weekly Martin's 2018 52 Challenge

LC2 said:
Hi Martin,

Wet - I wouldn't have guessed snow. I was thinking sparkler but puzzled by the light source. Interesting :)
Juxtaposition - It didn't jump out as juxtaposition without the explanation, but I can see your thinking and that's a mad amount of instructions!!!
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Light source is a street lamp -- it's just outside my bedroom window.
 
Heavy - i love the bike shot perfect colour, composition the lighter shot made me giggle and put a smile on my face.
Wet - fits the theme and i like the abstracty feel.
Juxtaposition - wow thats some list of instructions, no doubt in every language possible. I think the little coffee maker is cute being so small, tho i do feel the colour could be tweaked in the image.
 
Oval

Didn't like this subject as I couldn't get rugby balls and eggs out of my cliche'd head. So I've gone for the top of an eye-spray bottle lit with a torch against a background of the front of my guitar amplifier..

Oval (1 of 1) by gorgon703, on Flickr
 
It's quite abstract, but I like it! Nice colours (y)
 
brrnd said:
It's quite abstract, but I like it! Nice colours (y)
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ross.anderson.58 said:
Well this is cool. Like the colours. The repetition in both the lid and the amp is great.
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The colours grew on me. The background is actually a Lightroom effect

LC2 said:
Looks quite abstract, and taking shots of circles at an angle was one of my thoughts too.
I quite like the pairing of the blue and green and the lighting is very effective.
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As I said in my post above, the theme just kept putting eggs and rugby balls in my head so I went with offset circles instead. I think it kinda works the more I look at it. I can imagine a huge version of this taken on medium format and printed 6 foot high and projected on a wall in a gallery -- my dreams often exceed reality! :crying:
 
brrnd said:
It's quite abstract, but I like it! Nice colours (y)
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ross.anderson.58 said:
Well this is cool. Like the colours. The repetition in both the lid and the amp is great.
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The colours grew on me. The background is actually a Lightroom effect

LC2 said:
Looks quite abstract, and taking shots of circles at an angle was one of my thoughts too.
I quite like the pairing of the blue and green and the lighting is very effective.
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As I said in my post above, the theme just kept putting eggs and rugby balls in my head so I went with offset circles instead. I think it kinda works the more I look at it. I can imagine a huge version of this taken on medium format and printed 6 foot high and projected on a wall in a gallery -- my dreams often exceed reality! :crying:
 
brrnd said:
It's quite abstract, but I like it! Nice colours (y)
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ross.anderson.58 said:
Well this is cool. Like the colours. The repetition in both the lid and the amp is great.
Click to expand...

The colours grew on me. The background is actually a Lightroom effect

LC2 said:
Looks quite abstract, and taking shots of circles at an angle was one of my thoughts too.
I quite like the pairing of the blue and green and the lighting is very effective.
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As I said in my post above, the theme just kept putting eggs and rugby balls in my head so I went with offset circles instead. I think it kinda works the more I look at it. I can imagine a huge version of this taken on medium format and printed 6 foot high and hung on a wall in a gallery -- my dreams often exceed reality! :crying:
 
Juxtaposition - I had to read the explanation to get it, but now that I have I get your thinking, Did you manage to fold them back up the right way.
Oval - Very abstract, the colours work well together
 
minx said:
Did you manage to fold them back up the right way.
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I did. I put them in my right hand and used my left hand to squash them very flat then used my right hand again to throw them in the bin.
 
Hertsman said:
I do too, very vibrant. Whats the Amp ?
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It's a Yamaha THR10 practice amp. Loud enough for the bedroom, a load of effects and programmable from a PC; nice piece of kit.
 
Nice shot for oval Martin, I like the colours and it just looks cool
 
Thanks for all your comments. Strange about the opinions on the 'not-straight' eyelets as I quite like that fact, but then I have worn odd socks for the last twelve years (and you can see them because I wear shorts all the time) and that drives some people nuts.
 
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I think it works rather well. Nice, clean and simple
 
Unattractive. I realise I should have aligned the compass dial with the South Pole for greater effect but time has moved on and it's a new category now.

Unattractive (1 of 1) by gorgon703, on Flickr
 
Surely if the needle is unattractive it is in the right orientation, if you see what I mean? Good and different idea for the theme I think
 
Straight - No problem with the eyelets being offset, in fact I think it might look unnatural if they were perfectly level.
Good strong image there, great textures and plenty of relief ensuring it does merge into one.

Unattractive - D'oh, that took me a few seconds. Very clever. Chris is right, aligning the needle would have been wrong.
I like this :)
 
Unattractive

I think it's a great idea, I think you've thought it out well.
 
Straight - lots of textures there, good shot
Unattractive - I had to think about that but now that I have got it that works really well I like it. (I had even thought of trying to do something with magnets I should have got it quicker)
 
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Nice catch-up, Martin, and I really like your image for Shadow. The blues and whites go together well and your composition works well, with the curve of the handrail and the criss-cross shadows going from foreground to background (y)

Those are two lovely scenes for Beautiful too, and hard to choose between them. I think if the water had been smoother and there had been reflections I would have opted for #1, but the grass, the hills and the cow in #2 balance nicely under the impressive mountains and clouds in #2 so that's my pick!

Edit: I've just noticed there's a spot on the sensor (top left of #3) so time to get the cleaning gear out :D
 
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Manxmaid said:
Nice catch-up, Martin, and I really like your image for Shadow. The blues and whites go together well and your composition works well, with the curve of the handrail and the criss-cross shadows going from foreground to background (y)

Those are two lovely scenes for Beautiful too, and hard to choose between them. I think if the water had been smoother and there had been reflections I would have opted for #1, but the grass, the hills and the cow in #2 balance nicely under the impressive mountains and clouds in #2 so that's my pick!

Edit: I've just noticed there's a spot on the sensor (top left of #3) so time to get the cleaning gear out :D
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Thanks for your comments and yes, you are right, there is a mark in there as many of my other pictures have it. I'll have a good look at the sensor tomorrow, cheers.
 
all three are great shots....love Shadow.

Beaut1 needs some levelling tho...

Beaut2 is a corker, love the details in the mountains.
 
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