Toothwalker wrote:
I adore photographic illusions, and you have shown some fine examples in this forum. The quest is dormant in the back of my mind, not an objective by itself. Sometimes I see something. It just happens. (Very rarely though.)
I turn myself inside out looking for them, sometimes it takes me hours before I can see them.
I have noticed that quite a few people fail to appreciate a photograph if they can't see what it is or figure out what is going on. In my opinion the appreciation of an image could be based on many things, but not on knowing precisely what you are looking at. In some cases an accompanying text improves the power of an image, but sometimes it is as much fun to leave the audience puzzled.
Just as there are pics you take and pics you make it happens again at other levels.
If you see an illusion as it is in front of you then its this subset of 'take', not 'take' in the snapshot sense but rather a subset of a deliberate take. The 'make' is what you are describing here and it requires you to be thinking of something else. I've got a few of these.
This is a make and its my 1st one I ever took. No one seems to like this picture but its my favourite.
This is a 'make' and has the unexplained about it. Its in fact a picture about movement, the movement of street photography and there are some really important elements in it.
I catagorize them so that I can break out when I have to, a bit like if you did pictures of ducks all day and then all month. My mirror pics are starting to exhaust themselves, I've got a couple more to do because the mirror does something else and its like I'm putting my mark on it so that no one can copy me and find something in the the mirror that I didn't see. Street photographers are very territorial and I pee on everything.
OneAnt wrote:
This is a make and its my 1st one I ever took. No one seems to like this picture but its my favourite.
Hey man, I dig it. Just like the awesome dEaD bEtWEEn 9 aND 5.
This is a 'make' and has the unexplained about it. Its in fact a picture about movement, the movement of street photography and there are some really important elements in it.
Awesome.
I catagorize them so that I can break out when I have to, a bit like if you did pictures of ducks all day and then all month. My mirror pics are starting to exhaust themselves, I've got a couple more to do because the mirror does something else and its like I'm putting my mark on it so that no one can copy me and find something in the the mirror that I didn't see. Street photographers are very territorial and I pee on everything.
That is good to know. Of course you are peeing upside down, so I am not sure I will recognize the smell.
HelenaN: Thanks Helena..Great shoots from Sweden..Are you Swedish but live in Norway? or have I misunderstood.. Many nice pictures on your flickr :-)
Lieutenant Z: Very good again Z
OneAnt: Like your work:-)
I find it very difficult to compose images with the 21mm
Think I use it a bit wrong;-)
It lies mostly in the camera bag and I use it rarely
Have not quite made up my mind whether I should sell it
I have posted it for sale but will see if I sell it
Any tips on how to use the right .. have seen stunning images
this lens :-) Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/21 ZF 2 by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/21 ZF 2 by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr
Ronny _Olsson wrote:
HelenaN: Thanks Helena..Great shoots from Sweden..Are you Swedish but live in Norway? or have I misunderstood.. Many nice pictures on your flickr :-)
Lieutenant Z: Very good again Z
OneAnt: Like your work:-)
Thank you! You got it just right - we moved from Sweden to Norway in 2004.
Very nice photos again (both sets)! I think you did great with the 21mm.
Finally got a 21 ZE to add to my Zeiss Primes...WOW, I am absolutely pleased with this lens. I have included a link to a gallery where you can see full res. from my giddy-just-got-it-out-of-the-box test shots. This lens has almost NO CA, and the MFD really is insane for a WO. You can especially see it on the wooden post, and the ant crawling on the stem pics, viewed at full size... Def worth the $.
OneAnt wrote:
Hey akul ...I saw your deckchair pic and absolutely loved it.
How do I do it? ...I'm really pretty so it only took a bit of lippy and a nice hat (grin) ...or do you mean the mirror?
I meant both. Your street shots are awesome, so as your 'inception' shots. Brain twisting beauty they are. Really loving that red heart broken 2 with a guy looking back in reflection. And, the best yawn capture I have seen in a long time.
Lieutenant - That grafitti shot is almost surreal.
Rodluvan - The bull's eye, quite imposing. With 85, you were not that far. I hope there was a divider between you and him (?)
Dergiman - Beautiful serene scene. It brings a nice fresh air to me as we are having another heat wave in the east coast US now.
Almas - Nice composition on that graffiti. I can't tell whether the face is flat or side, which makes it more interesting.
Helena - Very nice to see your works again. Great composition on the boat shot. Love the space you created with it. Beautiful waterfall shot.
Ronny - Nice profile portrait ( #2 ) I like the color of it very much, feels like a film shot. I can sympathize with your ambivalent feeling towards 21. I love the lens, but it still intimidates me every so often. I am getting used to it, but it does not change the fact that it is a challenging lens. It is sort of like, it is either too wide or not wide enough. Although, that has nothing to do with Zeiss, just the focal length challenge I am facing.
thetennesseed - Congrats on the 21. Very nice color.
I did all my multiple exposures in the one day and did so many that they completely left my system. It was a bad street day where the city and I couldn't agree and I get really frustrated and then the energy turns into something else. These two above were taken through a closed restaurant window and I pretty much hit the whole city and its landmarks.
Nice work everyone. I especially like...
