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Random Pictures By:
Linda
Bique
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There are 17 Comments in 1 Pages
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jack reid
{K:398} 2/12/2008
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Nice photo....
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soul 21
{K:24893} 2/12/2008
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una gioia di colori...
a raccontare la morbida luce...
bentornata
ciao
gennaro
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Larry Fosse
{K:65776} 2/12/2008
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A 5D no less...superb low light presentation...excellent muted colors...you gunna be around a bit, here and the other place?
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Linda Bique
{K:73886} 2/12/2008
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It's always so good to hear from you Larry! These are the first shots with the 5D and I do like it very much. I took this from a cruise ship, so it's not the best vantage point, I do think a lower perspective would have been a bit better, nevertheless I do like the image. I hope all is well with you and your family!! :)
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Larry Fosse
{K:65776} 2/12/2008
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Just so you don't think I'm snubbing you we're off on a Winter vacation to warmer places this afternoon...If I stumble over an internet connection I can stay active
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Linda Bique
{K:73886} 2/12/2008
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Oh wonderful, have a great time!!! See you when you return! :)
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Gust@vo Sch3v3rin
{K:118786} 2/12/2008
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Bello contraluz, muy buena la exposición y los colores.
Bravo mi querida amiga!
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Alison DuFlon
{K:35904} 2/13/2008
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Wonderful shot with beautiful colors, that gold water is amazing. Welcome back on Linda. Alison
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Dave Stacey
{K:115782} 2/13/2008
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Very nice lighting and colour here, Linda!
Dave.
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Paolo Corradini
{K:50745} 2/13/2008
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great use of colours! another good one! ciao
PAOLO
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Marian Man
{K:64523} 2/13/2008
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marvelous!!!!!
so fine colors and light dear Linda!!!!!
so well composed and presented!!! bravo!!!!
all the best
MArian
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Erland Pillegaard
{K:21692} 2/15/2008
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nice shot again
erland
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:92493} 3/10/2008
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Very crispy details on both water and sky, Linda! Especially the clouds have shape and form instead of just being some fuzzy things around, and this makes the depth very well tangible. Under that vivid coloring of the two main zones with almost complementary colors the details get even more impressive. Very well balanced exposure for a live view of the happenigs!
Nick
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Linda Bique
{K:73886} 3/10/2008
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I'm glad you like this one Nick. As I read more and more of your intellectual and technical comments I realize that you are very LEFT brained, but you are talking to someone here who is very RIGHT brained. I think more with my feelings than my brain when it comes to pictures, art, photography....and so many other things.
I see you are a scientist, and I can see why, you are very contemplative, inquisitive and intelligent, you do indeed have a good brain. I am a nurse, and when in that role I have to be that way too, but photography for me is *art*. I enjoy simplicity and beauty, I find peace and comfort in that, versus taking care of a critically ill patient. I enjoy color and light and freedom versus the serious limitations of disease and all the rest of the sadness that goes on all around the world. Photography is exciting and fun, yes it can be work too, And yes I want to get the technicals right, and I strive to learn and get better, because I don't think you can do anything with a bad picture, but with a good picture you can play with mood and effect. I like mood and effects.
We are a diverse world of cultures, and we all bring something unique about us to our pictures and this gift of photography. I like the openness of it, the idea that my picture is mine and I can do whatever I want with it. I enjoy viewing the work here that I see, and when I look at it, I see the person behind it, and I see another way of seeing things, and I love that. I think we all grow from that.
I also think your comments are good because they do the same thing they make one think whether they like it or not and the mind has been exposed to other ideas. So it is good to explore, but I want you to know I am a stubborn German, (in my family we blame all of our strengths and weaknesses on that...smirk) and I just want to do it my way!!...:) But I will always listen with an open mind and I'm sure I will be a better photographer because of that...thank you again Nick..:)))
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:92493} 3/11/2008
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Talking about the "technical things", Linda, doesn't have to do anything at all with being "left brained", "right brained", or even wrong brained. And id doesn't have to do with culture or similar things. It has to do with reality, optics. The underlying physics will not change. These are the tools that one has to master first before proceeding to the steps of catching moods and atmospheres. The mood is not some kind of ghost flying over our heads. It is generated in mind according to what the image shows, how it has been captured, etc.
