Lynton's 52 for 2010 - Week 29 "Grace"

Your chemistry shot works great too. It never occured to me to tell a story with the theme like a proper experiment. My only crit would be the angles from the table look messy. Id like to see it either shot from the same angle or on a bigger table so there are no edges in the frame.
 
Iain,

I have absolutely NO idea what you mean :lol: also I cannot understand why Damien didn't get ANY shots like this last Thursday.......... little green men everywhere - obviously have a thing for windmills.....

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I must confess though to a couple of years back, myself and a very good friend, after consuming about half of Spains Rioja production decided one night about 11pm that it would be a fantastic idea to set off a few (8!) Chinese lanterns of varying size (up to about 4 ft!)

Next day on local news "reports of lots of bright lights flying in formation, heading towards Wroxham" and some "scared loocals" - "hit were really waird, there were these lights in the sky and it looked like lasers were being fired. My dog was right upset!!!!"




23rd - get your ar$e out there for 9! Thanks for the comments. I know what you mean about the table, though, and yuo are crrect, but with the tripod set up and tables available was the best I could do --- sits here - looking at a similar table but twice the size ---- :bang:

Other alternative was to use parents dining room table - which dates from the realm of William IV - and if I went anywhere near that with a can of Coke - I would be shot........... may give it another go though as it is messy!

I liked the idea of telling the story and from seeing a quadtych here last week in someones 52, it all came together.........
 
Who cares about tables when you've captured undeniable proof of alien life!
 
:lol: Nice one Lynton keep up the good work:thumbs:
Is Norfolk the new area 51?
 
Is Norfolk the new area 51?
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Must be. Parts of it are just "waird!" The MOD have a huge area cordoned off down near Thetford (Stanta training ground.... alledgedly!) :shrug:

undeniable proof of alien life!
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At least as convincing as a small out of focus green blob as per blakesters link...:lol:..... must have been a slow news day in Downham Market.... (or wherever it was!)

Back on topic - I will redo it, sometime soon on a proper sized table - as looking at it again I agree the lines are a tad annoying!
 
Back on topic Lynton, I like your chemistry shot, its simple, it tells a story, its on theme and it works. All round :thumbs: from me.
 
Nice idea. Another Coke instructional manual. Does the trick along with the write up but as an image on its own it's not grabbing me and giving me a good shake (ho ho!).
 
as an image on its own it's not grabbing me
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Yeah - fair point - not one for the wall really is it? I just wanted another angle on Chemistry other than loads of people "loved up".....:lol:

Hopefully next weeks challenge will allow a bit more creativity to create a relly nice photo !
 
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Yeah - fair point - not one for the wall really is it? I just wanted another angle on Chemistry other than loads of people "loved up".....:lol:

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Deep down you're an old romantic really :love:! Aren't you Lynton?
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yeah.......... getting Mum her mothers day flowers from Tesco's tomorrow. Will be 80% off!

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B&W version of play for me too Lynton.
Sorry - but the selective colour really isn't doing anything for me :(

I'd choose the B&W over the full colour because I think there's actually better distinction between the different elements. I love the low angle and the oof grass in the foreground. That just seems to stand out so much better in the B&W version.


Chemistry is a really good interpretation - and I love the schoolboy write-up. That really takes me back a few years (OK. A lot more than a few :lol:)

I hadn't realised that cleaning coins in Coke actually worked, but clearly it does as the storyboard composition shows so well.
Photographically, I would like to see a bit more consistency in background & angles and the reflections on the back of the table are a bit distracting.
All of that's been said already though - and on balance I really like this interpretation for what it is :thumbs:
 
Thanks Sarah................

Totally agree with the comments about consistency of background! Schoolboy error!!! :lol:

Candid could be a tad trickier though!!!..........

Maybe am going to have to set up the 120-400 towards the 400 end of the range on a tripod at the end of Gentleman's Walk in Norwich and focus on someone at the other end!!!!

I don't really do people that well!!!!
 
Hmm,

Not too sure when candid was picked this week. To me, candid photography is generally something where the subjects know they are being photographed, but they are photographed in an uncomposed informal way...... the best examples I can think of this is generally a 2nd togger at a wedding, capturing some candid images, whilst the lead togger does the "proper" stuff......:lol:

Not being in that position I couldn't really do anything like that, so was out and about in Norwich today armed with the camera and 17-70mm.

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I'm going to have a try with something else at the weekend, which will end up being semi staged I guess......... but C&C from ALL welcome.
 
