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My first try at this. Looks like fun
Its what i keep telling myself lol, ThanksFun, yeah, that's what it is
Welcome aboard.
Cheers.
That's what we ALL keep telling ourselves, then we get given more medsIts what i keep telling myself lol, Thanks
Thanks, I'm looking forward to it.Welcome aboard Mike !!!
Good to have you here and you'll be into the swing of things before you know it . . . glued to your PC on a Friday night, walking around mumbling to yourself about various theme words, frantically googling random phrases for inspiration
Seriously though - enjoy yourself and looking forward to seeing your shots
Umm I did wonder. Am I aloud to change it once posted?F16 for me. For this kind of photograph, with representative patterns, I feel front to back sharpness is better.
Just to add, the first few weeks of the TP52 can be mental, trying to comment on 80+ submissions can be very taxing. What I intend to do is for the first few weeks comment on what I consider to be the best submission for the previous month. Once numbers dwindle, which they unfortunately will, I'll comment on more. Of course, I would not expect you to comment on all my submissions
Cheers.
Umm I did wonder. Am I aloud to change it once posted?
Thanks, I'll do thatI've changed my submissions before, but left the original for comparison, then edited the title to say 'edit added', after all its all about learning.
Cheers.
Umm I did wonder. Am I aloud to change it once posted?
:banghead: Thanks Sarah. I posted the fist one because it is like a macro and it has a little bohka effect and is sharp in the centre of the pattern. But the second does show the pattern better. I shouldve set the focus point on the bottom line of bricks.That's pretty damn impressive Mike.
Love the lateral thinking and creativity that's gone into it, and beautifully even lighting which is what's needed for that sort of thing.
Something Aztec about it to me - both in the pattern and in the resemblance to an Aztec temple . . . plus there's a sort of pulsing optical illusion thing going on which I really like (as long as I don't stare at it for too long!)
Of course you are!
Although just to muddy the water, I think I'm personally slightly more drawn to the F2.8.
The pattern drawing away from you adds to that Aztec temple shape and I like that the knobbly bits on the Lego aren't so crisply defined all the way through . . . saying that, the front to back sharpness of the f16 does really emphasis the patten . . . aaaaarrrrgggghhhh I don't know!
Sorry Sarah I missed that bit for some reason (I think I just had f2.8 or f16 on the brain lol). Thank you so much for your nice comments. It started as the side of a pyramid going to a point at the top but I looked at it for a bit and decided to square it off. Thanks againThat's pretty damn impressive Mike.
Love the lateral thinking and creativity that's gone into it, and beautifully even lighting which is what's needed for that sort of thing.
Something Aztec about it to me - both in the pattern and in the resemblance to an Aztec temple . . . plus there's a sort of pulsing optical illusion thing going on which I really like (as long as I don't stare at it for too long!)
Thanks you I didn't notice the light spill until I looked at it again on flickr which has a black background. Lesson learntHiya Mike. Nice idea and well implemented. You might find that lego makes a pretty frequent appearance in this challenge for many people
I definitely prefer the f16 but I can see why you wanted to try the shallow DOF version too. Lighting is simple but effective and the black background has been kept pretty even (tiny tiny light spill where it looks like the flash is coming from). I like the perspective too - a great start to this challenge and well done.
The lenses was almost touching the bottom left of the brolly which was pointing slightly in and downOh I wouldn't worry too much: we get terrible obsessed about even white and even black background on this challenge. I get around this by making most of mine a muddy grey
The slight light spill is barely noticeable and, as you say, only really seen when put against a completely back BG. I actually smiled because it confirmed where I thought the light was coming from!
I shot mine at night, so yes Tbh I'm quite new to ocf but I really like the way you can control it and have it where you want.Hi Mike
yup , #2 for me as well..... it does make my eye's go funny though
This is not crit....I'm merely asking a question as I don't understand lighting at all.....using ocf through a brolly....does it really make that much difference to the final image as opposed to say , natural light & reflectors ?