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Portrait / Surreal portraits from Africa...

« on: April 16, 2013, 04:17:04 AM »

as seen in the small southern Freestate town of Rouxville. More portraits like this here at...http://thelazytravelphotographer.blogspot.com/

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Street & City / Structures & People of a small Karoo town...

« on: March 27, 2013, 11:21:58 AM »

...called Smithfield. all processed via Nik Color Efex , bleach bypass plug in that I got for free from Google yesterday...Made mostly with the 24 TS and 5d2. More of my images of this town can be seen on my blog here at...http://thelazytravelphotographer.blogspot.com/

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Advice needed: Possibility to improve IQby sending to Canon service department?

« on: March 25, 2013, 04:07:31 AM »

yes its very possible and a good idea.

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Street & City / Re: Images from a 'squatter' camp in South Africa

« on: March 19, 2013, 08:07:01 AM »

Thanks! Yes indeed he was from the SADF or even the 'new' SADF...I will have to ask him when I see him again

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Landscape / Re: 24 tilt & shift dramatic b&w landscapes!

« on: March 15, 2013, 03:40:16 AM »

Thanks all for looking and the positive replies!

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Landscape / Re: Decaying Nature close up...

« on: March 15, 2013, 03:39:14 AM »

Thanks all once again for the comments! I make a living as a professional photographer shooting architecture, interiors, people etc. I have done this since leaving college where I studied photography. I have had a few exhibitions of my work mostly on documentary themes. The 'lazy photographers blog' is mostly about personal images, experiences and experiments. In the commercial world I work for clients and according to briefs, and usually here I try to make images with impact. For my personal work I try and do the exact opposite which means quieter images that are not intended to be 'wow' from the word go but rather images that grows on one over time...and as I have said before, images that are more documentary in nature and with a somewhat austere look about them. I don't like 'perfect' compositions and I don't try and 'shoot' according to a formula, especially the 'rule of thirds'. I believe there are no rules!  I also don't necessarily post the 'best' images here. I see forums as vehicles where I can gather other photographers opinions good and bad, I really do appreciate both because it helps me to see through other's eyes....and sometimes the negative responses to a 'bad' image, will tell me a lot more than positive responses from 'good' images....

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Landscape / Re: Decaying Nature close up...

« on: March 14, 2013, 12:08:00 PM »

Thanks all for the comments! Title seems to be a problem, perhaps 'detail' would have been better, but these are certainly not macro shots if that was what everyone was hoping for. As for 'decay' I suppose we all have different ideas about it and these were merely mine. As for the compositions, well that's all personal, some hate these and others have loved it.. HDR look not really my thing and as always my images are more documentary than pictorial..

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Landscape / 24 tilt & shift dramatic b&w landscapes!

« on: March 08, 2013, 09:03:04 AM »

..many more b&w landscapes with this lens here at....http://thelazytravelphotographer.blogspot.com/

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Landscape / Decaying Nature close up...

« on: March 07, 2013, 12:00:18 PM »

...all these images were made with a compact fixed lens aps-c camera. Read about my technique and some more images here at....http://thelazytravelphotographer.blogspot.com/

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Black & White / Re: Made by Italian craftsmen.....EF 24mm TS architecture...

« on: March 06, 2013, 09:16:33 AM »

Very nice - completely changed the photograph - in a good way.

I have the TSE-17 and wish I had occasion to use it more often.
Andy

thanks Andy. the 17mm is on my wishlist! I have just ordered a mamiya to eos adapter so that I can use my 50mm mamiya shift with my 5d2...should be quite interesting to see how the lens performs on 35mm...

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Portrait / Re: A Portrait of Poverty . . .

« on: March 04, 2013, 08:02:15 AM »

...or comprehensive insurance!

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Portrait / Re: A Portrait of Poverty . . .

« on: March 04, 2013, 05:02:26 AM »

Jason, I can only photograph what I encounter and see on my travels. This means mostly what I encounter here in South Africa  which has some of the worst poverty and crime anywhere. These images are not supposed to be images of 'the worst poverty in the world'..these are just images of elderly people experiencing poverty and that probably had seen much better times before. I actually think they are rather well off re the local scene and I am sure there are much worse case scenarios around here and around the globe...Winterveld is notorious for its squalor and poverty...so this is not a contest, just reality as I encountered it...

btw I have been mugged at knife point twice already and all my equipment stolen..its not something I care to experience for a 3rd time and so I take great care of my personal safety...no image imo is worth dying for,  so yes I don't go into areas I would consider too dangerous...and so these images were made in a relatively safe environment...

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Portrait / Re: A Portrait of Poverty . . .

« on: March 04, 2013, 04:21:28 AM »

Zen, thanks for your most eloquent reply and the info re Milton Rogovin....!!

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Street & City / How lucky are you??

« on: February 26, 2013, 03:53:31 AM »

..yesterday, luck, location lighting and the fact that I had my camera with me all played a part in getting a few nice images. During the course of 12 minutes I made about 40 exposures and managed 2-4 keepers...I didnt plan this and if I wasn't lucky that the traffic was smooth flowing I wouldn't have had the time...More images and info on my lucky 12 minutes here at...http://thelazytravelphotographer.blogspot.com/

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Black & White / Re: Made by Italian craftsmen.....EF 24mm TS architecture...

« on: February 23, 2013, 08:52:20 AM »

Thanks everyone for looking and the interesting replies!

First of all I am a documentary type photographer. My main goal is not to necessarily show everything at its 'best'. thus for me the telephone poles are important and if you look at most of my documentary images lines and poles are part of my way of seeing. In my day job, as an architectural and interior photographer, I would look at this building from a totally different point of view of course...

I include a colour version here with my standard post processing of reduced saturation and pale blue skies.

Just a note, this building is not in Italy but in the Karoo area of South Africa...a very dry and hot region.

Re the composition of the tower in the center of the image...well composition and point of view is very   subjective, and I believe there are no right and wrongs, but yes I do tend to put things in the middle...

But thanks again because its only through comments like these that I can look at my images through someone else's eyes.