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Which Board? => Main Forum => : LT January 06, 2008, 07:59:54 PM
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here's a few I took just before xmas - been tinkering to find a new standard film developer - settled on d-23 for now, very nice indeed.
now ... are trees as bad as graveyards and statues ....???? ;)
(http://www.filmwasters.com/grabs/d/2283-1/treeprop.jpg)
(http://www.filmwasters.com/grabs/d/2285-1/mistytrees2.jpg)
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now ... are trees as bad as graveyards and statues ....???? ;)
Yours certainly aren't! These are gorgeous - I particularly like the misty one.
Besides, you can't add everything to the cliche list - there would be nothing left for us to photograph. :'(
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There is definitely an art to approaching nice wood, huh Leon. Haha. You make this look easy and had you lived near by, I'd take you to a slue of hillsides to shoot that wood have you barking up a tree. I have always wanted to shoot in the fog, and while I'm in it most of the time, I'm afraid I wouldn't go about it right such as you have here. Such a lovely mood it puts your things in. I think that last frame fairs really nicely and had that tree on the left taken on the same shape as the one to the right, the symmetry would have been spot on. It gives the feeling of being left out. A misfit of sorts....
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Take me to the mist. Lovely. As always!
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We never have mist or fog around here :'(
It hides the ugly surroundings so well...
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Yeah that second one with the fog really grabs me. Great image indeed.
-Jason
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He's alive!! Hurrah. Hope you got over your flu.
Like the 2nd shot a lot...maybe too much room at the top, but then if you were closer the bottom two thirds wouldn't look so good. Damned if you do.. etc.
Anyway, quick question: did you/do you use filters when shooting in the mist? I've heard that a blue filter increases haze. Anyone have any experience with this?
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The second one really rocks, Leon. Misty and moody.
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Love the detail in the top but the mood of the bottom one really dragged me in. Thanks for sharing Leon
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My thoughts on cliches.
If any subject has been done so many times that we already know what to expect, it risks being a cliche.
So we depend on the stamp of the individual photographer to lift it above the ordinary, with their own signature style or their unmistakably high quality approach.
In other words, if most of us photograph trees it's a cliche. You on the other hand can photograph as many trees as you like.
EDIT 20 seconds later..
Looking at these two again, it's the second one in the fog, that is the most familiar approach. It's the type of picture we have all seen before, yet instead of being boring it is the one with immediate appeal and attracted most of the favorable comments. So perhaps that places it in another category called Icon?
The first pic is comparatively an ordinary scene. It's the sort of thing we might walk past in the park any day of the week, but it is sublimely composed and exquisitely printed. The tonal range and depth in the image, plus the nicely seen 'prop' makes this the superior picture.
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thanks for that Don - I'm flattered - and thanks everyone else also
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My thoughts on cliches.
We need more of these types of thoughts in the world. Not just our little world here, but the world in general. Thanks Don, continue please to think away...