That says candid to me Lynton, and street, and people as well:)
A great image with a lot going on in the scene, so much to look at.
The expression on the old boys face says "naff off and leave me to eat my chips in peace" "enough already pointing a camera at me"

Again well done Lynton, and a gold star for posting so early:thumbs:
Iain
 
blakester said:
That says candid to me Lynton, and street, and people as well:)
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That's because it's a candid photo of some people in a street!! :lol:

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A great image with a lot going on in the scene, so much to look at
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Which I think is what's bugging me....too busy, but a simple crop could fix that. Go on, do it Lynton, you know you love posting edits of your originals!! ;)

Good on you for getting it in so early, and well done for getting something like this at all, I know you struggle with this sort of stuff so big :clap: to you!
 
Ooops, I didn't realise you'd posted Candid (in my head, Week 11 hasn't even started yet!) so I've scrolled over it very, very quickly and will come back to it when/if I get mine done.

Chemistry: Excellent idea and I love the writing up of the experiment. I can't believe people drink coin-cleaning fluid. Is it legal? :eek:

Jean
 
I actually like the real hustle and bustle and general busy shot.

What ties it all together is the chap eating his chips looking at the camera. It's almost like a 'where's wally' shot so it makes your eye search the shot to see who has noticed the camera and why hasn't everyone else!

:thumbs::thumbs: Two thumbs fresh!
 
Thanks Guys, (and Girls)

Yep this one just HAD to be B&W, I cannot do tartan shopping trollies..........:lol:

Love the analogy of Where's Wally/ Who's looking at the camera???????? :)

Am I cropping it? No. But if you want to, or anyone else, go ahead.......
 
It works very well Lynton, I like it. All looks candid except the old man in the middle who's got you spotted ... ;)
 
Candid is a corker. Love the expression on the elderly gent's face - chip fork halfway to mouth.

Also like the lady bottom left who is clearly trying to shuffle her barse ackwards so she has a bit more room on the bench. B&W processing works a treat.

:thumbs:

Ian.
 
jeangenie said:
Ooops, I didn't realise you'd posted Candid (in my head, Week 11 hasn't even started yet!) so I've scrolled over it very, very quickly and will come back to it when/if I get mine done.


Jean
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Well done on getting this done early - the weather was pants later in the week. :D

This is a fascinating glimpse of people just being people. Loads of characters - the lady foreground left, the couple eating their chips (the woman still clinging on to her Tesco shopping bag!), people just staring into the distance, lost in thought and others striding along in a hurry to get somewhere. Black and white ws a good choice because it draws attention to the stars of the shot - the people, without distractions. I really love it. :clap::clap::clap:

Jean


Jean
 
Funnily enough Lynton the Mrs and a few friends of mine had the same experience with the Chinese lanterns when they set them off a few years back. I think they all still have a copy of the newspaper clipping each. :lol:

Anyway, back to photography. I really found the Street theme a struggle but here you are out there doing street photography for Candid too. Ended up with a great result to you lucky so and so. I quite like the fact the old fella is the only one to have caught you in the act and has a look that says, what's so interesting about me and my chips? well done.
 
Hmmm, well had an idea with this one when the title of "produce" came up, but rural Norfolk is not the industrial north, and quite far and few between in manufacturing / processing industries.

I wanted a factory, ideally in Production - after all factories produce things don't they?

Options were

a) Lotus though they get a bit tetchy if you go anywhere near Hethel with a camera - let alone a long lens on a tripod.

b) Bayer Crop Science - again they are a bit sensitive about people photographing their site for some reason

c) so Cantley sugarbeet factory it was.

Picked Slimbert up on the way (he's not a well bunny, so be gentle with him!) and went down there for some long exposure at night stuff.......

However, weather was not too kind to us - moonlight was very hazy and clouded and it would appear that the 2009-2010 sugar beet "Campaign" has finished, as no clouds of steam in the air, and no sickly sweet smell of sugar beet pulp.

So in a nutshell, a production plant, producing nothing....... :shrug:

One to revisit when

a) It gets going again

b) they finish doing whatever they are doing to the riverbank, so can get some nice shots without chainlink temporary fencing.........

C&C welcome from all as always........


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and a B&W one....... be rude not to!

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My sensor and / or lens needs a scrub with the brillo pad and a bit of bleach! Filthy!
 
Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the pavement... That's not right.... Oh well... Never mind...

Thumbs up for having an idea, and getting out to shoot it. Such a shame they weren't producing. The thought was there though, so looking at the shot on its own merits...

