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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums*POLL* NOVEMBER PHOTO CONTEST Thread #3
Thread 3
The theme of the November contest is Landscapes in Black & White
The top two vote getters in each thread will advance to the finals along with the next four highest vote getters overall.
Preliminary Round will run for 72 hours.
Finals will be posted shortly thereafter and will run for 72 hours.
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Thread #1 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021839563
Thread #2 http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021839618
Country Lane
Sunrise over the old mills
Sonoma Vineyard
Through the Pines
Ponder
Smolen-Gulf Bridge
Solitude
Is it hot in here or am I just crazy?
Calm Before the Storm
Zen Mountain
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Country Lane | |
10 (23%) |
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Sunrise overthe old mills | |
3 (7%) |
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Sonoma Vineyard | |
0 (0%) |
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Through the Pines | |
3 (7%) |
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Ponder | |
6 (14%) |
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Smolen-Gulf Bridge | |
2 (5%) |
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Solitude | |
12 (28%) |
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Is it hot in here or am I just crazy? | |
1 (2%) |
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Calm Before the Storm | |
4 (9%) |
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Zen Mountain | |
2 (5%) |
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treestar
(82,383 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)frame, against a ladder of different contrasts and textures.
Good eye!
CTyankee
(63,979 posts)need some help in understanding photography better. Any books you can recommend to me? I am a very willing (and humble) learner...
patrice
(47,992 posts)Even the men who married into our family took up photography, had darkrooms and talked about cameras and lenses. We used to load up and go out before sun-up to catch the light a certain way on some lake or to get the sky behind an old barn one of us had found. I spent a lot of time in darkrooms with my first husband. My daughter is a professional graphics person who still photographs a lot. My dad, a pipe-fitting foreman on BIG construction jobs, started it all when we were babies, following everyone around with a camera and it just caught on there.
Just pick up a camera and use it for a few weeks as much as you can and you'll start becoming more aware of the elements you're looking at when you look at photographs.
Black and white in particular has a strong way of showing you stuff you may be kind of generalizing most of the time.
CTyankee
(63,979 posts)of the same seagull and the very same time, practically side by side. Mine was horrible and hers was excellent. It was discouraging...
patrice
(47,992 posts)that from your appreciation of painting.
Photography is similar; it's an event, an experience.
CTyankee
(63,979 posts)The portrait photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson never fails to delight/astound me. Wartime photojournalism moves me incredibly.
I cannot tell you how astonished I was at photograph #2 in this thread and how moving I found it. The birds lifting from the water so delicately (but you can almost "hear" the wings flutter even slightly) takes my breath and heart away...
patrice
(47,992 posts)the wideness of all of the different planes and angles.
And yet, the subject matter suggest American primitives,
and I very much like the way that the arrangement leads your eye IN, into the inside of the bridge & into the light-painting itself.
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CTyankee
(63,979 posts)has some historical basis in the perspectival (Roman in origin) street facade of the famous Rue de Rivoli in Paris, which was one part of Napoleon's grandiose architectural plans:
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Celebration
(15,812 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)I pick all of them.
Beautiful
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)Solly Mack
(90,872 posts)Thanks, Mz Pip
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)LancetChick
(272 posts)I mean, you have four horizontal layers: the dark part of the sky, the light part of the sky, the buildings and the water. Then you have vertical separation with the one building on the right with large, arched, lit windows that catches your eye, making you wonder what's happening inside, balanced by the simple line on the left of ducks paddling in the water (attention symmetry).
And once you notice the buildings, you wonder what kind of mill is it, and what each of those buildings is for, and you wonder if the water has anything to do with the mill's product. The other photos were interesting too, though. But the mill pic stood out for me.
Rhythm
(5,435 posts)a kennedy
(30,067 posts)the beauty in this bridge is apparent, and is what Black and White means to me. Newer then some other structures in our past entries.....but nonetheless a winner to me.
Whovian
(2,866 posts)Change has come
(2,372 posts)blue neen
(12,344 posts)Kick!
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)fishwax
(29,156 posts)2naSalit
(87,602 posts)location looks really familiar, wonder where that is... someplace in New England?
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)bluedigger
(17,103 posts)ellisonz
(27,711 posts)Pool Hall Ace
(5,849 posts)Carla in Sequim
(228 posts)Mz Pip
(27,493 posts)Will post the finals on Friday