GKPE: General Ramblings thread

iKirst wrote in post #3931293
Um - focus on lines today as a subject

well since kirst was the only one to give me any decent ideas (sorry John yours don't count, my big toe isn't much of a photographic subject)

anyway here is a couple taken today.

just remember the subject is lines, which is an abstract subject, which doesn't mean there should be a focus of a subject. if there was it wouldn't be abstract.

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tag141 wrote in post #3930995
OK, now you're just being very silly...

NOTHING silly about chocolate

weka2000 wrote in post #3931010
Someone working out how to pickup woman and 1 chap going on about 2 meats
So lets have a look at the GKPE singles list and see if we can match a few up

omg Blind Date with tony as host... no too scary

theflyingkiwi wrote in post #3931274
dam there must be something wrong with that test
hmm I want to shoot something today, anyone got any ideas?

i wanna do test too! lol if its faulty now's my chance to pass

theflyingkiwi wrote in post #3932262
well since kirst was the only one to give me any decent ideas (sorry John yours don't count, my big toe isn't much of a photographic subject)

anyway here is a couple taken today.

just remember the subject is lines, which is an abstract subject, which doesn't mean there should be a focus of a subject. if there was it wouldn't be abstract.

love number 1, colors and comp. good

theflyingkiwi wrote in post #3932262
well since kirst was the only one to give me any decent ideas (sorry John yours don't count, my big toe isn't much of a photographic subject)

anyway here is a couple taken today.

just remember the subject is lines, which is an abstract subject, which doesn't mean there should be a focus of a subject. if there was it wouldn't be abstract.

Mark, dis you try #1 from a lower vantage point? You might get better leading lines into the pic...

i would have to say this mark number 1 is one of the best pictures you have posted on the forum fro a long time.
i find myself following the lines around the picture to see where they go. It is a picture that demands you explore it.

theflyingkiwi wrote in post #3932262
well since kirst was the only one to give me any decent ideas (sorry John yours don't count, my big toe isn't much of a photographic subject)

anyway here is a couple taken today.

just remember the subject is lines, which is an abstract subject, which doesn't mean there should be a focus of a subject. if there was it wouldn't be abstract.

I'm so glad you followed my subject idea, and did exactly as I had hoped.. went for the abstract perspective!
#1 is awesome!
A lower angle, as John has suggested, might be cool, too. But it is perfect as it is
#2, also cool

Nzshrimper wrote in post #3932367
i would have to say this mark number 1 is one of the best pictures you have posted on the forum fro a long time.
i find myself following the lines around the picture to see where they go. It is a picture that demands you explore it.

It's almost 3 dimensional, too. If that makes sense.
That's what makes it so cool

Can anyone put a value on a Canon A60 - 2MP with AV/TV/M/Auto etc, 356mb CF card..

iKirst wrote in post #3931293
Gee, thanks

I was the kid that rescued animals.. mice from my aunties cats, baby birds that fell out of nests, dead birds that were zapped by power lines...

Um - focus on lines today as a subject

somethingsimple wrote in post #3932288
love number 1, colors and comp. good

dgcorner wrote in post #3932313
Mark, dis you try #1 from a lower vantage point? You might get better leading lines into the pic...

Nzshrimper wrote in post #3932367
i would have to say this mark number 1 is one of the best pictures you have posted on the forum fro a long time.
i find myself following the lines around the picture to see where they go. It is a picture that demands you explore it.

iKirst wrote in post #3932383
I'm so glad you followed my subject idea, and did exactly as I had hoped.. went for the abstract perspective!
#1 is awesome!
A lower angle, as John has suggested, might be cool, too. But it is perfect as it is
#2, also cool

Thanks everyone. it goes to show ya that editing is everything. the original photo is rather flat. but yea looking back at number 2 it seems to be too flat. I was trying to get more contrast between the shadows and the titles but it just didn't seem to work out.

I had thought I had take a few shots lower but I didn't. I know I looked at it, but there would have been cars in the background etc and at the time I didn't like it that's why I didn't take any.

oh well that location isn't going anywhere.

cheers every1 for your help

so what have you deiced on then Lance

Thanks to Mark V....

well nz shrimper iv decided i need a job!? lol

i really like the look of the 85L but $3000 is alot

24-70 mite b nice but i mite do a poll and a show me ur pics thing lol

Nzshrimper wrote in post #3931863
17- 55 2.8 usm
50mm 1.4 (or if you have the cash 1.2 L)
85mm 1.8 usm (or 85mm 1.2 L again if you have the cash)

I second the 17-55... I barely take it off the camera - very versatile lens.....
Depends on your price range really Lance.

Well interesting day, 20D and 70-200 almost bought it

Took the family to the Botanic gardens for a run around and some family photos. Whilst extracting our youngest from the tunnel at the potters garden a kid grabbed my 20D with 70-200 f/2.8 attached and ran off with it dragging it along my the lens hood! I quickly took chase and he dropped it on the concrete and ran off

Seems to all be OK, the lens hood took all the damage, a few scratches on it and a big gouge out of the end, found his parents, got their number in case anything is actually broken