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Chad Schulz
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p.1 #1 · #307 Back and Forth Time


I haven't entered a WA for months. Unfortunately, I shot a couple of weddings and kinda burned out on the whole photography thing. I'm getting back into it--this time for just the fun of it

Shot this with my new toy, a Sony A100. I had some old Minolta glass from my film days and got the Sony cheap so I figured what the hell.

Didn't try too hard, was just relaxing with the parents at their place and as I looked over I saw this clock and thought it'd fit the theme. I shot it handheld while sitting. I also tried a head-on perspective shot while standing, but it didn't emphasize the pendulum as well and kind of looked like a shot in a Howard Miller catalog.

Be as brutal as you want with the C&C, I've got nothing better to do with my time--pun definately intended

Chad

Replaced entry with alternate shot from same day, cloned out some wall texture.

Edited by Chad Schulz on Aug 25, 2008 at 03:07 AM GMT




Exif information
Model DSLR-A100
Date 2008:08:25 04:04:45
Original date 2008:08:22 06:10:53
Exposure time 1/2 sec
Focal length 50mm
Focal number f/18.0
ISO speed 100 ISO
Exposure compensation 0.0



Edited on Aug 25, 2008 at 09:07 AM


Aug 23, 2008 at 01:04 AM
Yakim Peled
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p.1 #2 · #307 Back and Forth Time


Nice idea but the lamp is very distracting.

Happy shooting,
Yakim.


Aug 24, 2008 at 08:39 AM
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p.1 #3 · #307 Back and Forth Time


Interesting shot, Chad! I don't know if I find the lamp to be a distraction or not. I tried to visualize it without the lamp and it definitely lost a lot of interest. (It seems that today Yakim and I are at odds on everything! ) After all, a shot of a clock on the wall is not exactly something to write home about. I think the lamp helps to establish a sense of time of day and the shadow of the fringe is quite interesting. What I find a tad more distracting are the gobs of plaster or whatever stuck to the wall above the right corner of the clock. Those could easily be cloned out in an nanosecond.

All the best,

Endre

Aug 25, 2008 at 01:14 AM
Yakim Peled
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p.1 #4 · #307 Back and Forth Time


Strad wrote:
(It seems that today Yakim and I are at odds on everything! )


Endre, don't say this. You know it's not true....

Strad wrote:
I agree with Yakim about the parallel lines.


Happy shooting,
Yakim.

Aug 25, 2008 at 06:59 AM
Chad Schulz
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p.1 #5 · #307 Back and Forth Time


Thanks Yakin and Strad for the C&C. I'm going to attempt to take these WA's less seriously. My obsessive personality often keeps me from completely enjoying what I do. I've discovered that the my best shots are spontaneous and without planning.

I just shot my third wedding of the summer yesterday, and hopefully my last. I'm clearly not meant to do this as a vocation, but as a hobby. Two cameras, 8+ hours, and over 1000 photos!!! I might even get some money for this one

Thanks again,
Chad

Aug 25, 2008 at 09:19 AM
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p.1 #6 · #307 Back and Forth Time


Hello Chad, nice to see you back!
I also believe that the lamp adds an excellent complement to the composition with its own “repeating” ornaments and shadows…


Aug 25, 2008 at 10:53 PM
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p.1 #7 · #307 Back and Forth Time


Nice one Chad, just a bit different from what we would usually think of repetition.

I sympathise with the wedding thing. I helped out at a wedding last year and never again. Can't think how photographers can repeatedly do that type of shooting.

Aug 26, 2008 at 05:51 AM

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