Ha, sadly not, it's an abandoned cinema, been out of use for 4 years now, the ceiling is caving in, hence all the insulation on the floor, it's pretty creepy.
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Photo of the Day: August 2010
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Ha, sadly not, it's an abandoned cinema, been out of use for 4 years now, the ceiling is caving in, hence all the insulation on the floor, it's pretty creepy.
Hot summer nights
Canon 7D with 70-300 at 210mm; 1/320 @ f8; ISO 200
Volleyball at sunset at Spanish Banks
Canon 7D with 70-300 at 210mm; 1/320 @ f8; ISO 200
Volleyball at sunset at Spanish Banks
Some of you may recall me posting photos of this location in the Fall, one shot taken in the early morning and another at dusk. Well, here's one from a summer afternoon. Two seasons down, two to go.
Great shot, very atmospheric. I love the way that some figures stand out as strong silhouettes, while others recede into the middle distance...
Another church: Kilpeck, on the England-Wales border, dating from about 1140...
Canon 7D with 70-300 at 210mm; 1/320 @ f8; ISO 200
Volleyball at sunset at Spanish Banks
I didn't see this shot before starting my last post. Add me to the list of admirers.
Foxglove
This is beautiful. I love the three swathes of different colour (corn, green middle-distance hills and bare distant hills) in interesting light and all set off by the church. Where is this?
This is very evocative. I've enjoyed all your recent postings, and this one most of all. I think it's the human element in particular, but also the intriguing light.
OK, now for something simpler ... a foxglove.
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This is beautiful. I love the three swathes of different colour (corn, green middle-distance hills and bare distant hills) in interesting light and all set off by the church. Where is this?
This is very evocative. I've enjoyed all your recent postings, and this one most of all. I think it's the human element in particular, but also the intriguing light.
OK, now for something simpler ... a foxglove.
Add me to the list of fans of this image. I love the silhouettes, the colours and what appears to be dust kicked up in the lower part of the image.
Superb.
Pennies
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Canon EOS 1000D
0.025 sec (1/40)
f/3.5
18 mm
ISO400
Apologies if I've posted this before.
Canon EOS 1000D
0.025 sec (1/40)
f/3.5
18 mm
ISO400
Apologies if I've posted this before.
OK, now for something simpler ... a foxglove.
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Saw that and thought someone had raided my computer.
Took several foxglove shots just a few weeks ago. This was the closest to yours in composition, but for me the light was fading fast.
Looks like you got him before he got you... or whoever he was hunting.
Good job!
Canon 7D with 70-300 at 210mm; 1/320 @ f8; ISO 200
Volleyball at sunset at Spanish Banks
I really like your image VirtualRain.
My friend's house on Mt. Si. Built with chain saws, hand tools and timber from the property. Took about three years to build it on weekends.
EXIF Summary: 1/125s f/5.6 ISO100 Tamron 28-75 2.8@28mm
Dale
EXIF Summary: 1/125s f/5.6 ISO100 Tamron 28-75 2.8@28mm
Dale
Been enjoying these threads for a while, so I finally decided to share one of my own. In Boston, the Bunker Hill Bridge:
I visit Boston often for work and it's one of my favorite NA cities. I've been over this bridge many times but never saw it anything like this... Amazing lighting, composition and framing to get everything else out of the frame! Do you mind providing some background to how you got this shot?
BTW, thanks all for the kind words on the beach volleyball shot. It's one of those scenes that, as a photographer, you realize will make for a great photo as soon as you see it. Something that's happening to me more often it seems... With things most people wouldn't give a second glance sometimes.
Yup... the harder you look, the more you see. Seeing the extraordinary in the everyday... Not chasing the pix, but letting them come to you.
I hope you all will bear with me for what will be a long post. I'm feeling rather chatty this morning. And I'll be off to England in a couple of days, where I won't be posting much if at all, so you'll soon be free of me for a while.
Absolutely outstanding location, and the light streaming through the collapsed ceiling is brilliant. I'm really intrigued by this theatre. You've been using this pinhole/lomo effect on all of your photos. It works on some of them, but this one is surreal enough without it. I'd rather see the mess in the foreground in focus, and it would be all the more creepy if we got a sense that you were inside this war zone instead of peering in through some narrow hole in the wall. Perhaps you were actually inside the theatre, but the extreme vignetting suggests we're looking through some kind of porthole--that suggests a "safe" distance and therefore robs the photo of some shock value.
