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Originally posted by UmmiE + 1 Totally agree with you.

Cool, i felt like i was taking crazy pills.

Unlike Journey, night is fairly limited unless it's like a breathtaking shot of something from your dreams...

I mean, Mine has an invisible car!

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Originally posted by Chris Crossland People walking at night?

Seriously thats what im posting when i get home

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Originally posted by Chris Crossland Cool, i felt like i was taking crazy pills. Unlike Journey, night is fairly limited unless it's like a breathtaking shot of something from your dreams... I mean, Mine has an invisible car!

I know.....Night could be anything....Just like " Sunny Day "...Do you want the sun....clouds, beaches,parks,fucking flowers too.....

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Originally posted by Import [QUOTE]Originally posted by Chris Crossland People walking at night?/QUOTE] Seriously thats what im posting when i get home

lol

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Originally posted by UmmiE I know.....Night could be anything....Just like " Sunny Day "...Do you want the sun....clouds, beaches,parks,fucking flowers too.....

It's way to vague for nefardec to say

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his photo actually gets at what 'night' is about.

Give me another picture other than someone sleeping AT night (shit it just as well could have been day time) that will define "night".

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Originally posted by Import Seriously thats what im posting when i get home

Here we go, i wish i had a camera that could take half decent night shots

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Originally posted by Import Here we go, i wish i had a camera that could take half decent night shots

blur is your friend



it also makes your pictures look like crap!
/does work better if you put time into it

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Originally posted by Chris Crossland I'm not understanding. Night is night. What kind of friggin pictures are you looking for? People walking at night? City lights at night. I dunno...maybe im looking at it the wrong way.

I was referring to the jackasses posting daytime pics. I have no issues of people posting pics of cities at nights.

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Originally posted by mezzir blur is your friend [IMGhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v408/mezzir/lessblur.gif[/IMG] it also makes your pictures look like crap! /does work better if you put time into it

Ah i like that, i'll have to try it when i have time

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Originally posted by Import Ah i like that, i'll have to try it when i have time

Duplicate layer, then apply a gaussian blur to the top layer, then set the opacity to 30ish%. for that one i made a quick mask, its 100% opacity around the dark areas to remove the grain. That said, its a cheap trick that photoshop pros will easily recognize so its it sparingly and tastefully

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Originally posted by Chris Crossland I'm not understanding. Night is night. What kind of friggin pictures are you looking for? People walking at night? City lights at night. I dunno...maybe im looking at it the wrong way.

You can get really creative with this theme. Examples here: http://www.jpgmag.com/themes/21

Of course your regular Joe isn't going to go out at night and shoot those kinds of shots unless they already had the intention of capturing the essence of night or creating some sort of mood/theme (vampires or ghouls for example).

I'm surprised nobody posted a club pic yet. That to me represents night time very well.

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Originally posted by eRRaTiK I'm surprised nobody posted a club pic yet. That to me represents night time very well.

daft punk

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Originally posted by Chris Crossland Ok, what do you do at night? Sleep. If you want pictures of people sleeping than make that the theme. Yeah it's at night you want a picture of a couple fucking? Cause it's probably night time.

there are a lot of things that you can do at night, so why are there so many that are the same?

my point was that everyone posts the same kind of urban landscapes and street shots. i wipe my ass with these there are so many in nyc


but why do you have to look at it as "what do you do at night". if you think this way you're always only ever going to be taking pictures of people doing shit at night, never taking photos that just scream, bellow, ooze, whisper, mutter "NIGHT"... know what I mean?

it's like the difference between a facebook photo and an artistic photographic portrait

just sayin'



edit - bananas' photo is not just a picture of someone sleeping. it captures the essence of sleep (which seems to be his way of taking on a broad theme like 'night')

-horizontal composition gives a sense of gravity, return to a basic state
- focus, lack of perspective, lack of context give dreamlike quality
- close up shows vulnerability
- shadow on character in foreground's eyes make it difficult to tell whether or not she is asleep/awake, which gives it more meaning i see a tiny crack of eye - why is she not asleep all the way? there is an obvious dialogue between the two figures, the one in the foreground is like a soliloquy

overall it is just composed so carefully, with a strong underlying grid and careful proportions, not to mention the beautiful tonality and the masterful focus. the focus here can be a narrator and tell a story almost - it becomes the voice of the photo, like giving a megaphone to one of the characters

it's not just a picture of sleeping people. it's a picture of SLEEP, it really is making a comment on sleep, (beauty of sleep, mystery of dreams, etc)


the main problem i have is when a photo doesn't take a stand, doesn't have some sort of bias or metaphorical lens, giving the viewer a new way of looking at something. I love photography which defamiliarizes and then refamiliarizes. photography that takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary.

a lot of these photos just are pictures of something already extraordinary, and they simply render it ordinary...

I would consider this to be more of an amateur competition, anyway. I could count on one, maybe two hands the number of professional photographers on TA, let alone in the COR. I expect good-looking stuff in these threads, but I only expect a finite selection from certain individuals to be exceptional let alone conceptual.

given the fact that it's an amateur competition, i expect that everyone should be able to learn something from everyone else, and I'm just sharing what little experience I have in the arts. maybe it will give someone a new way of looking at photography, i don't know

i just find it a little lame to post vacation pics and stuff in any photography competition

carry on

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Originally posted by nefardec given the fact that it's an amateur competition, i expect that everyone should be able to learn something from everyone else, and I'm just sharing what little experience I have in the arts. maybe it will give someone a new way of looking at photography, i don't know...

Touche.

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Originally posted by 3F05Q I'm amending my entry to this:

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnzip


not really artistic but he was breaking up with his girlfriend and that face he was wearing was "i so dont give a shit make this quick"


camera shutter too cold to open


freal!


in the desert


in the desert tooh


IAF


and a fav... through my friend's aviators

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Originally posted by Leon wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnzip [IG]http://photos-h.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v142/188/23/502732219/n502732219_161919_9177.jpg[/IMG] not really artistic but he was breaking up with his girlfriend and that face he was wearing was "i so dont give a shit make this quick" [IM]http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v195/188/23/502732219/n502732219_402037_5745.jpg[/IMG] camera shutter too cold to open [IG]http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v66/188/23/502732219/n502732219_37042_2413.jpg[/IMG] freal! [IM]http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v67/188/23/502732219/n502732219_32853_8427.jpg[/IMG] in the desert [IM]http://photos-g.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v67/188/23/502732219/n502732219_32934_1086.jpg[/IMG] in the desert tooh [IM]http://photos-219.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v57/188/23/502732219/n502732219_9704_4679.jpg[/IMG] IAF [IM]http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v57/188/23/502732219/n502732219_10008_7666.jpg[/IMG] and a fav... through my friend's aviators

can't you read ? or you retarded ?

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Originally posted by stren can't you read ? or you retarded ?

this thread is going to shit

/fail

nefardec is a dick and shouldn't be allowed to post back in this thread unless he has an image to submit.

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Originally posted by stren can't you read ? or you retarded ?

god i laughed so hard at this
and nefardec thanks for your words :] i fully agree with you, although that pic was kind of a "lucky shot" for me :]

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Originally posted by shapes /fail nefardec is a dick and shouldn't be allowed to post back in this thread unless he has an image to submit.

lol

dick for a dick i see

sorry i care about art

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Originally posted by stren can't you read ? or you retarded ?

Maybe he's SO retarded that he CAN read he's just TOO retarded to WANT to read capslockcapslockcapslock.

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Originally posted by stren can't you read ? or you retarded ?

bloody oath!

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