Ecnivs 52 Week (attempts)...

Hi ya

jus having a quick catch up on your thread & some really good images in here:thumbs:

Your PARADOX chicken n Egg is just superb , stunning ,can't really say any more :clap::clap:

Had to giggle at your chinese WRONG shot :lol: The car being filled is definately wrong on several levels & with that car will be very damm expensive :thumbs:

Great work in your thread , will try n pop by more often :thumbs:
 
blondie606 said:
The car being filled is definately wrong on several levels & with that car will be very damm expensive :thumbs:

Great work in your thread , will try n pop by more often :thumbs:
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Thanks :) around 70ukp for a full tank every 10-12 days...
More expensive if I'd put that petrol in lol


Will try to get a Promise piccy up soon...
 
:lol: fantastic idea for the theme .... now let's see how long it is before you relent on the promise :D

I like how you have included the web page of lenses in the background, and also the positioning of the text over our hand.

Well done on a creative idea.

Cheers

Dawn :)
 
Thanks


Wasn't quite right - Cleverer, more beautiful and brainy other half thinks it looks more like good luck on bidding :/

Original idea didn't work as I couldn't keep myself still enough... Was going to have my back with the hand behind, fingers crossed as 'I promise'...

Thought up another idea, but not sure whne I will get the chance to try it... bit more boring but I'll post in that weeks post once I have it.
 
ecniv said:
Thanks.

I still wasn't too happy so I put up the 'Promise of Rain' Clouds...
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Hiya ecniv,

Firstly, just an observation .... most of us doing the photo52 are on a first name basis now, after all we have been at this for a few weeks now ... and I like to call people by their names rather than username. I have always been intrigued and somewhat confused by your username, but today it 'dawned' on me ... are you by any chance called 'vince'? OMG I feel like a character out of Rumpelstiltskin asking that question ... but heyho in some way it adds to the theme, as in the storey the dwarf returned to claim his payment: "Now give me what you promised" :lol: Sorry .... a bit off topic but I had to ask :thinking:

Right, down to business .... and your second shot for 'promise' .... Clouds .... a subject very close to my heart as I absolutely love looking up at the sky and taking photos of these glorious formations, so .....

I hope you don't mind .... but I have done an edit of your photo to show what my ideas/thoughts are about the image (which I will explain below):

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I like the idea you had associated with the promise of rain, however the angle at which you have taken the shot, for me, doesn't work. Especially with the out of focus tree on the left, the white object just off centre and the roof ??? jutting out on the right, plus the trees on the horizon all slanting look very 'unnatural'.

I think clouds speak very much for themselves, and as a subject can convey a message without any foreground definition, hence why I straightened and cropped the image (for this I took the photo into Lightroom 3 .... not an application I use very often, but it does come in handy for such movement of a photo to get the right crop and straighten of an image). I suspect there is other software available to do same, but I don't have them, so made do with what I have.

Once I had the part of the photo that I wanted to work with, I took it into Picnik (where I feel comfortable) and with a few minor tweeks of exposure, colour and sharpness I then finished it with the border.

There are times where I take a photo .... and as much as I try to get the composition right in camera, it is not always possible. I don't know what lens you used to take this shot, but from my experience I find that my 18-55 lens doesn't get as close as I would like and so have to take wider shots and then crop ..... and I don't think there is anything wrong with that, especially if one can get the focus on the main point, which I think you have captured here.

Any cloud shots are always going to get my undivided attention, so I hope you don't mind me taking up so much space on your thread with this post. Your photo has proved a nice little challenge and learning experience for me too :thumbs: Thanks :)

BTW if you would like to see some of the cloud shots I have taken you can find them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystal_singer/sets/72157624152216489/

Cheers

Dawn :)
 
Great idea for Promise. Different to others and you have completed the set-up by having the bidding slightly out of focus - suggesting you aren,t involved in it but still looking on. Nice one.
 
Thanks Marts :)

Drodd... correct - takes people some time (sometimes) to figure that :D

I like your clouds edit. Tree wasn't out of focus, but was blowing in the breeze. Triple shot with Bracketing (an experiment) and then HDR'd them together. This was to see whether bracketing does infact add better detail/colour than a single Raw shot (exposed up and down in software and HDR'd).

Lens is the Tokina 11-16 at 11mm f8 I think.

Out the back window... I do (now) remember I wanted to crop the building on the right... ah well. :D

Must take more time in post processing.

Edit.. went and looked at your sky pictures... Puts this one to shame :/ yours are brill!
 
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ecniv said:
Thanks Marts :)

Drodd... correct - takes people some time (sometimes) to figure that :D

I like your clouds edit. Tree wasn't out of focus, but was blowing in the breeze. Triple shot with Bracketing (an experiment) and then HDR'd them together. This was to see whether bracketing does infact add better detail/colour than a single Raw shot (exposed up and down in software and HDR'd).

Lens is the Tokina 11-16 at 11mm f8 I think.

