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08/26/2006 11:19:10 AM · #1
I was just browsing when I came across this shot:
by my favourite photographer jjbeguin

now I must admit I am a bit embarrassed as I recently entered this shot:


I had no idea...but am sure that I have seen this shot before, and must have been subconsciously influenced...my shot is not as good, but that isn't my point..the similarities are there...
I just want to come clean.

If something like this has happened to you post the shots.
08/26/2006 11:23:54 AM · #2
Poeple often use themes and ideas gleaned from other sources. I recently tried a liquid splash shot for color on color inspired by the ones seen here on DPC.



I tried to add a little twist to it by having another element in addtion to the splash, but the idea was not mine alone.

One of my higher scores too.


08/26/2006 11:27:19 AM · #3
no reason to be embarrassed
i never saw jj s wheat before and posted this a while ago
just regard it as good company
to be unique in a choice of topic is almost an illusion i think

08/26/2006 08:40:30 PM · #4
and there is this beautiful shot that feels completely different...point well taken Wiel.

08/26/2006 08:46:27 PM · #5
Where did hear this...

"These days you can't create new photo ideas... you can only enhance other's"

Hmmm... I think that's true. I should say sometimes photos obviously look the same... but most... they are just ideas for others to bring out in better ways :)

my 2 cents :)
08/29/2006 08:21:59 PM · #6
now i think it over
i think i had that experience
im pretty sure somehow xion's 'post swing' made me click the shutter at this scene
they both tell about childhood and both have shadows as a visual plus
for the record i really think xions image has far more quality o


08/29/2006 08:30:13 PM · #7
bucket, when I saw your picture in the zen challenge, I immediately thought of jjbeguin's shot, but here is my comment:

the wheat gives in,
becomes.

jjbeguin's wheat does NOT give in. It is amazingly static. Yours is alive in a zen sort of way. I love both shots.
08/29/2006 08:33:51 PM · #8
Bucket, I loved your shot in zen and while never having seen jjbeguin's shot until now I also love that one too. The thing is both are VERY different. Your's actually looks like a photograph where jjbeguin's looks like something created from a scratchboard. I think both are rather impressive, IMO.
08/29/2006 08:44:13 PM · #9
I'll (24th or whatever number we're up to) everyone else. I live near Washington, DC, but I have no qualms about entering as many shots as I like of memorials that have been photographed thousands or millions of times. :)

Yours was inadvertent, but it's also fine to do it deliberately.

I took what I learned from Hughletheren's excellent tutorial about wine glass refraction shots

and applied it in the B&W in Color Challenge:


I missed a couple of things, so I plan to do it again for a future challenge while cleaning those up.
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