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alessandro reggiani
{K:4389} 8/26/2007
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I think at the very cold water !!!! a true viking man !!!
good shot with wonderful colour of the water.
now I am leaving for holiday , I hope and think that when I come back I?ll find a lot of beautiful picture from you
alessandro
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55797} 8/26/2007
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THank you Alessandro. Have a wonderful vacation full of good experiences and hopefully some good motives for you to shoot:-)
Take care of yourself
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:126236} 8/27/2007
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It's nice in its rather limited DoF that still allows the perspective to be seen, Annemette. The sharpness and contrast on the person do separate it form the rest of the uniform (and thus stranger?) scene. The pure strangeness of the image might be enhanced by living only the water there. (See attachment too).
Here, perhaps, it is more understandable what perspective and depth is able to do, even if the DoF itself is not as large.
All the best,
Nick
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55797} 8/28/2007
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As so often before this was a photo were I needed to act fast. Suddenly the man was there walking in the freezing Eastern sea, and I grabbed my camera! Not much time to think other than I really wanted the cliffs and trees in the back to be part of the photo showing that this indeed wasn´t in a tropical island:-)
Your crop makes it more "clean" to look at. Your crop makes me think that I should indeed have taken it differently in the sense of leaving out the sky that is burnt out and uninteresting to look at. Still I would incluse the rocks, so I prefer the middleway. Thanks a lot for your help.
Annemette
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:126236} 8/28/2007
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I see. Thanks heavens the crop is also possible after your usual big hurry and business on shooting time, or was then any subsequent hurry after the first hurry?
The rocks do not really tell me that it is a land in the north. Many Greek coasts look for instance quite the same. Or let's say they looked this way before the fires of this summer came :-( But they put some limiting horizon onto the view, which helps define the finite depth of the water surface, much like a plane or reference. Without them it's rather somebody in infinity, more or less. Those are the two extreme possibilities of approach, each of them with its own strengths.
Best wishes,
Nick
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55797} 8/28/2007
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Let me answer that in a hurry...well some photos just can´t be taken if not prepared to move fast. Of course buildings and plants don´t run around corners making you chase them, but my motives are often movable- I´d better chain up my motives and my daughter and dog the next time I shoot having them around. Even better! I´ll chain up myself and sit there for ages waiting for a slow motive passing me maybe a turtle or some of the many killersnails that I train;-)
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Okay so there are also many coastlines in Greece with this colour rocks and the pinetrees? Ókay for me it was just special because we don´t have rocks in Denmark.
Ciao amigo
Annemette
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:126236} 8/29/2007
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Again hurrying up? Sorry to hear that. Hope that you'll have some more time in future.
But instead of chaining up this and that there is a much better method. Why not mastering the camera and its possibilities for fast rections to the endth degree? Being prepared to move fast, as you say, should include that, much like Mr. Eddie Van Halen that seems to be always prepared for fast action. (See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfMKwwSDWzM at 2:24 !!!) But that took him some few years of playing consciously through the night, excercizing, learning what this and that sounds like, etc. Same goes for anything and so for cameras too.
Of course this can be only possible if the camera does offer such possibilities like shortcuts and the like, but I have more and more the impression that the already mentioned menu hunting interface of modern cameras does not do much else than "looking nice" :-( Quite the opposite of Eddies self-made guitar, so to say, that looks terribly nice and also allows the guitarist to quickly change sounds by just turning a single volume knob. Just a few adjustments but designed with the guitarist on stage in mind, that has to adjust the sound and at the same time play/jump/sing/whatever. Perhaps the camera designers will notice the perfect analogy... A fast and seemless interface that really sticks on our fingers is technologically perfectly feasible but they should think more of the real world photographer than of the real world computer guy.
About the coastal lines in Greece, well yes, there are endless many such views there, or as already said, perhaps there *were* many such ones before the big fires of this summer turned a good third of the land to ashes. Thanks heavens the region where my city lies is still green with the pines growing just a few meters from the sea on the rocks.
Greetings,
Nick
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