Jake's Backdoor Hippie-palooza, 2014 Edition
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try your rocket blower??
pictaker64
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Love the Diner pic...sometimes I miss a few days of your shots and come back to see how good you are....and how bad I am...
...really wonderful work...yours,Moabs,wuds,and all the others truly have the photographers eye...
...really wonderful work...yours,Moabs,wuds,and all the others truly have the photographers eye...
BackdoorArts
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That would require me walking into the other room ... and back again. LOL
Yeah but I bet you could do it if you reaaaaly wanted to.
Whiskeyman
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time to start buying your bird food by the bale.
The deer down here in Florida used to steal full-leaf chewing tobacco when it was left out. (Red Man and Beech Nut seemed to be favorites.)
It's too expensive to use as deer feed now.
WM
Whiskeyman
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BackdoorArts
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There are many things I could, and probably should, do if I could just make myself really want to. LOL
Love the Diner pic...sometimes I miss a few days of your shots and come back to see how good you are....and how bad I am...
I really appreciate the compliment, because whatever eye I have is not something that came naturally. I've spent years as a mimic and as a student of others, and I still am. Two years ago I began a conscious effort to slow down and force myself to really look at the ordinary - to find the things that we all overlook unless we are purposefully looking for them. Some of these things are the little things that make a great picture ordinary because we didn't bother to avoid them when shooting (a stray car, power lines, etc.). And many require that we move our eye from where it is to where it isn't - either lower our perspective 2-3 feet, move a couple yards left or right, climb on top of something, or just get closer instead of zooming in. I've spent hours going through 500px and Flickr Explore noticing, not what others declared "great" but what caught my eye - photos that I look at and say, "I could have shot something like that at (insert place here) if I'd only taken my time and thought about it!", or "I really like that and never thought to try something like that - now I will".
It's a forever learning curve, and we constantly refine our skills. So you're not a "bad" photographer, you're an underdeveloped photographer. So when you look at your own work and say, "God, that's awful!!", know that we all do it. The key is not just to pitch it but to look at it and figure out what it is that you did or didn't do that made it so unpleasing when you thought it would be something different. For me, 9 times out of 10 it's because I didn't take the time required to just do it right - I snapped and moved on instead of slowing down, really looking, and finding the picture in the scene in front of me. I'd heard my brother and his photographer friends often use the phrase "Making Pictures" and it struck me how different that is than "Taking Pictures", which is merely shooting snapshots. "Making pictures" is where the art is, because you're extracting the extraordinary from the ordinary.
BackdoorArts
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Maybe that's not such a bad thing.
Ours doesn't seem to mind the smell of a good cigar.
Whiskeyman
Senior Member
Maybe that's not such a bad thing.
Ours doesn't seem to mind the smell of a good cigar.
If it lights one up, you have to post a photo!!
But, shhhhhhh,.... we won't let PETA know.Wow... wow... wow... wow... wow... wow... and... WOW! That last one is my fave of the bunch!
BackdoorArts
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2014-060:
Thankfully since I've had little time to think about taking pictures this week my new friend has made it easy by posing 5 feet away from my kitchen window. We had some pears that were "old", so she got a treat. Thankfully, she's figured out that she's not supposed to poop on the deck (she leaves, poops, and comes back, believe it or not), but she still hasn't learned to chew with her mouth closed.
She's also learned the "tripod trick". LOL
Thankfully since I've had little time to think about taking pictures this week my new friend has made it easy by posing 5 feet away from my kitchen window. We had some pears that were "old", so she got a treat. Thankfully, she's figured out that she's not supposed to poop on the deck (she leaves, poops, and comes back, believe it or not), but she still hasn't learned to chew with her mouth closed.
She's also learned the "tripod trick". LOL
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BackdoorArts
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2014-061: Part 1
Ran out to get the Sunday paper and told the Mrs. that I'd "be a little while". Decided I wasn't coming home until I found something to shoot.
Stop 1, fuel. I almost never hit the fast food chains, but when I do it's for a breakfast sandwich, today with a side of candid (LR-only edit).
Ran out to get the Sunday paper and told the Mrs. that I'd "be a little while". Decided I wasn't coming home until I found something to shoot.
Stop 1, fuel. I almost never hit the fast food chains, but when I do it's for a breakfast sandwich, today with a side of candid (LR-only edit).
BackdoorArts
Senior Member
2014-061: Part 2
Stop 2 was Hampton, NJ. I've been meaning to drive through here because I remember there being some really interesting homes. Was disappointed because apparently I must have been seeing things. But when I turned down a side street I ran into a couple things that were far less uninteresting.
Rockafellas - A Steakhouse meets Local Bar that I believe "special'd" themselves to death.
Diesel & Throwaway Virgins
Reading is Fun-damental
Stop 2 was Hampton, NJ. I've been meaning to drive through here because I remember there being some really interesting homes. Was disappointed because apparently I must have been seeing things. But when I turned down a side street I ran into a couple things that were far less uninteresting.
Rockafellas - A Steakhouse meets Local Bar that I believe "special'd" themselves to death.
Diesel & Throwaway Virgins
Reading is Fun-damental
BackdoorArts
Senior Member
2014-061: Part 3
Stop 3 was an old church and cemetery just beyond town. The church has seen some better days, but seems spic-and-span on the inside. It was set up for Christmas, but I can't honestly say if it was this Christmas or last.
Open For Summer
Wear & Tear
Old Stones
Empty Pews
Stop 3 was an old church and cemetery just beyond town. The church has seen some better days, but seems spic-and-span on the inside. It was set up for Christmas, but I can't honestly say if it was this Christmas or last.
Open For Summer
Wear & Tear
Old Stones
Empty Pews
wud
Senior Member
Love the Diner pic...sometimes I miss a few days of your shots and come back to see how good you are....and how bad I am...
You are NOT bad. Not at all. You do very good sunsets and birds, amongst other.
pictaker64
Senior Member
I have no idea why but my local Burger King has a sign up on the drivethru window that says no video or still pictures...
BackdoorArts
Senior Member
That's likely because of YouTube pranks where people in cars would people in cars would mess with the drive-thru folks, including throwing drinks back in their faces, and stick the video of it online. This was one of those things where I had no intention of shooting anything until the girl kept handing things out one at a time while the Mom passed it back to a car-full of kids.
Thanks, Mai. It's actually got a faint Selenium tinting to it. Good catch!!
I was actually quite pleased with it, particularly given that I was shooting blind holding the camera above my head against the window.
BackdoorArts
Senior Member
2014-062:
Could be another week of me not getting out anywhere, but just in case, I've provided an outlet to prevent you from critter pics all week. Both shots with the D600 and Sigma 105mm macro.
Your Move
Could be another week of me not getting out anywhere, but just in case, I've provided an outlet to prevent you from critter pics all week. Both shots with the D600 and Sigma 105mm macro.
Your Move