I like it. Nice composition, very nice reflection.

I prefer the colour version though.

Ian.
 
Great idea, mate. I like both versions, but they're a bit on the soft side and feel you could possibly lose a little foreground?
 
Great idea for 'production' - I don't think it matters that they weren't actually producing at that particular moment in time - artistic license and all that :)

I like the colour version best particularly with the night sky, lights and reflections :clap:
 
A very interesting idea Lynton, I agree with Liz, it doesn't matter they weren't producing. I like the mono version more gritty, and I feel that works better, although the colour of the sky is great.
 
Cheers guys - yeah maybe a little soft looking at it.............hope its not a result of me dropping the body and camera the other day, and it was due to the weather being pants!

It was definately a "statue" evening and not the "pigeon" evening!
 
Another one who doesn't care whether it was producing or not - if you hadn't told us I would never have known.

Of the two DEFINITELY the colour one for me.
I love the contrast of the warm yellowish lights against the beautiful blue sky and river.
Reflections have come out brilliantly too.

On the composition side, I think you could afford to lose a touch of foreground - in fact I think I'd like to see this in a traditional landscape orientation to get a bit more in on either side.

I hope you do get back there to reshoot because it looks a great location.

(p.s. fingers crossed that bit of softness is a touch of tripod wobble and not a camera failure :eek:)
 
Candid - I love it! The expression of the old guy who has just spotted you is priceless. The busyness suits the subject matter - I would just be tempted to crop a little off the top, to lose the jeweller's sign. Or put a black border around the whole pic - at the moment I feel there is too much bright stuff at the top, distracting the eye from all the people.

The night shot of the factory works really well, with lovely colours. The slight softness doesn't bother me as the reflections on the ground make it quite clear that it is wet, and the overall misty atmosphere seems very suitable for a factory working at night (even if it wasn't really!)
 
Really like your candid shot and works really well in B&W.
For your Produce shot I prefer the colour version it just gives it a bit more life
 
Sarah,

Yeah agree that a landscape would work much better however, just left of where we were, was some temporary chainlink fencing and sort of construction work, which looked so wrong...... definately one for going back to........

Tracer,

Thanks for comments...... on Candid and Produce. I may well go have a play in photoshop and teach myself borders....... my quick and dirty way would be to open a new canvas (slightly larger than the image), paint it black and then dump the image on top, or is there a more refined way? May have a look at cropping it, but once Damien had suggested cropping, I flat blank refused to do so!

As for the "ground" in front of the factory looking wet, yep, it's actually a river :lol: (river Yare) so very wet, and not seen it that high for a while either......

Definately a location once October comes and

a) the hour gfoes off - damn these light evenings for those of us who like nighttime stuff
b) they finish the construction work and remove the fence
c) start the factory up again.

Wonder what Week 13 will bring?
 
Full marks for perseverence to get this shot, Lynton. And it was worth it - especially the colour version. As other people have said, the warmth of lights and the reflections on the wet ground make it. I bet the slight softness is the dampness and low light levels. :)

Jean
 
Getting to be a bit of a habit this, getting in early lark......... rather than the scrabbling round to the last minute.

Well I now know the difference between a Triptych and a Collage,:lol: (it's to do with Borders or lack of apparantly ;))

- well Ladies and Gentlemen of Talk Photography, let me introduce you to a Quadtych. (don't look for it in a dictionary, as that word only exists in this thread I think. My thread. My rules. Like it or click on back!) However if Tri or Trip (tryp) is 3, then Quad is 4, Quadbike, Quadruped, Quadtych........ just wait for the Octacontatych (80) - ah ok that will be a "contact sheet" on my printer then.........

Here it is - Let Rip as you see fit..........

Special note to Damian. No I am not going to crop it, show a colour version, split tone it (tired that, purple snowdrops are just wrong!) resize it, invert it, boost or lose contrast / brightness :razz: :lol::lol::lol:


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C&C welcome from ALL whatever ability. Harsh as you like. I am thick skinned. Tell me as it is. I don't do "fluffing up."


first time the siggy 50mm f2.8 Macro was used for it's intended purpose (and not a 50mm prime!!!) DOF is so small in the macro world isn't it!
 
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That mate, is a belter!! :clap: Best of your 52 so far and no mistake!!

If I was going to be picky (which I always am), I'd say your borders need to be a tad thicker, but that's being really picky.....it's lovely as it is!! :thumbs:
 
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