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Images => Themes, Portfolio Series, PaW, or PaM => Topic started by: Jan Anne on February 24, 2016, 01:30:12
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Statues are seen and photographed by many and it can be rather challenging to make an image which stands out from the crowd.
Playing with available and / or added light is one of the tools to do so and this themed topic is just about that.
So, please show us how you used light to make an ordinary statue look a little more interesting.
Here's a few of mine, hope you like them.
Every Saint needs a Halo
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5567/14885860468_37db3729dc_o.jpg)
Sony a7S with Voigtlander 35/1.2, Amsterdam 2014
Tha Bouncer
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5553/15083213345_07f91edb49_o.jpg)
Sony a7S with Voigtlander 15/4.5 LTM, Amsterdam 2014
Chilling @ the Beach
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5508/9277334221_1ab5879cba_o.jpg)
D800E with Nikkor 50/1.8 Ai-S Japanese Pancake, Spain 2013
When visiting Erik in Copenhagen
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5202/5313932480_0d35a7e1fc_o.jpg)
D3s with Eriks 24/1.4G, Denmark 2010
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5206/5313925250_4cb5ea8f39_o.jpg)
D3s with 50/1.2, Denmark 2010
Silver Scars
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8358/8411755829_fe9283a915_o.jpg)
D800E with 35/1.4G, Barcelona 2013
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a few hours in Rome.
(http://www.pbase.com/andrease/image/133806465/original.jpg)
(http://www.pbase.com/andrease/image/133806475/original.jpg)
(http://www.pbase.com/andrease/image/133806486/original.jpg)
(http://www.pbase.com/andrease/image/133806489/original.jpg)
rgds,
Andy
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great topic. Thank you JA!
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5655/20702001252_698bd96245_b.jpg)
Pieta, notre dame de Cunault, 16 century polychrome sculpture.
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7285/15803865594_766b7a45b9_o.jpg)
Arnhem
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/388/19552093126_f5443413e2_b.jpg)
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2903/14528221055_288384acca_o.jpg)
Df 85/1.4ais
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7420/14051081275_153a9190f5_b.jpg)
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The role of light is to reveal the three-dimensional in the flat image.
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Here are some of mine:
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A local statue in Uxbridge!
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Mike the statue you posted suggests hunger and family, man at war?
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Fons, I think the idea was to celebrate the family and family life! The statue was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth on a visit to Uxbridge!
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Middelheimmuseum Antwerp, full of statues
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2822/12819873865_66673de485_o.jpg)
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Interesting topic.
Jann, your "man without arms looking through the window" and "silver scars" are something else... One I can relate to, making me "feel" for him. Intense. The other, spectacular. Great impact adds to the the statue giving it extra power and accentuating your vision of it. Thanks for sharing!
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JA - your photos are very very inspiring. Thanks for starting this thread and sharing the photos. Your photos make me go to go out and take pictures.
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Andy - beautiful photos. I particularly like 1st and 4th one.
Arend - I very much like your framing. Wonderful shot.
Fons, I like how you made use pf human elements in your statue photos. Very interesting!
Frank - I like the third one if your series and second one (very cool use of painting with statue. I will remember that).
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Frank - I like the third one if your series and second one (very cool use of painting with statue. I will remember that).
Yes!
If you do not learn as your mother commands, you might loose your head to the despotism of a woman (Herodias in this case) ...
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Thanks Anirban, here is one more from the same park
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3659/3444891657_7075feab30_b.jpg)
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1535/25160473912_cafebdfca7_o.jpg)
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Love the doggie Fons.
From somewhere in Germany from 2007! going by the car registration it could be Koblenz?
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Madrid, near the Palace.
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That is a special light, Hans. Nice.
The Autumn-sun escaped the clouds to give some light
Church Saint-Denis, Goirkestraat Tilburg.
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a day in Copenhagen...
proboscis, dragons & veins (https://flic.kr/p/uRHHkD) by lumofisk (https://www.flickr.com/photos/114702672@N04/), on Flickr
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Outline.
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Idaho 1996, Sunshine Mine
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Mixed light.
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admiring.
Gruga Park - admiring the sculpture (https://flic.kr/p/s5Bb6c) by lumofisk (https://www.flickr.com/photos/114702672@N04/), on Flickr
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admiring.
Great one Thomas :)
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The system swallowed another post, so here I go again:
(evening sun, orange light, nearly a complementary color contrast. But. The structural features of the building are quite intense. In the BW I brightened the BG to get better separation)
D3 & 1.8/85G @1.8
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At St Pancras Station.
