Attention grabbing title eludes me...

03/21/2005 03:04:01 AM · #1

But I'll post this anyway. Just looked at my portfolio and realised I hadn't really put anything new in there since I got my dSLR.

So here's a few fairly abstract shots I've taken in the last week or two.

Cheers

Anders

Message edited by author 2005-03-21 03:34:23.

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

03/21/2005 07:22:26 AM · #2

Hehehe... talk about a resounding reception :P - I guess I might have to bump this at a more north american friendly time. I forgot that when I posted this it was roughly 3:00am on the US east coast.

But if anyone happens to be up at this hour and has any thoughts I'd love to hear them.

Thanks

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

03/21/2005 07:29:52 AM · #3

I think you're going all abstract on us, Sam. I quite like them, actually.

Robt.

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

03/21/2005 07:41:53 AM · #4

Yeah - I've noticed it just seems to be the way I'm seeing the world this few months. I think it's also the by-product of where I live, in a lot of ways brisbane is a great city, but there isn't a whole lot of breathtaking vistas/ intrinsically exciting stuff to be shot (in tourist terms it's largely used as a gateway to some of the beautiful coastal areas in queensland). As a result, I find I end up wandering around searching for interest in places which are, on the surface at least, visually uninteresting.

As such I end up focusing on shapes, colours and angles in the hopes of finding something a little out of the ordinary.

Hopefully I've suceeded at least to a degree :).

I might have to throw something into the boredom challenge just to make sure I don't lose the capacity to take concrete/more conventional photographs completely :P.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

03/21/2005 08:13:34 AM · #5

Well, you've described a visually boring place, and your own condition of artistic boredom-seekong-sustenance, so you ought to be able to do fine in that :-)

Robt.

coolhar

Canon PowerShot Pro 90 IS

03/21/2005 11:01:23 AM · #6

Originally posted by samtrundle:

... I might have to throw something into the boredom challenge just to make sure I don't lose the capacity to take concrete/more conventional photographs completely :P.

That would be good advice for a lot of dpc photogs. Many are shooting less realistic shots lately, perhaps because of the recent spat of loose challenge topics.

Hard for me to think that Brisbane is such an uninteresting place to shoot. For someone like me it would seem far off and exotic. I like to think there are interesting subjects available almost everywhere. Sometimes you have to tailor your shooting more to what's around you than to what you wish was around you. As the song says- "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with."