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Line Vedel on the 14th green during Wednesday's practice round at the Ricoh Women's British Open Golf Championship 2014.
gundam hazel line art
original picture: www.flickr.com/photos/ninjascience/265412639/
more painted line arts here: mystical-mii.blogspot.com/search/label/Line Art
UNIFIL Belgian Battalion engineers clearing access to Blue Line from mines in order to open a path to B-52. 13 May 2010.
Creative Exposure:
As we didn’t know a lot about camera exposure yet at the time I took this picture I didn’t adjust most of the settings. I had the camera mode on P as standard and an ISO of 1600 as I shot this picture inside the metal shop. I did zoom in though to focus the camera more on the wood spiral, make the background more blurry to prevent it from being distracting and hereby emphasised the wood spiral.
Elements and Principles of Design:
First of all I want to refer to the composition of the shot as I used the manual focus lock to get the wood spiral into a point of interest according to the rule of thirds. It is nice that at least part of the metal plate which the wood spiral is laying on is also in the area of interest and therefore crisp.
Obviously the curved lines of the wood spiral build a nice contrast to the rather straight lines that create the form of the metal block. Those give the picture a sense of stability, regularity and order while the curved lines add beauty, elegance and charm and make the whole image smoother. The curved lines of the wood spiral are also the leading line. As the angle on which I shot the metal block is rather unusual and it’s lines aren’t vertical and horizontal but diagonal which makes the whole composition more interesting by forcing the eye to follow the lines across the image. It’s form is enhanced by shadows which make its three different dimensions length, depth and width more obvious. The meeting point of their three lines is still on one line with the wood spiral and therefore in the area of interest and nice and crisp. The metal block probably once was a geometric box with sharp edges but the many years of usage smoothened them and added some cuts so I would now call a an organic form.
As the wood spiral is the only thing on the metal block there’s not a lot of variety in the picture, which would’ve made the image more interesting by keeping the eye moving around the piece a lot more, but would’ve taken the focus from the wood spiral. To prevent that, I shot a still life with an empty area surrounding my main object to create the feeling of space, which helps to put all the emphasis on it.
To add more contrast and take away unnecessary distractions in the background I experimented with the Clone Stamp Tool in Photoshop to eliminate all the other obvious colour spots except for the wooden spiral. But I still wanted to keep the some colour and not totally convert the background into black and white because when I tried that it looked very cold and cool, there was too much contrast and I missed especially the warmer yellow and orange colour touches on the metal. So instead I covered the two main bright spots in the background and then boosted up the saturation on the yellow of the wood spiral.
As the wood spiral and the metal block (for most parts) are crisp you can see the fine lines that make out the structure of the cropped wood and the smoothed out cuts and indentations on the metal block that make out their texture. It makes the image appealing to the sense of touch which helps to make the photograph look more realistic and enhances the three-dimensional feel.
Lighting:
As this picture is shot in the metal workshop the main source of light is unfortunately the top lighting, but a rather soft shadow of the wood spiral as well as the dark shadow on the facing side of the metal block also indicate some softer lighting from the back. Nevertheless I had my ISO on 1600 to lighten up the whole image a little bit.
Post Production:
Resizing
Unsharp mask to sharpen the edges a little bit and make the image more crisp
Use of curves to add contrast
Experimented in with the Clone Stamp Tool in Photoshop to eliminate other colour spots in the picture other than the wooden spiral
Boost up saturation of yellow
Critique:
After another month of photography lessons I know a lot more especially about the right lighting. If I was to redo the shot I would try to use diffused side lighting rather than harsher top lighting. Also I would try to eliminate the colour and form distractions in the background right on the set either by putting them to the side or by using my new gained knowledge about the AS camera mode, the opening of the lens and therefore blur the background even more. Hereby I could avoid using the Clone Tool which unfortunately put a slight foggy cover over the background and forced me to add a big black area at the top of the image which I dislike. Otherwise I’m more than satisfied with the composition of my shot and the focus lock. The important parts are crisp and I love how you can see the fine texture on the wood and get the smooth feel of the metal block as if you were actually touching it.
Photographic Styles:
Even though I don’t know a lot about photographic styles I would probably put this image into still life as it has a calming emotion and there is no action.
09 025 D4113 "Class 09"
The Lavender Line formed part of the Lewes to Uckfield Railway when it was opened on 18 October 1858. Within 12 months of its opening, the branch had been integrated into the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) to safeguard the company’s interests east of its London to Brighton main line. Ten years from its opening, Isfield saw through workings from Brighton to Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge, via a new Uckfield–Groombridge link. The Bluebell Railway originally branched off the Lavender Line at Culver Junction, near Culver Farm between Lewes and Barcombe Mills. This junction closed in 1958 with the closure of the East Grinstead to Lewes line.
Following its closure in 1969 the track was removed in 1970 and the station at Isfield was neglected and became overgrown. After fourteen years of disuse, it was auctioned in June 1983 by British Rail and sold for £60,500 to Dave and Gwen Milham who restored the station and signal box and laid the first sections of track. Ownership of the station passed from the Milham family in 1991 and it is run by the Lavender Line Preservation Society.
The line was named 'The Lavender Line' with a historical connection in mind: A.E. Lavender and Sons were the local coal merchants who had operated from the station yard
It has been over 30 years since I recorded a working at what used to be known as Coseley Deepfields. The light was awful and I changed the ISO setting to 800 to compensate! It worked! 60044 has been a regular on workings from Wolverhampton steel terminal in recent days. Here it is working the 14.54 to Rotherham Masboro 3/3.
Earlier there were 2 super Tugs on the terminal with 60024 working the 13.03 to Immingham.
A Chorus Line at the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek, Colorado on 1.4.11.
Photo (c) 2011 Zach Mahone.
The VPAC is a project of the Vail Valley Foundation. Complete event details can be found at www.vilarpac.org.
Yes, my photo friend Mary Jo at the ready for a photo op.
In the middle of the street car - are 2 doors on each side allowing for barrier free access for handicapped people and seniors. The front and the back of the car has more seating that you have to step up to.
The Q View - Finally went to downtown Detroit to check out the new Q-Line..... a street car that travels 3.3 miles (6.6 loop) up Woodward from Congress street to just north of Grand Boulevard. The cars use a combination of overhead power lines and lithium batteries. The route has 20 stops with 12 stations. In operation since May, the ride is free until September.
Detroit, Michigan
Judges commendation: "The principal reason why our judges identified the winner in this category can be summed up by one word ... quality. It is a company with enviable reliability and punctuality records which are consistently well above average expectations. It's not the only reason why it has won, but it is certainly important that it pays particular attention to looking after its staff and, as a result, has one of the lowest turnovers of driving staff in the UK."
Posted behind the driver in front of the two right front seats of OPL08 (YJ62 FXK).
All almost all BNSF southbound trains on the BNSF Gateway Subdivision use DPUs. These two units BNSF GEVO 7247 and CN SD75I 5729 are the DPUs for BNSF X7400S at Almanor CA on April 16, 2009. The cars in background behind CN 5729 are the cars from the train BNSF X7546N that BNSF X7400S met at Almanor.