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Anirban Halder

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Lonesome town
« on: July 24, 2016, 13:27:13 »
People and streets of Grand Marais. Continuation of series: http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php/topic,3923.msg59442.html
All these photos were shot within 2 blocks radius along the same street.

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11. Sorry about the repost. But since it was shot on the same streets, the series felt incomplete without this one.
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Re: Lonesome town
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2016, 14:34:06 »
Lovely place and colors.
I like the last one very much.
Jealous of that white/blue car and trailler.
The distortion in the first one is quite bad. I didn´t care much for this some years ago, but after reading so many complaints it started to bothers me too!
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Re: Lonesome town
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2016, 15:03:38 »
I always appreciate your sense of color which seems to be deeply related with the Indian culture and tradition and is reflected in this series really nicely.

The steep perspective of super wideangles works very well with the brilliant colors.  Maybe #6 is my favorite here.
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Re: Lonesome town
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2016, 16:05:54 »
Lovely place and colors.
I like the last one very much.
Jealous of that white/blue car and trailler.
The distortion in the first one is quite bad. I didn´t care much for this some years ago, but after reading so many complaints it started to bothers me too!
Thank you Aguinaldo. I happen to like the first one because of distortion.  :D I find certain photos become more compelling with distortion present in it.

I always appreciate your sense of color which seems to be deeply related with the Indian culture and tradition and is reflected in this series really nicely.

The steep perspective of super wideangles works very well with the brilliant colors.  Maybe #6 is my favorite here.
Thank you Akira. India has little too much color everywhere.  :D  :D
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Re: Lonesome town
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2016, 17:06:19 »
Aguinaldo and Akira, summed up the photos nicely!
I think that you have mastered the blue color in such a way that the rest of the colors simply sing :)
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« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2016, 21:19:15 »
Somehow I like #5 and #9 very much. These off colors set me back into some old time film days.
You put some filters to very good use here I guess. Thanks for sharing.
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« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2016, 22:16:37 »
Very nice series, Anirban albeit a bit incoherent because of the different post-processing.  I like especially the 'weirdness' of #2.  ;)

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« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2016, 23:22:18 »
Somehow I like #5 and #9 very much. These off colors set me back into some old time film days.

Frank, interestingly your favorites here look like the closest to your snapshot images in terms of the style.
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Re: Lonesome town
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2016, 03:38:20 »
Thank you for the kind words Jakov, Frank & John.

... Anirban albeit a bit incoherent because of the different post-processing. 
It did cross my mind John as well John. I've added a mental note.  :)
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« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2016, 04:16:11 »
Frank, interestingly your favorites here look like the closest to your snapshot images in terms of the style.

which images are you referring too?

I see a relaxed attitude prevalent here not a textbook design.
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« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2016, 04:30:43 »
which images are you referring too?

I see a relaxed attitude prevalent here not a textbook design.

I was referring to the images #5 and 9 you liked.  To me, both carries the atmosphere that I feel from your recent street snaps.
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« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2016, 04:37:01 »
sometimes it is one's own echo one understands best
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Re: Lonesome town
« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2016, 12:08:31 »
it sall written about your super colour work, so I only can add me to the list of people who like these pictures.
My fav is the car with the canoe
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« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2016, 02:57:35 »
A delightful series. It appears to be a location from 40 years ago. Sort of an old fashioned look about everything except for the modern cars. But then there is that old turquoise and white station wagon with the old pull trailer. Too cool!!

(I have not seen a Ben Franklin store since I was a kid.)

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Re: Lonesome town
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2016, 04:22:18 »
Thank you Thomas. Glad you like that canoe shot.

Andrea - photography is so much more enjoyable when it evokes a response like this. Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed this series.
**"Five and dime" store Ben Franklin - they are now owned by a Wisconsin based company.


#12. Lot of Scandanavian-American footprints in this part of the country. Such as "Uff-da!"  :D
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