POTW 5-Nov-2012

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POTW 5-Nov-2012

Postby Matt. K on Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:24 pm

Bloody hell! I get the most difficult week! So many brilliant images how do I choose one? First of all....The sculpture by the sea night shot series are all brilliant! Big Gerry and Rodney produced some absolute stunning imagery and it was a no brainer that the winner would be from that shoot...but which one? Eventually, I settled for Rodneys beautiful image of the dome because it had an extra dimension for me....the forground/background illusion. Don't know what I'm talking about? Just keep staring at the image.
Well done guys and well deserved Rodney.
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Re: POTW 5-Nov-2012

Postby biggerry on Tue Nov 06, 2012 8:54 am

Nice choice Matt and great image Rodney

I have included the embedded version here:

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Re: POTW 5-Nov-2012

Postby Reschsmooth on Tue Nov 06, 2012 9:00 am

Great image and choice.

Having seen the photography of Rodney and Gerry over the last few years (as two of the most frequent posters on this forum), their improvements add weight to the adage that it takes 10,000 hours of experience to become an expert at something. Whilst there was nothing wrong with their earlier images, where they are today shows an immence improvement both in technique and artistic interpretation.

[no condescention to Rodney or Gerry and offence to anyone else intended]
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Re: POTW 5-Nov-2012

Postby aim54x on Tue Nov 06, 2012 9:52 am

Congrats Rodney!
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Re: POTW 5-Nov-2012

Postby Remorhaz on Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:17 am

Thanks Matt - very kind and generous words (and to my co-conspirators - Gerry, Suren and Cam) :)

... and Cam - where are our fish views :)
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Re: POTW 5-Nov-2012

Postby Mr Darcy on Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:31 am

well done Rodney
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Re: POTW 5-Nov-2012

Postby aim54x on Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:35 am

Remorhaz wrote:... and Cam - where are our fish views :)


here

Unfortunately, not as polished as yours
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Re: POTW 5-Nov-2012

Postby biggerry on Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:46 pm

Reschsmooth wrote:Great image and choice.

Having seen the photography of Rodney and Gerry over the last few years (as two of the most frequent posters on this forum), their improvements add weight to the adage that it takes 10,000 hours of experience to become an expert at something. Whilst there was nothing wrong with their earlier images, where they are today shows an immence improvement both in technique and artistic interpretation.

[no condescention to Rodney or Gerry and offence to anyone else intended]


Patrick, its perfectly ok and fine to say my old images are shit :lol: I agree, actually i think everything before last weekend is crap :rotfl2:
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Re: POTW 5-Nov-2012

Postby stubbsy on Tue Nov 06, 2012 6:19 pm

Reschsmooth wrote:Great image and choice.

Having seen the photography of Rodney and Gerry over the last few years (as two of the most frequent posters on this forum), their improvements add weight to the adage that it takes 10,000 hours of experience to become an expert at something. Whilst there was nothing wrong with their earlier images, where they are today shows an immence improvement both in technique and artistic interpretation.

[no condescention to Rodney or Gerry and offence to anyone else intended]

Spot on Patrick. :up:
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Re: POTW 5-Nov-2012

Postby CraigVTR on Fri Nov 09, 2012 1:07 pm

Very nice work. Well done.
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