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02/18/2007 10:52:51 AM · #901 |
I'm WAY behind on commenting and a bit behind on posting. Here are a couple of older photos - snap shotty ones, no less. Tomorrow I'll produce something new, I swear. :o)
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02/18/2007 11:17:07 AM · #902 |
Day 13: Still behind. Something a little different for Day 13: A 5-4-1 special and a challenge, or rather a quiz.
Philadelphia has over 2,300+ murals. There are dozens with in walking distance of my apartment building. And when I first got into digital photography, they were about the only thing I shot. Bev would drive me around and we would look at all the murals and I took pictures. South Philly, Grey's Ferry, West Philly, Center city. Never got any more than 400 of them. Some I took are gone or replaced. I was nuts about them. I took two extensive walking tours on my own. Once I started out in North Philly at Broad and Allegheney and shot everthing I could find walking home down Broad to my apartment in Center City. About a month later on Labor Day, I started out at 63rd and Market and walked each number street from Market to Walnut, over and back to 47th street just shooting murals...oh and a few flowers. Eventually I gave it up. But I did enjoy it at the time. I even sent a weekly email to about 3 dozen people show the murals images I had shot that week.
So anyway, there is this bar called Dirty Frank's at 13th and Pine. It is somewhat of an institution. Its' been there as long as I can remember and I've lived here about 30 years. One of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Programs was painted on the outside of the bar. The mural is called Famous Franks by David Mc Shane, 2001. Here are the 5 panels:
    
So...your challenge or quiz is....Name the Famous Franks. I don't know them all....sorry...Bev does! :)
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02/18/2007 11:22:04 AM · #903 |
| This thread is so cool - I really love the stories everyone has about the places they live. Robert, your stories of the murals is awesome. You really ought to consider putting the ones you've done in a book - I'm sure it would be successful. |
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02/18/2007 12:19:57 PM · #904 |
 Round barn near Anderson, IN. |
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02/18/2007 12:22:24 PM · #905 |
 Light House pond, Pendleton, IN. The pond was drained 2 tears ago and the lighthouse had a new foundation put under it. Before they fixed it, it was on the verge of falling over. |
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02/18/2007 01:16:10 PM · #906 |
Day 18, Taken at night in the ravine behind my house. Ontario, Canada.
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02/18/2007 01:47:48 PM · #907 |
Originally posted by xianart:
ok, we need to do this again in july or august, so the northern hemisphere folks can show off some greenery! |
No kidding! I can't get to many places I want to go and take pictures of because of the snow....areas aren't plowed out and neither are many sidewalks.
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02/18/2007 02:23:53 PM · #908 |
But Karen, your town looks awesome in snow! :-)
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02/18/2007 02:34:42 PM · #909 |
ok, to answer some of the questions on my pics:
the sun thing - i just shoot into it,a nd that's what happens. i can only assume the different star effects have something to do with the aperture.
 this one had a polarising filter when i shot it.
to get all the detail in shaded areas i use screen layers, as i find dodging and burning alter the colour too much.
all the shots (except Day 3 - no nap, which is a lensbaby) in this series are with my 17-85 kit lens. any blur that looks fancy is gaussian blur added in pp, usually as a masked duplicate layer, after all the other pp is done and i've flattened the image.
the holga action is available on the adobe exchange website, whcih has all kinds of stuff, developed by users, for all kinds of adobe things. it mimics the look of pictured from holga cameras, a cheap, medium format chinese camera from the 60s (?)
i use kubota sloppy borders for the borders. i like them as they've been scanned from real rebate borders printed in darkrooms or from real polaroids.
a lot of the filters i use are from alien skin exposure, wihch is a really cool group of filters, designed to look just like specific films or film treatments. as i started out using film, lo these many years ago, i like my digital to get that look to.
and, finally, pinhole. a pinhole 'lens' a tiny pinhole in a sheet of metal shim, rather than a glass lens. they are very slow (mine is f stop 267), and not very crisp, but give depth of field (ok, soft depth of field) that goes forever - from 1 inch to infinity). i picked up my pinhole for $35 secondhand. it's commercially produced, but it's easy to make one of your own.
get a body cap for your camera. drill a 1 inch diameter hole in the centre. take a small pice of brass shim (very very thin metal). stick the blunt end of a needle in to the eraser/rubber on the end of a pencil. this is now your drill. very slowly drill through the centre of the shim with your needle. when you're through, use lavender paper (the finest grade sandpaper available), and buff your hole. drill again, buff again, etc., until you're sure there are no nicks or poky bits that will distort your light beam.
stick it to the back of your body cap, with the hole exactly in the centre. make a lens cap of whateve you think would be good. experiment with exposure, and, voila, a guaranteed route to doing very very poorly in dpc challenges
 
