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Bumps In The Night

Postby Nnnnsic on Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:58 pm

I got really bored last night and went outside to shoot the moon and lo-behold... the moon had disappeared behind a layer of clouds.

So I said bugger it... I'm going to take some really dark shots in low light at less than useful shutter speeds and see how interesting I can get them to look by using Adobe's NEF converter. :)

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Postby Nnnnsic on Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:58 pm

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Postby sheepie on Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:07 pm

POTW material there Leigh... ...but which one to choose? !!!!

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Postby Nnnnsic on Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:09 pm

I can't get PotW again for ageeesssss, sheepie. :)

And I'm not trying to.

I'm just shooting and posting because I want to.
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Postby sheepie on Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:14 pm

I'm impressed you got the cat - it's not easy focusing in those conditions!
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Postby christiand on Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:27 pm

hmhhh ...

spooky stuff, spooky area, spooky images. :shock:
I admire your courage, I wouldn't have taken photos there :shock:

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Postby LOZ on Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:00 pm

I will never be afraid to post a picture from this day forth :wink:
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Postby mic on Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:05 pm

With people like you Leigh creeping around the burbs with a D70 at night :roll: You have gotta ask, where are the bloody Cops when you need them :lol: :lol:

They have got a real feel of Blair Witch to them
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Is that Nnnnnnsic the Worlock :roll:

Different though.

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Postby wendellt on Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:15 pm

Very Stylistic, I like
did you shoot at high ISO?
they look like storyboard shots for some Horror Movie
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Postby stubbsy on Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:23 pm

unsurprisingly these don't grab me Leigh. I know you can take it. :wink: Wasn't it too cold to venture outside?
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Postby dooda on Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:19 pm

Kind of has that gritty security camera feel. The cat is sort of creepy. It's with such deliberate randomness I don't know what to think, so I generally don't.
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Postby Nnnnsic on Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:21 pm

I like criticism... I'm the poster boy for this category! Criticise my work, damnit!!!
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Postby dooda on Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:34 pm

Okee dokee.

I don't know what to look at. The space and the objects mate at such chaotic randomness, not to mention the subjects themself being so benign, I can't see how nighttime boredom justifies the shutter clicks. It feels like you've broken every rule of composition that makes a photo compelling.

Was that what you were looking for? I could probably go on, but I'm sort of out of breath.

On the other hand I loved your POTW. I thought it was straight up great. These seem snapshotty.
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Postby wendellt on Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:34 pm

Nnnnsic wrote:I like criticism... I'm the poster boy for this category! Criticise my work, damnit!!!


You mean Whipping Boy

this one sits really well with me:
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and this one:
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Looks like an image from Bill Henson's 2002 series
mundane but ever charming and ominous
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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:36 pm

Leigh - I reckon you could make a fortune from a gallery exhibition - and, I have even got a name for the expo: ”What NOT to do when you are bored” :D
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Postby Nnnnsic on Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:41 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol:
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