Out the back window... I do (now) remember I wanted to crop the building on the right... ah well. :D

Must take more time in post processing.

Edit.. went and looked at your sky pictures... Puts this one to shame :/ yours are brill!
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Hiya Vince

Glad you like the edit and hope you didn't mind me doing so.

Thank you for popping past to look at the link and for the comments about the photos :thumbs:

Cheers

Dawn :)
 
Like your first shot for promise... maybe the first picture i've ever seen with text added that I actually like! It's not an effect I normally like... but for a lot of reasons it works in your image!

Great work.

Mark
 
Hiya Vince,

Great take on the theme :thumbs:

Lovely piece of jewelery in the first shot. My eyes seem to be battling to find the focus point though, I think it may have to do with the lines left, right and bottom that are distracting my focus (perhaps it would be better to remove them ... I gather they must be from a box?). Shiny metal objects are always a bit tricky to light. I think that you have it right in places, but not in others where it seems a bit bright. How did you light the subject?

With the Twist mallow, I like how you have the focus on the word 'twist'. However I'm not too sure about the reflection. IMO it would work without a reflection at all (would look like the twist is floating) or have alternatively have a stronger reflection. I would also perhaps give a tiny bit more dark space on the right as you

The second photo of the Twist mallow .... I'm not sure about the wet bite marks on the end. Perhaps if you had left it just unwrapped, or cut a piece of the end (I'm trying to remember what these look like on the end when opened :thinking:) There is also something going on in the background on the left which is a tad distracting as I am trying to figure out what it is. For this shot I would have perhaps not included the wrapper .... just displayed the mallow twist.

I hope the above is not too critical, but rather constructive comments.

I like the thought process behind these two subjects, and for that well done.

Cheers

Dawn :)
 
Nope thats fine... Lines were because I rotated the pic and filled the gap... obviously not filled correctly and I didn't see the thin lines :/ Will fix tonight.

There wasn't much space to the right... but I can probably fake that ;)
Will try removing the reflection too, see how it looks.

Yeah the last one I wasn't sure about... Might just take that down and replace... Had another two thoughts for it. Obvious ones though so expect others have already done them.
 
Hiya Vince,

Defo improvement on the first image :thumbs:

Still not convinced about the reflection on the 2nd one though.

Like the latest image, tried something similar myself with the top of the toilet roll holder, but I just feel there is a bit too much bokeh that is slightly distracting and the composition doesn't appear quite right, perhaps too much dark space at the top and light reflection a tad too much at the top :shrug:

Cheers

Dawn :)
 
Hiya Vince, liking your 1st image and is better than the 1st version you had posted, which I saw but must have got side tracked. Like the picture of the flump, I would agree with Dawn about the reflection being stronger, or not there. I like the corkscrew, but I think it would give even more of an impact if you cropped it a bit tighter. 3 very good images:thumbs:
 
Hi Vince, I was late this week with my picture so just catching up with everyone elses. Didn't get to see your originals so can only comment on the ones here now. Your first twist shot looks the strongest to me but I feel that the theme could have been portrayed better using greater dof to include the twisted rope style of the jewellery.
Second image is fine but doesn't really do much for me, possibly because I've always had a dislike for marsh mallow.
Agree with Dawns comments on the third image re: dof and composition. I wonder if the image would sit better if reversed? Is it because we read left to right that we are more comfortable with an images lines running the same way?
 
ecniv,

I don't appear to have commented on your thread before, for which I'm sorry.
You're now on the subscribed list so I wont miss it again!

Now as for your pictures.......

You've some nice pictures, but the ones that are sticking out for me are:
- divided because of the nice blue sky and fluffy clouds
- first picture in twisted, the detail is good
- and hidden. It's a nice shot and reminds me of two books that I read to my children.
 
Hiya Vince,

I can see your 'hidden' idea ... not sure how hidden they are in the photo, but guess you had to search for them hidden amongst the leaves.

It does look a tad green, but that could be all the green leaves.

A nice little find though.

Well done

Cheers

Dawn :)
 
Week 26 - Sensual


...Couldn't find a statue... yet.

Still couldn't find that statue...

Sensual by KatiaUK, on Flickr
This will have to do for now ;)


Edit : Added in Aug 2011 - from a recent trip to Paris

Week 26 - Sensual by KatiaUK, on Flickr
 
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Week 27 - Elaborate

Well, not sure this fills it properly, but will do for now. Might add a second later...


Elaborate... Chrome, engine...?


Mustang by KatiaUK, on Flickr

Edit : Added in Aug 2011 - from a recent trip to Paris

Week 27 - Elaborate by KatiaUK, on Flickr


Elaborate how engines go by KatiaUK, on Flickr
From MOSI in Manchester - Sept 22 2011
 
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wow!!!...elaborate is cooooll... love the blurred background that really punches the car out of the photo :thumbs: beautiful colour as well .. good capture!
 
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