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Images => Life, the Universe & Everything Else => Topic started by: Frank Fremerey on August 16, 2015, 20:29:03
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one of my favorite places
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preparing the text
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we had some medieval players there because 1000 years ago our church is documented to have already been active
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Here I like to have your opinion especially. First or Second version?
Edit: or third?
Edit or v4 or v4f?
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more medieval players. Poor people. It rained all day. Literally.
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Special liking for "preparing the text" because of the backlight, and of the concentrated as well as natural attitude.
Concerning the "old attendee", the difference seems to be the angle, and somehow I am not able to make up my mind. Well, not the second. I'd say the first, the tilt makes the shot look more "human", less architectural, so the pillars seem to play a less prominent role.
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Really nice pics Frank. Well executed
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Airy: The decision #1 was spontaneous at the moment I took the picture. He is a wonderful model.
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Thank you Elsa.
Today was confusing. Some pictures are constructed and work as pre visualized, some are completely different from what I expected.
Then in the evening I took a daring series, shut off rationalism let let myself flow into the pictorial qualities of the world.
Have to download these from the Smart-phone.
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Interesting to see some mediaeval mode of life. Thanks for sharing!
As for the three variations of the portrait, I would prefer #1 for its more natural atmosphere. Compared to #1, the other two looks a bit flat.
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Akira. Thank you. Yes, I felt somehow, that the original choise was best, but I cannot really put my finger into it, there is still something left to wish for. Otherwise I would not have stated the PP effort. Any ideas?
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Frank, you could crop away the upper part with the lighting, unless you consider it the "crown" of the subject. For me it works. 3:2 ratio vertical is not what I prefer, especially on non-tilting monitors. N.B. I often try 5:4 or 4:3, to discover that I did not actually lose anything significant.
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Thank you Airy, also for bringing this up.
I prepared the second set this morning. Here we go with "attendees and participants"
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Agree with Airy. If you focus on the left bottom, that's where the heart of the image is, to my feeling.
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Thank you John. I will prepare the new version in a second...
Here are more participants active in the celebration:
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Set three untilted, set two untilted, now the man with the lamps.
I hope I got you right.... v4 with other crop, v4f with crop plus film EFX from the Nik Collection:
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I really like the medieval people portraits
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I find the green person at the back quite distracting.
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Bruno. Should I recolor her?
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Frank, I suggest to stick with version 1 (at an angle) and remove all of the lights above his head. However I found the incidental fuzzy green lady useful, adding some life and spontaneity. Not really distracting - the old man and his hair (as if electrically laden) are really too attractive.
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Superb series, frank !
All these peoples don't seems to mind being photographed. And there is a very nice atmosphere.
I like the bishop...It's not a genuine one, is it ? ;)
Francis.
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Frank, you could crop away the upper part with the lighting, unless you consider it the "crown" of the subject. For me it works. 3:2 ratio vertical is not what I prefer, especially on non-tilting monitors. N.B. I often try 5:4 or 4:3, to discover that I did not actually lose anything significant.
I'm not fan of the vertical 3:2 frame either: it's too long. However, there are always exceptions to the rule. I still like the original image, because the sense of height seems to be appropriate as a snapshot/portrait in a church. Also, the "crown" and the arch (sorry, I don't know the technical word of the design or the part) in the background looks effective for the same reason.
As for the color, tha last one is too much vibrance/saturation. The modest color of the original keeps its calm, serene feel.
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Thank you all for helpful intervention. Very much appreciated.
Francis. The Bishop is a layman actor from a living history group as are all the others.
The people know me and trust me. I take photos there for 10 years now and visit mass with them nearly every
Sunday for about 5 years. I have all area all time access.
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today, a bit of the rich decoration...
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fascinating pictorial journey Frank - thank you.
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thank you, Mongo.
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today, trinity sunday. D500 & 1.4/24G (most of these @f=1.4) & NX-D (most of them "vivid" Style)
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25 September 2016 / set 1
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25 September 2016 / set 2
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25 September 2016 / set 3
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Frank, wonderful captures, It must have been something special other than regular mass
to many people in white robes and a spectacular use of incense
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Yes, Armando. The main clelebrator was the former Partiarch of Jerusalem S. Seligkeit Patriarch Fouad Twal, we had a special organist and Choir, only appearing in our church at special occasions, although our organists and choirs do not have to hide behind anyone. Our thankful guests were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre
The youngest of all orders founded in the 19th century with 2.800 members (male & female) in Germany and 28.000 worldwide.
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535, 595 are particularly evocative (the light playing with incense smokes or dust)
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Yes. I chose these for Instagram.
Such a mass is special
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PS love the little X100T in these cases. So small. Smashing IQ
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Indeed, excellent IQ.
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Really great series Frank - especially the recent one provides an interesting opportunity to be there as the "fly on the wall" :)
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Sunday in Grevenbroich.
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Frank:
This is a very fine series which tells the story most effectively.
Something that really struck me is how the mediæval head-dresses framing the modern faces have turned them into perfect replicas of the 15th century portraits of their ancestors.
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Frank:
This is a very fine series which tells the story most effectively.
Something that really struck me is how the mediæval head-dresses framing the modern faces have turned them into perfect replicas of the 15th century portraits of their ancestors.
Thank you, Ann
I am Catholic and I visit service on Sundays, yet some expressions of belief seem very strange to me and I feel like on an Ethnographic Expedition. More:
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The sports shooters and hunters. One of the flags reads: for God the emperor and our home country!!!!