The greatest photographers did catch the mood and the atmosphere, but they did that using real existing things and they always use the translational means that allow to make a convertion from the *what* is wished to be captured to *how* it must be captured in order to project moods and atmosphere on a rectangular frame. Were they also all scientists, technicians, and the like?
This process of projection is the weakest link. We may have endless many impressions and moods, but they are perfect only in our mind. The hard part of it is not to have them. It is to put them on that frame. Exactly like having some mood and wanting to translate it into the words of a poem, or the notes of a song. That's the reason why 8 billions om human beings have all the moods and feelings, but only a small part of them are poets, musicians, composers, movie makers, and so also photographers.
If we keep on talking so much about our "artistic attitudes" then we prove, if anything at all, that we have moods and feelings. Great deal, isn't it? Everybody has that! But this is a photography forum and as such there has to be a dispute focused on the means, the tools, the skills that allow us wannabes to make as good an approximation of some impression that we had using photography.
Great images are materialized impressions and moods but that materialization is harder to achieve than perception. Or else 8 billions of human beings just get a camera and are automatically great photographers just because they have moods.
Hey, I'm a master of photography already because I have moods - so what am I doing here? ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Linda Bique
{K:73886} 3/12/2008
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Yes it does have to do with optics and reality, but Nick this argument/debate/discussion is exactly what a right brained person would do. You are basing everything you say on FACTS no one can argue with that, certainly not me.
Wrong brained, haha..sorry you're killing me...:)
Yes, I agree that one has to master technicals first, absolutely agree..you can't do a lot with a bad image. And yes the mood is generated in the mind, (not a ghost fly-by)..smirk! For example, when I saw that lone bird on the wire, it grabbed me (and btw it had nothing to do with me), I saw a small bird alone on a long empty wire, in the big space of the sky. It wasn't the technicals that mattered to me, it was capturing that same feeling that it gave me and putting it on paper. Period. I think I did that.
Nick I can't debate optics and physics, that's just way over my head. Guess I'm no-brained..*grin*. I can see a quality image versus a poor quality image, I know what lens to use, I have a good idea of the aperture I want to use for a given image, and know to bracket if I'm not sure, I know about ISO, shutter speeds, exposure compensation....light, etc...and the more pics I take the more I learn, and hopefully the better I become.
No not everyone is an artist or a poet. I think of myself as an amateur photographer, nothing more. I am here on UF to share my images, and because I enjoy interacting with other photographers, I've learned so much just by looking at what others have done...always a pleasure Nick.
Have a good night...:)) Linda
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:92493} 3/18/2008
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Let's not consider our own moods so important, Linda! The world doesn't run on them. The thing is that everybody seems to be loaded with the wish to "share" some kind of "message" but only the fewest will take care to analyse and understand their own message. So they use symbolics, psycho-bubble, and anything else, that simply didn't explain anything at all since about 350 years. And the message gets never received simply because of the heavy usage of all that kind of "symbolic" instead of simply saying what ine has to say through the image.
That thing of right and left rains is just another modern myth and nothing more. Do we care to read some more about the mathematical proceedings of brain description, or do we remain at myths oroginated somewhere in the time of the Cro-Magnon?
It is quite a sign of maturity to consider the own self not as some "naturally born artist". I also think that we should avoid that understanding of ourselves as being automatically "called" to expose the products of our moods to public. Then we are much more able to absorb the knowledge that is produced by all other people that do care to learn too.
As about your period about the way you took this, or other ones... Did you ever think also about the fact that accumulated knowledge in fact *is* able to produce that kind of intuitive "feel" of what and how to shoot? Perhaps you do possess already enough of it in order to be able to immediately see what many other would not eben notice? And so thewhole process of thinking happens in such an accelerated tempo that you don't have to really analyze the small details completely? Any musician after some years of active playing would really say to you the same: "I just know what to play when I play some unknown song with some other guys." But that "I just know" is the result of a long time of dedication, hard work, but also fun, that you seem to also have done.
So, right minds and left minds and whatever else. Intuition comes, but it doesn't come out of vacuum, I guess. Or just show some "intuitive graphics interface" of a modern computer some inhabitant of the rainforests and tell me what the reaction will be. ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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