177. Windows - October 30-November 5, 2016
Byron-
I was initially considering photographing a glossy, imposing skyscraper. I will still do that at some point. I had a change of heart and I went with a more broken down window. This long neglected building is quite creepy. It makes for a good photo subject.
1/125 sec, f8, WB set to Shade.
I was initially considering photographing a glossy, imposing skyscraper. I will still do that at some point. I had a change of heart and I went with a more broken down window. This long neglected building is quite creepy. It makes for a good photo subject.
1/125 sec, f8, WB set to Shade.
Kevin-
Well “Windows" has been an interesting theme. When it was first announced my fear was that Byron specifically meant the operating system. And while I believe that Bill Gates is overall quite an honorable man, the OS systems created by his firm Microsoft are pure horror in the way they operate (or don’t) and the constant system vulnerabilities. But Byron, who speaks multiple computer languages assured me that all definitions of “windows" were acceptable. Whew!
I quickly decided to eliminate time sensitive definitions of windows, like windows of opportunity.
Which largely left photos looking at, through, out of, or into, sheets of glass, large or small.
I briefly contemplated photos looking into windows at night, revealing the action happening behind them. It reminded me of the time many decades ago when I lived in a tiny efficiency apartment and just twenty-five feet away in the next building was a woman who came to be referred to as “the fat goddess of death.” She was immense and had a habit of prowling around her apartment sans clothing, and sans window shades as she ate snacks and watched TV. Just the thought of that made me avoid any voyeur type approaches to “windows”.
Still there were millions, probably billions of other windows possibilities in the world. I chose to go in two dramatically different directions. One direction was to set up the camera inside my car and capture the view out the windows while driving. I wanted a slow shutter speed to create a bit of background blur while driving and I carefully positioned two legs of the tripod on the passenger seat, with the third leg fully extended down to the floor. Then set the interval timer to trigger the shutter every few seconds. But sure enough as soon as I need to make a real turn the camera, tripod, etc. fell into my lap. I set it up a couple of more times and the same thing happened. Unhappy with having all those pounds fall on top of me again and again, but happy that I had been doing this on empty roads I decided to play it safe and go in the different direction.
A few of you know my friend long-time Elaine. She works at Optum, a health services firm which is just a couple of miles away from where we live. They have built an impressive set of buildings which I have been meaning to photograph, and “windows" provided a great opportunity to capture at least a small piece of Optum
Nikon D4s, 70-200mm f/2.8 Nikkor zoom set to 112mm, handheld with VR (vibration reduction) turned on, ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/160th of a second.
I like the intensity, the starkness and the repetition.
Well “Windows" has been an interesting theme. When it was first announced my fear was that Byron specifically meant the operating system. And while I believe that Bill Gates is overall quite an honorable man, the OS systems created by his firm Microsoft are pure horror in the way they operate (or don’t) and the constant system vulnerabilities. But Byron, who speaks multiple computer languages assured me that all definitions of “windows" were acceptable. Whew!
I quickly decided to eliminate time sensitive definitions of windows, like windows of opportunity.
Which largely left photos looking at, through, out of, or into, sheets of glass, large or small.
I briefly contemplated photos looking into windows at night, revealing the action happening behind them. It reminded me of the time many decades ago when I lived in a tiny efficiency apartment and just twenty-five feet away in the next building was a woman who came to be referred to as “the fat goddess of death.” She was immense and had a habit of prowling around her apartment sans clothing, and sans window shades as she ate snacks and watched TV. Just the thought of that made me avoid any voyeur type approaches to “windows”.
Still there were millions, probably billions of other windows possibilities in the world. I chose to go in two dramatically different directions. One direction was to set up the camera inside my car and capture the view out the windows while driving. I wanted a slow shutter speed to create a bit of background blur while driving and I carefully positioned two legs of the tripod on the passenger seat, with the third leg fully extended down to the floor. Then set the interval timer to trigger the shutter every few seconds. But sure enough as soon as I need to make a real turn the camera, tripod, etc. fell into my lap. I set it up a couple of more times and the same thing happened. Unhappy with having all those pounds fall on top of me again and again, but happy that I had been doing this on empty roads I decided to play it safe and go in the different direction.
A few of you know my friend long-time Elaine. She works at Optum, a health services firm which is just a couple of miles away from where we live. They have built an impressive set of buildings which I have been meaning to photograph, and “windows" provided a great opportunity to capture at least a small piece of Optum
Nikon D4s, 70-200mm f/2.8 Nikkor zoom set to 112mm, handheld with VR (vibration reduction) turned on, ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/160th of a second.
