Indecent Exposure Podcast 63: Intentional exhaustion
A sporting look at your sports photos and what the heck is a rangefinder, anyway?
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EPISODE 63
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Hello guys,
I'm back and I wanted to let you know that I've listened to every show in the weeks that I didn't submit any images.
A friend asked me what is a rangefinder and I couldn't truly give him a definite answer and I want to ask you: what is a rangefinder? From what I've understood rangefinders don't have a mirror so what's the difference between a digital rangefinder and [Micro] 4/3 camera? What's so special about a rangefinder and why do they cost that much?
Allex
Senior Editor Lori Grunin has been covering digital imaging for two decades, but her memory's kind of sketchy on the details. You can hear about it every week on Indecent Exposure, the podcast she co-hosts with Matt Fitzgerald.
Lori Grunin has been an avid photographer for almost 30 years, and spent the past 15 attempting to master every aspect of technology.
Matt Fitzgerald has been involved with digital camera technology and the photo industry for more than 15 years. Matthew's background includes work as a professional photographer, a technical representative, and a repair technician.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/3942921071/in/pool-indecentexposure My first choice, already a winner on ModelMayhem
Others, including a volleyball one that was taken 30 hours after the contest closed:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/3943697910/in/pool-indecentexposure/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/3942920945/in/pool-indecentexposure/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/3942921253/in/pool-indecentexposure/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/3942822159/in/pool-indecentexposure/
Thanks. Comments welcome
Mike
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37791728@N07/3944403211/
Which was derived from this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37791728@N07/3944381885/
Highgloss
markitect
Here is my submission for the photo contest this week on geometric shapes. The picture is of the top part of an extension to the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM), which was designed to have a nautical look over looking the western shore of Lake Michigan. I call it "Sail Away!"
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/_lattVGVPOaQOqf7lAKeKQ?feat=directlink
More information on the MAM architecture can be found at: http://www.mam.org/info/architecture.php
Regards,
B Quad
This is not a mirror image, it is a mirrored design. The coolest part is that the "wings" actually move (open & close) and provide different lighting inside. This photo has them in the open position.
It is worth doing a search for Calatrava's designs - very cool stuff... for an engineer! (technically he is not an architect)
Here is a link to other images of this museum:
http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/milwaukeeart/index.htm
Markitect
Can't believe I'd missed this Calatrava work before, thanks for showing it off to us.
www.flickr.com/photos/leeadc/2478396747
Lee.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcroberts/3904334764/sizes/l/in/set-72157622195966041/
I went and pulled one from the past. A lack of time this week, work exploded all over me.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmacke/3285380195
This is an interior wall at the Cranbrook Science Institute and it's huge.
Keith
Here's my entry for this week's Geometry
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bloodless/3945975833/
In case you're wondering it's a wasp hive that I found inside a lamp that had this glass that reflects and gives this nice effect.
Don't worry, I didn't get stung
Markitect
http://www.flickr.com/photos/madmarv/3899616592/
P.S. I haven't listened to this week's eppy yet but I'm assuming "geometry" is open to our interpretation. I.e. you said "geometry" not "geometric shapes" so if my pic doesn't fit any conventional description but still has that something that catches my eye.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobmcclenahan/3946480812/
I finally settled upon a pretty simple (and hopefully not too dull!) image with very basic shapes and a ton of negative space:
http://picasaweb.google.com/jamesey/BayAreaPhotos#5384692907955488274
The image just prior to it in the album is the same basic shot, with a rather different perspective.
No matter how abstract an image I could crop from my many (many) shots of building facades, I couldn't manage to compose any shot that said 'geometry' rather than 'architecture', so I finally gave up trying to emulate the more successful entries this week by others who tried similar approaches. I toyed with using shadows that created lines and shapes across the ground, but the images I worked with all looked too flat and lifeless - bad composition on my part, oops. This image was the purest one I had where ornamentation was more or less stripped from the image, leaving shapes and lines behind, while still being an interesting-to-look-at photo. At the time, I felt irked that I didn't have a good flash to fill in the ornamentation on the ceiling that, as shown here, came out totally black, but for this assignment the black helps frame the shapes and doesn't detract from the simple forms; the heavily ornamented ceiling definitely would have greatly deemphasized the geometry and would instead have highlighted the stonework.
Given that we just had an 'architecture' contest not too long ago, I really had to fight my impulse to go with another photo that was primarily architectural rather than geometric, but hopefully this photo qualifies, simple though it is.
- I missed the 'editing' assignment, so I figured I would elaborate a little extra on this one to make up for it! :)
and noticed a lot of purple fringing in the upper half of the skylight. I don't *usually* notice this problem with my camera, but it appears very distinct in this particular photo given the post-processing I did to the (originally) underexposed image.
I could scour forums and specialty websites to find an answer to this, but I figured you might be a more direct route: Is there a way to remove fringing like this from photos in post-processing/Photoshop? This isn't often a big problem, but I have definitely noticed it before, and didn't know if there was any relatively simple fix beyond the stereotypical-gear-snob's reply of, 'Get a better camera.'
-james
Spiral bridge:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/cnet/spiralbridge.jpg
I usually don't experiment with much modification, but I thought I would try this time (since it is more about shape). I have PS-CS3, used the black & white tool, fiddled with the conversion of each color, allowed the sepia tone, went into shadow/highlight (love this tool) & played around.
Here is the original:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/cnet/IMG_3050small.jpg
and another color option that I decided not to use:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/cnet/IMG_3050TU-small.jpg
This is not what I wanted to submit. I wanted to buck the system & go with a geomerty shot from nature... a dew covered spider web. Turns out that is harder to find than you might think. There is always one between the stop sign and a bush at the entrance to my neighborhood. I guess he is hunting elsewhere this week.
Markitect
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30978872@N03/3948272677/
Thanks again for all,
grace
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chaseparker/3946132531/in/set-72157622442564046
http://www.mikekukielka.com/gallery/v/Photo+Contest+Entry/Geometry.jpg.html
Thanks for looking, feedback is very welcome!
-Michael Kukielka
Rochester Hills, MI
I Enjoyed the colors of this shot, they seem to stick with me. Did you adjust them? Seems it was taken near evening, does the door face north? Good luck with this entry!
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/lPI-ig2cMekAGRMmNi5k1w?feat=directlink
Anthony Caglio
Phoenix, AZ
http://randomsvx.deviantart.com/art/How-Shading-Adds-Dimension-138044371
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11061372@N07/3949530298/in/photostream/
Although I was also considering this photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11061372@N07/3948750369/
Try to view them as large as possible. For some reason, I can't get the stated resolution to show up on my computer.
-ChewDawg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimster007/3949462739/
Also considered this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimster007/3949462581/in/photostream/
Been listening for a while, but this is my first entry.
Jim
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8209272@N07/3952063726/sizes/o/in/set-72157622324374887/
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by DetroitBORG
September 24, 2009 9:10 PM PDT
- Here are some additional geometry submissions.
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Showing 1 of 2 pages (41 Comments)Again, this is shot through my front door.
http://www.mikekukielka.com/gallery/v/Photo+Contest+Entry/Door+Geometry.JPG.html
And this is a LED night light which has an interesting diffuser geometry.
http://www.mikekukielka.com/gallery/v/Photo+Contest+Entry/Geometry+of+Light.JPG.html