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Alan Browne  
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 More options Oct 29, 10:53 am
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From: Alan Browne <alan.bro...@FreelunchVideotron.ca>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:53:51 -0400
Local: Thurs, Oct 29 2009 10:53 am
Subject: Re: SI favourites comments by Calvin Sambrook
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Calvin Sambrook wrote:
> Isn't it amazing how deeply buried in our brains the reading-direction
> is! It's a useful trick to remember that if you want to give the brain
> an easy time or support a feeling of completeness or calmness then
> having the subject looking to the right helps.  On the other hand having
> the subject looking left adds tension which might of course be just what
> you want in another shot.

I've always referred to the left looking subject (from viewers
viewpoint) as "reflective, contemplative" - looking to the past.

Right looking from the viewers perspective as "forward, acting,
anticipating, leading" - looking to the future.

With that in mind, look at some magazine covers.


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Frank ess  
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 More options Oct 29, 11:10 am
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From: "Frank ess" <fr...@fshe2fs.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:53 -0700
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I hadn't thought about this kind of thing in those terms; when setting
up the display cases for my 1:43-scale automobile models, the first
case contained the examples nearest-to-representing cars I'd owned or
had been in my family. They were all angled facing left-to-right at
thirty degrees or so; in the other cases, cars I liked, admired, or
was otherwise especially interested in, came out facing right-to-left,
without a conscious decision ...

--
Frank ess


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Paul Furman  
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 More options Oct 29, 4:09 pm
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From: Paul Furman <pa...@-edgehill.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:09:31 -0700
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I just don't personally like flash. Maybe because I don't know how to
use it :-) Good point though, in cinema, they could go from a dreamy HDR
scene with a gigawatt of expensively diffused light manned by a crew of
thirty to a flash photojournalist still and the the impact would be huge.

Thanks again for your insightful comments.


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Walter Banks  
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 More options Oct 29, 5:57 pm
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From: Walter Banks <wal...@bytecraft.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:57:11 -0500
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Alan Browne wrote:
> Calvin Sambrook wrote:

> > Isn't it amazing how deeply buried in our brains the reading-direction
> > is! It's a useful trick to remember that if you want to give the brain
> > an easy time or support a feeling of completeness or calmness then
> > having the subject looking to the right helps.  On the other hand having
> > the subject looking left adds tension which might of course be just what
> > you want in another shot.

> I've always referred to the left looking subject (from viewers
> viewpoint) as "reflective, contemplative" - looking to the past.

Her immediate past experience was our living room window
perhaps not her best memory.

Bowser, this thread opens the possibility of a SI theme that focusses
in some way on post processing. I have done very little post processing
limited to cropping, resizing, and some color balance. Post processing
techniques are as important to digital photography as darkroom
skills a generation ago.

Walter..


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Alan Browne  
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 More options Oct 30, 10:34 am
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From: Alan Browne <alan.bro...@FreelunchVideotron.ca>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:34:12 -0400
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Calvin Sambrook wrote:
> SI FAV Alan Browne 2.jpg:  Hmm, it's technically great but it's not
> really grabbing me.  Sorry.

I'm not esp. thrilled myself, but I will revisit macro composition as
soon as I can.  I'd probably add some coloured lighting and arrange the
"bits' in a more geometrically pleasing way.

> SI Fav Alan Browne 3.jpg:  Now this, on the other hand, is technically
> great and does grab me.  The composition, texture colour, detail, all
> work to pull me in.

Thanks.  It's a variation on a shot I did a few years ago for the SI -
same species of leaf as well.  In the recent shot it is near 1:1, but as
the leaf was curled, impossible to get it all in focus.  The shot is
about a 1/4 crop of the original.  And rotated to make that dominant
diagonal and "tributary" complements.  (IOW: I saved the shot in photoshop).

The SI shot from a few years ago ...
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/25250889/original
Here I had a red transparency under it and used a lightbox as the light
source.

> SI Fav Alan Browne 4.jpg:  Wonderful.  Again it's got composition (not
> textbook and it wouldn't work for many shots but it works here), texture
> colour, interest.  I can feel my eyes exploring it in detail without
> wandering off elsewhere.  Terrific.

Thanks, yet, it's a failed effort!  I was impatiently waiting for a
massive gust of wind to move leaves around for this 6 second exposure.
Alas, I only got some little blasts of air and so there are a few leaves
in motion but they hardly show.  The shadow lines from the trees help
"recover" the effort at least.

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