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01/02/2006 07:38:25 AM · #1 |
Just sharing what I found on NikonNet after the latest challenge comes up. Their 'Legends Behind the Lens' featured photographer is Mitchell Funk. I was not familiar with his work before this, but pretty much any of his images would fit perfectly in the current Burst of Color challenge and many of them in the City Life II challenge.
The NikonNet article and Mitchell Funk's website.
David
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01/02/2006 09:02:47 AM · #2 |
| Good examples... nice inspiration! |
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01/02/2006 12:57:45 PM · #3 |
| Im just a bit worried that there will be too much selective de-sat and not enough colorful shots per se. I'd perfer to see more shots like the examples that were shown IMHO. |
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01/02/2006 11:53:50 PM · #4 |
| WOW - that almost hurts my eyes!!! THAT's some vivid color. |
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01/03/2006 12:35:18 AM · #5 |
| great stuff...thanks for sharing.. |
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01/03/2006 12:37:25 AM · #6 |
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01/03/2006 01:02:47 AM · #7 |
That's some really good stuff.. inspiring.
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01/05/2006 04:27:12 PM · #8 |
"Use a colorful impact to offset your subject from the rest of your picture."
In those samples everything is colorful...nothing is offset. |
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01/05/2006 04:51:19 PM · #9 |
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Message edited by author 2006-01-05 17:24:07.
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01/05/2006 04:55:14 PM · #10 |
| Why are people who have a different opinion "Nazi's". I do not have very narrow views on the challenges and would in fact not DNMC photos like the samples given. You better get your smeller fixed. There's no Nazi here. |
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01/05/2006 05:00:41 PM · #11 |
I agree with phylsy...it's gotta set it apart from the background, or else it does not meet the challenge...and I have never been the type that says what does and doesn't meet a challenge, but that sounds really cut and dry to me, personally.
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01/05/2006 05:02:09 PM · #12 |
| there's no actual impact either - like a watermelon exploding or something :þ |
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01/05/2006 05:02:12 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by phylsy7:
"Use a colorful impact to offset your subject from the rest of your picture."
In those samples everything is colorful...nothing is offset. |
I disagree by interpretation. Yes all his pictures are full of color, but the main thing is that the use of color makes many of the subjects in his photos stand out and much more appealing. |
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01/05/2006 05:09:58 PM · #14 |
i was out today, a dreary overcast day and i got no bursts of color. a splash maybe.
I was also thinking selective desat, but i suspect 85.8% of the images will be that.
Vivid colors are what comes to mind. However, white and black are colors too, right?
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01/05/2006 05:16:37 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by ShutterPug:
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Thank you.
Message edited by author 2006-01-05 18:19:44.
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01/05/2006 05:20:47 PM · #16 |
If anything burst of colour should not have a description for the challenge as it would stop people voting low on a good photo which meets the challenge title but is not offset. I also think that the mother challenge should have had a discription as it needs it. But burst of colour is simple:)
Message edited by author 2006-01-05 17:22:14. |
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01/05/2006 05:38:19 PM · #17 |
Mother is about as simple as it gets (to me). A man is not a mother. It does leave it open for out of the box thinking (mother lode, mother of a hangover, etc) which is nice.
The description on Burst of Color is going to cause lots of the same approach i fear - and out of the box thinking will be punished.
perhaps Nazi is not the proper word. Didn;t know they were included in the PC thing now too. Perhaps closed minded is better, for words, not attitude.
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01/05/2006 08:56:14 PM · #18 |
Call me a nazi or closed-minded if you all wish, but I personally feel, and I will repeat that I am ANYTHING but closed-minded in my personal opinion and always reward thinking out side the box, that the description could not be any more precise...
"Use a colorful impact to offset your subject from the rest of the photograph"
So basically, make sure your subject has a colorful impact, which sets it apart from the rest of the photograph. Something that makes it really stand out. No doubt, it could be blue on a yellow background, in which case the colorful impact would offset your subject...but I do not feel that in this case, the way that it's worded that a photo littered with a bunch of different colorful subjects would fit entirely into the description.
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01/05/2006 08:59:32 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by dpaull:
So basically, make sure your subject has a colorful impact, which sets it apart from the rest of the photograph. Something that makes it really stand out. |
Thats funny because I wasn't sure if the subject had to be colorful or the background had to be colorful.
I was thinking a plain subject on a colorful background would be what most would interpreted the challenge as.
But I'm usually wrong.
cheers,
bazz. |
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01/05/2006 11:18:01 PM · #20 |
| I always see mentioned on this web site that people hate selective desat so I figure there will be those that get hammered in the voting, or maybe with this topic people will be a little more understanding! |
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01/06/2006 03:46:47 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
i was out today, a dreary overcast day and i got no bursts of color. a splash maybe.
I was also thinking selective desat, but i suspect 85.8% of the images will be that.
Vivid colors are what comes to mind. However, white and black are colors too, right? |
technically black and white are shades or values, not colors. |
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01/06/2006 04:20:47 AM · #22 |
Originally posted by sir_bazz:
Originally posted by dpaull:
So basically, make sure your subject has a colorful impact, which sets it apart from the rest of the photograph. Something that makes it really stand out. |
Thats funny because I wasn't sure if the subject had to be colorful or the background had to be colorful.
I was thinking a plain subject on a colorful background would be what most would interpreted the challenge as.
But I'm usually wrong.
cheers,
bazz. |
I was actually thinking the exact same thing while reading his reply -- and wondering if he realized he was cutting out at least half of potential entries.
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Actually, in many of Mitchell's photos I feel the color itself is the subject, with the physical objects of the image acting more as plain, everyday props used to display the color.
To each their own interpretation, I suppose.
David
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01/06/2006 04:26:54 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by phylsy7:
"Use a colorful impact to offset your subject from the rest of your picture."
In those samples everything is colorful...nothing is offset. |
Most of the guys work has colour to balance the photo:) and that is one discription of what offset means:)
Offset:
An agent, element, or thing that balances, counteracts, or compensates for something else. are we clear now that these photos are offset?? |
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01/06/2006 07:30:13 AM · #24 |
Another definition for "offset"
2. One thing set off or developed from something else.
Keep an open mind. Don't focus on one aspect of the description when you are voting. |
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01/06/2006 08:14:59 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by sir_bazz:
Originally posted by dpaull:
So basically, make sure your subject has a colorful impact, which sets it apart from the rest of the photograph. Something that makes it really stand out. |
Thats funny because I wasn't sure if the subject had to be colorful or the background had to be colorful.
I was thinking a plain subject on a colorful background would be what most would interpreted the challenge as.
But I'm usually wrong.
cheers,
bazz. |
You know what...you're absolutely correct. I never thought of it that way. Wow, I guess I got owned...it happens.
Either way it's not like I'm saying that I'm going to take a perfectly executed, perfectly composed, photograph of an interesting subject and just because there is nothing that necessarily sets that subject apart from other subjects or so on, vote that photo anywhere below an 8 anyway...heck, I probably won't vote. I haven't voted on a challenge in ages.
But yes, I retract my initial statement because I misinterpreted the words. Sorry.
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