Brisbane's skyline

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Brisbane's skyline

Postby zafra52 on Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:32 am

I was trying to be creative and I took this picture of Brisbane's skyline from the Storey Bridge in 2006.
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby surenj on Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:38 pm

Zafra,
This looks like the camera was shaken while taking the photo :mrgreen: Going back to the basics, what was your subject? Have you portrayed the subject in a way to evoke the mood that you wanted? Did you cut out distractions?

As a photograph I don't think it's strong enough. But then, one could pass off bad photos as art..... then, no one can critique you.... :twisted:
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby zafra52 on Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:41 pm

That's the general idea. I took a photograph but I wanted to be abstract.
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby gstark on Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:15 pm

Did the earth move for you? :)

I understand what you're trying to do, but there's no focal point in this image. That makes it difficult to "get" for me.

The colours are pretty though.
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby zafra52 on Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:40 pm

Even though it doesn't look it, this photograph was done on purpose. The previous ones I took weren't, but this one was.
I just had bought a new lens and I went to the Storey bridge to take night pictures, but as I was taking them the bridge moved with each passing car (and I uttered profanities in tandem) :oops: and even with a tripod the pictures were not all that sharp :evil: . So, I took the camera in my hands, set the ISO as low as the camera permitted and waited till a big, big, big, and I mean big truck passed by to release the trigger and - there it is! 8)

A very bad picture, but full of artistic sentiment!
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby chrisk on Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:49 pm

why dont you try one of those zoom effect pics ?
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby aim54x on Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:13 pm

Unfortunately the artistic intent does not really shine through in this one. It is an interesting concept and it is probably worth playing with some more.

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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby Wink on Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:16 pm

Maybe a photo of the passing truck rather than the city would've helped relate the movement to the image.
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby biggerry on Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:25 am

I think a Photochop plugin that removes any idea of the scence but maintains the colours/lightd might be appropriate here?
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby gstark on Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:05 am

Wink wrote:Maybe a photo of the passing truck rather than the city would've helped relate the movement to the image.


There ya go!
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby Big V on Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:17 pm

If the trails were much bigger this would rock
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby zafra52 on Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:00 pm

Oh, well! I thought it was worth the try... :D
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby gstark on Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:12 pm

It's always worth the try. That's how we learn.
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby surenj on Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:42 pm

I would love to see the next installment (next improvement perhaps?).
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby big pix on Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:06 am

I like this..... like the effect..... being small, does not show the full impact of what you are trying to portray

...... up big and in a frame, this image would sing...... good job
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Re: Brisbane's skyline

Postby zafra52 on Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:42 pm

Thank you all for your kind comments.
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