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Bjørn Rørslett

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Modern Excalibur
« on: June 19, 2015, 11:12:49 »
Old Tales of England immediately went into my Image Visualisation Module when I encountered this scene up in the Arctic Norway. A chainsaw amidst cut-to-form crags and fells? Who should ask for more?

I sprung into 'Automation' shooting mode with the D600 and a 16/3.5 Fisheye-Nikkor AI. Weather was inclement and deteriorating all the time, so the technical quality is not up to what I try to achieve normally. No time for careful tripod work and perfect framing. I was in a hurry.  However, the image stands well enough on its own.


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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2015, 12:08:54 »
So you had to hurry, but then the clouds pressing in are a key part for me in this image. It gives it a dire feel.

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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2015, 12:14:02 »
You got red on you?
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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2015, 12:21:37 »
This shows how one person's visual mind works, and another don't.
I was there, I saw the chainsaw, and I saw the stone pillar, but my mind did not connect the two.

(On a side note - or maybe this should be posted somewhere else: The image is too large, I can not see the whole image until I right click and open it. Even if I have Firefox fullscreen I see only part of the image with a scroll bar underneath. I would prefer the images downsampled here, and see it full size when opened with a right click and "view image").
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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2015, 12:36:29 »
(On a side note - or maybe this should be posted somewhere else: The image is too large, I can not see the whole image until I right click and open it. Even if I have Firefox fullscreen I see only part of the image with a scroll bar underneath. I would prefer the images downsampled here, and see it full size when opened with a right click and "view image").

Here it is downsapled so I see the whole image (in Firefox).
There is no illusion, it just looks that way.

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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2015, 12:39:51 »
Strange. The image display perfectly in Firexfox 38.0.5 on my Win64/64 machine. This is with a Thinkpad W520 equipped with a 1920x1080 pix monitor, if recall correctly not very different from your own?

Right-clicking open the View menu and I can see the full-sized iamge.

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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2015, 12:39:54 »
(On a side note - or maybe this should be posted somewhere else: The image is too large, I can not see the whole image until I right click and open it. Even if I have Firefox fullscreen I see only part of the image with a scroll bar underneath. I would prefer the images downsampled here, and see it full size when opened with a right click and "view image").

Here it is downsapled so I see the whole image (in Firefox).

Strange. I opened this page in Chrome, and there it looks fine.
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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2015, 12:41:56 »
You got red on you?

Nope. But lots of rust particles on the bottom of the tidal pool. Seawater isn't kind to unprotected metalwork.

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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2015, 12:42:52 »
Strange. The image display perfectly in Firexfox 38.0.5 on my Win64/64 machine. This is with a Thinkpad W520 equipped with a 1920x1080 pix monitor, if recall correctly not very different from your own?

Right now I am using a stationary machine with 1600x1200 monitor, Firefox 35.01, Win7/64. In Chrome and even in IE it looks fine. Hmmmm.
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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2015, 12:44:20 »
Perhaps the browser cache contains some obsolete site settings?

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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2015, 12:52:35 »
I updated to 38.05, cleared cache and restared FF. Still the same  :-\
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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2015, 13:00:55 »
No further suggestions available from my side. This is as enigmatic as the depicted artwork itself ....

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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #12 on: June 19, 2015, 20:17:49 »
Font size needs a magnifier all images need scrolling.

Not good for mobile use on Android 4.4.2 with any browser
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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2015, 01:51:11 »
Great image Bjorn!
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Re: Modern Excalibur
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2015, 03:18:49 »
That's something you don't see everyday. Thanks for sharing.
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