Nice light here, and I just love the puffy clouds. I just wish that tower(?) serving as a focal point weren't right smack in the middle of the frame.
Well, that's the challenge, isn't it? If it's not interesting, don't bother pressing the shutter button. The onus is on you to recognize something interesting and package it for the viewer within four sides of a frame.
If you're going to make your subject very small within the frame or very centered, you need a really good compositional reason for doing so. Try getting us up close to your subject so that it will have more visual weight in the frame; if you don't have the right lens to get close enough, then crop later. And try to get the subject out of the center; a focal point centered between the four walls of your frame creates a very static composition--no incentive for the eye to explore the rest of the frame.
A remarkable old church, charming headstones, revealing light, and a masterful composition. Alas, I prefer your more emotive photos to these descriptive stock-ish shots, but they're still a treat for the eyes.
Thanks, Fujiko7. It's in Slovenia, looking north at the Alps. Austria is on the other side of that mountain range.
You have. Apology accepted.
An intriguing photo. I'm glad you didn't make up a narrative for this one because I'm enjoying pondering the many possibilities.
A surreal community of colorful little doll houses, and your birds-eye perspective really heightens the effect. I've seen these kinds of prefab subdivisions before, but never on dramatic, waterfront property. Where is this?
Yeah, well, sometimes it helps to meet them half way.
Absolutely outstanding location, and the light streaming through the collapsed ceiling is brilliant. I'm really intrigued by this theatre. You've been using this pinhole/lomo effect on all of your photos. It works on some of them, but this one is surreal enough without it. I'd rather see the mess in the foreground in focus, and it would be all the more creepy if we got a sense that you were inside this war zone instead of peering in through some narrow hole in the wall. Perhaps you were actually inside the theatre, but the extreme vignetting suggests we're looking through some kind of porthole--that suggests a "safe" distance and therefore robs the photo of some shock value.
Pentax K200D 13mm f13 1/250 ISO200
Nice light here, and I just love the puffy clouds. I just wish that tower(?) serving as a focal point weren't right smack in the middle of the frame.
I always find these types of landscapes difficult to make interesting as there is no real focal point but I liked the way this turned out, no post proc.
Well, that's the challenge, isn't it? If it's not interesting, don't bother pressing the shutter button. The onus is on you to recognize something interesting and package it for the viewer within four sides of a frame.
Here is a picture that I took of a spider in my backyard. C&C appreciated.
Shutter speed: 1/500, f/5.6, ISO 450, no Flash, Nikon D40x
If you're going to make your subject very small within the frame or very centered, you need a really good compositional reason for doing so. Try getting us up close to your subject so that it will have more visual weight in the frame; if you don't have the right lens to get close enough, then crop later. And try to get the subject out of the center; a focal point centered between the four walls of your frame creates a very static composition--no incentive for the eye to explore the rest of the frame.
Another church: Kilpeck, on the England-Wales border, dating from about 1140...
A remarkable old church, charming headstones, revealing light, and a masterful composition. Alas, I prefer your more emotive photos to these descriptive stock-ish shots, but they're still a treat for the eyes.
Thanks, Fujiko7. It's in Slovenia, looking north at the Alps. Austria is on the other side of that mountain range.
You have. Apology accepted.
An intriguing photo. I'm glad you didn't make up a narrative for this one because I'm enjoying pondering the many possibilities.
A surreal community of colorful little doll houses, and your birds-eye perspective really heightens the effect. I've seen these kinds of prefab subdivisions before, but never on dramatic, waterfront property. Where is this?
Yup... the harder you look, the more you see. Seeing the extraordinary in the everyday... Not chasing the pix, but letting them come to you.
Yeah, well, sometimes it helps to meet them half way.
Blame my cheap fish eye adaptor, it's the only way I could've got everything in shot at once. I like the effect but it is ruining a couple photos of crucial detail.
Thanks for the kind words! I took this photo next to Boston North Station. There's a plaza there with utility poles and fences all over the place, so I used a 55-200 mm lens and spent some time zooming to get them out of the way. It was early evening, so the shadows worked just right. A little bit of PP was used to punch it up and get the lines angled better.