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02/18/2007 03:34:34 PM · #910 |
 day 18.1.
invisible dog? he wishes he was - he's not allowed on beds...
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02/18/2007 04:09:02 PM · #911 |
Day 18
Still keeping up with posting, though I haven't even read the thread in two days (did some commenting, but just a few). Sorry, I will make more of an effort tomorrow, I've benefited from some great comments, and I really appreciate them. Hope I can give some back some worthwhile thoughts!
Rob
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02/18/2007 04:39:11 PM · #912 |
day 18:
and as expected...an extra :-D
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02/18/2007 04:45:19 PM · #913 |
Day 18
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02/18/2007 04:52:48 PM · #914 |
Day 18: No Kidding!
Apparently the US Park Service thinks no one knows that ice is slippery. :)
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02/18/2007 05:10:51 PM · #915 |
I want to announce to all what an idiot I am. I put my entry for trees not in the contest but up into my portfolio and it's been looked at twice. So ... I guess I have to choose a totally different shot or pass up this challenge.
Darn!
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02/18/2007 05:14:13 PM · #916 |
Day 16 (which I seemed to have skipped along the way . . .)
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02/18/2007 05:22:49 PM · #917 |
Originally posted by JerseyGenie:
I want to announce to all what an idiot I am. I put my entry for trees not in the contest but up into my portfolio and it's been looked at twice. So ... I guess I have to choose a totally different shot or pass up this challenge.
Darn! |
immmm pretty sure it'd be okay if you just deleted it from your portfolio and submitted it to the challenge. 2 views is not very many! haha the chances of those same 2 people coming across your photo in the challenge and voting on it is very low. hurry. act fast.
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02/18/2007 05:47:48 PM · #918 |
# 2 for day 18, Window Washer from the outside looking in.
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02/18/2007 07:20:00 PM · #919 |
I was driving down the road and saw this. I had to pull over and get a shot. |
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02/18/2007 07:37:36 PM · #920 |
Day 18
Springfield, MO
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02/18/2007 08:08:17 PM · #921 |
   
Chili and popcorn, pic viewing, and a movie on the boat tonight.
Message edited by author 2007-02-18 23:34:09.
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02/18/2007 08:19:42 PM · #922 |
well my drive to go get pics was unsuccessful I did however find a little puppy wondering around so I picked it up its mine now! lol naa going to see if anyone puts over a lost annoucement and if no one claims it its mine! lol yeah Ill go take some pics later
 Day 18 - Power
Message edited by author 2007-02-18 20:22:08.
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02/18/2007 08:31:40 PM · #923 |
Downtown Charleston offers many horse drawn carriage tours. The guide provides a pretty interesting history of the area, and you get to look at a horse's butt the entire time! :) |
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02/18/2007 08:52:23 PM · #924 |
Day 18
Krawski's Farmers Market
Missed yesterday, but I will see if I have anything I can use. Today I was seeking trees and came on this market. Comments are definitely behind, so I will get to a lot of them tomorrow. |
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02/18/2007 08:58:38 PM · #925 |
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