weekly SSU's TP52 for 2015

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Crowd.

Another bit of fun although a bit nearer the theme than last time.
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I spy a sense of humour in your work Martin...

I think it's a really inventive take on the theme. It took me a while to work out what was going on with the whole Chess thing, but I got there in the end. It's a bit mad and a bit crazy, but this is TP so that's kinda normal. Your cardboard modelling skills are brilliant. If someone gave me a box and said "make a guillotine" I'd be stumped.

Overall, I think the background lets it down a bit. It looks like you've tried to do something neutral but it's a bit creased and that detracts. Also, it looks like the White Balance could do with a tweak as there's a yellowish hue to the image. But that's technical stuff. Your subject matter and inventive approach makes up for it all.

I never thought I'd see a chess execution in response to this theme, so you're full of win before you begin.
 
Hi, well thats different, whose had the sticky back plastic out then :LOL:
I like these quirky ideas you have but wish you would spend a little more time on setting them up, it would be worth it I feel
BG and WB mentioned above
 
Harlequin565 said:
I spy a sense of humour in your work Martin...

I think it's a really inventive take on the theme. It took me a while to work out what was going on with the whole Chess thing, but I got there in the end. It's a bit mad and a bit crazy, but this is TP so that's kinda normal. Your cardboard modelling skills are brilliant. If someone gave me a box and said "make a guillotine" I'd be stumped.

Overall, I think the background lets it down a bit. It looks like you've tried to do something neutral but it's a bit creased and that detracts. Also, it looks like the White Balance could do with a tweak as there's a yellowish hue to the image. But that's technical stuff. Your subject matter and inventive approach makes up for it all.

I never thought I'd see a chess execution in response to this theme, so you're full of win before you begin.
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Over and over again the background let's me down, I must get the iron out one day.

alsjazzera said:
Hi, well thats different, whose had the sticky back plastic out then :LOL:
I like these quirky ideas you have but wish you would spend a little more time on setting them up, it would be worth it I feel
BG and WB mentioned above
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The problem with me spending more time on something, anything, is that the more I think about stuff, the messier it gets until I get to the stage where I start to think that whatever it is is an idea that no longer works and I give it up. My answer to this is to get things published ASAP and that's why I get photographs up here toute de suite. I suppose it's a way of jotting down an idea with the possibility of coming back to it in the future to refine it.

My general photography works much the same way. If I see something happening I take a picture. Immediately and without any messing about, I get it in the bag and then, if there is still time, I'll try to get a better picture. The important thing is though...first, get the picture.
 
Very imaginative!
WB and BG aside, I'd like to see a slightly lower angle.
We thought along similar lines this week! :-)
 
Very amusing Martin :thumbs:
Clever idea for the theme :)
 
Crowd: Oh very good Martin. :clap: .... re the BG, couldn't you have done a BG like in your Level shot? Or would that have meant a narrow DOF omitting too much detail? ... if you know what I mean.
 
viv1969 said:
Very imaginative!
WB and BG aside, I'd like to see a slightly lower angle.
We thought along similar lines this week! :)
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I have little room in my spare bedroom, there is only room for one person and to take photographs using a tripod is an exercise in acrobatics. I couldn't get any lower or my knees would have hit my tripod.

ChrisHeathcote said:
This made me chuckle. Maybe shooting through the pawns so that it looks like you're part do the crowd, just a thought. Well done all the same :)
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Same as above, just couldn't get any lower.

LC2 said:
Vive la Revolution indeed. Nice use of a Chess set there, it must've taken time to set up.
You do realise you're now on an MI5 watch list though, don't you?
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Lol, I expect the French Illuminati are getting a little suspicious too.

Cobra said:
Very amusing Martin (y)
Clever idea for the theme :)
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Thanks for that Cobra.

d00d said:
Crowd: Oh very good Martin. :clap: .... re the BG, couldn't you have done a BG like in your Level shot? Or would that have meant a narrow DOF omitting too much detail? ... if you know what I mean.
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See first reply in this post. The opposite is also true, to have used the Vertical background would have meant getting the chess about five foot in the air.

I really must iron my backgrounds.
 
HI Martin,

I love this! What a cracking idea, it really made me smile. I don't think I know enough to offer any kind of crit - ok the background is a tad creased, which is a pity, but as far as ideas go, this is great :clap: :clap:
 
Dem55 said:
HI Martin,

I love this! What a cracking idea, it really made me smile. I don't think I know enough to offer any kind of crit - ok the background is a tad creased, which is a pity, but as far as ideas go, this is great :clap: :clap:
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Thanks Lorraine, I promise my next background will not be creased...unless the theme is 'creased' in which case I'll have a big head start! :)
 
Le Roi est mort (bientot)- vive le Roi! Tres bein fait.
I may have liked to have seen a SDF macro shot, with the crowd blurred a little and the focus on the facial expression of the King..
Mais je suis <peut etre> en peut fou aussi?
 
Super idea. I would agree with the lower angle of shot but still great work again
 
Hi Martin


Crowd....fun take & some effort to set it up, I actually think it would make the viewer look & think harder without the post it notes ?

Mouth...all I can say is ....lol

Level...really like that , just enough of the top of the camera & lens sharp to make it totally recognisable & it's perfectly level (y) I quite like that you have the flash up as well.
 
CloseUp (1 of 1) by gorgon703, on Flickr

I took this 'selfie' over eleven years ago on the one occasion I shaved my beard off (wifey did not like it!). It is me, up close, naked and pretty personal.
 
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Hi Martin - I agree with Susie - the lighting & composition's spot on :) I like Tim's idea as well
 
Nice selfie Martin, great lighting too :thumbs:
 
Then and now has already been done in last years Challenge 52 with the theme 'Time':

Time here
 
CLOSE UP....... Agree with the others, great lighting.
 
Good selfie ... and yes I now remember your excellent TIME shot from last year.
 
No not grad filter, self-polarisation I suspect.

Ollie does give it a sense of scale but not a true sense as he is only about 20 yards away from me and the mast is over 100metres away and is 237 metres high.

I have seen men go up in a cage to service the very top. They don't go up the length of the mast but have a triangular winch system wherein they start from the ground about 200 metres away from the mast and then travel upwards at a about a 45 degree angle across empty space whilst swaying in the breeze. Better them than me that's for sure because if I tried that I would be a quaking mass of human flesh on the floor of the lift by the time I got to the top.
 
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I rather like that re-shoot, it works well, Martin.
Nice colours too, and the dog doesn't distract at all IMO :thumbs:
 
Nice-looking dog adds interest. Good reshoot.
 
Vertical re shoot is brilliant because of the dog. adds a great sense of scale
 
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