[SI] Lines and Interestions is available for viewing (and critiquing...)

On 2010-03-07 18:44:02 -0800, Paul Furman said:

Savageduck wrote:
Paul Furman said:

Tree Hacked around power lines
Ha! That's by far the worst I've seen, but I guess if it works it
works. Funny there's a replacement pole lying on the ground.

PG&E gave up on it 3 days after I took the shot. The tree is gone.

What the hell? It looked solved to me.

Me too.
I guess if you let PG&E play with a chain saw you are going to get bad
decisions made.

It had been that way for years, and I always thought of it as one of
the local characters, now to be mourned.

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Regards,

Savageduck

On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:27:47 -0500, Bowser wrote:

The latest gallery of the world famous Shoot-In is now posted and
available for viewing. It includes, God forbid, a submission by
AniBrett (which looks like scanned film..?).

Enjoy:

http://www.pbase.com/shootin/linesintersections


Look in your other pocket. I sent in three Sunday afternoon.


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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

On 8 Mar 2010 01:22:04 GMT, ray wrote:

On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:27:47 -0500, Bowser wrote:

The latest gallery of the world famous Shoot-In is now posted and
available for viewing. It includes, God forbid, a submission by AniBrett
(which looks like scanned film..?).

Enjoy:

http://www.pbase.com/shootin/linesintersections

Just wondering - what is an "interestion"?

It's what one must, somehow, some way, drag up from the very furthest
depths of one's soul if they want to go look at this shoot-in's tripe.

LOL!

On 2010-03-07 18:44:02 -0800, Paul Furman said:

Savageduck wrote:
Paul Furman said:

Tree Hacked around power lines
Ha! That's by far the worst I've seen, but I guess if it works it
works. Funny there's a replacement pole lying on the ground.

PG&E gave up on it 3 days after I took the shot. The tree is gone.

What the hell? It looked solved to me.

Reconsidering the fate of that pine, it had been growing that way for
many years and was somewhat off balance. I have no knowledge of its
actual condition, just its quaint shape. On one side there was the
potential to fall into Nacimiento Lake Drive, and on the other it
threatened an almond orchard. So there was probably more to the
decision to bring it down, than sensitivity to my feeling of loss.

It just looks kind of odd now seeing that stump. I am sorry to see it go.


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Regards,

Savageduck

"ray" wrote in message
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On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:27:47 -0500, Bowser wrote:

The latest gallery of the world famous Shoot-In is now posted and
available for viewing. It includes, God forbid, a submission by AniBrett
(which looks like scanned film..?).

Enjoy:

http://www.pbase.com/shootin/linesintersections

Just wondering - what is an "interestion"?

Can't say. Top secret. Sorry.

I'll add them tonight when I get home...

"Russell D." wrote in message
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On 03/07/2010 05:27 PM, Bowser wrote:
The latest gallery of the world famous Shoot-In is now posted and
available for viewing. It includes, God forbid, a submission by
AniBrett (which looks like scanned film..?).

Enjoy:

http://www.pbase.com/shootin/linesintersections

Hey, it's still early here. Isn't the deadline like midnight. Anyway I
just sent three. Hope they are not too late.

Thanks,

Russell

Damn.....

I'll take a look later on today.

"tony cooper" wrote in message
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On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:27:47 -0500, Bowser wrote:

The latest gallery of the world famous Shoot-In is now posted and
available for viewing. It includes, God forbid, a submission by
AniBrett (which looks like scanned film..?).

Enjoy:

http://www.pbase.com/shootin/linesintersections


Look in your other pocket. I sent in three Sunday afternoon.


--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

"Larry Thong" wrote in message
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On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:27:47 -0500, Bowser wrote:

The latest gallery of the world famous Shoot-In is now posted and
available for viewing. It includes, God forbid, a submission by AniBrett
(which looks like scanned film..?).

The one that stands out above the others most for me for its originality,
creativity, and abstractness is Brett's. The others are blah and boring,
so I won't say anything about them. Clearly Brett was thinking out of
the box on this one. The simplicity and abstract lines meandering about
while still intersecting bring a whole new dimension to life. The color
and texture scream celebrity! This is clearly a closeup of Tiger Wood's
forehead. Great job Brett. Still kicken' ass with the 5D MkII!!!

Whatever you say, Brett.

"Paul Furman" wrote in message
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Barbed Wire
Is this a very long lens? I know barbed wire pretty well but never saw
such dense spacing. Nice topsy-turvy composition with the wandering wire
and leaning poles.

160mm on a dSLR, equivalent to 240mm on a 35mm, so yes a long lens which did
compress the perspective a bit but the barbs really were exceptionally thick
and close together, the lens just accentuuated the effect. I wasn't
thinking of the mandate when I took the shot, it was just something which
looked good with the light and the mix of harsh man-made barbed wire on a
very jumbled fence with natural grasses in the background.


Lines On the Tracks
Hmm, what is this? There aren't any rail road tracks... The curvy line
must be the work of a child g.


It's a guided busway in Cambridge UK. The council has spent lots of cash
building a concrete guideway for specially adapted busses and it has been
finished for ages but it's not going to be opened until a secret snagging
list is fixed, if ever. In the meantime it provides lots of opportunities
for alternative uses. Although there is a cycle path of sorts alongside it
the surface is unpleasant so people have taken to cycling along the tracks
themselves as they are smooth. They're a bit narrow but as you can see
plenty wide enough provided you're not too drunk. Photoshopped out of the
picture is a triangular red warning sign telling people not the go on the
tracks, I thought it distracted from the photo and clearly the cyclist
didn't think much of it either.
I took a whole heap of shots from this one location with the idea of
blending them together to give a wacky focus effect. I may still do it but
it takes a lot of work and I simply haven't had the time.

On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:47:40 -0600, Larry Thong
wrote:

On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:27:47 -0500, Bowser wrote:

The latest gallery of the world famous Shoot-In is now posted and
available for viewing. It includes, God forbid, a submission by AniBrett
(which looks like scanned film..?).

The one that stands out above the others most for me for its originality,
creativity, and abstractness is Brett's. The others are blah and boring,
so I won't say anything about them. Clearly Brett was thinking out of
the box on this one. The simplicity and abstract lines meandering about
while still intersecting bring a whole new dimension to life. The color
and texture scream celebrity! This is clearly a closeup of Tiger Wood's
forehead. Great job Brett. Still kicken' ass with the 5D MkII!!!

A close-up of skin that's over-processed and grainy from using an ungainly
(pun intended) amount of ISO to get enough DOF is what stands out in your
"creative eye"? Wow. No wonder you shoot the crap images you do.

Then again, considering the other submissions, I guess it is right up there
with the rest. That's anything but a compliment by the way, for any of
them. It's nice to see that no professionals will be losing their jobs to
any SI submitters again this year. (heh, that made me chuckle)