Nice pictures ZED.

Treasure Beach Forum: TB Runnin's: Nice pictures ZED.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By jeannieb on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 08:47 am: Edit Post

Thanks for sharing your pictures with us. I really enjoyed looking at them.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By sentry on Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 10:02 pm: Edit Post

What type of camera do you use Zed? I'm amazed by the vivid colors in your pics like, for ex., #'s 25 and 28.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By From A Photographer on Monday, April 26, 2010 - 02:49 pm: Edit Post

As a photographer, I am sometimes asked what type of camera I use. I own a good camera and several excellent lenses. While these make my job easier, I believe I would still take good photos with a much less expensive camera. Having vivid colors in photographs is a combination of the lighting, the exposure and occasional photo enhancement.
Sentry, I do not say this to diminish your compliments of Zed's fine work or to put you down in any way. I say it for the purpose of educating people a bit about artistic endeavors such as photography. Would you ask an artist what brand of paint he used?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Eric on Monday, April 26, 2010 - 06:19 pm: Edit Post

How much post editing (ie: photoshopping) do you do to these pics, Zed?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By sentry on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 09:25 am: Edit Post

It was just a simple question from a novice who only use the Point and Shoot method From A Photographer. Not everyone who appreciates art is good at the finer points as you apparently are. [edited by tb.net]
Yes, I would ask the artist about his paint, and would hope the artist would be humble enough to answer the question. My experience with artists, is that they actually love when people ask them about their work, and most are appreciative enough to engage in a discussion, even with the uninitiated.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By ZED on Friday, April 30, 2010 - 01:12 pm: Edit Post

YO SENTRY...MI BREDREN FROM THE LUMINOUS LAGOON...HAVE YOU GOTTEN ILLUMINATED YET?

Seriously, I missed seeing these comments, as I haven't scrolled recently for any of the "big issue" items gwan round bout di village.

You seem to be asking about photographic equipment & technique & perhaps vision/spirit.

I'll try to keep this fairly simple... I was exposed, in my younger days, to infrared photography in an aerial reconnaissance capacity.
This gave the photographer & interpreter the ability to pick up the "light-heat" of footsteps or vehicles on the ground surface, especially as it affected the changes that occurred in living plants.
I felt a miracle revealed in life, as though the the earth's "features" & light breathed.
I also did my own darkroom work playing around with filters, dodging & burning parts of the image that needed depth or luminosity, and depending on the tempo of the music that was playing in the darkroom, and how the heat of my fingers purposefully rubbed on the image in the developer gave variations & "truth" to what you imagined when the composition came together.
Not to sound mystical, but when you are in the right frame of mind and soulfully patient and carry around life narratives, memories & poetry, your own personal little breaths of photo-prayers seem to get answered.

For me, light & shadow speak volumes. Photographing during the time of day when the light softens, is revelatory and the serendipity & chance occurrences which balance themselves, as little geometries, are the delight of anyone who "shoots".

As for equipment, eons ago, when I shot film, the Olympus SLRs, with their small bodies & lenses were favourites, & fairly inconspicuous which I like (as Leica range finders were with their hushed click)...Shooting very little now, but more consciously, when I do, use a simple digital point & shoot Panasonic Lumix, which I can palm & doesn't scare anyone thinking you are "stealing their soul".
I typically crop, in camera, exactly what I shoot, trying to duplicate the precise edge-to-edge composition that you expect from from a single lens reflex camera (whether film or digital).

On my Mac computer, there is a "darkroom", called I Photo, in which you are able to do simply with "sliders", the saturations, exposures, colour corrections...that was done with projector & from tray to tray, but now your fingers aren't stinky.

••If I could take this opportunity to thank Rebecca for the Chronicles of portraits, images & events which she records perpetually, and hopefully will be someone's digital memory of how we lived in this time & place.
I would love to call everyone's attention to a particular face which Rebecca imbibed, that is, to me, a physiognomy of our soil, sea, sky & heavens.
But all-in-all, these are our daily theatre of love & reconciliation.

Look in the Photo Gallery: Christmas 09: Image 33: Man in Profile: Striped Shirts

A Good Article on how One(& Another) Photographer/Artist Went About Doing It

www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/design/09cartier.html?scp=2&sq=henri%20cartier-b resson&st=cse


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By sentry on Saturday, May 01, 2010 - 03:22 pm: Edit Post

Good memory there Zed, I had forgotten about the lagoon! You've once again illuminated me with this here subject. I completely share your thoughts re light and shadow, which is what led me to ask the question. Give thanks.