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British Museum
(https://armando-m.smugmug.com/Travel/England/i-7TGN8sT/0/X3/_DSC5355-2-X3.jpg)
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Great one Thomas :)
Thanks, Lars :)
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At St Pancras Station.
Very nice! Absolute beautiful rendition.
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Thank you, Thomas.
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Lei'd
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1517/25170693210_6195cbe4c4_b.jpg)
a detail of a J Bosch painting as a sculpture
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close-up
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1692/24836072014_7db54c64d6_o.jpg)
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1476/24836230204_96b5b5aa88_o.jpg)
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interesting thread!
My statue is that of "Jan Van Riebeeck" - (kind of our Christopher Columbus) who landed in Cape Town in 1652, and set up shop here.
We have a pair - of "jan and maria" statues in Cape Town.
however - while we believed for centuries this is what they looked like - ............... :o
The Statues were made after portraits - but the well known portraits of Jan and Maria van Riebeeck are in fact not the Van Riebeecks at all, but the Vermuyden-kettinghs. The face on the previous South African R10 note, too, was not Van Riebeeck’s but Vermuyden’s. No image of Maria van riebeeck exists. ‘Her’ statue in Cape Town in fact shows the wife of the chairman of the Dutch committee that helped to organise the 1952 Van Riebeeck festival in Cape Town. Quite funny me thinks ;D
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Fons - I love the woman's expression in #37!!
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thanks Chip
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The Whaling Monument in Sandefjord, created by Knut Steen.
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Some great statues here. One from Vienna, flashed.
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1483/25196396850_f3077f0143_o.jpg)
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Now and then.......
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/Duke_1/8af74e24-a586-40c9-81e9-78c37751f62f_zpsilzrbxgn.jpg)
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Just a few statues (rupas) from our dharma center here in Michigan, taken with the Nikon D810.
Mahasiddha Tilopa
Amitabha Buddha
Gampopa
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Miochael: you took intensive care of these statues
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1535/25102985773_923207f954_b.jpg)
one of many statues in Den Bosch this one's on the river Dieze, the river that runs through and under the old city
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1505/25554093461_6d6bcbb5be_o.jpg)
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That statue of Miet van Puyenbroek (Fighter for Woman rights in an hostile catholic industrial environment and elected as Tilburger of the Century) is a big chunck of white Italian marble with a weight of more than 8.000 kilo. Normally it's very very grey. The reflection of the sun in the opposite windows gave it however a special glow.
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Musicians in Vienna
(http://otoien.zenfolio.com/img/s10/v100/p2114751764.jpg)
D40x IR-720nm
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Two from Stockholm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1473/24632048744_b1422bee40_b.jpg)
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1497/25236401526_7d230afb64_b.jpg)
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Actually backlight for the two statue's of lions, who were the decoration the entrance gate of 'House Moerenburg' in the 14th century. There was no sun, cloudy, so an ideal neutral grey background.
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Very interesting, John spacers; Jyda´s statues come to life, cold and in danger; Øivin musician closeness, honest clear; Fons inclusion of the surroundings is very clever; etc...
Three more:
The boss
The invitation
Cross-looks.
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The invitation
I see exactly the opposite as in she's threatens him to smack him silly ;D ;D
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I see exactly the opposite as in she's threatens him to smack him silly ;D ;D
Invitation game - playing it equally but one wrong move and the smacking starts ::)
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Thanks Paco.
haha, an invitation to smack ? ;)
Great shots !
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7591/27965666275_06069953a4_o.jpg)
park in Geldermalsen i was today, a sculpture more than a statue
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7467/27864612222_cfbda39203_o.jpg)
Arendonk Akademie a collection
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Invitation game - playing it equally but one wrong move and the smacking starts ::)
Thanks Paco.
haha, an invitation to smack ? ;)
Great shots !
I see exactly the opposite as in she's threatens him to smack him silly ;D ;D
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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from Berlin
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I bought this one. panorama through glass. D500, 1.4/35 Ai-S.
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from Berlin
Thomas. Love that shot & edit!!!
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Actually backlight for the two statue's of lions, who were the decoration the entrance gate of 'House Moerenburg' in the 14th century. There was no sun, cloudy, so an ideal neutral grey background.
perfect composition, pls reconsider the position of your watermark for this one.
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Thanks Frank.
Looking back I would have used a different PP like this one for instance...
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Thomas. Love that shot & edit!!!
Thanks, Frank.
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Little Statue.
