimate" use of tilt.
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Yoni
Forum Enthusiast
I shoot tilted all the time for macro, flowers, etc situations where viewers couldnt tell the orientation and tilting gives me additional control on composition. But that's not the Challenge here.
I see some photographs for this challenge that truely benefit from the tilt (I particularly like http://www.pbase.com/image/31399815 , http://www.pbase.com/image/31404576 , and http://www.pbase.com/image/31404613 ). Indeed the tilt makes those photos. In trying some myself I have not producing anything worthwhile. Planned some and shot some - all hokey. Yet, learned a lot. Great challenge!
Yoni
Photo gallery: http://www.pbase.com/yonili
I see some photographs for this challenge that truely benefit from the tilt (I particularly like http://www.pbase.com/image/31399815 , http://www.pbase.com/image/31404576 , and http://www.pbase.com/image/31404613 ). Indeed the tilt makes those photos. In trying some myself I have not producing anything worthwhile. Planned some and shot some - all hokey. Yet, learned a lot. Great challenge!
--And I can't help thinking that a good percentage of the entries
would look better in a standard format, but maybe that's just me.
Maybe I don't "get" the abstract value in some of them.
Gayle
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'We don't make a photograph with just a camera. We bring to the act
of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen,
the music we have heard and the people we have loved.' Ansel Adams
http://shot2shot.no-ip.com
Yoni
Photo gallery: http://www.pbase.com/yonili
Interesting that all these come from the Exhibition gallery.
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