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ihtisham said:
Quercy, when Marco goes to NY from Netherlands and foregoes his traditional equipment to try this new camera, that constitutes a dare. It is not like he is going there every day, and one day he decided to try this. Not all dares are about going off into a war zone.
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with Marco the situation is quite complex - there is already a longish
discussion ongoing, back several months already, maybe a year, so:
  • the "traditional equipment" might mean state of the art aerial photography's gear,
  • or... "the worse and less capable camera the better" type of equipment - then his latest use is just one more bead on much longer necklace line of slippery slope downward in "degradation",
  • thus "a dare" seen from your perspective plus the above philosophy was what got my interest,
but I've really meant it in a quite general context :), hopefully this will
clarify things a little,

jpr2
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street candids (non-interactive):
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157609618638319/
music and dance:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157600341265280/
B&W:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157623306407882/
wildlife & macro:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157600341377106/
interactive street:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157623181919323/

Comments and critique are always welcome!
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Not a bad read, my friend. It be a she, not a he. I struggle with the same issues. Just a thought: how does the camera know that the photographer is confused?
 
Yup. shot at high noon in mid june. problematic. and, I got lazy
 
ihtisham said:
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...however, the left 1/3, exacerbated by your signature, is a huge
eyesore and ruins the whole - emergency crop might be a solution,
though,

jpr2
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street candids (non-interactive):
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157609618638319/
music and dance:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157600341265280/
B&W:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157623306407882/
wildlife & macro:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157600341377106/
interactive street:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157623181919323/

Comments and critique are always welcome!
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jpr2 said:
ihtisham said:
Quercy, when Marco goes to NY from Netherlands and foregoes his traditional equipment to try this new camera, that constitutes a dare. It is not like he is going there every day, and one day he decided to try this. Not all dares are about going off into a war zone.
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with Marco the situation is quite complex - there is already a longish
discussion ongoing, back several months already, maybe a year, so:
  • the "traditional equipment" might mean state of the art aerial photography's gear,
  • or... "the worse and less capable camera the better" type of equipment - then his latest use is just one more bead on much longer necklace line of slippery slope downward in "degradation",
  • thus "a dare" seen from your perspective plus the above philosophy was what got my interest,
but I've really meant it in a quite general context :), hopefully this will
clarify things a little,

jpr2
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:-)

Traditional equipment will be my canon 5dmkII or lumix gf1, for aerial I use a PhaseOne P30+ and mamiya645 camera. The experimenting with different camera's is not to make better photographs but to learn from the limitations of the less capable camera's. This might be difficult to understand for people who have a narrow or strict conception of wat good photography is.
 
With the advent of DPR galleries, we suffer the lessening of the Autocropper.

A bit of card held to the screen somehow doesn't work as well.

Such is progress. :(

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KenC
 
...which do work quite well as temporary cropping frames, alas
only one or at most two at a time :(,

btw. some still shun DPR galleries - images are sometimes mushy,
and esp. assigning all rights by abiding to terms of use is also an
impediment,

jpr2
Ken Christie said:
With the advent of DPR galleries, we suffer the lessening of the Autocropper.

A bit of card held to the screen somehow doesn't work as well.

Such is progress. :(
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street candids (non-interactive):
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157609618638319/
music and dance:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157600341265280/
B&W:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157623306407882/
wildlife & macro:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157600341377106/
interactive street:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/qmusaget/sets/72157623181919323/

Comments and critique are always welcome!
~
 
I don't do much street photography.

This isn't recent, but I can't resist posting this picture that I took some time ago, taken at Eeyore's Birthday Party in Austin.



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xtoph said:
So that's what I meant. It's a sad fact that very much of American cuisine can't hope to compete on taste or quality, so it competes on portion size. Carnival indulgences are after all supposed to be indulgent (you might recall also a dutch boy gnawing on a candy cane the size of a baseball bat i posted a while ago), but I honestly don't see the appeal myself.
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I think what's typical of America is the need to apologize for not having the best cuisine in the world in every possible way. Compared to other Northern Atlantic countries -- England, Scotland, Ireland, Scandinavia, Northern Germany, the Slavic countries, Canada -- we have nothing to apologize for (and much to be proud of.)

Obviously where I live the combination of quality and variety of cuisine is at a rare level of excellence. (I recently had much better currywurst than I had in Berlin.) But that is largely an international (and immigrant) influence, and NYC is notoriously weak in regional American food like barbecue and texmex. Manhattan stopped producing Rye whiskey over 100 years ago, but some people starting doing so again and making wonderful Hudson rye whiskey.