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(https://c6.staticflickr.com/6/5567/30970683261_d9296eed33_b.jpg)
Carel Willink (https://flic.kr/p/PbLR8B) by Arend (https://www.flickr.com/photos/vermazeren/), on Flickr
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Saint George and the Dragon.
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Santuario de Chimayo, NM. D700 Nikkor-O 35mm f2.
(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/ramseypete/Statue_zpstfse8hve.jpg)
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Santuario de Chimayo, NM. D700 Nikkor-O 35mm f2.
(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/ramseypete/Statue_zpstfse8hve.jpg)
Best use of the light conditions. I like that.
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Today there was a replay of some pictures on a local paper. It was the expo of the work of a very talented artist who does statues with material from the garbage and scrapping.
"Meninas" as in Velazque´s paint.
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This is the statue of a very famous flamenco singer in Seville, Spain. Pretty close to my home. I have revisited and photographed before. I finally like this version.
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Here is how I used some darkness on a statue.
statue.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3933/33082886283_05e2e51744_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Spqrv6)DFJ_4479 (https://flic.kr/p/Spqrv6)
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Santuario de Chimayo, NM. D700 Nikkor-O 35mm f2.
Striking light, beautiful.
Nice example of back light, Jack.
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Thanks John..
Pete
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British Museum
Nice tones and composition Armando!!
I love Black and white and it's makes you think quality about it.
Color is Wow beautiful! Black and white is Wow! with an added lets look further into this image..
IMO.. ;)
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Two from Stockholm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1473/24632048744_b1422bee40_b.jpg)
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1497/25236401526_7d230afb64_b.jpg)
Jyda,
I like the humor taking place in the second photo..
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Good Friday. Crucifix in the local church.
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By the river in Sevilla
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Same statue, two very different interpretations:
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The "masters of light" part of the name puts some preasure... ;D
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Same statue, two very different interpretations:
Wow Frank, the 2nd one of #82 is a masterpiece !!
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James Prescott Joule. The SI unit of energy was named after him. This statue was in the entrance of Manchester City Hall, UK.
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Same statue, two very different interpretations:
Frank, I love the second image, too! Great chiaroscuro!
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just a limb
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Strong impression of this statue in the street in Granada.
Z6, 50mm 1.8s
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Laowa 12/2.8 w/MSC
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a replica in a local church
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Evening light (indirect streetlight)
The Statue of Saint Carolus Borromeus (1538-1584) (one of the 25 statues around the Graveyard in Bredasweg) Charles Borromeo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Borromeo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Borromeo)
More info: https://standbeelden.vanderkrogt.net/object.php?record=NB57ai (https://standbeelden.vanderkrogt.net/object.php?record=NB57ai)
Z7 58/1.4G
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Great to see that somebody's caring! D3X + AIS Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/4.
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At the top of the cathedral
D200 ir, 70-300mm 3.5-5.6 vr
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Z Noct f/0.95, Nikon Z7 II
A rupa (statue) of the Mahasiddha Tilopa. a 'rupa' is a statue that has been filled and blessed.
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This one gets a reaction from me everytime. Santa Catalina castle, Cádiz.
Z6, 135mm 2.8 ai
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Monschau, Paul Maassen
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British Museum
(https://armando-m.smugmug.com/Travel/England/i-7TGN8sT/0/X3/_DSC5355-2-X3.jpg)
Armando, I think from all the stutes in the British museum, this one is the same one I choose in post #55!
Go figure
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Kingsbridge, commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Salcombe lifeboat and volunteers.
2 different takes and editing as I keep struggling with it.
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I may have posted this before although it's a very recent photo. D810 with 180/2.8D lens.
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Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Posted earlier in weekly blog of February 2022
(https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=10305.0;attach=52764;image)
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Local statue group, a recontruction from a old painting.
D5, 58mm 1.4g
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This one gets a reaction from me everytime. Santa Catalina castle, Cádiz.
Z6, 135mm 2.8 ai
Once again, it did.
D3S, 58mm 1.4g
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Statue by Sculptor Henrik Starcke (1899-1973) situated at one edge of 'Spejlsøen' (the Mirror Dam) in the Gardens of the Royal Danish Horticulatural Society (https://bergholt.net/mirror).
Nikon D3 (https://bergholt.net/nikon) & Zeiss Milvus 2 50mm - face distorted by turning the photo upside-down (the original can be seen through the link).
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Einstein Memorial - National Academy of Sciences (Washington, DC)
720nm D7000, 24-120f4