I like the intensity, the starkness and the repetition.
Paul,
First, some annoying pontificating.
Personally, I don’t believe in “luck.” Forget that it isn’t testable, replicable, quantifiable or permissible as a hypothesis—which are important criteria of the scientific method. It’s just so damn contrived and misused. “Luck” is to an unexpected but wildly self-beneficial outcome, as “awesome” is to anything in the universe you want to throw the word at. My point—and I thank you for sticking around to hear it—is that I just don’t believe in scattershot supernatural forces. While luck seems like deeply attractive proposition to many who really need a reality chock full of deterministic phenomena—no insult intended here—it just doesn’t work for me.
Still, fair is fair. If you want a chance for rebuttal, you can start at time-stamp 1:30 from the follow clip of the movie “Contact.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcqaHxI5-P8
So…I’m just going to say I feel deeply satisfied with the results of some of my shots for this week’s theme, despite feeling like my skills and experimentation wouldn’t produce anything worthwhile.
Throwing open the blinds on the details: 18-55mm lens shot at 55mm; ISO 2000; 1/60 sec. at f/13; aperture priority; pattern metering. The camera was hand held. I took this (and several other shoots at the Nebraska State Capital). I just happened to notice this man sitting in one of the through-ways and thought it would make a good picture, especially because people aren’t a common element in my submissions. There’s a lot to be said for employing a shallow depth-of-field to get rid of the depth and extraneous architecture to make this a personal, intimate image…I should dialed that in as an optional as well. But, arguably, you can say the man is looking done the length of the corridor and I wanted to capture that. More importantly, I thought it was awesome and a stroke of luck of how I could sandwich him between one window in the foreground and one in the background.
Oops…
First, some annoying pontificating.
Personally, I don’t believe in “luck.” Forget that it isn’t testable, replicable, quantifiable or permissible as a hypothesis—which are important criteria of the scientific method. It’s just so damn contrived and misused. “Luck” is to an unexpected but wildly self-beneficial outcome, as “awesome” is to anything in the universe you want to throw the word at. My point—and I thank you for sticking around to hear it—is that I just don’t believe in scattershot supernatural forces. While luck seems like deeply attractive proposition to many who really need a reality chock full of deterministic phenomena—no insult intended here—it just doesn’t work for me.
Still, fair is fair. If you want a chance for rebuttal, you can start at time-stamp 1:30 from the follow clip of the movie “Contact.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcqaHxI5-P8
So…I’m just going to say I feel deeply satisfied with the results of some of my shots for this week’s theme, despite feeling like my skills and experimentation wouldn’t produce anything worthwhile.
Throwing open the blinds on the details: 18-55mm lens shot at 55mm; ISO 2000; 1/60 sec. at f/13; aperture priority; pattern metering. The camera was hand held. I took this (and several other shoots at the Nebraska State Capital). I just happened to notice this man sitting in one of the through-ways and thought it would make a good picture, especially because people aren’t a common element in my submissions. There’s a lot to be said for employing a shallow depth-of-field to get rid of the depth and extraneous architecture to make this a personal, intimate image…I should dialed that in as an optional as well. But, arguably, you can say the man is looking done the length of the corridor and I wanted to capture that. More importantly, I thought it was awesome and a stroke of luck of how I could sandwich him between one window in the foreground and one in the background.
Oops…
Jerry-
I wrestled with this subject and I think the subject beat me up. I took the attached photo while on the job at the Masonic Childrens Hospital where I was once bothered by the security people. So, I parked myself right in front of the security desk manned by two uniformed people at the desk who were surrounded by two more uniformed hangers on. So in plain sight of the rentacops, I whipped out my cellphone and took a panorama.
Camera was the iPhone 5c, exposure was 1/266 @ f2.4, ISO 200. 4mm lens (33mm in full frame 35mm equivalency).
I wrestled with this subject and I think the subject beat me up. I took the attached photo while on the job at the Masonic Childrens Hospital where I was once bothered by the security people. So, I parked myself right in front of the security desk manned by two uniformed people at the desk who were surrounded by two more uniformed hangers on. So in plain sight of the rentacops, I whipped out my cellphone and took a panorama.
Camera was the iPhone 5c, exposure was 1/266 @ f2.4, ISO 200. 4mm lens (33mm in full frame 35mm equivalency).
Don-
After shooting house windows I did not have anything that I liked.
So yesterday I did this. God forgive me fore its a selfie.
After shooting house windows I did not have anything that I liked.
So yesterday I did this. God forgive me fore its a selfie.