But I don't think American portion sizes are large because of the need to compete with other cuisines. That's the POV of an academic. Our portions are large because we produce more food than we can eat, enough to feed the entire world if we wished to, and we can afford it and it reflects our catering to democratic tastes. And it sells.

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Frank

All photos shot in downtown Manhattan unless otherwise noted.
Thanks in advance for the kindness of your comments or critiques.
 
 
Just in case anyone wants more information than is in the photo, google is your friend.

This is Crazy Carl Hickerson at Eeyore's Birthday Party.
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Quercy, Tried a crop, but I like the left side, warts and all. It gives a sense of the environment, and also a balance to the photo (coming/going, dark/light...). If anything, the highlights of the white shirt on the right bother me. But not enough for surgery. Probably should burn it in.

Ihtisham
 
fad said:
xtoph said:
So that's what I meant. It's a sad fact that very much of American cuisine can't hope to compete on taste or quality, so it competes on portion size. Carnival indulgences are after all supposed to be indulgent (you might recall also a dutch boy gnawing on a candy cane the size of a baseball bat i posted a while ago), but I honestly don't see the appeal myself.
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I think what's typical of America is the need to apologize for not having the best cuisine in the world in every possible way. Compared to other Northern Atlantic countries -- England, Scotland, Ireland, Scandinavia, Northern Germany, the Slavic countries, Canada -- we have nothing to apologize for (and much to be proud of.)
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i wasn't apologizing. and yes, we have much to regret in american 'cuisine', as well as some bright spots. but the garbage outweighs the glimmers of hope by a ridiculous amount. if one insists on making comparisons to northern european food, the difference is that cultures of quality never had a chance to gain a foothold in america, where they've anchored centuries of european cuisine. so whether or not one happens to like german sausage--personally, i don't--the quality of it is held to a high standard. in america, the standard of hamburgers is weight.
fad said:
Obviously where I live the combination of quality and variety of cuisine is at a rare level of excellence.
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nyc is one of the best food ecosystems on earth. possibly the best, though i prefer paris.
fad said:
But I don't think American portion sizes are large because of the need to compete with other cuisines. That's the POV of an academic. Our portions are large because we produce more food than we can eat, enough to feed the entire world if we wished to, and we can afford it and it reflects our catering to democratic tastes. And it sells.
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i never said nor implied that american portion sizes were a competitive response to other cuisines. what i said, and what is in fact backed up by history and research, is that portion size became the principle metric of competition among american food providers, rather than, say, taste.

your insistence on misreading everything i post in light of your imagined concept of me as an america-bashing academic remains unhelpful.
 
Stefan Kaben said:
I am very impressed with the high level of commentary on this thread, and both of you are major contributors. Thank you for taking the time to look at my offering. Some day, I might be confident enough to leave comments of my own.
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you're certainly welcome, and no need to be shy, all you need to contribute useful comments here is to be honest. i for one am always interested to hear how other people perceive my photos, whether it's the way i expected or not.
Stefan Kaben said:
Ihtisham, I cropped the top only, which seemed unnecessary to me at the time. Straight OOC version:

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interesting. i almost like this version better than the more 'perfect' processed version. i could see cropping a little bit off the top, but maybe only halfway down the pillar. i like how in the color version the people in the bg become more visible. and more of the fg figure is better, imo (even at the cost of the tilt).
 


Usually hangs on the ramp. Came to town to listen to Jazz on Church Street.
 
Right on cue, NYTimes has an article -very, very long -expressing wonder, amazement and aprreciation about the snobbish locavore food obsession that has gripped Seattle:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/travel/eating-in-and-around-seattle.html?ref=travel
xtoph said:
The region also has a spirit all its own, one that hews fetchingly to certain progressive, outdoorsy clichés; people show a fondness for bikes, beards, tattoos, flannel and all-weather pullovers that lies far outside the statistical norm. For humanitarian causes, too. Nowhere else have I received a hotel bill that included a $3 charitable donation.
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So, I do owe you an apology, Chris. What I call academic notions are actually much more widespread in Seattle apparently. According to the article, the whole city seems besotted with progressivism.

The place we order our hamburger dinners from boasts about its local ingredients, and then offers to make them from beef, turkey, lamb, portabella mushroom, elk, bison, veggies, or ostrich. They can't all be local. (But they are all delicious.)

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Frank

All photos shot in downtown Manhattan unless otherwise noted.
Thanks in advance for the kindness of your comments or critiques.
 
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Frank

All photos shot in downtown Manhattan unless otherwise noted.
Thanks in advance for the kindness of your comments or critiques.
 
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