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Week 2 – Plus Post!

Week 2 – Plus Post!

Talk about challenging boundaries! Phew… this one literally changed my Point Of View!

The moving POV technique still eludes me. I’ve spent days trying to find something to shoot, but I find avenues, that will make for amazing frames, bereft of people/animals or subjects right where I’d like them to be and nothing on the side. I’m gonna keep at it. Even if it involves a trip.

Last week, after the plus post, I stopped trying. My bad. I know.

This week, since my backyard was the subject, I decided to give it another whirl. Quite literally. (You should have heard some of the comments.. lol)

I bought a mirrorless Olympus several months ago, but the second week of the mentorship is when it finally got used the way a camera should be 🙂

I took a few pictures. About a 1000. I think the biggest issue I’ve had is finding one for this post. I’m guessing I could post a few more in the comments. If that’s against the rules, please let me know 🙂

Wrapping up the week:

Dappled light The effect especially with rotation is gorgeous. It adds an element of fantasy to the image that couldn’t otherwise be captured in camera.

Colours I’ve seen some outstanding examples of street photography using rotate and zoom. I’m a colour person. I do a one off black and white, but it’s never my first choice. I know several photographers who believe that street photography should be Black & White, “cause when we shoot in colour, we only shoot clothes” according to them. I’m taking them on a photowalk once we are done with this course. That’s all I’m saying.

Geometry Round works so great with rotate, but try squares with rotate or zoom, or lines, or hexagons. Stairs, are they going up or down, drain covers, the possibilities are endless!

Size matters A lighter camera makes for happier wrists.

Tough choices Zoom or Rotate, that’s the million dollar question. Why not both, simultaneously! Husbands do be useful for suggesting such experiments 🙂

And finally: Experiment, experiment, experiment!

Extra learning: I discovered fidgets! Not having kids might have the “living under a rock” effect on one 🙂

I had to pick one of the 1000 to share. I’m quite proud of this image. So proud in fact, that for a moment I thought I’d keep it under wraps until the graduation album, but then I remembered, I never thought this was possible and yet I did it. Who knows where these experiments will take me. I’m ready for my next favourite shot!

Thank you Alex Lapidus and G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers

for making me feel like Alice in Wonderland. For making the everyday, extraordinary!

Did I say it already… WOW!

The winner from my 1000 images, a shot of the local church.

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  6. Wow, what a great new world lives down the rabbit hole! 🙂 I’m so happy to hear about and see all your experiments and discoveries! More fun ahead 🙂

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  13. Great post Lucille. I can feel your enthusiasm, poured into your keyboard! I get like that sometimes and it’s hard for my fingers to keep up. This weeks images have a lighter, more colourful and playful appearance than last weeks, excluding your gorgeous set of ten for the before and after.

    The image of the church is very comical. It looks like a little fat Humpty Dumpty holding a pint of Guinness . . . well that’s what popped into my head.

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  14. Lucille Galleli – I combined techniques, holding the zoom ring still and rotating the camera, so you get rotation and zoom, which I’m guessing is what you did with the green and yellow swirl. You’ve created a great abstract, I love the way the colours blend and swirl.

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  15. I would love to know that you think this is 🙂 Gorgeous abstract. I really like the muted colours, not B&W, but something else. There’s a hint of warmth. The edgy composition, works well, just off centre. Definitely looks like it could have been painted. The kind of image I want to see in a gallery, 5 metres wide, all on it’s own and then just stand and look and think.

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  18. All the images are great Lucille Galleli. But I can see why you chose the first image – and that red car really makes it pop – then the steeple of the church just puts the finishing touch on it. The Lion is fabulous for his gaze upwards with the daylight bursting from his vision. Is the mystery shot a bench. I love the symmetry that was created with it. Great plus post!!

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  19. I didn’t notice the Guinness when I first saw your church, but now I can’t not see it. 😉

    I have no idea what the mystery subject is, but I feel how it pulls me in – it and your geometry experiment are my favorites after the church. Wonderful results this week! I think it is awesome that you shot so many, that you fully embraced exploring the possibilities.

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  22. What a wonderful collection and you should be proud! This main image has wonderful spin and pleasing color. You are already making lovely art – I hope I can even partially catch up to you! Can’t wait to see what other pieces you have up your sleeve. 😀

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  25. Cathy Custer Donohoue Ha ha ha … I actually had to stop myself from shooting blurs and get a few regular shots just to make sure I still remembered how to do it 🙂

    Thanks much for stopping by to comment!

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  28. Edward Norton… my heartfelt gratitude. It’s interesting how the whole spectrum of emotions can be conveyed with blur. The challenge I’ve given myself is to shoot the same subject, but find a different story to tell each time.

    So totally love your way of seeing Guinness in the photo. Like Ken Fowkes said … I can’t unsee it now! lol

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  29. Edward Norton… that’s how I did it as well. I also noticed that it’s not a technique that works well with most subjects. Still looking for subjects to apply it to.

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  30. Edward Norton hee hee … Thank you so much. That beats any description I could have given it. I’ve never had an exhibition of my images, but if ever I do, this one will be on that wall, dedicated to you 😀

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  33. Nailed it Stephanie Cassiday-Krueger…. It is a bench. So glad you like the pictures. I got very lucky with the car. For some reason there were only blue cars on the road that day. lol. When I saw the lion photo on the camera display, I was speechless for a few seconds. I will never approach a statue in the same way again 🙂

    Thank you so much for stopping by to comment!

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  34. ha ha ha … so true Ken Fowkes … I can’t look at that image in the same way 🙂

    Am so glad you like the geometry image. Applying a blur to blocks is rewarding in so many ways.

    Thank you so much. So glad you liked the images 😀

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  37. Thanks a bunch Marsha Leigh… Creating lovely art. How I have longed to hear those words! Thanks again. There is no catching up to do. Photography has never been a race to me, it’s more of finding newer ways to express one’s vision. So far, blur seems to like me 😀 I’ll be rooting for your images! Go, Marsha!

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  38. Thank you so very much, Carmen Mandich… had to work to keep the Spaniards in the race 😀 Am so delighted that you like the images. I’ve enjoyed making them while listening to the “loca” and “rara” comments 😀

    Hugs!

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  39. Hahaha You make me laugh out loud Lucille Galleli!! I heard it all the time. Just think of yourself as a modern day photographic Picaso!! When you give them a look at what you are doing with that idea, they will want to know how YOU do it!!!

    ;D Hugs!!!

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  40. Thanks Carmen Mandich… This is why I love being a guiri. I just smile at them and act like I don’t speak the language.

    Modern day photographic Picasso… I should get me a Tee with that slogan! :*

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  41. Lucille Galleli A Tee!! What a great idea!! I think you have come across the birth of a business!! Don’t you just love being a little “different” !!! lol

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